v2.9.1

The 2.9.1 release is a minor LTS release for bugfixes and improvements

🙏Thanks to all contributers of axmol include financial sponsors: @scorewarrior, @peterkharitonov, @duong, @thienphuoc, @bingsoo, @asnagni, @paulocoutinhox and Past sponsors

🙏We are deeply grateful to @scorewarrior for their incredible support — increasing their GitHub Sponsors contribution by $2,000/month (Oct 1, 2025), on top of their ongoing $3,000/month sponsorship via the Open Source Collective. Your generosity helps keep the Axmol project thriving and growing.

Significant changes relative to 2.9.0:

• Improve SDF text outline rendering by @halx99 in #2843

Bug fixes

• Fix SDF text rendering issue when both outline and shadow are enabled by @halx99, see issue: #2844
• Fix memory leak in extension::GUI ScrollView by @j-jorge in #2821
• Fix FairyGUI Ellipse/Circle "Line Size" issue by @aismann in #2825
• Fix: ui::Text Overflow::SHRINK does not restore the original font size when text is shortened by @tkzcfc in #2831
• Fix: FastTMXLayer::reset draw counts when layer becomes empty by @lucycycy in #2839

Improvements

• Improve AutoPolygon::findFirstNoneTransparentPixel() by @aismann in #2810
• Add new test scroll view v2 by @NgVThangBz in #2820
• Add PVRv3 ASTC support and improve PVR format detection by @lucycycy in #2832
• Sync pixel format enums in Constants.lua by @halx99
• Improve distance field outline shader by @halx99

SDK & Tools updates

• gradle: 9.1.0 => 9.2.0
• webview2: 1.0.3485.44 => 1.0.3537.50

3rdparty updates

• oboe: 1.9.3 => 1.10.0
• openssl: 3.0.17 => 3.0.18
• rapidjson: 1.1.0-815e6e7 => 1.1.0-24b5e7a

MD5 Hash of the release artifacts

• axmol-2.9.1.zip: 7d526d416efff2b8ba55111495a9a0ff
• axmol-bs-2.9.1.zip: 8199bbe57c5cc1f2747f001466848aae