1.12.1.10 "Jam Team Assemble"

This release is huge! From a purely practical standpoint, it updates to the latest Gradle (8.8) to allow users with only the newest Java installed to still open up the Gradle projects. There are some new third-party libraries. You can now open in IDEA even if IDEA was installed via FlatPak, thanks to @lyze237 . And there might be some minor differences in the user experience you could notice, such as, oh I don't know...

EVERYTHING.

The entire UI was overhauled and rewritten from scratch by that ferocious and tenacious code warrior, @raeleus ! Now you can search for third-party extensions by name instead of scrolling endlessly! There's a version for smaller screens that asks for information in bite-size pieces! There's a 1080p-or-larger version that shows everything on one page! The old crufty Advanced options page is totally cleaned up now! It looks really nice, too, with animations as a project is generated and when you go between pages of the smaller-screen version! It's chock-full of goodness all around.

Please try it out and tell us what we screwed up this time! The Issues page here on GitHub is a good place if you have a pretty firm idea of what the problem is, or you can ask on the libGDX Discord for help if it might not be a bug in a program, such as if something just isn't clear. In fact, there's a link to the Discord on the first page of the Liftoff (small screen) window now!

This release coincidentally comes just a few days before the June 2024 libGDX Game Jam (the 5 year anniversary game jam) and the 10 year anniversary of my (@tommyettinger 's) ongoing commit streak. So, happy anniversaries! Enjoy the release!