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= Sucrose 0.89.3 Release Notes =
 
= Sucrose 0.89.3 Release Notes =
  
 
== Announcement ==
 
== Announcement ==
This is our second release in the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap 0.90 development cycle].
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This is our third release in the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap 0.90 development cycle]!
  
There have been many great fixes already helping to make Sugar even more stable. From a user point of view we want to highlight the addition of the keybindings for accessing the Journal (F5) and the Frame (F6). Daniel Drake has as well changed the appearance of the mesh device to be only present when the mesh is active (this is the same behavior than that of the wired device).
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We now reached Feature Freeze! We are glad to announce that two Features have been pushed already.  
  
On the activity side many fixes have been going into Pippy version 37, especially on fixing layout issues on different resolutions. Thanks to the Pippy team for all your hard work!
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A [[Features/Enhanced_color_selector | new color selector]] is available for the control panel, thanks to the ongoing efforts of Walter Bender and the design team. We already wanted to land the Feature in 0.88 but had so many ideas that we did not reach consensus in the end. Now, we are excited to hear what the learners think about it.
  
The new Browse maintainers have not waited long with a new release. Shortcuts for back/forward/reload, support for CAcerts and user visible support for tabs. The Browse team would like to have feedback especially on the latter. Thanks again to Lucian and Sascha for taking on this valuable task.
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To mimic the mesh behavior on devices where mesh hardware is not available and make the "under a tree"-scenario possible the Sugar Ad-hoc networks have been added. [[Features/Sugar_Adhoc_Networks |The Feature]] will add three default Ad-hoc networks, for channel 1, 6 and 11. They will be represented with designated icons in the neighborhood view. If Sugar sees no "known" network (the learner has not been connected to an currently available Access Point before) when it starts, it does autoconnect to an Ad-hoc network. First we try if there is an Ad-hoc network that is used by other learners in the area, if not we default to channel 1.
 
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There is also a new bundle from the Calculate team around Gary and Reinier. The activity does use the new activity toolbar introduced in 0.86 now. From a first glance the interface has improved a lot, please report back what you think about it.
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Another great Feature will be available in 0.89.4. [[Features/Remove_Presence_Service |This Feature]] removes the need for the Presence Service, meaning that activities and the Shell need to interact directly with non-Sugar-specific services such as Telepathy. As it touches three modules reviewing took a few more days. Since it is the mayor 0.90 Feature we gave it a deadline exception. The code has been pushed as I am writing these lines...
 
 
We encourage people to start doing testing. The sooner the developers get feedback about their changes the better. The Fedora team is doing nightly builds which contains the Soas images [3]. And as the Fedora packager team is doing a fantastic job at packaging the latest tarballs the release should be packaged up soon. I will do another announcement
 
once they are available. By now you can already test the 0.89.1 release if you grab the latest image from [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ here].
 
  
 
Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
 
Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
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Please use the instructions for your distribution (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release. Note that it may take a while until the release is packaged for each distribution. Please stay tuned for distribution specific announcements and watch out for updates at [[Downloads|Get Sugar]].
 
Please use the instructions for your distribution (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release. Note that it may take a while until the release is packaged for each distribution. Please stay tuned for distribution specific announcements and watch out for updates at [[Downloads|Get Sugar]].
  
== Glucose modules==
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== <abbr title="Glucose, the base Sugar environment">Glucose</abbr> (base) modules==
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===Updated===
 
===Updated===
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2382.tar.gz etoys 4.0.2382]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar 0.89.3]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116]
 
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.89.3]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.89.3]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.89.3]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.90.0.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service 0.90.0]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.90.0.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.90.0]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.1.2382.tar.gz etoys 4.1.2382]
  
 
===Not Updated===
 
===Not Updated===
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.89.2.tar.bz2 sugar 0.89.2]
 
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.89.2.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.89.2]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.89.2.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.89.2]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.89.2.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.89.2]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.89.1.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.89.1]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.88.0.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.88.0]
 
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/hulahop/hulahop-0.7.1.tar.bz2 hulahop 0.7.1]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/hulahop/hulahop-0.7.1.tar.bz2 hulahop 0.7.1]
  
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* Restore sugar-launch by bundle id substring {{Bug|897}} (James Cameron)
 
* Restore sugar-launch by bundle id substring {{Bug|897}} (James Cameron)
 
* Add default Ad-hoc networks {{Bug|1610}} (Simon Schampijer)
 
* Add default Ad-hoc networks {{Bug|1610}} (Simon Schampijer)
* Fixed text overflow in About my Computer CP section{{Bug|1980}} (Tim McNamara)
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* Fixed text overflow in About my Computer CP section {{Bug|1980}} (Tim McNamara)
 
* Added enhanced color selector: cycle through previous and next stroke and fill colors instead of random (Walter Bender)
 
* Added enhanced color selector: cycle through previous and next stroke and fill colors instead of random (Walter Bender)
 
* Add touchpad device to Frame for switching between capacitive and resistive modes (Walter Bender)
 
* Add touchpad device to Frame for switching between capacitive and resistive modes (Walter Bender)
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=== etoys ===
 
