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== Announcement ==
 
== Announcement ==
This is our third release in the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap 0.90 development cycle]!
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This is our development release number 4 in the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap 0.90 development cycle]!
  
We now reached Feature Freeze! We are glad to announce that two Features have been pushed already.  
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We now reached UI Freeze! We are glad to announce that three more Features have been pushed.
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[[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.  
  
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.  
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[[Features/Spiral_Home_View | The Spiral Home View]] is an enhancement to the Home View to enable the display of more icons. The idea is that after the circle becomes too large, rather than shrinking the icons, it morphs into a spiral. Only after the spiral no longer fits on the screen do the icons shrink.
  
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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[[Features/Journal_Sort | New filtering options]] have been added to the Journal. You can sort now by size, creation date and modification date.
 
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...
 
  
 
Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
 
Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
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===Updated===
 
===Updated===
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar 0.89.3]
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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.89.5.tar.bz2 sugar 0.89.5]
* [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-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.89.4.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.89.4]
* [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-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.89.4.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.89.4]
* [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-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.90.1.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service 0.90.1]
* [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/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.89.3.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.89.3]
* [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-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.89.2.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.89.2]
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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]
 
* [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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* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.1.2382.tar.gz etoys 4.1.2382]
  
 
== Glucose news ==
 
== Glucose news ==
 
=== sugar ===
 
=== sugar ===
* Repair for file transfers (Tomeu Vizoso)
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* Launch gnome-keyring-daemon from sugar-emulator (Tomeu Vizoso)
* Journal: show error message on write failure {{Bug|1842}} (Anish Mangal)
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* 3G Support: show connection errors {{Bug|1759}} (Daniel Castelo)
* Restore sugar-launch by bundle id substring {{Bug|897}} (James Cameron)
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* Unneeded debug logs {{Bug|1862}} (Simon Schampijer)
* Add default Ad-hoc networks {{Bug|1610}} (Simon Schampijer)
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* Activity data directory should be deleted when an activity is deleted {{Bug|2074}} (Martin Abente)
* Fixed text overflow in About my Computer CP section {{Bug|1980}} (Tim McNamara)
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* Sudden death while clicking around on the journal {{Bug|2064}} (Aleksey Lim)
* Added enhanced color selector: cycle through previous and next stroke and fill colors instead of random (Walter Bender)
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* Sugar main window fails to resize on randr resolution change {{Bug|1725}} (Andrés Ambrois)
* Add touchpad device to Frame for switching between capacitive and resistive modes (Walter Bender)
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* Adding spiral extension to Ring View (Walter Bender)
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* Add sorting options to the Journal: size, creation date, modification date (Andrés Ambrois)
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* Remove dependency on the Presence Service {{Bug|416}} (Tomeu Vizoso)
  
 
===sugar-artwork===
 
===sugar-artwork===
* Alternative to Create a new wireless network. {{Bug|1610}} (Simon Schampijer)
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* Icons for sorting filter (size, creation date, last edited) in the Journal {{Bug|1915}} (Gary C. Martin)
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* Icons for touchpad section in the Control Panel {{Bug|2006}} (Walter Bender)
  
 
=== sugar-toolkit ===
 
=== sugar-toolkit ===
* Print warnings about the deprecated activity.info fields (Simon Schampijer)
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* Delete activities profile data when uninstall {{Bug|2074}} (Martin Abente)
* Add ErrorAlert inherited from Alert (Anish Mangal)
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* Remove sugar/__init__.py, it should come from sugar-base {{Bug|1868}} (Tomeu Vizoso)
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* Remove Presence Service: move the code that sets up a shared activity from the PS into sugar.presence.activity (Tomeu Vizoso)
  
 
=== sugar-presence-service ===
 
=== sugar-presence-service ===
* bump version number
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* Remove connection handling now that the Shell takes care of it. Also make sure we have all the info we need right after the service starts. (Tomeu Vizoso)
 
 
=== sugar-base ===
 
* bump version number
 
  
=== etoys ===
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=== sugar-datastore ===
* switched to etoys.squeak.org/svn repo
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* New metadata fields, creation_time and filesize to support sorting in the Journal {{Bug|1915}} (Andrés Ambrois)
* translations broken up in smaller files
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* Create target directory before importing previews {{Bug|2149}} (carrott)
* 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
 
  
 
==<abbr title="Fructose, the base set of demonstration activities">Fructose</abbr> (base activity) modules==
 
==<abbr title="Fructose, the base set of demonstration activities">Fructose</abbr> (base activity) modules==
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== What is new for packagers ==
 
== What is new for packagers ==
Nothing new as of today.
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New API has been added to telepathy-gabble and telepathy-salut to support the work on the collaboration framework, which results in needing 0.9.16 for tp-gabble and 0.3.13 for tp-salut.
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One of the goals of the collaboration refactoring was dropping functionality in sugar that has been implemented in [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mission%20Control telepathy-mission-control], so Sugar now depends on tp-mission-control 5.4.3.

Latest revision as of 00:51, 30 August 2010


Sucrose 0.89.4 Release Notes

Announcement

This is our development release number 4 in the 0.90 development cycle!

We now reached UI Freeze! We are glad to announce that three more Features have been pushed.

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.

The Spiral Home View is an enhancement to the Home View to enable the display of more icons. The idea is that after the circle becomes too large, rather than shrinking the icons, it morphs into a spiral. Only after the spiral no longer fits on the screen do the icons shrink.

New filtering options have been added to the Journal. You can sort now by size, creation date and modification date.

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

  • Launch gnome-keyring-daemon from sugar-emulator (Tomeu Vizoso)
  • 3G Support: show connection errors #1759 (Daniel Castelo)
  • Unneeded debug logs #1862 (Simon Schampijer)
  • Activity data directory should be deleted when an activity is deleted #2074 (Martin Abente)
  • Sudden death while clicking around on the journal #2064 (Aleksey Lim)
  • Sugar main window fails to resize on randr resolution change #1725 (Andrés Ambrois)
  • Adding spiral extension to Ring View (Walter Bender)
  • Add sorting options to the Journal: size, creation date, modification date (Andrés Ambrois)
  • Remove dependency on the Presence Service #416 (Tomeu Vizoso)

sugar-artwork

  • Icons for sorting filter (size, creation date, last edited) in the Journal #1915 (Gary C. Martin)
  • Icons for touchpad section in the Control Panel #2006 (Walter Bender)

sugar-toolkit

  • Delete activities profile data when uninstall #2074 (Martin Abente)
  • Remove sugar/__init__.py, it should come from sugar-base #1868 (Tomeu Vizoso)
  • Remove Presence Service: move the code that sets up a shared activity from the PS into sugar.presence.activity (Tomeu Vizoso)

sugar-presence-service

  • Remove connection handling now that the Shell takes care of it. Also make sure we have all the info we need right after the service starts. (Tomeu Vizoso)

sugar-datastore

  • New metadata fields, creation_time and filesize to support sorting in the Journal #1915 (Andrés Ambrois)
  • Create target directory before importing previews #2149 (carrott)

Fructose (base activity) modules

Fructose news

No news.

What is new for packagers

New API has been added to telepathy-gabble and telepathy-salut to support the work on the collaboration framework, which results in needing 0.9.16 for tp-gabble and 0.3.13 for tp-salut.

One of the goals of the collaboration refactoring was dropping functionality in sugar that has been implemented in telepathy-mission-control, so Sugar now depends on tp-mission-control 5.4.3.