Geode v4.2.0

This release adds many new APIs and features for developers, as well as some smaller tweaks for the end user. Happy 2025!

v4.2.0

• Implement gd::set for android (#1197, #1207)
• Log levels for console and file logging (#1208)
  • Now in the Geode settings you can set the minimum severity for logs
• Add GameEvent::Loaded, to avoid hooking Menulayer (c04bcaa)
  • Check the header for more info
• Add setColor shorthands to RGBAProtocol (961c7c8)
• New dependency list syntax, also add per dependency settings (1161e18, 889fb0d, c1d3a53)
  • The dependencies can then read these settings from their dependants
• Add auto log deletion after period of time (8f60c3c)
  • Period length can be changed in settings
• Add log::getCurrentLogPath() (4c9f990)
• Load changelog and mod about page from latest version on the index, instead of local (1d716fc)
• Cascade color and opacity for BasedButtonSprite (17107a2)
• Add Event v2 classes, wrapper around current event system (728df4e)
• Serialize std::filesystem::path as UTF-8 for matjson (#1210)
• Improve MDPopup (56a8ced)
• Fix macOS file picker, add file ext filters (0b61b50, 241be1b, b8cff6d)
• Add UUIDs for old GD versions on macOS (#1213)
• Add CCFontSprite and CCSpriteExtra to cocos (#1194)
• Reorganize buttons in Geode layer on 4:3 aspect ratio screens (54c93c4)
• Patch CCGLProgram::compileShader to prevent closing the game on shader errors (0340f52)
• Make all cocos members public (#1214)
• Remove modtober animation (f1bf2b6)
• Only show "Recommended by X mod" text on recommended dependencies, not suggested (5f64d77)
• Fix SceneManager use-after-free (8707a1b)
• Icon for pending mod updates is now persistent (0969ec3)
• Cleanup stale files from old index version (4d6c173)
• Rename Loader to Geode in LoadingLayer text (203c819)
• Add GEODE_BUNDLE_PDB option in CMake to allow bundling PDB files with mods (#1134)