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pygame Changelog

What's new in pygame 1.9.1

Aug 9, 2009
  • A quick bugfix release has been made to correct a problem with a missing readme.html file in the source release, and setuptools based installs dying when the readme.html file wasn't there.

New in pygame 1.9.0 (Aug 3, 2009)

  • many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes has gone into this release than any other pygame release.
  • bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame 1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again.
  • experimental camera webcam module (still in development).
  • experimental midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete).
  • experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles, textured polygons and other goodness).
  • python3, and python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still remain to be completedbut mostly it's working.
  • nokia mobile phone s60 support.
  • improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer, sysfont now works on OSX).
  • pygame.examples + pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.
  • cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.
  • new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation documentation.
  • py2app, and py2exe support improved.