=== etoys ===
* fix DBus service methods
 
* fix NavBar not showing Sugar buttons
 
* fix 'length' and 'width' being read-only
 
* flip commands renamed to 'flip left right' and 'flip up down'
 
* fix QuickGuides showing up twice
 
 
==== Changes since 4.0 ====
 
 
* switched to etoys.squeak.org/svn repo
 
* switched to etoys.squeak.org/svn repo
 
* translations broken up in smaller files
 
* translations broken up in smaller files
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* plus bug fixes
 
* plus bug fixes
  
==Fructose modules==
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==<abbr title="Fructose, the base set of demonstration activities">Fructose</abbr> (base activity) modules==
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Pippy/Pippy-37.tar.bz2 Pippy 37]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Pippy/Pippy-37.tar.bz2 Pippy 37]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-117.tar.bz2 Browse 117]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-117.tar.bz2 Browse 117]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Calculate/Calculate-32.tar.bz2 Calculate 32]
 
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Calculate/Calculate-32.tar.bz2 Calculate 32]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116]
  
 
==Fructose news==
 
==Fructose news==
===Pippy===
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No news.
* Remove broken slideshow until it is fixed {{Bug|2054}} (James Cameron)
 
* Adapt pippy examples to screen dimensions (except xolympics), {{OlpcBug|9260}} (James Cameron)
 
 
 
===Browse===
 
* keyboard shortcuts for back/forward/reload
 
* add CAcert
 
* user-visible tab support. Note that the tab support will disable itself if it detects cairo version >= 1.08.10
 
 
 
===Calculate===
 
* Support for new Sugar toolbars (old toolbars supported for older versions of Sugar)
 
* Fixed degrees/radians feature
 
* Fixed issue with scientific/engineering notation feature button
 
* Includes latest translation files
 
* Corrected several help toolbar shortcut typos
 
* New feature to display integer results in decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal
 
* True and False supported as boolean constants
 
* Updated deg/rad, and sci/eng toolbar buttons to more clearly show the options and current state
 
* Fixed minus sign as first character in input so it no longer inserts the previous result
 
* Improved display of some calculations that provide an exact result
 
* Updated help strings
 
* Added missing strings to pootle ready for translation
 
  
 
== What is new for packagers ==
 
== What is new for packagers ==
 
Nothing new as of today.
 
Nothing new as of today.

Latest revision as of 15:13, 20 August 2010


Sucrose 0.89.3 Release Notes

Announcement

This is our third release in the 0.90 development cycle!

We now reached Feature Freeze! We are glad to announce that two Features have been pushed already.

A new color selector is available for the control panel, thanks to the ongoing efforts of Walter Bender and the design team. We already wanted to land the Feature in 0.88 but had so many ideas that we did not reach consensus in the end. Now, we are excited to hear what the learners think about it.

To mimic the mesh behavior on devices where mesh hardware is not available and make the "under a tree"-scenario possible the Sugar Ad-hoc networks have been added. The Feature will add three default Ad-hoc networks, for channel 1, 6 and 11. They will be represented with designated icons in the neighborhood view. If Sugar sees no "known" network (the learner has not been connected to an currently available Access Point before) when it starts, it does autoconnect to an Ad-hoc network. First we try if there is an Ad-hoc network that is used by other learners in the area, if not we default to channel 1.

Another great Feature will be available in 0.89.4. This Feature removes the need for the Presence Service, meaning that activities and the Shell need to interact directly with non-Sugar-specific services such as Telepathy. As it touches three modules reviewing took a few more days. Since it is the mayor 0.90 Feature we gave it a deadline exception. The code has been pushed as I am writing these lines...

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues, as of today.

Update to this version

Please use the instructions for your distribution (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release. Note that it may take a while until the release is packaged for each distribution. Please stay tuned for distribution specific announcements and watch out for updates at Get Sugar.

Glucose (base) modules

Updated

Not Updated

Glucose news

sugar

  • Repair for file transfers (Tomeu Vizoso)
  • Journal: show error message on write failure #1842 (Anish Mangal)
  • Restore sugar-launch by bundle id substring #897 (James Cameron)
  • Add default Ad-hoc networks #1610 (Simon Schampijer)
  • Fixed text overflow in About my Computer CP section #1980 (Tim McNamara)
  • Added enhanced color selector: cycle through previous and next stroke and fill colors instead of random (Walter Bender)
  • Add touchpad device to Frame for switching between capacitive and resistive modes (Walter Bender)

sugar-artwork

  • Alternative to Create a new wireless network. #1610 (Simon Schampijer)

sugar-toolkit

  • Print warnings about the deprecated activity.info fields (Simon Schampijer)
  • Add ErrorAlert inherited from Alert (Anish Mangal)

sugar-presence-service

  • bump version number

sugar-base

  • bump version number

etoys

  • switched to etoys.squeak.org/svn repo
  • translations broken up in smaller files
  • activity version will not track etoys version anymore
  • QuickGuides translated to Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and (some) French
  • added DrGeo for exploring geometry
  • sketches support flipping
  • geometry tiles for the world
  • timer tile (world and other playfields)
  • can store preferences
  • plus bug fixes

Fructose (base activity) modules

Fructose news

No news.

What is new for packagers

Nothing new as of today.