0.90/0.89.1 Notes

Sucrose 0.89.1 Release Notes

Announcement

This is the first 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

• sugar-toolkit 0.87.1
• sugar 0.87.1
• sugar-artwork 0.87.1
• sugar-base 0.87.1
• sugar-datastore 0.87.1
• sugar-presence-service 0.87.1
• etoys 4.0.2339
• Etoys 113
• hulahop 0.7.1

Glucose news

sugar

• Several Access Points with the same essid #330

sugar-toolkit

• version bump

sugar-artwork

• version bump

sugar-datastore

• Make reading version file more robust (sayamindu) #1562
• Use gobject_timeout_add_seconds to make power usage more efficient (sayamindu) #1567

sugar-presence-service

• version bump

sugar-base

• version bump

Hulahop

• version bump

etoys

• fix view-source (SQ-600, OLPC-9733)
• fix etoys-based activities (SQ-604, SL-1576)

What is new for packagers

cjson -> simplejson: Sugar moved back to use simplejson instead of cjson. cjson has a big bug dealing with slashes, this is a significant long-term bug and upstream has not been responsive other than acknowledging it. This bug breaks journal entry bundles #1553.