This new release of OpenGUI is part service release, part new feature release. The previous packaged release (0.7.5) had some bugs in the OgreFusion module, which would cause issues when using any build of Ogre that had OgreMemoryManager enabled. Unfortunately, that included the official Ogre SDK releases. This glaring issue has been fixed in this new release. As for the new features, well they are quite numerous. The changelog is attached to the body of this post if you'd like to take a sneak peek at just what changed since the last release.

Version 0.7.7 - 08/11/2006)
* Added alpha support for widgets
* Reworked logic behind vertical text alignment ALIGN_CENTER to now take individual glyph height into consideration instead of relying solely on the font's provided line advance.
* Fixed texture state problem in OgreFusion that would cause draw errors when an untextured renderop was drawn.
* Added PT_ENUM type to list of property types natively handled by the PropertySet system
* Extended <Property> tag parsing to allow 'value' to be contained within tag body as well as attribute
* New base widget type: OpenGUI/ScalingImage
* Added new Element methods: getNativePixelSize_Inner(), getNativePixelSize_Local(), and getNativePixelSize_World() 
* Added texel offset correction to OgreFusion to compensate for differences between D3D's and OpenGL's definition of a 'texel origin'.
* Added new demo to test/show off Ogre integration
* Corrected several memory manager conflicts within OgreFusion when using precompiled Ogre SDKs. (Sinbad, please consider turning MMGR off in public precompiled SDKs.)
* Updated OgreFusion builds to Ogre 1.2.2 precompiled SDKs (previous was Ogre 1.2.0 from source)
* Added VC 8 as a build platform.
* New installer based distribution for all Windows releases.
* Added project files for Code::Blocks/MinGW. (Only partly works and requires Ogre SDK to build.)
* Lots of documentation updates, XML system is now fully documented, as well as all base Widgets

Version 0.7.5 - 07/26/2006)
* Added more documentation to OpenGUI classes that needed it
* Added proper screen resolution detection in OGLRenderer under Windows.
* Corrected issue where fonts were not loaded through the OpenGUI ResourceProvider
* Added OgreFusion (OpenGUI / Ogre interoperability)

version 0.7.1 - 05/13/2006)
* Added a changelog
* Removed temporary GCC build fix in log system (breaks GCC building)
* Added a little extra housekeeping in the source release build script

version 0.7 - 05/11/2006)
* Initial packaged release