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:

Toolbar redesign

Features/New_Toolbar_Design

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 (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release.

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.
• Fix naming of entries with unknown extensions (silbe) #1040
• Fix .xoj support #1098
• Abort if theres an error when retrieving activities (silbe) #1059
• Dont reinstall bundle if its already installed (silbe) #1053
• update mime type db when a new activity is copied to ~/Activities #955
• md5 and sha module will be deprecated in python 2.6 #266
• Switch to metacity as the window manager. #602
• Refactor journal to use a gtk.TreeView
• Refactor activity list view to use a gtk.TreeView
• More meaningful screenshot titles (James Zaki) #650
• Support for creating wireless ad-hoc networks
• Add fullscreen option to the emulator and change default size to 800x600 (Sascha Silbe) #565

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

What is new for packagers

The switch to Metacity as window manager is dependent on this commit that adds a command line option to disable autofullscreen'ing maximized windows without decorations.