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Cocos2D-x 4.0 Released

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Cocos2D-x 4.0 Released

<div><p>Cocos2d-x, the long running cross platform framework for developer 2D games, just released version 4.0 today.&nbsp; The biggest new feature is Metal support for iOS and MacOS platforms, pretty much a requirement with Apple <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/06/04/Apple-Deprecate-OpenGL-in-iOS-and-MacOS.aspx">deprecating support for OpenGL</a>.</p>
<p align="left">Details of the 4.0 release <a href="https://discuss.cocos2d-x.org/t/cocos2d-x-v4-0-released/48487">from the Cocos2d-x forums</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>support metal on iOS/macOS </li>
<li>use CMake for all platforms </li>
<li>update GLFW to 3.3 </li>
<li>update minizip to 1.2 </li>
<li>remove deprecated functions </li>
<li>remove h5 engine and JSB </li>
<li>remove tiff </li>
<li>remove SimpleAudioEngine </li>
<li>remove experimental namespace </li>
<li>fix bug that system font can not work correctly on macOS 15 </li>
<li>fix lua crash on 64-bit devices </li>
<li>fix bugs for iOS 13
<ul>
<li>UIWebView uses WKWebView instead </li>
<li>VideoPlayer uses AVPlayerController instead </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Cocos2d-x 4.0 is currently only available for download using the link above, as the main site has not yet been updated.&nbsp; The above link also contains some documentation on migrating your project to 4.0.</p>
<p>If you are interested in learning more about Cocos2d-x be sure to check out our tutorial series <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Cocos2d-x-CPP-Game-Programming-Tutorial-Series.aspx">available here</a>.&nbsp; Cocos2d-x is a completely open source project <a href="https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x">hosted on GitHub</a>.&nbsp; To learn more about the 4.0 release and Cocos2d-x in general, be sure to check out the video below.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='853' height='480' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/i50toOTeWP4?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></p>
<p class="under"> <span class="categories"><a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/category/GameDev-News.aspx">GameDev News</a></span> <span class="tags"><a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/?tag=/Cocos2D" rel="tag">Cocos2D</a> <a href="https://www.gamefromscratch.com/?tag=/CPP" rel="tag">CPP</a></span> </p>
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