0.90/0.89.2 Notes

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Sucrose 0.89.2 Release Notes

Announcement

This is the second development release in the 0.90 release cycle - see the 0.90/Roadmap#Schedule for more details.

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 modules

Updated

Not Updated

Glucose news

sugar

  • "sugar-control-panel -l" gives non-fatal error #2106 (fran)
  • Trying to register to XS while offline produces in no user visible errors #2062 (Tim McNamara)
  • Only show mesh device icon when mesh is active (Daniel Drake)
  • Add frame and journal keybindings (Daniel Drake)
  • Journal xobundle removal wont remove installed one (Martin Abente)

sugar-datastore

  • reduce _FLUSH_TIMEOUT to 5 seconds #2132
  • Set index_updated flag on ds shutting down #2095

Fructose modules

Fructose news

Pippy

  • Remove broken slideshow until it is fixed #2054 (James Cameron)
  • Adapt pippy examples to screen dimensions (except xolympics), #9260 (James Cameron)

Browse

  • keyboard shortcuts for back/forward/reload
  • add CAcert
  • user-visible tab support. Note that the tab support will disable itself if it detects cairo version >= 1.08.10

Calculate

  • Support for new Sugar toolbars (old toolbars supported for older versions of Sugar)
  • Fixed degrees/radians feature
  • Fixed issue with scientific/engineering notation feature button
  • Includes latest translation files
  • Corrected several help toolbar shortcut typos
  • New feature to display integer results in decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal
  • True and False supported as boolean constants
  • Updated deg/rad, and sci/eng toolbar buttons to more clearly show the options and current state
  • Fixed minus sign as first character in input so it no longer inserts the previous result
  • Improved display of some calculations that provide an exact result
  • Updated help strings
  • Added missing strings to pootle ready for translation

What is new for packagers

Nothing new as of today.