Citron-NEO Version Control (April 27, 2026)

The Citron-NEO Git (2026/04/27) has been released, marking a revival of the yuzu emulator with minimal requirements. Key updates in the changelog include various fixes for crashing issues, enhancements in Vulkan’s bindless texture handling, audio volume clamping, and adjustments for Apple platforms. Notable changes also involve improving mip level limits, correcting function signatures, and addressing GitHub rate limiting with runtime download fallbacks. Additional improvements target build efficiency, including better error reporting and optimization of DLL deployment. Overall, this release focuses on stability and performance enhancements in the emulator’s core functionalities.

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The Citron-NEO Git (2026/04/27) has been released. This is a revival of the now-defunct yuzu emulator, simplified to include only the essential features.

Citron-NEO Changelog:
* shader_recompiler/texture_pass: revert to 8 when cbuf size is unknown
* shader_recompiler/texture_pass: define size bindless count from cbuf during compilation
* video_core/vulkan: resolve bindless skip path crash with default SamplerId
* video_core/vulkan: bypass sampler lookup for unused bindless slots
* video_core/vulkan: enable descriptor indexing for bindless slots
* video_core/vulkan: promote per-draw view/sampler arrays to thread_local
* fix: Various crashes associated with Tomo
* cmake: omit -fuse-ld=lld on Apple devices
* shader_recompiler: initialize dummy_flow_block by default to meet clang requirements
* externals: remove add_subdirectory(spirv-tools) leftover from spv_opt removal
* video_core/texture_cache: increase MAX_MIP_LEVELS to 15
* audio: limit device/output volumes and intercept SetAudioDeviceOutputVolume(0)
* service/am: send ChangeIntoForeground message at applet launch
* fix: adjust ILibraryAppletAccessor::Unknown90 signature to 4x u64
* fix: expand bindless texture array length to 1024
* spirv: remove spv_opt
* fix: resolve tomodachi posix time crash
* Revert “fix: External Content Directory multiple update parsing issue”
* Revert “feat: See you Later, Updater Manager/Autoloader!”
* add hardware acceleration flags to ffmpeg compilation
* build: provide a more useful error when attempting to run the script with python 3.11 in msys2
* eliminate unnecessary VS check on Windows due to vcpkg issues
* included a fallback for runtime downloading if GitHub rate restricting occurs… additional fixes for DLL deployment
* build: reducing the bloat on msys2 clangtron builds
* fix bloated DLL deployment on Windows msys2 builds, and enhance Qt detection sequence in CMake setup