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B5

After many months of hard work from our team, I am pleased to announce
Beta 5 which brings with it a huge number of improvements.

If you like this project and find it useful and would like to help out
you can support this project directly by using the following platforms.

* [GitHub](https://github.com/sponsors/gnif)
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Annoucement and Rundown Video:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHp74s3Smw

Changelog:

**B5**
* Documentation improvements
* Allow EGL usage with dmabuf on platforms without GL_EXT_buffer_storage
  suport.
* Fixed cursor grab retry logic (fixes issues on i3/awesomewm)
* Don't allow in-source builds.
* Wayland curor and keyboard related crash fixes
* jitRender performance optimizations on x11
* Added EWMH event support for better window focus tracking on x11

**B5-rc1**
* removed SDL displayserver
* reduced amount of GPU buffer allocations in DMABUF import path
* implemented frame damage tracking, used to reduce amount of data
  copies needed
* added frame damage display mode in EGL backend
* added cimgui/imgui to the project
* added frame timings collection and display
* improved LGMP cursor performance by releasing the memory faster
* implemented eglSwapBuffersWithDamage for X11
* don't allow the mouse to trigger redraws if the video feed is disabled
* New "Overlay Mode" which allows interaction with imgui windows/widgets
* Allow the FPS display to be moved
* Observe XDG_CONFIG_DIR when looking for the configuration
* Added EGL texture import timing graph
* Alerts are now rendered using ImGui
* Added high DPI support
* add JIT rendering mode for wayland
* improve fractional scaling for wayland
* made numbering of IVSHMEM devices consistent
* Added guest cursor warp support to the KVMFR protocol
* Added the ability to have post-processing filters
* Added AMD FidelityFX CAS post-processor
* Added AMD FidelityFX FSR upscaling post-processor
* add DMABUF import support in OBS plugin
* add keyboard LED synchronization
* fix EGL backend not being detected on some systems (e.g. mesa without
  libglvnd)
* fix cursor blinking issue on certain hardware
  (e.g. old Intel integrated graphics)
* Guest cursor is now aligned to the local cursor on window entry using
  guest cursor warp (Fixes mouse acceleration issues)
* add ability to reorder post-processing filters
* add ability to load and save post-processing filter presets.
* add ability to capture via xdg-desktop-portal+PipeWire on Linux
* windows host installers are now distributed as 64-bit executables