Woof! 12.0.0

New Features and Improvements

• 3D audio support (@ceski-1)
  • Stereo and up to 7.1 surround sound.
  • HRTF mode ("Headphones mode" in the General menu).
  • Air absorption and Doppler effects settings in the config.
• PC Speaker emulation sound module (taken from Chocolate Doom).
• Various HUD additions and fixes:
  • Optional widescreen widget arrangement.
  • Bring back three-lined coords/stats widgets.
  • Optionally draw bar graphs in Boom HUD widgets.
  • Ability to position "message" and "secret" text widgets by WOOFHUD lump.
• Add obituaries from ZDoom, enabled by default (Options->Setup->Messages->Show Obituaries option).
• Add support for XGLN/ZGLN nodes.
• Color console messages and optional verbosity level (default_verbosity in config).
• Allow separate key binding for the numeric keypad.
• Replace and extend crosshair patches with the shaded variants from Nugget Doom.
• Ignore DMX sound padding (@ceski-1).
• Implement sky top color algorithm from Eternity Engine (@tomas7770).
• Attempt to play demo4 also for Doom 2 (Final Doom).
• Clean screenshots are taken with the base palette.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a savegame loading crash related to the use of MUSINFO.
• Consistently rename -nodehlump command line parameter to -nodeh.
• Fix mouselook/padlook checks for direct vertical aiming (@ceski-1).
• Fix sector movement doesn't render sometimes using Boom fake floors (Line action 242), when uncapped framerate is enabled.
• Fix automap marks in non-follow mode.
• Various fixes to weapon lowering and switching animation (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Disable returning to the episodes menu if only one episode is present.
• Fix ESC reset with mini-thermo menu items affects multi-choice select items.
• Reset menu string editing with ESC.
• Fix PIT_ApplyTorque when line has no length (from DSDA-Doom).
• Reorder sprites rendering, so that objects with higher map indices appear in front (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Various brightmaps fixes (@JNechaevsky).
• Skip "hidden" files in ZIP archives (fixes opening archives created by MacOS).
• Reinitialize automap if screen size changes while it is enabled (thanks to @MrAlaux).

Miscellaneous

• Add Linux distribution package in AppImage format (@qurious-pixel).

Woof! 11.3.0

New Features and Improvements

• Add direct aiming from Crispy Doom. More accurate vertical aiming (thanks to @ceski-1).
• Optimizations for plane rendering, taken from Eternity Engine (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Add -dedicated, -uncapped and -nouncapped command line parmeters (thanks to @loopfz).
• Rename -nodehlump to -nodeh for consistency with other ports.
• Use sector lightlevel for sprites in Boom and Vanilla complevels.

Bug Fixes

• Avoid the midiOutUnprepareHeader() function in the Windows MIDI music module. This may fix rare crashes for some users.
• Fixed flickering sectors rendering when interpolation is enabled (Ancient Aliens MAP24 and others).
• Do not apply weapon centering in strict mode.
• Fix pause for Fluidsynth v2.3.3.
• Fix the rightmost column when rendering weapons with interpolation enabled (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix replacing the same string twice in Dehacked for music (PL2.wad MAP27 music track).

Woof! 11.2.0

New Features and Improvements

• Don't snap Automap to player upon opening it with Follow Mode off (@MrAlaux).
• Make IDCLEV00 restart the current map (@MrAlaux).
• Always color Chainsaw number green in Boom HUD (@MrAlaux).
• Allow direct toggle between "Windowed" and "Exclusive Fullscreen" modes (@ceski-1).
• Prefer IDDT cheat key over IDBEHOLDA in cheat menu.

Bug Fixes

• Fix plane rendering distortion noticeable in widescreen mode, taken from Eternity Engine (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Fix "Clean Screenshot" captures the HUD if "Exclusive Fullscreen" is enabled.
• More fixes to weapon switching animation (@MrAlaux).
• Only set quick save slot upon successful load/save completion.
• Fix blockmap limits (from DSDA-Doom).
• Fix screenshot cropping when aspect ratio correction is disabled (@MrAlaux).
• Fix pickup messages in multiplayer.
• Fix P_RadiusAttack dist depending on damage (@tomas7770).
• Fix door interpolation in Doom2 MAP19 (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Fix recording "-complevel 3" in demo footer.
• Fix UMAPINFO intertext field for Doom 1.

