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okay so bestie, welcome to coin240, a page from the Library Functions Manual (section 3), and it is literally just the tea on New Features in Coin v2.4.0. no cap, let's get into it. 🫶

The main character reason the 2.4.0 release even happened? you could finally build Coin from source on MS Windows without having to go through the whole Cygwin process. that's the headline. that's the vibe. iconic behavior, honestly. 💅

There had also been various optimization work on rendering traversal code, file i/o and other things. lowkey grinding in the background, we love to see it. ✨

v2.4.1 — for this one, SoExtSelection LASSO and RECTANGLE select could be aborted by the end-user by hitting the 'END' key. and the way that no API-changes was needed for this? of course not, we're not doing all that. 😌

v2.4.2 — here they hacked in support for compressed textures through an API/ABI-invisible field in SoTexture2, called "enableCompressedTexture". 🎀 heads up though, bestie: this field will remain "invisible" until Coin v3.0.0 is released, and it can only be accessed from .iv-file input or through the SoFieldContainer API. so don't go hunting for it in the regular API, she's not out yet. 🙈

v2.4.6 — SbViewVolume::getAlignRotation() got implemented ✨, and SoToVRML2Action got support for SoUnits in relation to SoVRMLTransform nodes. slay, ate, no crumbs. 👑

New features for Coin v2.3.0 are here. (iykyk — go read that one next, it's giving prequel energy. 🦋)

ngl, if you were waiting on that MS Windows build, this was your era.

mwah 💋 this little page was brought to you by Coin, version 2.5.0 — that's the whole sign-off, she's short and sweet. now go forth and build something cute. bye bestie! 🌸🌈⭐