_Creative Commons 'Stylized mushrooms' scene by QumoDone rendered in Bevy._

[Bevy][bevy] is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is

[free and open source][bevy-git] forever!

Bevy 0.7 was a massive community effort. You can check out the

[full release blog post here][bevy-blog], but here are some highlights:

- [Skeletal animation and mesh skinning][bevy-animation]

- [GLTF animation importing][bevy-gltf]

- [Unlimited* point lights in a scene][bevy-unlimited]

- [Improved clustered forward rendering: dynamic/adaptive clustering and faster, more accurate cluster assignment][bevy-light-opt]

- [Compressed texture support (KTX2 / DDS / .basis): load more textures in a scene, faster][bevy-compressed]

- [Compute shader / pipeline specialization: Bevy's flexible shader system was ported to compute shaders, enabling hot-reloading, shader defs, and shader imports][bevy-compute]

- [Render to texture: cameras can now be configured to render to a texture instead of a window][bevy-render-texture]

- [Flexible mesh vertex layouts in shaders][bevy-vertex]

- [ECS improvements: Order systems using their names, Query::many_mut, use conflicting parameters in systems via ParamSets, WorldQuery derives][bevy-ecs]

- [Documentation improvements: better examples, more doc tests and more coverage][bevy-docs]

- [More audio control: pause, volume, speed, and looping][bevy-audio]

- [Power usage options to enable only updating Bevy Apps when input occurs][bevy-power]

_Discussions:

[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/u4e63h/bevy_07/),

[Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043668),

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/cart_cart/status/1515031150313443332)_

[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org

[bevy-git]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy

[bevy-blog]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7

[bevy-animation]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#skeletal-animation

[bevy-gltf]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#gltf-animation-importing

[bevy-unlimited]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#unlimited-point-lights

[bevy-light-opt]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#light-clustering-features-and-optimizations

[bevy-compressed]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#compressed-gpu-textures

[bevy-compute]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#bevy-native-compute-shaders

[bevy-render-texture]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#render-to-texture

[bevy-vertex]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#flexible-mesh-vertex-layouts

[bevy-ecs]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#ergonomic-system-ordering

[bevy-docs]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#documentation-improvements

[bevy-audio]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#audio-control

[bevy-power]: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/#eventloop-power-saving-modes