Win32 builds are up, as is a new retrocore package. BSD/Linux users will have to compile from source (the PPA is broken due to lack of working ffmpeg-1.2 PPAs), code can be found at: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/arcanfe/code/tags/0.3.0 or in the arcan-0.3.0-source.tgz file on the downloads page.

(Full changelog below)

Gridle

• Remote Control / Secondary Display over network.
• Background Music support.
• Settings, Menus etc. rearranged and (hopefully) simplified.
• Built-in support for 2D upscalers (xBR, SABR, …).
• New cocktail-mode, slice vertical oriented image into two horiz. plane (think NDS on widescreen monitor).
• Vector mode split into separate glow and trail modes, with more options.
• State indicators added (emulator crash, lack of save state support).
• User confirmation before quitting targets without save state support.
• Core specific input helpers (for psx, bsnes, nxengine thus far).
• Background effects in grid view.
• Configurable sound-effect maps.
• Frame-skipping, alignment and sound buffering configuration options.
• Improved startup times.
• Layout Editor (customview, …) refactored, more type-specific options (font, color, …).
• Streaming added to recording options.

Streamer

• First release, theme that combines layout editor with RTMP streaming (tested using twitch.tv)
• Multiple video input sources (combine emulators with several webcams) and mixing multiple audio sources

Frameserver-Libretro

• Toggleable Debug- and Performance- graphing mode.
• More fine-grained audio / video synchronization options.
• Channel-swizzling in RGBx888 fixed.

Core

• Networking client/server support (frameserver/frameserver_net*)
• Improvements to responsiveness; frame alignment vs. resource polling vs. yielding.
• Runtime theme switching.
• Improved / fixed font-caching.
• VIDs can now be flagged (with some restrictions) to persist through context stacks.
• Option to re-use VID for text rendering.

SHM-interface / Hijack Library

• Simplified API somewhat.
• Support for different hijacklibs based on target (datamodel change).
• Hijacking audio streams (SDL) for recording / monitoring.
• Crude X11/Wine support (video only for now, somewhat difficult to set-up).

Video encoder / decoder

• Major refactor to work with newer FFMpeg releases (1.2+, unfortunately breaks PPA builds)
• Streaming encoding profile added.
• More audio / video codec combinations supported with presets (H.264, …).
• Dropped support for older ffmpeg versions, <= API54 no longer accepted.

Support Scripts

• Resource-finder: added thumbnail scanning, fanart, boxart (back).
• OSD keyboard: shift-states (case-sensitive), keyboard part can be hidden.
• Keyconfig: analog axis mapping requires new samples to deviate from previous ones.
• (primitive) color picker added.
• layout_editor.lua added.

Database Tool

• Thumbnail generation for GamesDB scraper (requires image magick rubygem, enabled on win32 distribution for now).
• Improved scraper naming accuracy (from terrible to slightly less terrible).
• Added primitive importers for MUPEN and VirtualBox (not currently usable though).

LUA API

• new constants (MAX_SURFACEW, MAX_SURFACEH, NET_BROADCAST)
• new functions (net_push, net_listen, net_open, net_push_srv, net_disconnect, net_authenticate, net_accept, net_refresh, persist_image, capture_audio, list_audio_inputs, switch_theme, target_graphmode)