Cocos2d-x 4.0 Release Notes

This version is mainly to support metal on iOS/macOS. In order to support metal, this version does a big refactor of the rendering system. And this version also remove deprecated functions, so there are some API modification.

In order to help develpers easily update to v4, we wrote some documentations. These documentations can be found here.

Highlights

support metal on iOS/macOS
use CMake for all platforms
update GLFW to 3.3
update minizip to 1.2
remove deprecated functions
remove h5 engine and JSB
remove tiff
remove SimpleAudioEngine
remove experimetnal namespace
fix bug that system font can not work correctly on macOS15
fix lua crash issue on 64bit devices
fix bugs for iOS13
- UIWebView uses WKWebView instead
- VideoPlayer uses AVPlayerController instead

Documentation

We wrote some documentations to help developers upgrade to v4:

how to run tests and how to create a new project and run
v4 updrade guide

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