• #499 - Reliably enable window defocus on Linux. - @flukiluke
  
• #501 - Modifies `_FILES$` to default to the * pattern rather than *.* when fileSpec$ is empty, enabling `_FILES$` to retrieve all directory entries rather than omitting files and directories that lack an extension. - @a740g
  
• #502 - Optimize IDE internal string concatenation somewhat to reduce IDE lag. - @SteveMcNeill
  
• #503 - Allow `_UPRINTSTRING` to render directly into any image, which can be specified as an optional argument. - @a740g
  
• #506 - Added Metacommands and Variable Types items to the Help menu for quick access to these essential help pages. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  
• #508 - Introducing the brand new Format Mode as command line switch. - @flukiluke
  - The -y command line option will format the input instead of compiling it.
  - Formatting is performed either according to the current IDE settings (Options > Code Layout...) or by overriding those settings using the new -f flags, e.g. `./qb64pe -y source/qb64pe.bas -f:autolayout=true -f:keywordcapitals=true -f:autoindent=true -f:autoindentsize=4 -f:indentsubs=true -o source/qb64pe.bas`
  
• #510 - Optimizes `_DEFLATE$` and `_INFLATE$` to eliminate unnecessary buffer copies. This results in a nice speed boost of upto 15% in some cases. - @a740g
  
• #517 - Stabilized and updated MIDI support. - @a740g
  - MIDI support in QB64-PE is finally out of the `$UNSTABLE` state now.
  - The compiled executable will no longer include an embedded soundfont.
  - To address this issue https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1962 discussed in the forum, ymfmidi, Opal, and a tiny FM bank are now used.
  - Soundfonts can be loaded using the _MIDISOUNDBANK command.
  - Depending on the sound bank type, a suitable MIDI rendering backend is selected.
  - The available backends are primesynth (SF2), TinySoundFont (SF3, SFO), and Opal (AD, OPL, OP2, TMB, WOPL).
  - For Windows users, a VSTi 2.x based renderer that is configurable by the user is also provided.
  - Multiple MIDI file formats are supported: MUS, HMI, HMP, HMQ, KAR, LDS, MDS, MIDS, RCP, R36, G18, G36, RMI, MID, MIDI, XFM, XMI
  - The use of `$UNSTABLE:MIDI` and `$MIDISOUNDFONT` triggers an appropriate "deprecated feature" warning message now.
  
• #519 - Various IDE improvements. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  - Changing certain toggle settings in the Options Menu no longer causes your code to be marked as "changed".
  - IDE related config and workfiles were moved out of `internal/temp` into `settings` directly under the `qb64pe` folder.
  - Note the folder does not exist in the release archives, but is created on the first IDE run, at this time the user has a choice to import his settings from another QB64-PE installation or to continue with default settings.
  - The recent files and search string histories are globally shared now by all running IDE instances, limits can be set in the Undo/History... dialog (Options Menu).
  - We've added 4 new preset color schemes, Cornfield, Broadcast, X11 SgiColors by me (@RhoSigma-QB64) and VS Code curtesy to @a740g. If you use your own custom scheme, then it's ID will be automatically adjusted when importing your settings.
  
• #520 - `_LOADIMAGE` and `_SAVEIMAGE` improvements. - @a740g
  - Added support to load ICO (icon) and CUR (cursor) files.
  - Added support to save ICO (icon) and single GIF (not animated ones) files.
  
• #525 - Improving IDE Option dialogs. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  - Numeric input boxes now have spinner buttons
  - Invalid input turns the input box into error color
  

• #513 - Updated nanosvg and stb_image to latest available versions. - @a740g
  
• #522 - Update to LLVM-MinGW 20240619 with LLVM 18.1.8 for WoA. - @a740g
  

• #497, #527 - Properly initialise memory when REDIMming with UDT, fix #331, #524. - @flukiluke
  
• #500 - Allow setting environment variables with space in values on Linux, fix #386. - @flukiluke
  
• #503 - Font fixes, in some fonts the underscore was clipped away with `_UPRINTSTRING`. - @a740g
  
• #506 - IDE Help fixes. - @RhoSigma-QB64
  - Select All (CTRL-A) in the help text actually didn't select ALL after text was selected manually once before, because some internal variables were not reset correctly (bug dates back to the ancient SDL versions).
  - Fixed Definition Lists eating the first text char, if the list introducer is followed by a space.
  
• #513 - Fixed the PCX image loader issues reported in the forum https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2792. - @a740g
  
• #515 - Avoid eating 0-argument functions used after L/UBOUND, fix #244. - @flukiluke
  
• #523 - Fixing a bug in the `KILL` command, which would previously terminate and fail to process the remaining files if the user opted to continue after an error condition. - @a740g
  

(08-08-2024, 11:17 PM)PhilOfPerth Wrote: Sounds great, but (as usual) I can't get the file to unzip!
I'm using 7Zip, and was asked if I want to use this "Just Once?", which I confirmed. It went away, presumably to do its thing, but I don't see any unpacked files!
What am I missing? (no rude comments please!) 

(08-08-2024, 11:17 PM)PhilOfPerth Wrote: Sounds great, but (as usual) I can't get the file to unzip!
I'm using 7Zip, and was asked if I want to use this "Just Once?", which I confirmed. It went away, presumably to do its thing, but I don't see any unpacked files!
What am I missing? (no rude comments please!)