August 9th, 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.
August 3rd, 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.