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• Feature: [#20810] New ride type: LSM Launched Roller Coaster.
  
• Improved: [#22937] Add banked sloped turns and many other pieces to the Corkscrew, Hypercoaster and Lay-down Roller Coaster.
  
• Improved: [#22967] Add medium and large half loops to the Wooden and Classic Wooden Roller Coasters.
  
• Improved: [#23010] Make AppImage compatible with Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian Bookworm again.
  
• Change: [#20810] Giga Coaster boosters and launched lift hill track pieces are now locked behind cheats.
  
• Fix: [#21221] Trains use unbanked sprites on flat to gentle diagonal banked track pieces.
  
• Fix: [#22615] Crash when drawing Space Rings with an invalid ride entry.
  
• Fix: [#22633] Crash when drawing loading screen with an outdated g2.dat.
  
• Fix: [#22908] Crash when passing through a door from an invalid wall type.
  
• Fix: [#22918] Zooming with keyboard moves the view off centre.
  
• Fix: [#22920] Crash when sacking a staff member.
  
• Fix: [#22921] Wooden RollerCoaster flat to steep railings appear in front of track in front of them.
  
• Fix: [#22962] Fuzzy horizontal-to-vertical line transitions in charts.
  
• Fix: [#23009] Scenarios from RCT Classic (.sea files) are not included in the scenario index.
  
• Fix: [#23015] Crash when loading a save game when the construction window is still open.
  
• Fix: [#23018] Crash when loading a new game when the construction window is still open.
  
• Fix: [#23023] Large scenery clearance height interpreted as negative when greater than 127.
  
• Fix: [#23044] "remove_unused_objects" command causes blank peep names.
  
• Fix: [#23048] Map generator allows map sizes out of range through text input.
  
• Fix: [#23058] [Plugin] Changing window colors doesn’t trigger the window to be fully redrawn.
  
• Fix: [#23085] LIM Launched Roller Coaster medium half loops clip into each other when built back-to-back.

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This is a quick follow-up to the previous build, fixing a few more small bugs and improving performance.

Change Log

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9070):

• Fixed a few more cases where tool shortcuts and tooltips were not working after certain actions.
  
• Fixed: PNGs are now correctly saved with the “Software” tEXt metadata indicating they were created with Paint.NET.
  
• Improved performance in various parts of the rendering and effects engines: CPU usage has been reduced, which permits higher GPU utilization.

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9066):

• Fixed: Copy/Paste has been hardened against short-term intermittent errors and should no longer show spurious error dialogs (e.g. ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED) except in legitimate cases.
  
• Fixed: Certain shortcut keys, especially for switching tools, will no longer stop functioning if a floating window (e.g., Tools) is hidden and then shown by clicking on the button at the top right of the main window.
  
• Fixed: Tooltips in the Tools window will no longer stop functioning if a floating window (e.g., Tools) is hidden and then shown by clicking on the button at the top right of the main window.
  
• Removed the “Scrolling past the edge of the image (over scroll)” checkbox from Settings. This was enabled by default, and now it is always enabled.
  
• Fixed: The installer was occasionally showing an error about an InvalidGraphConfigurationException on some systems
  
• Added a KnownColorSpace API for plugins so they can create IColorContexts and IDeviceColorContexts for the Display P3 and ProPhoto RGB color spaces

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9064):

• Fixed: @BoltBait‘s TextFunFactory plugin was not working on Windows 10 due to the lack of support for IDWriteFontFace6 (despite what Microsoft’s documentation states)

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This patch brings 2 new big things that deserve some text in front of the bullet points:

The first thing is a complete rework of how the Phasing Palette effect works. This is what one sees when applying Iron Curtain, Suppression, Frenzy, Shield, Radiation, and some other things to a unit. In the future, more effects will move into this behavior, which is currently rather static. The change was motivated by a bug that happened with voxel units, where their shadow popped through the unit once such an effect was applied. This is fixed, and the Phasing effect now phases the color of the unit from the remapped team colors, whereas in the past, it would directly remove the team colors and strip over its own colors (of the Phasing effect). This means players can still see the team colors when a unit is under such an effect, and the transition happens more naturally. This includes some changes to the engine, so crashes may happen where I did not test enough. Sorry, please report crashes so I can fix them.



