2.5.0.dev2

This is an early pre-release for 2.5.0, we expect to also do a dev4 before the full release.

Highlights

• More performance optimizations: Faster blitters in some cases, faster Surface.premul_alpha, faster transform.invert, faster "multi-collide" Rect methods (like Rect.collidelist).
• Incremental progress in pygame.geometry, more methods added to classes.
• Wayland and PipeWire support on linux wheels we distribute.
• Switched to the Meson build system (keeps us modern). As part of this we expect SIMD support by default on 32-bit ARM systems (like some Raspberry Pi).

Other API updates

• Added from_normalized() method to Color.
• pitch argument implemented in image.tobytes().
• Rect() and FRect() now support initialization with no arguments.

What's Changed

• Start 2.5.0 by @Starbuck5 in #2631
• Bump docker/metadata-action from 5.3.0 to 5.4.0 by @dependabot in #2628
• Call PyObject_GetBuffer directly, fix pypy fail by @ankith26 in #2639
• Add Circle move()/move_ip() by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2561
• Improve performance of SSE2 no_surf_alpha_opaque_dst blitter by @Starbuck5 in #2601
• Fix comment typo in rect_impl.h by @Lumiobyte in #2658
• Fix Circle move docs by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2660
• Remove shuffle masks in AVX fillers by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2642
• Matiiss update sdl ttf by @Matiiss in #2687
• Fix error reporting sdl 2.29.2+ by @Matiiss in #2689
• Bump actions/cache from 3.3.3 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot in #2683
• Added more / (positional-only notation) by @Matiiss in #2691
• Reduced redundancy in surface.fblits code and handled generator exception by @Matiiss in #2679
• Rect() and FRect() initialization with no arguments by @Damus666 in #2655
• added from_normalized() and get and set normalized methods for pygame.Color by @XFajk in #2693
• Partially refactor SSE2 blitters with macros by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2656
• SDL 2.30.0 by @oddbookworm in #2705
• SDL 2.29.3 pre-release by @Matiiss in #2690
• Implement pitch argument for image.tobytes() by @whydoubt in #2602
• transform.scale: softstretch SDL2/SDL3 compat by @Starbuck5 in #2707
• Add missing geometry versionadded tags by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2709
• SDL2/SDL3 mutex support by @Starbuck5 in #2712
• Add Circle as_rect()/ as_frect() by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2634
• Add Circle rotate() / rotate_ip() by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2662
• Add Circle collideswith() by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2661
• Bump CircleCI-Public/trigger-circleci-pipeline-action from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 by @dependabot in #2730
• Deleted a space in geometry docs by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2732
• Update system.rst by @lispspb in #2734
• Cleanup rwobject.c file object methods by @Starbuck5 in #2717
• Add wayland and kmsdrm support to manylinux wheels by @ankith26 in #1997
• Bump actions/cache from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot in #2736
• Formatting updates using newest version of clang-format by @oddbookworm in #2744
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 by @dependabot in #2747
• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 1 to 2 by @dependabot in #2746
• wasm: unify pygame-web/pyodide/static Freetype init by @pmp-p in #2748
• Reorganize geometry internals by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2731
• Undeprecate draw aaline blend by @oddbookworm in #2743
• AVX2 premul_alpha() by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2615
• Bump docker/login-action from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 by @dependabot in #2755
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 by @dependabot in #2756
• Bump actions/checkout from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 by @dependabot in #2754
• Add mixer.get_driver by @ankith26 in #2741
• Add pipewire and libsamplerate+fftw3 by @ankith26 in #2733
• SDL 2.30.1 by @Starbuck5 in #2761
• Fix pygame.display.get_caption() Docs in display.rst by @kritserv in #2765
• Bump actions/cache from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 by @dependabot in #2767
• setup.py: Properly add _sdl2_data_files to data_files by @cclauss in #2770
• Update freetype download link because current one is broken (fixes failing circleci builds) by @ankith26 in #2774
• Remove undefined variable in aliens.py by @Matiiss in #2769
• Fix ftfont_test being run directly by @Starbuck5 in #2763
• Remove pygame.threads by @Starbuck5 in #2762
• Make error messages for using font.align clearer by @Kn4ughty in #2777
• Remove apt upgrade in CI by @ankith26 in #2778
• python3 setup.py lint is deprecated: Let's lint with pre-commit by @cclauss in #2772
• Add example for retro scaling by @snowfruit in #2785
• PEP572 Use Python's assignment expression by @cclauss in #2782
• Remove all .editorconfig duplicates, re-add in project root with updates by @ankith26 in #2788
• Add SIMD versions of the invert transform by @MyreMylar in #2534
• Remove docs non-public module stubs by @ankith26 in #2794
• Add meson build system [phase 1] by @ankith26 in #2557
• (Freetype) use calloc where possible by @Starbuck5 in #2802
• Bump robinraju/release-downloader from 1.9 to 1.10 by @dependabot in #2809
• SDL 2.30.2 by @Starbuck5 in #2806
• gitignore meson temp folder by @Starbuck5 in #2805
• Fix sdist to include meson stuff and minor updates by @ankith26 in #2803
• build-on-msys2.yml: Upgrade GitHub actions/checkout@v4 by @cclauss in #2812
• Use macros for (Bytes|Bits)PerPixel compat in SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #2804
• Add armv6 and armv7 to multiarch CI and fix build issues by @ankith26 in #2779
• Optimized Rect multi-collision methods by @itzpr3d4t0r in #2786

New Contributors

• @Lumiobyte made their first contribution in #2658
• @XFajk made their first contribution in #2693
• @whydoubt made their first contribution in #2602
• @lispspb made their first contribution in #2734
• @kritserv made their first contribution in #2765
• @cclauss made their first contribution in #2770
• @Kn4ughty made their first contribution in #2777
• @snowfruit made their first contribution in #2785

Full Changelog: 2.4.1...2.5.0.dev2