DOOM Retro v3.5.4 is now available, in both 32 and 64-bit binaries. Its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Improvements have been made to the support of Chex Quest.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the wrong map name would be displayed on the intermission screen in some instances.
• A brightmap is now applied to the SLADRIP2 texture when the r_brightmaps CVAR is on.

DOOM Retro v3.5.3 is now available, in both 32 and 64-bit binaries. Its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• A bug has been fixed whereby screenshots couldn’t be taken while the console was open.
• The following changes have been made to timestamps in the console:
  • The con_timestamps CVAR has been deprecated. Timestamps will now always appear in the console next to player messages.
  • Timestamps in the console are now a translucent yellow.
• The following changes have been made to obituaries in the console:
  • Obituaries involving an exploding barrel now indicate who caused the explosion.
  • Names set using the name CCMD will now be used when an arch-vile resurrects a monster.
• The number of times the player commits suicide is now displayed by the playerstats CCMD.
• All monsters spawned using the spawn CCMD can now cross monster-blocking lines.
• More blood splats now appear around decorative corpses.
• A crash will no longer occur when trying to spawn a berserk power-up using the spawn CCMD in DOOM (Shareware).

DOOM Retro v3.5.2 is now available, in both 32 and 64-bit binaries. Its release notes are as follows:

• DOOM Retro now uses SDL v2.0.12.
• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• DOOM Retro’s keyboard and mouse controls are now more responsive.
• Further improvements have been made to the console’s autocomplete feature.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• Item fogs spawned while using the spawn or respawnitems CCMDs are now always positioned correctly.
• The following changes have been made to the r_blood CVAR:
  • The CVAR can now be set to nofuzz, causing all blood spilled by spectres (as well as the player while they have a partial invisibility power-up) to be red instead of fuzzy.
  • Puffs are now spawned rather than nothing when the CVAR is none.
  • All blood spilled will now be red when the CVAR is red, and green when the CVAR is green.
• Flying monsters spawned using the spawn CCMD now spawn higher off the ground.
• The player’s path around the current map will now always be recorded even while the am_path CVAR is off.
• The following changes have been made to the mapstats CCMD:
  • The total number of things in the current map is now correct.
  • How much the current map is inside/outside is now displayed.
• The number of times the player has died in the current map is now correct in the playerstats CCMD.
• The following changes have been made to the numbers displayed in the widescreen HUD:
  • Health, armor and ammo now flash slightly brighter when they change, and do so even when the r_hud_translucency CVAR is off.
  • Ammo now flashes when the player switches to a weapon with different ammo.
  • Health and ammo now flash on and off when low and the r_hud_translucency CVAR is off.
• 3D bridges that use the STEP2 wall texture are now rendered correctly.
• The automap will now rotate correctly in the background if the menu is open and the am_rotatemode CVAR is off.

DOOM Retro v3.5.1 is now available, in both 32 and 64-bit binaries. Its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Minor changes have been made to the character set used in the console.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• Monsters can now be spawned using the spawn CCMD when the nomonsters CCMD has been entered in the console, or the -nomonsters parameter has been specified on the command-line.
• The following changes have been made to the widescreen HUD:
  • The HUD has been brought in slightly from the edges of the screen.
  • The player’s armor is now on the left side of the screen next to their health, and the ammo for their currently equipped weapon on the right.
• Item and teleport fogs are now spawned when using the spawn CCMD.
• Thing triangles in the automap representing MBF-compatible helper dogs are now the correct size again when using the IDDT cheat.
• Minor improvements have been made to the menu’s background.
• The player’s view is now reset again when exiting the menu.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the use of LIQUID or NOLIQUID in a MAPINFO lump would have no effect.
• The scrollbar in the console has been widened and now includes a grip.