JME 3.9.0 Development

capdevon · July 8, 2025, 7:18pm

@RiccardoBlb
it seems the problem has occurred again…

RiccardoBlb · July 9, 2025, 7:18am

I migrated everything except hub.jmonkeyengine.org to the new server, so this issue should be fixed for good now

capdevon · July 9, 2025, 7:43am

It works now. Thank you very much @RiccardoBlb!
If I understand correctly, the jme3-natives.zip file contains Android libraries. Can I bypass downloading this zip file when I run the gradle install task on my local PC?

Thanks

RiccardoBlb · July 9, 2025, 9:03am

i think you can exclude the task with -xextractPrebuiltNatives

Or by setting skipPrebuildLibraries=true in the properties

github.com/jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine

gradle.properties

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          # specify if JavaDoc should be built

          buildJavaDoc = true

          

          # specify if SDK and Native libraries get built

          buildNativeProjects = false

          buildAndroidExamples = false

          

          buildForPlatforms = Linux64,Linux32,Windows64,Windows32,Mac64

          # Forcefully ignore prebuilt libraries

          skipPrebuildLibraries=false

          

          # Enable spotbugs

          enableSpotBugs=false

          

          # Path to android NDK for building native libraries

          #ndkPath=/Users/normenhansen/Documents/Code-Import/android-ndk-r7

          ndkPath = /opt/android-ndk-r16b

          

          # POM settings

          POM_NAME=jMonkeyEngine

capdevon · July 10, 2025, 10:16am

Hi, to speed up the development, testing and engine installation time on my local pc I would like to exclude the javadoc generation of the jme3-examples module which I don’t find very useful and takes on average over 1 minute when I run the gradle install task.

Could you tell me how to do this?

Thanks

RiccardoBlb · July 10, 2025, 10:20am

Should be
-x jme3-examples:javadoc
in the command line (you can exclude any task you don’t want with -x subprojectname:task )

or

buildJavaDoc = false

in the properties, but this will disable javadoc entirely

github.com/jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine

gradle.properties

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          jmeVersionName =

          

          # If true, the version name will contain the commit hash

          useCommitHashAsVersionName = false

          

          # Set to true if a non-master branch name should be included in the automatically

          # generated version.

          includeBranchInVersion = false

          

          # specify if JavaDoc should be built

          buildJavaDoc = true

          

          # specify if SDK and Native libraries get built

          buildNativeProjects = false

          buildAndroidExamples = false

          

          buildForPlatforms = Linux64,Linux32,Windows64,Windows32,Mac64

          # Forcefully ignore prebuilt libraries

          skipPrebuildLibraries=false

          

          # Enable spotbugs

RiccardoBlb · July 19, 2025, 4:08pm

UPDATE: now everything, including the hub, is on the new server

kruze · July 19, 2025, 6:46pm

Thank you!

yaRnMcDonuts · September 19, 2025, 4:12am

Things seem to be going well with 3.9 so far; there have been very few bugs reported so I’ll likely announce a feature freeze and move to the beta phase for 3.9 around the end of October. And if all goes well, the next stable release should be out by the end of the year.

So if you haven’t tested 3.9 yet, now would be a great time to give the latest alpha release a run in your projects to check for any bugs that may have slipped past the engine’s tests and other testers’ projects.

There are also still many PRs open that need review, particularly many javadoc and refactoring PRs. I encourage contributors to look through the list of open PRs and help review any that you can.

Here are a few PRs adding new features that I’d like to have merged soon to make it into 3.9 before the feature freeze if possible:

Add support for global lights by riccardobl · Pull Request #2548 · jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine

Improve light render parity with blender by riccardobl · Pull Request #2549 · jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine

iOS support by joliver82 · Pull Request #2411 · jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine