v1.45.0

• materials: fix alpha masked materials when MSAA is turned on [⚠️ Recompile materials]
• materials: better support materials with custom depth [Recompile Materials]
• engine: fade shadows at shadowFar distance instead of hard cutoff [⚠️ New Material Version]

v1.44.0

• engine: add support for skinning with more than four bones per vertex.
• engine: remove BloomOptions::anamorphism which wasn't working well in most cases [API CHANGE]
• engine: new API to return a Material's supported variants, C++ only (b/297456590)
• build: fix emscripten-1.3.46 build
• engine: materials built for feature level 0 can now also be loaded in higher feature levels [⚠️
  New Material Version]

v1.43.1

• engine: add support for skinning with more than four bones per vertex.
• engine: remove BloomOptions::anamorphism which wasn't working well in most cases [API CHANGE]
• engine: new API to return a Material's supported variants, C++ only (b/297456590)
• build: fix emscripten-1.3.46 build
• engine: materials built for feature level 0 can now also be loaded in higher feature levels [⚠️ New Material Version]

v1.43.0

• gltfio: Fix possible change of scale sign when decomposing transform matrix for animation
• engine: Fixes "stable" shadows (see b/299310624)

v1.42.2

• Fix possible NPE when updating fog options from Java/Kotlin
• The emissive property was not applied properly to MASKED materials, and could cause
  dark fringes to appear (recompile materials)
• Allow glTF materials with transmission/volume extensions to choose their alpha mode
  instead of forcing MASKED
• Fix a crash in gltfio when not using ubershaders
• Use flatmat for mat parameter in jsbinding
• Fix TextureFlags for sheenRoughnessMap when textures of sheenRoughnessMap and sheenColorMap is same
• Directional shadows can now be transformed (b/297095805)

v1.42.1

• Fix potential EXC_BAD_ACCESS with Metal backend: b/297059776
• setFrameCompletedCallback now takes a backend::CallbackHandler.

v1.42.0

Merge branch 'rc/1.42.0' into release

v1.41.0

• backend: fix #6997 : picking can fail on Adreno [⚠️ New Material Version]
• backend: A partial workaround for PowerVR devices (#5118, b/190221124) [⚠️ Recompile Materials]

v1.40.5

• backend: Disable timer queries on all Mali GPUs (fixes b/233754398)
• engine: Add a way to query the validity of most filament objects (see Engine::isValid)
• opengl: fix b/290388359 : possible crash when shutting down the engine
• engine: Improve precision of frame time measurement when using emulated TimerQueries
• backend: Improve frame pacing on Android and Vulkan.
• backend: workaround b/291140208 (gltf_viewer crashes on Nexus 6P)
• engine: support setDepthFunc for MaterialInstance
• web: Added setDepthFunc()/getDepthFunc() to MaterialInstance
• android: Added setDepthFunc()/getDepthFunc() to MaterialInstance

v1.40.4

• gltfio: fix crash when compute morph target without material
• matc: fix buggy variant-filter flag
• web: Added missing setMat3Parameter()/setMat4Parameter() to MaterialInstance
• opengl: fix b/290670707 : crash when using the blob cache
• engine: fix a crash with Material::compile() when a callback is specified