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[http://www.collabora.co.uk/ Collabora] has sponsored [[User:tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]] to replace the [[Features/Remove_Presence_Service |Presence Service]] with components from the [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ Telepathy framework]. There are no directly visible changes for the user but the overall collaboration experience should be more stable and this work paves the way for future enhancements in this area.

[http://www.collabora.co.uk/ Collabora] has sponsored [[User:tomeu|Tomeu Vizoso]] to replace the [[Features/Remove_Presence_Service |Presence Service]] with components from the [http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ Telepathy framework]. There are no directly visible changes for the user but the overall collaboration experience should be more stable and this work paves the way for future enhancements in this area.

=== Sugar Ad-hoc networks ===

=== Sugar ad hoc networks ===

[[Image:Sugar_Ad-hoc_networks.png|300px]]

[[Image:Sugar_Ad-hoc_networks.png|300px]]

To mimic the mesh behavior on devices where mesh hardware is not available and make the "under a tree"-scenario possible the Sugar Ad-hoc networks have been added. The [[Features/Sugar_Adhoc_Networks| feature]] adds three default Ad-hoc networks, for channel 1, 6 and 11. They are represented with designated icons in the neighborhood view. [[User:Erikos | Simon Schampijer]] from [http://laptop.org OLPC] has been working on this feature and has also back ported it to Sugar 0.84.

To mimic the mesh behavior on devices where mesh hardware is not available and make the "under a tree"-scenario possible the Sugar ad hoc networks have been added. The [[Features/Ad hoc_Networking| feature]] adds three default ad hoc networks, for channel 1, 6, and 11. They are represented with designated icons in the Neighborhood view. [[User:Erikos | Simon Schampijer]] from [http://laptop.org OLPC] has been working on this feature and has also back ported it to Sugar 0.84.

=== Enhanced color selector ===

=== Enhanced color selector ===

=== Activity Authors guidelines ===

=== Activity Authors guidelines ===

There are still many activities that do not use the new activity toolbars introduced in 0.86. We encourage activity authors to use the new toolbars as there have been huge improvements in usability (e.g. stopping an activity).

There are still many activities that do not use the new activity toolbars introduced in 0.86. We encourage activity authors to use the new toolbars as there have been huge improvements in usability (e.g., stopping an activity).

Jim Simmons has written a guide to writing Sugar Activities (Please see [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction Make your own Sugar Activities!]) which details how to convert your activity to the new toolbars while still keeping backward compatibility with older Sugar versions.

Jim Simmons has written a guide to writing Sugar Activities (Please see [http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/Introduction Make your own Sugar Activities!]) which details how to convert your activity to the new toolbars while still keeping backward compatibility with older Sugar versions.

== Update to this version ==

== 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 [[Downloads|Get Sugar]].

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 [[Downloads|Get Sugar]].

== Getting the sources ==

== Getting the sources ==