Voxel game creation platform Luanti (formerly Minetest) gets basic gamepad support, security fixes

Client / Audiovisuals

• Dropdowns now accept selection by (Mouse) Down -> Drag -> Release.
• Formspecs no longer close when focusing the window (SmallJoker).
• Fix: Formspec model[] elements are again animated (Lars Mueller,cx384).
• Implement basic gamepad support for in-game actions (not formspecs) (y5nw).
• Support multi-track animations (glTF models) (Lars Müller)
  • E.g. models may now have several, independently controllable animations.
• Fixed an case where the held item stack (e.g. when dragging) size was no longer displayed correctly (OgelGames).
• The mouse cursor is no longer clamped to window bounds (Chase Bradley)
  • This becomes apparent with high DPI mice and (relatively) low FPS.
• Shaders: Fix plants flickering when visual_scale > 1 (SmallJoker).
• Chat: Pressing the Tab key now autocompletes to the next common part of the player name (SmallJoker).
• The (main menu) progress bar now shows more media download details (cx384).
• Formspec: Inventory slots and buttons now stay hovered on update (CrazyladMT).
• Main menu: Mods are now sorted by their technical name (before: directory name) (SmallJoker).
• Mostly fix the appearance of waving liquids (shader) below solid nodes (ZenonSeth).
• Fix an issue where Luanti would not start in certain situations (sfan5).
• Android: read-only access to Luanti’s data directory (Stvk imension).

World / Server / Environment

• Add dummy auth backend support (nerzhul).
• Improved collision handling (SmallJoker).
• Mapblocks in view now load more efficiently (lhofhansl).
• The --debugger command line argument can now be used on luantiserver (SmallJoker).

Script API / Modding

• Add hideable HUD element field (cx384).
• Detaching players now always happens before teleporting (keilogic).
• Many Lua API documentation improvements (OgelGames, Wuzzy, SmallJoker).
• Warnings are now logged when the “builtin” (main menu, utility) files do not match a checksum (Desour)
  • This helps to detect issues caused by partial or corrupted Luanti installations.
• core.(de)compress now supports "raw_deflate" (Danny Ward).
• core.get_craft_recipe and core.get_all_craft_recipes now … (SmallJoker, The4codeblocks)
  • return "fuel" recipes,.
  • the fields time and replacements.
• Dark theme for https://api.luanti.org/ (Wabio).
• visual_scale no longer has any effect on unsupported drawtypes (DragonWrangler1).
• Fixed a case where where core.get_natural_light could throw an error (Jürgen Rühle).
• Formspec: Add hypertext support to tooltips (“hypertip”) (kilbith), improved by Wuzzy.
• Formspec: Fix text color and font not applying to field labels (OgelGames).
• Formspec: Add alignment styles to label[], textarea[] and field[] (CrazyladMT).
• Performance improvements related to texture modifiers and node visuals (sfan5).
• SSCSM: Support for item/node definitions (ZenonSeth).

Misc / Maintenance

• Various stability or minor security fixes (JosiahWI, sfan5, Lars Mueller).
• Build system maintenance and improvements (user333_, AFCMS, sfan5).
• Debugging-related improvements (Desour sfan5).
• Funding information is now available under FUNDING.yml (rubenwardy).
• Code maintenance, improvements (SmallJoker, sfan5, Lars Mueller, cx384).
• CPCSM/SSCSM fixes (nerzhul).
• New policy for generative AI contributions (Vincent Robinson).
• Multiple security fixes (sfan5, red-001, Lars Mueller).