Minetest 5.8.0

What's new in this version:

Deprecations and compatibility notes:
- Minetest Game is no longer the default game and will no longer be shipped by Minetest. If you want it back, install it by using the “Content” tab
- lua_api.txt has been converted to Markdown and renamed to lua_api.md
- Android now builds via CMake
- Compiling: C++17 support is now required
- Node definition field air_equivalent is now documented—as deprecated

Client / Audiovisuals:
- Main menu: Redesign and unify settings interface
- Main menu: better prompt to install a game when none is installed
- Main menu: various fixes
- ContentDB GUI: Load package list asynchronously
- Option to invert direction or disable mouse wheel for hotbar item selection
- Inventory mouse shortcut improvements
- Holding down Sneak+click while moving the mouse over item slots now continously moves items to other inventory
- Press Sneak+click on the crafting output slot to craft and move result to inventory
- Left mouse button: Craft as many as possible
- Mouse wheel: Craft 10 times
- Right mouse button: Craft once
- Drag an item stack on the crafting grid to split stacks evenly
- Hold down Left mouse button while holding an item stack and move the cursor over the slots to pick up items of the same type
- Implement check_offset for decorations
- Touchscreen input improvements
- Rendering-related performance improvements and fixes
- Add antialiasing filters
- Reverse eye-offset Z-coordinate in 3rd person front view
- DPI-aware crosshair
- Prevent early respawns caused by up/down button in the death screen
- Sounds and animations are now paused in pause menu in singleplayer
- Android: Place nodes with single tap
- Android: Higher default graphics settings
- Android: Auto-detect locale
- Android: ignore broken language files
- X11

World / Server / Environment:
- Major speedup for crafting shapeless craft recipes
- Fix crash on handling wallmounted nodes with invalid param2
- Fix biomes not repecting their Y limits
- Especially thin biomes will now be generated as intended.
- Saner

Script API / Modding:
- Add ability to override item images using ItemMetaData
- Add node pos to node damage HP change reason
- Add vector.in_area() utility function
- Add focused styling to buttons
- Add min/max protocol version to minetest.get_version()
- Add additional texture modifiers
- Add node group disable_descend to disable actively descending down climbable nodes and nodes with liquid move physics
- Add VoxelArea::intersect()
- Allow nodes to have their post_effect_color affected by lighting
- Fix potential freeze in core.check_for_falling
- Send everlasting particle spawners to all players
- Allow place_param2 = 0 node placement predictions
- New player physics overrides for climb speed, sneak speed, acceleration, liquid fluidity and liquid sink speed
- Allow to set custom third person front view camera offset
- Add script to update/generate mod translations: util/mod_translation_updater.py
- See util/README_mod_translation_updater.md for details
- Add start_time to sound parameter tables

Misc / Maintenance:
- Entity/Object fixes and unittests
- Lua environment cleanups and improvements
- Various documentation improvements
- Inventory code fixes
- Many various code fixes
- Opt-out option for Doxygen generation on build
- Sound code cleanups and improvements
- Long sounds in sound packs, or sent via dynamic media, no longer cause client freezes on load
- Positional sounds can be faded now
- Documentation
- Other improvements listed elsewhere
- Faster client load times

Minetest Game:
- Minetest Game is no longer the default game and no longer installed by default
- New water textures
- Improve leaves textures in "Opaque Leaves" mode
- When a player dies in protected air, bones now spawn as a block instead of dropping as an item
- Add API for sapling growth
- Hook callbacks for default.set_inventory_action_loggers
- Fix logic error in bed rotation
- Fix coral and kelp duplication glitch with sticky piston from Mesecons mod
- Fix players being able to skip many nights at once by spam-clicking bed
- Fix not updating vessel shelf infotext
- Fix bookshelf infotext not updating when adding, removing or moving items inside
- Update translations: German