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Sucrose 0.96 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.96 is the new version of the Sugar learning platform. It was released the 30th of April 2012 (see 0.96/Roadmap#Schedule for details).

The main changes in this cycle was the introduction of the new sugar-toolkit-gtk3 which is the sugar-toolkit ported to use GTK+ 3 and Pygobject3. Furthermore Browse and related components have been switching to WebKit as its back-end technology provider and has been ported to use the new toolkit. The Read activity has been ported to use the new toolkit as well.

What is new for users

Global Text to Speech

When the user press Alt+Shift+S the currently selected text should be said by the computer.

Write to Journal anytime

Replacement for the Naming Alert that lets you write to the Journal at any time while working on an activity.

What's new for developers

The following changes are important for developers using the Sucrose 0.96 developer platform:

Widgets

API

Activity Authors guidelines

no guidelines as of today

What's new for packagers

Sugar (the shell package) does depend on NetworkManager 0.9

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Compatibility

There a no known compatibility issues, as of today.

Getting the sources

If you want to package Sugar for your favorite distribution or just want to examine Sugar's lovely code here are the released bundles. If you are interested in the full changelog you can use the Sugar git repositories.

Glucose modules

Fructose modules

How to contribute with testing

Sugar 0.96 has been released. We are still stabilizing the areas that have seen major changes like the new stugar-toolkit-gtk3 the new GTK+ 3 Sugar theme and the Browse activity that has been ported to use Webkit. It is very important to get feedback from and that you report the bugs you find. The order of stability depends among other things as well on you.

If you find bugs please report them into the Sugar Labs bug tracker indicating the 0.96.x version in the ticket version field. If you have hardware from OLPC you can use the 12.1.0 builds for the i686 architecture (XO 1 and XO 1.5) and the ARM architecture (XO 1.75). Those builds include the latest Sugar 0.96.x. Hardware specific bugs especially with the new 1.75 hardware please report at the OLPC bug tracker. The current development version is as well available in Fedora 17 and sugar-jhbuild (sugar* master branches).

Looking forward to 0.98

In the 0.98 development cycle the porting of the Shell to GTK+ 3 and pygobject3 is a major task. Furthermore the remaining bugs in the new sugar-toolkit-gtk3 should be fixed. We encourage activity developers to port their activity to the new toolkit and GTK+ 3 and pygobject3.