🍀 Added

• Added a new Blocktad drawing format. It works similarly to Octads, but uses blocks instead of braille characters

⚒️ Changed

• Reworked the layer API into a more memory safe form
• Improved stability and performance of the diffing step (@airblast-dev)
• Removed unnecessary allocations (@airblast-dev)

💥 Breaking

• Layer is now reserved for internal use, the new public API uses LayerIndex and the create_layer() factory
• Changed drawing function first args from &mut Layer to &mut Engine and LayerIndex
• Removed Color::NO_COLOR in favor of Attributes::NO_FG_COLOR and Attributes::NO_BG_COLOR

🍀 Added

• Added support for alpha blending with the default terminal background
• Added Color::NO_COLOR sentinel constant, which erases the specified fg or bg channel.
• Added ColorRgb struct, which specifies a color value without the alpha channel
• Added erase_rect function, which erases the fg and bg channels in the specified rectangular area
• Added override_blending_color function, which overrides the default auto-detected terminal background color used for alpha blending
• Added get_fps function

⚒️ Changed

• Improved performance of alpha blending by switching to a LUT-based approach instead of floating-point arithmetic
• Terminal line wrapping now gets restored upon calling exit_cleanup

💥 Breaking

• Moved draw_fps_counter function from the fps_counter module to draw
• Changed visibility of FpsCounter from pub to pub(crate). Please use the new get_fps function if you need to read the current FPS

Initial release!