Woof! 11.1.4

Bug Fixes

• more fixes for DSDHacked sprites and sounds.

Woof! 11.1.3

Bug Fixes

• more fixes for DSDHacked sprites and sounds.

Woof! 11.1.2

New Features and Improvements

• woofhud: implement centered widgets, avoid collisions with left/right aligned widgets.

Bug Fixes

• memio: init reset_eof field.
• fix automap overlay reset.
• fix DSDHacked crash.
• winmidi: prevent hanging notes when pausing game (@ceski-1).
• woofhud: avoid collisions between very long left/right aligned widgets.
• make cheat restrictions consistent for menu and player input.

Thanks @MrAlaux for reporting most of these bugs!

Woof! 11.1.1

New Features and Improvements

• winmidi: Sync with Chocolate Doom (@ceski-1).

Bug Fixes

• Fix setting EOF in memio, this bug broke most DEH lumps.
• Do not disable Widescreen menu item without Aspect Ratio Correction anymore (thanks @MrAlaux).
• Set display resolution when toggling Exclusive Fullscreen.

Woof! 11.1.0

New Features and Improvements

• Allow bound keys to be unbound in menus by pressing the same key.
• Implementation of the Native MIDI module for macOS (fixed regression after removing SDL_Mixer).
• Add -dumptables command line option to export generated translation tables to PWAD.
• Windows Native MIDI improvements (@ceski-1):
  • Fix EMIDI global looping.
  • Add MIDI compatibility levels. winmm_complevel config option:
    0: Vanilla (Emulates DMX MPU-401 mode)
    1: Standard (Emulates MS GS Synth) (Default)
    2: Full (Send everything to device, including SysEx)
• Distinguish exit with message on error and on success.

Bug Fixes

• Fix memory issues in dehacked parser found with ASan.
• Fix "Smooth pixel scaling" inconsistencies (now it should match Crispy Doom).
• More robust fallback logic for music modules (@joanbm).
• Always print player coords if automap is inactive.
• Eat key if cheat found (e.g. don't switch weapons when typing IDCLEV11).
• Resetting the MUSINFO track after changing the level.
• Add initialization checks to music modules. Fixed crash if sound device not found (thanks to @joanbm).
• Fix initialization with invalid video_display setting (@joanbm).

