0.86/0.85.2 Notes

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

Link to 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!

Glucose modules

• sugar-toolkit 0.85.3
• sugar 0.85.3
• sugar-artwork 0.85.2
• sugar-base 0.85.2
• sugar-datastore 0.84.0
• sugar-presence-service 0.85.1
• etoys 4.0.2229

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

• read 70
• chat 62
• terminal 21
• imageviewer 5
• jukebox 6
• turtleart 60
• browse 110
• etoys 99
• write 63
• calculate 28
• log 16
• pippy 25

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

• hulahop 0.5.0

Fructose dependencies News

Hulahop

- tabs support