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Key additions include a CPU-based software renderer (enabling ports to microcontrollers like ESP32), a new memory framebuffer platform backend for headless rendering, an experimental Win32 and Emscripten (browser) backend, redesigned fullscreen and high-DPI scaling, a revamped skeletal animation system with blending support, a reorganized file system API, 30+ text management functions, and a new example manager tool. The release closed 330 issues, added 20 new functions, 70 new examples, and gained 210 new contributors. RayLib remains free, open-source under the zlib license, highly modular, and offers language bindings for C#, Go, Lua, Python, Rust, Zig, Odin, and many more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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