2.5.4.dev2

This is a preview release for 2.5.4, which should be out next weekend, if everything goes to plan. Included are the GitHub autogenerated release notes-- for the full release we will clean these up to be more human readable.

What's Changed

• 2.5.3.dev2 by @Starbuck5 in #3323
• Start 2.5.4 by @Starbuck5 in #3324
• Move Surface towards compiling w/ SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3310
• Port font to SDL3(_ttf) by @ankith26 in #3326
• Downgrade host image on debian multiarch by @ankith26 in #3334
• Update SDL to 2.32, mixer to 2.8.1 by @Starbuck5 in #3332
• Add interface for _sdl2.video classes by @MightyJosip in #3317
• Move transform towards compiling w/ SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3314
• Draw SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3315
• Pixelarray SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3309
• General improvements and fixes to stubs by @aatle in #3335
• Prep alphablit.c for SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3338
• Prep surface_fill.c for SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3337
• Port scap.c to SDL3 by @ankith26 in #3340
• Port camera to SDL3 by @ankith26 in #3341
• GET_PIXELVALS SDL3 compat by @Starbuck5 in #3343
• A few surface.c SDL3 fixes by @Starbuck5 in #3344
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.13.0 to 6.14.0 by @dependabot in #3348
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 by @dependabot in #3349
• Added tolerance for Color.lerp by @oddbookworm in #3347
• Fix build with debug python by @oddbookworm in #3345
• Add full unicode support to Font.metrics by @ankith26 in #3328
• Move Window, display and system docs to stubs by @zoldalma999 in #3296
• Use webp to minify logo images by @Starbuck5 in #3358
• Fixed stub for pygame._sdl2.video.Texture.init by @COUR4G3 in #3360
• Updated print_debug_info to output the status of the GIL by @oddbookworm in #3355
• Use spaces instead of tabs in docs rst files by @ankith26 in #3361
• Port joystick to SDL3 by @ankith26 in #3208
• Fix failing CI by @oddbookworm in #3363
• No more one-line statements without braces by @oddbookworm in #3364
• Bump SDL2 to 2.32.2, SDL3 to 3.2.6, SDL3_ttf to 3.2.0 by @Matiiss in #3365
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 by @dependabot in #3366
• Bump docker/metadata-action from 5.6.1 to 5.7.0 by @dependabot in #3367
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.14.0 to 6.15.0 by @dependabot in #3368
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.22.0 to 2.23.0 by @dependabot in #3369
• Fix unicode property when keyup blocked by @ankith26 in #3357
• Convert some data/example images to webp by @damusss in #3362
• Bump robinraju/release-downloader from 1.11 to 1.12 by @dependabot in #3376
• Bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 2.2.0 to 2.2.3 by @dependabot in #3377
• Remove angled brackets from Circle and Line reprs by @aatle in #3375
• Add image.load_animation by @ankith26 in #3372
• Improve SysFont documentation and add font verification warning. Closes #2643 by @mv805 in #3373
• Bump docker/login-action from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0 by @dependabot in #3388
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.23.0 to 2.23.1 by @dependabot in #3387
• Include tutorials docs in release build (fixes #3353) by @damusss in #3380
• Use ruff to also sort imports by @Matiiss in #3237
• Remove warning with zero size & RESIZABLE in display.set_mode by @damusss in #3386
• Bump actions/cache from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 by @dependabot in #3391
• Convert most tutorial assets to WEBP by @damusss in #3374
• Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.23.1 to 2.23.2 by @dependabot in #3394
• Fix CI by avoiding bugged version of pyproject-metadata package by @aatle in #3395
• Refactor bufferproxy by @MightyJosip in #3383
• Add special_flags to Group.draw() by @MarcellPerger1 in #3321
• Update dependencies by @Starbuck5 in #3399
• Run pre-commit autoupdate by @ankith26 in #3400
• Bump uraimo/run-on-arch-action from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 by @dependabot in #3409
• Fix pygame.Vector{2,3} initialization from numpy arrays by @Matiiss in #3408
• Update to SDL2_image 2.8.8 by @Starbuck5 in #3401
• Fix __class_getitem__ to be positional-only by @ankith26 in #3410
• Add Color.hex by @damusss in #3379
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.15.0 to 6.16.0 by @dependabot in #3415
• Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 5 to 6 by @dependabot in #3416
• Get transform compiling on SDL3 by @ankith26 in #3351
• Remove controller.c from gitignore by @MightyJosip in #3418
• Move Surface, draw, transform and image docs to stubs by @zoldalma999 in #3389
• Bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 2.2.3 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot in #3422
• Updating the translation to 100% by @XORandom in #3424
• Update SDL2 to 2.32.6 by @Starbuck5 in #3425
• Port Renderer to C code by @MightyJosip in #3327
• Restructure and port surface init and convert to SDL3 by @Starbuck5 in #3371
• Add Font.set_linesize() (TTF 2.24.0 feature) by @itzpr3d4t0r in #3282
• Replace AddObject() with AddObjectRef() by @MightyJosip in #3406
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.16.0 to 6.17.0 by @dependabot in #3433
• Fix stubs for buffer types by @aatle in #3398

New Contributors

• @COUR4G3 made their first contribution in #3360
• @mv805 made their first contribution in #3373
• @MarcellPerger1 made their first contribution in #3321

Full Changelog: 2.5.3.dev2...2.5.4.dev2