Release GA-CPP-SDK v5.1.0

🚀 GA-SDK-CPP v5.1.0

We’re excited to announce version 5.1.0 of the C++ SDK!
This release adds new functionality for playtime tracking and includes important fixes and improvements across platforms.

✨ Added

• Previous Session Time — Added functionality to retrieve the duration of the last session.

🐛 Fixed

• Playtime Metrics — Fixed annotations for session time and total session time.
• macOS — Improved GPU model detection.

Release GA-CPP-SDK v5.0.0

⚠️ Important Update

• Version 5.0.0 introduces a breaking change in Remote Configs for Data Export users. After updating, event annotations will change from configurations to configurations_v3 for all Configs.

🚀 New Features

• Remote Configs v2: Supports JSON values and includes changelogs for each configuration.
• Metrics API: Provides session metrics including current, previous, and total play durations (in seconds).

🔥 Dependency Changes

• Removed zlib: Simplified build process by eliminating the zlib dependency.

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For full documentation, visit the official site.

Release GA-CPP-SDK v4.1.1

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Added getUserId() and getExternalUserId() functions.
• Fix ubuntu clang version for UE compatibility & use default args for getremoteconfigasstring by @Gogoshika-ga in #24

Other Changes 🔄

• Update to 4.1.1 by @Gogoshika-ga in #25

Full Changelog: v.4.1.0...v4.1.1

Release GA-CPP-SDK v.4.1.0

⚠️ Important Update

• Version 4.0.0 is deprecated. A mandatory update to version 4.1.0 is required to ensure continued support, optimal performance, and access to future updates.

🚀 New Features

• Boot Time in Milliseconds: Boot time now reported in milliseconds for precise performance metrics.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Design Event Values: Improved the consistency of design event value handling, ensuring more accurate data delivery.
• Verbose Logging: more logs are visible when verbose logging is enabled.

✨ Enhancements

• Local Cache Path: Refined the local cache path configuration to automatically use the default writable path, streamlining setup by making configureWritablePath optional.

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For full documentation, visit the official site.

Release GA-CPP-SDK v.4.0.0

Warning

This version has been marked as deprecated. Please use version 4.1.0 or higher instead.

What's Changed

• updated to C++17
• refactored the code base
• rewritten GA thread logic
• rewritten build scripts
• changed user id logic to always use randomized id (except if custom id is set)
• replaced usage of unsafe cstrings and functions with safer alternatives
• replaced RapidJson with ModernJson
• removed Tizien support
• added SDK init event
• added health event
• added external user id
• safer handling of device properties retrieval
• added exception handling
• improved stability
• various bug fixes

Exciting New Features 🎉

• CI & Build Scripts Refactoring by @Gogoshika-ga in #10
• Add code coverage by @Gogoshika-ga in #11
• Unit Tests & CI improvements by @Gogoshika-ga in #12

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fix bug build workflow not executing debug+release builds on PRs to main branch by @Gogoshika-ga in #16

Other Changes 🔄

• Update README.md by @Gogoshika-ga in #8
• Remove UWP define by @dorin-ga in #9
• added zf log back by @dorin-ga in #13
• Add Release Workflow + CI improvements by @Gogoshika-ga in #14
• Fix Release Asset Folder Struct by @Gogoshika-ga in #17

Full Changelog: https://github.com/GameAnalytics/gameanalytics-sdk-cpp/commits/v4.0.0