0.104/Notes

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Sucrose 0.104.0 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.104 is the new STABLE version of the Sugar learning platform. It was released on February the 13th 2015. This release includes new features and bug fixes from Google Code-In and Summer of Code students, deployments and community members.

Summary of new features

  • Extended microformat updater with optional activities in automatic updates [1].
  • New dconf setting to disable adhoc autoconnect policy [2].
  • New "spent-times" entry in activities metadata [3].
  • New "New ASLO" back-end for activities updates [4].
  • New text-to-speech API in gtk3 toolkit [5].
  • Customizable groups instead of fixed ages in "About Me" section.

This is the full list of features proposed, we expect to re-evaluate unmerged proposals in the next release cycle.

Tarballs

How to contribute with testing

We will provide more options for testing this release soon. For now, please try it out using sugar-build.

Changes to Sugar Activities since 0.102

Write 94

Author Enhancements/Bug Fixes

Read 113

Author Enhancements/Bug Fixes

Log 36

Author Enhancements

Jukebox 32

Author Enhancements

Browse 156

Author Enhancements/Bug Fix

Pippy 61

Author Enhancements
Author Bug Fixes

Turtle Blocks 209

Author Enhancements/Bug fixes
Ignacio Rodriguez Add macro for index block
Cristian Gracia new sample project
Ignacio Rodríguez add dbus to default imports
Ignacio Rodríguez Fix alert msg
Ignacio Rodríguez Use alert instead popup
Ignacio Rodríguez Dont export if not start block
Walter Bender Set default values for index block to something that works
Ignacio Rodríguez AUTOPEP8 for all TurtleArt code.
Walter Bender use tb and don't save turtle
Ignacio Rodríguez A graphics sample
Ignacio Rodríguez Index block. Works like python: Text[start:end]
Daniel Francis thumbnail for new project
Fred Lopesy update to Brazilian PT
Walter Bender remove redundant turtle updates
Walter Bender use box instead of box1
Alan Aguiar reuse palettes when running make_palette
Alan Aguiar Using existing power management from utils library
Walter Bender suppress power management error messages
Walter Bender inhibit suspend if camera block is in use
Walter Bender add white circle in the center
Walter Bender fix regressions in paste and save-as-svg
Walter Bender save/restore private block data
Walter Bender new sample project: pinwheel
Walter Bender don't use coordinate scale on media blocks
Alan Aguiar fix to SL#4788; add export to SVG to GNOME menu
Walter Bender fix bug in rendering of if-then-else block
Walter Bender fix some issues with label placement
Walter Bender fix problem with color compare
Walter Bender resize 3arg blocks on load
Walter Bender catching one more corner case in autosave logic
Walter Bender fixed bug with autosave
Walter Bender add turtle window to before and after methods
Walter Bender add a private attribute to block class
Walter Bender rescale mouse coordinates
Walter Bender rescale constants when rescaling coordinates

Credits

Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education distributions, packaging, and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.

Patches contributors

  • Sam Parkinson
  • Ignacio Rodríguez
  • Ezequiel Pereira Lopez
  • Daksh Shah
  • Goutam
  • James Cameron
  • Walter Bender
  • Gonzalo Odiard
  • Martin Abente Lahaye

We want to especially thank

  • the Infrastructure team which does all this great work in the background without which the development would not be possible at all,
  • the deployments that provide the development team with feedback from the field,
  • the Design team which guided the design of features with UI changes or impact on the workflow,
  • the Translation team which makes sure that Sugar is enjoyable in the local languages of our users,
  • the developers that submit patches for new features and bug fixes and do review other's patches,
  • the maintainers that make sure their code is shippable and which provide packagers with new tarballs,
  • the packagers which provide distributions with new Sugar packages,
  • the SoaS team for providing a Sugar version to test with during the development cycle,
  • the testers for finding the small and bigger issues,
  • the release team and Development team for coordinating those efforts.

This time, Martin Abente Lahaye took the responsibility of manage the release.