View a comprehensive history of all the new additions in Construct 3 since the first release.
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C3 runtime: support for NW.js plugin
Mobile Advert: "Show user consent dialog" action (to allow user to change their consent)
C3 runtime: support for Instant Games plugin
C3 runtime: support for Facebook plugin
Text editor: JSON minify and beautify option in context menu (JSON files only)
C3 runtime: support for Multiplayer plugin
C3 runtime: new icons for Platform Info, Game Recorder, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis plugins
Desktop build: 'Display scale' in view menu to adjust zoom level
Xbox Live: support for Achievements
Instant Games: option for 'Load leaderboard scores' to return results from connected players only
Animations editor: option to configure up to five external editing programs in desktop app mode
Animations editor: fill tool mode to change all pixels with the same color. Disable the new "Flood Fill" to use it.
C3 runtime: support for User Media plugin (camera and microphone input only)
C3 runtime: new Game Recorder plugin
C3 runtime: new Speech Synthesis plugin
C3 runtime: new Speech Recognition plugin
Improved clipboard support: in Chrome 66+ you should no longer see "copy failed" dialogs. Instead you may see a one-off permission prompt.
NW.js plugin: ProjectFilesFolder and ProjectFilesFolderURL expressions, which point at the same folder as index.html is in
NW.js plugin: 'Shell open' action (open a file with the OS default app)
C3 runtime: support for Geolocation plugin
Layout View: if only one instance is selected, 'Enter' shortcut now does the same thing as double-click
Event Sheet View: 'E', 'G' and 'Q' shortcuts now work with no selection
Event Sheet View: arrow key shortcuts now select first event if nothing selected
Animations Editor: Visual feedback for the current cursor position for tools which don't already have one (e.g. rectangle select tool)
Animations Editor: "Smooth" toggle for the resize tool. Turning it off can help when working with pixel art.
Settings dialog: new setting to show in-progress languages
Layout view: warn when dropping instances in to a locked or hidden layer
Instant Games: support for showing interstitial and rewarded video ads
Instant Games: 'Create home screen shortcut' action (Android only)
Animations Editor: Keyboard shortcut to delete the current image point using the "delete" key
Settings dialog: can now opt-in to be notified about new beta releases
Google Play plugin: now supported in Android apps
Dictionary editor: context menu items for addition and removal of rows
Project bar: folder context menus to expand/collapse all
Desktop build: Ctrl+W shortcut to close current tab
Event sheet view: + and - shortcuts to insert event above or below
The title and About dialog now indicate if you are using a beta release
Dictionary: 'GetDefault' expression (get a key or return custom value if missing)
Desktop build: can now automatically open .c3p or .c3proj files by double-click, if manually associated with the app
Animations Editor: now erases with any drawing tool when the alpha channel is 0
Animations Editor: fill and border toggles in the rectangle & ellipse tools
Addon Manager: can now multi-select .c3addon files to install
Audio: PlaybackRate expression