0.86/0.85.2 Notes

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Sucrose 0.85.2 Release Notes

Announcement

This is development Release for the upcoming 0.86 Release - see the 0.86/Roadmap#Schedule for more details. We are getting closer to the feature freeze and a few features have been landed in this release. Please test them carefully and report any bug and workflow issues you find to get them in good shape for the release. A friendly BugSquad will be available to triage those bugs accordingly and the developers can never have enough bug food. If you have non-bug feedback about features you can use the sugar-devel mailing list to share it with us.

From a user point of view we want to highlight the following changes that have been made:

instructions for naive users to upgrade to latest version for testing

Instructions go here:

Please keep in mind there are people who don't know how or where to get the latest release... or update.

Toolbar redesign

Features/New_Toolbar_Design

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

Compatibility

Glucose modules

Glucose news

sugar

  • restores Rainbow support, meaning that you can try and give feedback after installing Rainbow.

sugar-toolkit

  • toolbar redesign
  • #1102 Make the unfullscreen go away after a timeout
  • #955 mimetype database only updated when installing activities

sugar-artwork

  • cross activity toolbar icons

sugar-presence-service

  • broadcasting buddy tags to the connection managers that support it (gabble at the moment)

sugar-base

  • re-add lost po/sugar-base.pot

etoys

  • updated translations: bn, de, el, ko
  • fix demo project resolutions
  • add setup.py to please packagers
  • avoid black screen flashing when switching projects
  • set activity window title to project name
  • split over-long "geometry" category
  • better keyboard event handling in scripts
  • various fixes

Fructose modules

Fructose news

Browse

  • Toolbar redesign
  • Tabs

Turtleart

  • fixed sharing bug
  • began 701 backward compatibility work
  • more debugging code

Read

  • support for Epub files

Fructose dependencies

Fructose dependencies News

Hulahop

- tabs support