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| − | + | <span style="font-size:188%">Sucrose 0.108.0 Release Notes</span> | |
| − | + | == Introduction == | |
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| + | 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 documentation for our gtk3 toolkit. | ||
| + | *More fixes for the Sugar theme. | ||
| + | *Many general bug fixes. | ||
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| + | Community members have [http://translate.sugarlabs.org contributed] with complete translations for Aymara, Catalan, Polish, Igbo, and Spanish. | ||
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| + | == What is new for developers? == | ||
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| + | *A new SUGAR_VERSION environment variable is available to activities developers. | ||
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| + | == Tarballs == | ||
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| + | *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 | ||
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| + | == How to contribute with testing? == | ||
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| + | Please visit our [[0.108/Testing|testing section]] to see all the alternatives to test this new release. | ||
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| + | == Credits == | ||
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| + | === Patches contributors === | ||
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| + | *James Cameron | ||
| + | *Sam Parkinson | ||
| + | *Ezequiel Pereira | ||
| + | *Martin Abente Lahaye | ||
| + | *Gonzalo Odiard | ||
| + | *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 Radzil | ||
| + | *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. | ||
Revision as of 09:18, 13 February 2016
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 documentation for our gtk3 toolkit.
- More fixes for the Sugar theme.
- Many general 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.
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
- 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 Radzil
- 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.