0.104/Notes

Sucrose 0.104.0 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.104 is the new STABLE version of the Sugar learning platform. It was released on February the 13th 2015. This release includes new features and bug fixes from Google Code-In and Summer of Code students, deployments and community members.

Summary of new features

• Extended microformat updater with optional activities in automatic updates [1].
• New dconf setting to disable adhoc autoconnect policy [2].
• New "spent-times" entry in activities metadata [3].
• New "New ASLO" back-end for activities updates [4].
• New text-to-speech API in gtk3 toolkit [5].
• Customizable groups instead of fixed ages in "About Me" section.

This is the full list of features proposed, we expect to re-evaluate unmerged proposals in the next release cycle.

Tarballs

• sugar
• sugar-toolkit-gtk3
• sugar-artwork
• sugar-datastore
• sugar-runner

How to contribute with testing

We will provide more options for testing this release soon. For now, please try it out using sugar-build.

Changes to Sugar Activities since 0.102

Write 94

Author	Enhancements/Bug Fixes

Read 113

Author	Enhancements/Bug Fixes

Log 36

Author	Enhancements

Jukebox 32

Author	Enhancements

Paint 64

Author	Enhancements/Bug Fix
Ignacio Rodríguez	Use Kaleidoscope instead of Kalidoscope in tooltip …
Gonzalo Odiard	Simplify kalidoscope code
Gonzalo Odiard	Don't open stamps dialog when the tool button is pressed …
Gonzalo Odiard	Set max_participants in activity.info file
Gonzalo Odiard	Pyflakes fixes
Ignacio Rodríguez	i5o authored on Jan 8 godiard committed on Jan 13
Gonzalo Odiard	Pep8 fixes
Cristian Garcia	Adding kalidoscope tool
Ignacio Rodríguez	Load stamps from journal and remember it. …
Ignacio Rodríguez	Add Tux Paint stamps to paint …

Pippy 64

Author	Enhancements/Bug fixes
Vikram Ahuja	Solved the problem of naming tabs when adding/deleting tabs
Vikram Ahuja	Executing the Ctrl-w code if number of tabs is greator than 1
Sakala Venkata Krishna Rohit	Fixed the problem of naming of tabs while adding new tabs
Sakala Venkata Krishna Rohit	Fixed tab name changing problem
Vikram Ahuja	Make Ctrl-(1-9) changes current tab to that number
Vikram Ahuja	Checking if number of tab is 1 when Ctrl+w is pressed and then hide c… …
Goutam Nair	Ctrl+Shift+Tab on first tab goes to the last
Goutam Nair	Ctrl+Tab on last tab changes to first tab
Sai Vineet	A bit of pep8
Sai Vineet	Add copyright notice
Sai Vineet	Hide close button if only one tab is present
Sai Vineet	Add font size +/-
Walter Bender	corrections suggested by Jean THIERY
Rafael Cordano	Updated thanks example

Turtle Blocks 209

Author	Enhancements/Bug fixes
Ignacio Rodriguez	Add macro for index block
Cristian Gracia	new sample project
Ignacio Rodríguez	add dbus to default imports
Ignacio Rodríguez	Fix alert msg
Ignacio Rodríguez	Use alert instead popup
Ignacio Rodríguez	Dont export if not start block
Walter Bender	Set default values for index block to something that works
Ignacio Rodríguez	AUTOPEP8 for all TurtleArt code.
Walter Bender	use tb and don't save turtle
Ignacio Rodríguez	A graphics sample
Ignacio Rodríguez	Index block. Works like python: Text[start:end]
Daniel Francis	thumbnail for new project
Fred Lopesy	update to Brazilian PT
Walter Bender	remove redundant turtle updates
Walter Bender	use box instead of box1
Alan Aguiar	reuse palettes when running make_palette
Alan Aguiar	Using existing power management from utils library
Walter Bender	suppress power management error messages
Walter Bender	inhibit suspend if camera block is in use
Walter Bender	add white circle in the center
Walter Bender	fix regressions in paste and save-as-svg
Walter Bender	save/restore private block data
Walter Bender	new sample project: pinwheel
Walter Bender	don't use coordinate scale on media blocks
Alan Aguiar	fix to SL#4788; add export to SVG to GNOME menu
Walter Bender	fix bug in rendering of if-then-else block
Walter Bender	fix some issues with label placement
Walter Bender	fix problem with color compare
Walter Bender	resize 3arg blocks on load
Walter Bender	catching one more corner case in autosave logic
Walter Bender	fixed bug with autosave
Walter Bender	add turtle window to before and after methods
Walter Bender	add a private attribute to block class
Walter Bender	rescale mouse coordinates
Walter Bender	rescale constants when rescaling coordinates

Credits

Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education distributions, packaging, and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.

Patches contributors

• Sam Parkinson
• Ignacio Rodríguez
• Ezequiel Pereira Lopez
• Daksh Shah
• Goutam
• James Cameron
• Walter Bender
• Gonzalo Odiard
• Martin Abente Lahaye

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 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 manage the release.