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Revision as of 09:08, 15 March 2010
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Sucrose 0.88 Release Notes
Introduction
Sucrose 0.88 is the latest version of the Sugar learning platform, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration activities.
Sucrose is released every six months. Each new release contains new features, improvements, bug fixes, and translations. Sucrose 0.88 continues this tradition and is our fourth well-planned release to date.
You can learn more about Sugar itself by studying the Sugar definition or by reading the comic strip about the learning platform from Dongyun Lee. Even better, why not try Sugar?
What is new for users
Allow the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks
Enhanced gettext
Enhanced Gettext adds an extra search path for translation files for Sugar activities. This would allow deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process.
Font configuration
Distributors/deployers need a way to be able to customize the Sugar font size.
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.
What's new for developers
The following changes are important for developers using the Sucrose 0.88 developer platform.
Widgets
API
Dependencies
Activity Authors guidelines
What's new for packagers
- sugar: cjson -> simplejson: Sugar moved back to use simplejson instead of cjson. cjson has a big bug dealing with slashes, this is a significant long-term bug and upstream has not been responsive other than acknowledging it. This bug breaks journal entry bundles #1553.
- sugar-toolkit: the python module dateutil has been added. Please add this to the requires (i.e. in Fedora python-dateutil).
Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)
Compatibility
possible compatibility issues
Getting the sources
If you want to package sugar for your favourite distribution or just want to examine sugar's lovely code ;) you can find all the source code of each module at the links below.
Glucose
- sugar-toolkit 0.87.8
- sugar 0.87.8
- sugar-datastore 0.87.4
- sugar-artwork 0.87.3
- sugar-base 0.87.3
- etoys 4.0.2340
- Etoys 114
- sugar-presence-service 0.87.1
- hulahop 0.7.1
Looking at the release cycle details
You can browse the notes of each development release in 0.114. Their respective sources are listed there as well. One of the most interesting plans is the refactoring of Collaboration on which Tomeu and the Collabora team are working on.
Looking Forward to 0.90
Planning of the next release cycle has started at 0.90/Roadmap.
Credits
Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.