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This might be the sweeties Easter egg ever!

This might be the sweeties Easter egg ever!

The new shining version of the sweet learning environment is available. Many people from all over the world have been working together over the last six months to make this tooth breaker possible. 0.88 is the latest version of the Sugar, consisting of [[Taxonomy#Glucose:_The_base_Sugar_environment|Glucose]], the base system environment; and [[Taxonomy#Fructose:_The_set_of_demonstration_activities|Fructose]], a set of demonstration activities. This new release contains many new features, performance and code improvements, bug fixes, and translations.

The new shining version of the sweet learning environment is available. Many people from all over the world have been working together over the last six months to make this tooth breaker possible. 0.88 is the latest version of Sugar, consisting of [[Taxonomy#Glucose:_The_base_Sugar_environment|Glucose]], the base system environment; and [[Taxonomy#Fructose:_The_set_of_demonstration_activities|Fructose]], a set of demonstration activities. This new release contains many new features, performance and code improvements, bug fixes, and translations.

You can learn more about Sugar itself by studying the [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar definition]] or by reading the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners comic strip] about the learning platform from ''Dongyun Lee''. Even better, why not [[Downloads|try Sugar]] today?

You can learn more about Sugar itself by studying the [[What_is_Sugar%3F|Sugar definition]] or by reading the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners comic strip] about the learning platform from ''Dongyun Lee''. Even better, why not [[Downloads|try Sugar]] today?

Thanks to ''Daniel Drake'' for developing this Feature which is a huge improvement for customizing Sugar.

Thanks to ''Daniel Drake'' for developing this Feature which is a huge improvement for customizing Sugar.

=== Update an activity translation independently of the Sugar release process ===

=== Activity translation independently of the release process ===

In general the translation process is tightly coupled with the release workflow. In order to get the latest translations for a particular activity, deployments need either to wait for the activity maintainer to provide a new release or to use the language-pack mechanism, which is distribution specific (and at its best an ugly hack). The [[Features/Enhanced_Gettext | Enhanced Gettext Feature]] adds an extra search path for the translation files of Sugar activities. This allows deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process. The alternate search path can be configured using the [http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ GConf configuration system]. The GConf key is ''/schemas/desktop/sugar/i18n/langpackdir'' which is unset by default.

In general the translation process is tightly coupled with the release workflow. In order to get the latest translations for a particular activity, deployments need either to wait for the activity maintainer to provide a new release or to use the language-pack mechanism, which is distribution specific (and at its best an ugly hack). The [[Features/Enhanced_Gettext | Enhanced Gettext Feature]] adds an extra search path for the translation files of Sugar activities. This allows deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process. The alternate search path can be configured using the [http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ GConf configuration system]. The GConf key is ''/schemas/desktop/sugar/i18n/langpackdir'' which is unset by default.