0.108/Notes

Sucrose 0.108.0 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.108.0 is a new stable release of the Sugar Learning Platform. It was released on February 13th 2016.

What is new?

• Collaboration works on newer systems (e.g. Fedora 23) with activities that do not use Tubes (e.g. Chat).
• The search box in home view grabs focus automatically.
• Changing the Frame settings in the control panel no longer requires to restart Sugar.
• Added new keyboard controls to access and navigate the control panel.
• The control panel can display the serial number for commodity hardware.
• Multiple bundles can be installed at once using good old sugar-install-bundle script.
• The shell now claims file transfer channels so Empathy won't interfere anymore.
• Custom Home views names can be changed now.
• Neighborhood icons are no longer placed randomly.
• Sugar can now start even when the disk is full.
• More fixes for the Sugar theme.
• Many bug fixes.

Community members have contributed with complete translations for Aymara, Catalan, Polish, Igbo, and Spanish.

What is new for developers?

• A new SUGAR_VERSION environment variable is available to activities developers.
• There is more documentation for our gtk3 toolkit.

Tarballs

• http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.108.0.tar.xz
• http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.108.0.tar.xz
• http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.108.0.tar.xz
• http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.108.0.tar.xz
• http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.108.0.tar.xz

How to contribute with testing?

Please visit our testing section to see all the alternatives to test this new release.

Credits

Patches contributors

• James Cameron
• Sam Parkinson
• Ezequiel Pereira
• Martin Abente Lahaye
• Gonzalo Odiard
• Ignacio Rodríguez
• Batchu Venkat Vishal
• Jonas Smedegaard
• Frederick Grose
• Julio Reyes
• Nick DeFilippis
• et al.

Special thanks to all of our Google Code-In students for their contributions over the past months.

Translations contributors

• Edgar Quispe Chambi
• Robert Antoni Buj Gelonch
• Tymon Radzik
• Chihurumnaya Ibiam
• Martin Abente Lahaye
• et al.

We want to especially thank

• the Infrastructure team which does all this great work in the background without which the development would not be possible at all,
• the deployments that provide the development team with feedback from the field,
• the Design team which guided the design of features with UI changes or impact on the workflow,
• the Translation team which makes sure that Sugar is enjoyable in the local languages of our users,
• the developers that submit patches for new features and bug fixes and do review other's patches,
• the maintainers that make sure their code is shippable and which provide packagers with new tarballs,
• the packagers which provide distributions with new Sugar packages,
• the SoaS, Toast and Debian team for providing a Sugar version to test with during the development cycle,
• the testers for finding the small and bigger issues,
• the release team and Development team for coordinating those efforts.

This time, Martin Abente Lahaye took the responsibility of managing the release.