jMonkeyEngine 3.1 alpha 2

NOTE: Due to lack of maintainers, we've decided to make an engine release separately from the SDK. As long as the SDK remains unstable, it will not be a part of jME3 releases. Future releases will contain the engine package and maven artifacts only.

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New Features

• jME3 Maven artifacts are now available on JCenter! (thanks @davidB and @pspeed42) Note that Nifty-GUI and JBullet still require using the jME3 private Maven repo. Please see the wiki page for more information.
• LWJGL3 support (beta) (thanks @DannyJo)
• Improved OpenGL 3.2 core profile support
• JOGL backend improvements to support new unified renderer backend
• New constructors for lights: #297
• Ability to toggle lights on or off: #393
• Allow to set min / mag filter in J3M files: #295
• Support bounding spheres with light culling: #362
• Allow overriding dead zone per joystick axis: 46794e2
• Add support for non-public constructors in networking serialization: 50b2f76
• Rendering performance improved (less GL calls)

Fixed Bugs

• Fix physics angular factor deserialization: #383
• Fix GImpactCollisionShape for native bullet: #188
• Fix BetterCharacterControl flickering: #391
• Fix crash on ARM8 android devices: #378
• Fix framebuffer crash on some OpenGL drivers: 78d2d6e
• Fix regression in Node.collideWith(): 31cab67
• Fix native bullet ray cast / sweep test crash: 86439c2
• Fix clone method for lights: 6c4e801
• Fix collideWith method for BatchNode: 1073eba
• Fix broken culling when using negative scaling: 495e0cf
• Fix FXAA quality regression: 4a37a8f
• Fix lighting color ramp feature: 01227d3
• Fix network client and server running in same JVM: 2c33712
• Fix various race conditions in networking
• Blender Loader various fixes

Other

• ColoredTextured.j3md is now deprecated