New Features

• Phasing Palette effect now works completely differently. Phasing effects now phase out of the remapped team color into the effect for most units and effects.
  
• Voxel units now have more saturated colors to match the style of the old sprites.
  
• Voxel Turrets now have recoil.
  
• Helicopters no longer have an ammo pool and can fire indefinitely.
  
• Mammoth now has a new model. The old model did not really fit the GDI style.
  
• Longbow is now Eurocopter and gets a new voxel model.
  
• Black Hawk gets a new voxel model and is now Sea Hawk.
  
• Sea Hawk has an upgrade now for Bunker Buster missiles. This is to take out a single defense building fast and suit the role of recon and spec ops missions with the Sea Hawk.
  
• Hind gets a new voxel model.
  
• Chinook gets a new icon.

Balancing

• Most helicopters have infinite ammo now.
  
• Katyusha Launcher turns faster to make it more mobile.
  
• Venom Heavy Laser can now also shoot other aircraft (like other Venoms).
  
• Torpedos from helicopters are buffed.
  
• Chainneler Tank (Scrin) no longer throws chained rifts at allied units and gets a small damage buff.
  
• Force Shield now also applies to defense buildings, and the cooldown has been reduced (for normal and Nukular mode)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the shadow of the voxel unit shining through the unit after Flickering Palette effects were applied.
  
• Fixed the Blackhand Trooper icon.
  
• Fixed the Comanche icon in Commander Tree.
  
• Fixed the Venom icon in Commander Tree.
  
• Fixed the Cryo Blast palette bug.
  
• Fixed crashes for voxel vehicles that leave a husk after destruction.
  
• Fixed a bug that made Spec Ops infiltrate without any effect.
  
• Fixed a bug that applied poison to drivers of vehicles after being hit by an energy weapon.

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This build fixes some issues reported with the previous build, namely with pasting or loading images of certain types (e.g., 8-bit PNGs) or with certain types of color profiles (XYB/LUT). Input latency for the canvas has also been further reduced a little.

Change Log

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9063):

• Fixed: Clicking in the color wheel was not setting the active color
  
• Fixed: Retrieving an 8-bit bitmap from the clipboard with IClipboardService.TryGetImageBgra32() was not working

Changes since 5.1 beta (build 9056):

• Fixed: Right-clicking in the Colors window’s palette will now correctly set the inactive color (regression from 5.0)
  
• Improved input latency further by using a dedicated per-Control thread for asynchronously calling IDXGISwapChain[1]::Present[1]() instead of using the shared thread pool. This also fixes some weirdness at startup with canvas redrawing when a lot of plugins are installed, especially if the antivirus decides to do a more in-depth security scan.
  
• Fixed: Could not copy 8-bit-or-less bit-depth images from Explorer into Paint.NET.
  
• Fixed: Copying a 4-bit PNG from Explorer into Paint.NET would have extremely bad performance.
  
• Fixed: Images with XYB LUT color profiles were not loading or were loading incorrectly
  
• Fixed: GPU effect plugins will not default to Float32 precision when using IDeviceContext.CreateImageFromBitmap(). This was otherwise resulting in inconsistent rendering output or analysis results.
  
• Fixed: IImagingFactory.CreateColorTransformedBitmap() and IBitmapSource.CreateColorTransformer() is now available for plugins to make use of for color management purposes.
  
• New: Plugins may now use PixelFormat.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), IImagingFactory.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext(), and IDeviceContext.[Try]CreateDefaultColorContext() extension methods. These will create the default color context (color profile) for the given PixelFormat.
  
• New: Plugins may now use the PixelFormat.GetInfo() extension method to retrieve the corresponding IPixelFormatInfo object
  
• New: Plugins may now implement the managed ITextRenderer interface (corresponds to the native IDWriteTextRenderer1 interface) and use it when calling ITextLayout::Draw(…)
  
• New: Added ITextLayout methods Get/SetCharacterSpacing and Get/SetPairKerning
  
• New: Added ITextFormat properties LastLineWrapping, OpticalAlignment, and VerticalGlyphOrientation

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