0.84/0.83.1 Notes

Sucrose 0.83.1 Release Notes

Glucose modules

• sugar-toolkit 0.83.1
• sugar 0.83.1
• sugar-artwork 0.83.1
• sugar-base 0.83.1
• sugar-datastore 0.83.0
• sugar-presence-service 0.82.2
• etoys 3.0.2160

Glucose news

sugar-toolkit

• #8420 Failure to handle 404 in ChunkedGlibHTTPRequestHandler
• #7649 Activities needs to access sugar-toolbox's members directly
• #8617 Clipboard scroll buttons icons point left/right, should point up/down
• #8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag
• #8840 Can't join shared activity
• #8674 8.2-764, Software Update erased complete /home/olpc/Activities directory
• #8626 Icons overlap unnecessarily in crowded neighborhood view.
• #8563 Sugar Palette doesn't handle 'table menus'.
• #8532 SIGCHLD fights with threads.
• #8485 Shell navigation leaks
• #8375 gst usage in the shell wastes 2.6mb
• #8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
• #8469 palette.menu is leaked
• #8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
• #8392 Remove "dynamic" font height computation
• #5428 downloads not starting in Browse due to old compreg.dat
• #7999 7+% of shell startup time is spent in `grab' of sugar._sugarext.KeyGrabber
• #8000 Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up
• #7270 setup release does not update the bundle number
• #7959 gettext translations slows journal's scrolling
• #7733 Cannot install Wikipedia-10.xo
• #7533 Activity does not respond to ctrl-q keyboard shortcut unless the 'Activity' tab is visible

sugar

• #5867 "Battery fully charged" shows up in error (battery is removed)
• #8623 Jabber server description is ambiguous
• #8900 Should re-request closed random views
• #7545 Should request random activities/buddies to populate the mesh view
• #5751 Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.
• #8606 Dragging within the clipboard creates duplicate clippings
• #7408 Cursor lock while dragging icons in Home (or anywhere)
• #8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag

sugar-base

• Add dispatcher implementation from django
• Mark modules as STABLE

etoys

This version copes with the datastore using byte arrays for strings, thus allowing to resume again

Fructose modules

• read-activity 50
• chat-activity 46
• terminal-activity 16
• browse-activity 96
• etoys-activity 87
• write-activity 57
• calculate-activity 23
• log-activity 14
• pippy-activity 25

Fructose news

read-activity

• #8350 Use journal object picker if not resuming a file
• #7017 Read sharing can deadlock.

Notes

This is an unstable release off git master for Sucrose 0.83.1

• The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Read-52 which is the current stable release.
• #7948, #7168, #6488 Fix saving to the datastore
• Updated translations: ja, pt

chat-activity

• #8471 Can't resume a previous Chat entry with Write anymore

Notes

• This is an unstable release off git master for Sucrose 0.83.1
• The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Chat-48 which

is the current stable release.

browse-activity

• Add a "Download image" option to the image palette (tomeu)
• Add a "Download link" option to the link palette (tomeu)
• Get downloads and upload alerts for multiple windows to work (marco)
• Handle download names with non-ascii characters #8857 (tomeu)

terminal-activity

• #4646 Systemwide keyboard shortcuts break terminal apps (e.g. nano)
• #8515 Terminal-activity: path does not contain olpc-update

Updated translations

• tr
• pt

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.7

Fructose dependencies news

hulahop

Provide the ground to make downloads and uploads work for multiple instances (marco)