We are excited to announce the bumper v2.4.0 release - later than we hoped, but well worth the delay. With the introduction of rounded rectangles we have updated the look and feel to remove a lot of the sharp corners, Smoother edges to input and buttons primarily make the UI feel a lot more friendly. Check out the full release below and let us know what you think :)

Added features

We have some great new features for your app like rounded rectangles, emoji support in text, a new GridWrap collection widget, truncation with ellipses and support for layout debugging as well (use -tags debug).

Enjoj this great new release !.

The complete list of new additions is as follows:

• Rounded corners in rectangle (#1090)
• Support for emoji in text
• Layout debugging (with -tags debug build flag) (#3314)
• GridWrap collection widget
• Add table headers (#1658, #3594)
• Add mobile back button handling (#2910)
• Add option to disable UI animations (#1813)
• Text truncation ellipsis (#1659)
• Add support for binding tree data, include new NewTreeWithData
• Add support for OpenType fonts (#3245)
• Add Window.SetOnDropped to handle window-wide item drop on desktop
• Add lists to the types supported by preferences API
• Keyboard focus handling for all collection widgets
• Add APIs for refreshing individual items in collections (#3826)
• Tapping slider moves it to that position (#3650)
• Add OnChangeEnded callback to Slider (#3652)
• Added keyboard controls to Slider
• Add NewWarningThemedResource and NewSuccessThemedResource along with NewColoredResource (#4040)
• Custom hyperlink callback for rich text hyperlinks (#3335)
• Added dialog.NewCustomWithoutButtons, with a SetButtons method (#2127, #2782)
• Added SetConfirmImportance to dialog.ConfirmDialog.
• Added FormDialog.Submit() to close and submit the dialog if validation passes
• Rich Text image alignment (#3810)
• Bring back theme.HyperlinkColor (#3867)
• Added Importance field on Label to color the text
• Navigating in entry quickly with ctrl key (#2462)
• Support .desktop file metadata in FyneApp.toml for Linux and BSD
• Support mobile simulator on FreeBSD
• Add data binding boolean operators Not, And and Or
• Added Entry.Append, Select.SetOptions, Check.SetText, FormDialog.Submit
• Add ShowPopUpAtRelativePosition and PopUp.ShowAtRelativePosition
• Add desktop support to get key modifiers with CurrentKeyModifiers
• Add geometry helpers NewSquareSize and NewSquareOffsetPos
• Add --pprof option to fyne build commands to enable profiling
• Support compiling from Android (termux)

Changed

The following items have changed as well, most notably you’ll need to be using Go 1.17 at least going forward.

• Go 1.17 or later is now required.
• Theme updated for rounded corners on buttons and input widgets
• widget.ButtonImportance is now widget.Importance
• The Max container and layout have been renamed Stack for clarity
• Refreshing an image will now happen in app-thread not render process, apps may wish to add async image load
• Icons for macOS bundles are now padded and rounded, disable with “-use-raw-icon” (#3752)
• Update Android target SDK to 33 for Play Store releases
• Focus handling for List/Tree/Table are now at the parent widget not child elements
• Accordion widget now fills available space - put it inside a VBox container for old behavior (#4126)
• Deprecated theme.FyneLogo() for later removal (#3296)
• Improve look of menu shortcuts (#2722)
• iOS and macOS packages now default to using “XCWildcard” provisioning profile
• Improving performance of lookup for theme data
• Improved application startup time

There are also more than 25 other fixes in that improve stability and performance. Let us know what you think and how we can improve further :).