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== Introduction ==

Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It ~~will be~~ released ~~the~~ November ~~the 07th~~ 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details).

Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It was released on November 29th 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details).

The main changes in this cycle will be the ported Shell to use GTK+ 3 and Pygobject3 and the touch support in the UI.

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===New frame behaviour===

The Frame interaction has been modified, the learner can use three actions to reveal and hide the Frame: move the mouse into one of the corners, use the frame key on the keyboard and a swipe gesture from the top of the screen towards the centre of the the screen.

===New hover feedback in the Views===

While working on the feedback for a long press on the icons in the Views (Home-, Neighbourhood and Group View) we changed the hover feedback to one coherent style in all Views: if you hover over one icon you get a light grey rectangle in the background of the icon indicating the hover over state. When you click or touch the icon it has a dark grey background.

===Alphabetical ordering in the Home View===

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== What's new for developers ==

===sugar-build replaces sugar-jhbuild===

Thanks to the work from Daniel Narvaez we have a new tool for building Sugar from the sources: [http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~buildbot/docs/index.html sugar-build]. This has replaced our previous tool [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild sugar-jhbuild]. sugar-build does currently support several distributions out of the box Fedora 17, Fedora 18, Ubuntu 12.10, Debian Wheezy in both 32-bit and 64-bit. And adding a new distributions is possible and [http://sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/sugar-docs/build.html#adding-a-new-distribution documented] as well. Try it out, you will love the ease and reliability of this new tool.

=== Activity Authors guidelines ===

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* The RadioTooolButton expects the "icon_name" property instead of the "named_icon". The API of ToolButton, RadioToolButton and ToggleToolButton has been adjusted to override the icon-name property and add an Icon instance with the set_icon_widget method. [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/fe11a3aa23c0e7fbc3c0c498e147b0a20348cc12 This change] brings consistent behaviour for all those widgets.

Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3.

Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3, notably is for example the removal of the deprecated _shared_activity member in the activity base class, collaboration might be broken if you do not port that over.

=== Tutorials ===

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 == Introduction ==
-Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It will be released the November the 07th 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details).
+Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It was released on November 29th 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details).
 The main changes in this cycle will be the ported Shell to use GTK+ 3 and Pygobject3 and the touch support in the UI.
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 ===New frame behaviour===
 The Frame interaction has been modified, the learner can use three actions to reveal and hide the Frame: move the mouse into one of the corners, use the frame key on the keyboard and a swipe gesture from the top of the screen towards the centre of the the screen.
+===New hover feedback in the Views===
+While working on the feedback for a long press on the icons in the Views (Home-, Neighbourhood and Group View) we changed the hover feedback to one coherent style in all Views: if you hover over one icon you get a light grey rectangle in the background of the icon indicating the hover over state. When you click or touch the icon it has a dark grey background.
 ===Alphabetical ordering in the Home View===
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 == What's new for developers ==
+===sugar-build replaces sugar-jhbuild===
+Thanks to the work from Daniel Narvaez we have a new tool for building Sugar from the sources: [http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~buildbot/docs/index.html sugar-build]. This has replaced our previous tool [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild sugar-jhbuild]. sugar-build does currently support several distributions out of the box Fedora 17, Fedora 18, Ubuntu 12.10, Debian Wheezy in both 32-bit and 64-bit. And adding a new distributions is possible and [http://sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/sugar-docs/build.html#adding-a-new-distribution documented] as well. Try it out, you will love the ease and reliability of this new tool.
 === Activity Authors guidelines ===
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 * The RadioTooolButton expects the "icon_name" property instead of the "named_icon". The API of ToolButton, RadioToolButton and ToggleToolButton has been adjusted to override the icon-name property and add an Icon instance with the set_icon_widget method. [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/fe11a3aa23c0e7fbc3c0c498e147b0a20348cc12 This change] brings consistent behaviour for all those widgets.
-Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3.
+Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3, notably is for example the removal of the deprecated _shared_activity member in the activity base class, collaboration might be broken if you do not port that over.
 === Tutorials ===