Woof! 11.0.0

New Features and Improvements

• HUD updates.
  • Introduce new WOOFHUD lump with ability to tweak widgets positions. See the woofhud.lmp example in docs/ and documentation in the wiki.
  • The three-line level stats and player coords widgets have been consolidated into single lines, the FPS counter is now a separate widget.
  • Ability to choose standard Doom font for widgets.
  • Smooth Health/Armor count (@MrAlaux).
  • HUD font patches updates (@liPillON).
• Switch to OpenAl Soft for sound mixing.
  • Massive improvements to sound mixing quality. Fixes issues with sound "clicking" (first room of DBP25.wad), sound overload (Revenants scream) and others.
  • Use libsndfile for SFX and music files loading. Support for a lot of WAV formats, Ogg, FLAC, MP3, Opus and others.
  • Use libxmp for tracker music.
  • Use a linear resampler and simple 2D panning to not differ too much from vanilla sound.
• New video options in General menu:
  • Add framerate limiting (@mikeday0).
  • Exclusive fullscreen mode. Activated only when normal fullscreen mode is enabled.
  • "Smooth pixel scaling" from Crispy Doom.
• Make mouse settings exactly the same as in Crispy Doom. Add mouse acceleration options to the General menu.
• Support BRGHTMPS lump from Doom Retro.
  • Format extension with the ability to set SPRITE, FLAT and STATE brightmaps.
  • De hardcode in-engine brightmaps. See brghtmps.lmp files in autoload/ directory.
• Generate color translation tables.
  • Improve readability and colors of custom fonts in menus and HUD.
  • Always draw demo progress bar with the lightest and darkest color available.
• Textscreen updates (ENDOOM screen and woof-setup)
  • Resizable textscreen windows.
  • Increase the default window size.
  • Render textscreen content to an upscaled intermediate texture. Improve non-integer window size scaling.
• Add a menu for binding cheats to keys/buttons. Ability to bind "Fake Archvile Jump".
• New cheats:
  • FREEZE Stops all monsters, projectiles and item animations, but not the player animations (from ZDoom).
  • IDDKT/IDDST/IDDIT (kill, secret, item) finder cheats from DSDA-Doom.
  • IDBEHOLDH (health) and IDBEHOLDM (megaarmor) from PrBoom.
  • SKILL cheat to show (or change) game skill level from Crispy Doom.
  • List of all cheats available in the wiki.
• Add options to disable certain HUD messages (@MrAlaux).
• Introduce hide weapon cosmetic option (see Weapons menu).
• Implement support for new author field in UMAPINFO.
• Add key binding for "clean screenshots" without any HUD elements.
• Rearrange the startup messages.
• Support monster infight field in Dehacked (taken from Chocolate Doom). Fixes monsters infight in 100krevs.wad.
• Add support for loading old Doom (< v1.2) IWADs. Not demo compatible.
• Complete donut overrun emulation (from PrBoom+/Chocolate Doom).
• Only delete the entire savegame name if not modified.
• Update strings edit in menu. Set cursor position at end of line, Backspace and Del work as expected.
• Play quit sound only if showing ENDOOM (@ceski-1).
• Disable "180 turn" in strict mode (new DSDA rule).
• Config updates. Do not store comments and deprecated entries, sort and group, clean up.
• Check if drag-n-dropped .lmp files could be demo lumps.
• Always interpolate idle weapon bob with uncapped FPS (@ceski-1).
• Add M_VBOX and M_PALSEL lumps from PrBoom+.
• Play a sound if the menu is activated with a different key than ESC.
• Support for QUITMSG1..QUITMSG14 in Dehacked (quit messages in D2ISOv2.wad).
• The demo footer is now compatible with PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom demo autoplay.

Bug Fixes

• Better automap controls, fix some rotate/follow/overlay inconsistencies.
• Windows Native MIDI fixes.
  • Fix songs with missing "hold pedal off" events (@ceski-1).
  • Update volume after "reset all controllers" event. In certain cases the channel can be audible even if the music volume slider is set to zero (@ceski-1).
  • Detect SysEx "part level" messages. Fixes volume in Valiant.wad MAP30 (@ceski-1).
• Fix stutter in custom weapon switch animations (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix colorized player names in network chats.
• Clip interpolated weapon sprites (thanks to @mikeday0).
• Fix always gray percent / always red mismatch in status bar.
• Fix -dogs default value.
• Fix desync due to randomly mirrored corpses feature (fixes DBP31.wad).
• Add check for wrong indexes in P_LoadSegs() (fixes 1killtng.wad map13).
• ESC key resets a menu item with multiple options.
• Fix crash when trying to send chat macro with key ASCII code < '0' (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Properly center colorized messages (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix alt-tab with exclusive fullscreen on Windows.
• Fix -dumplumps command line parameter.
• Fix puff interpolation on the floor level (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Print error and skip PNG patch (fixes practicehub.wad).
• Avoid ZIP file directory name clashes.
• Fix disappearing icon on fullscreen switch on Windows.
• Fix restart MUSINFO music loaded from save.
• Fix a skull in the menu being drawn over the confirmation box when deleting a save (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix crosshair drawn over bezel in lock-on mode (thanks to @MrAlaux).

Miscellaneous

• Static build under Windows, there are no library DLLs in the distribution archive.

Woof! 10.5.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix crosshair lock on spectre targets.
• Fix some menu oddities with automap color and chat macro items.
• Fix midi_player config variable boundaries.
• Fix path length issues in config file parsing.
• winmidi: Manually unset MHDR_INQUEUE flag when hot swapping modules (@ceski-1).

Miscellaneous

• This will be the last binary release to still support Windows XP.