0.84/Notes

Sucrose 0.84 Release Notes

Introduction

Sucrose 0.84 is the latest version of the Sugar education platform, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration activities.

Sucrose is released every six months and contains many new features, improvements, bug fixes, and translations. Sucrose 0.84 continues this tradition and is our second well-planned release to date.

You can learn more about Sugar itself here.

What is new for developers

The following changes are important for developers using the Sucrose 0.84 developer platform. If you're not interested in changes for developers, you can skip forward to Section Internationalization and Localization.

• new colorpicker
• gconf
• bundlebuilder
• extensions for the control panel
• Move to cjson and drop pyjson and simplejson

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Thanks to members of the worldwide translation team, who can be found on the localization mailing list, we have the following languages (listed alphabetically) which have significant support (more than 80% of the user interface translated):

• Chinese (China)
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Nepali
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

Compatibility

When you upgrade a computer that was running previously Sucrose 0.82,

• The old datastore will be updated to the new format.
• Your old profile (in .sugar/default/config) will be imported into GConf

If you later downgrade from Sucrose 0.84.x to an earlier version,

• The datastore is incompatible, so all data in the journal won't be accessible (but will be still there)
• You will be prompted to enter a new name and color like it would happen on first boot

Most of the activities in Sucrose 0.84.x should be compatible with Sucrose 0.82. An exception is Browse, which depends on new versions of Hulahop, Read which depend on the latest version of Evince and Write which depends on the latest version of libabiword.

Getting the sources

If you want to package sugar for your favourite distribution or just want to examine sugar's lovely code ;) you can find all the source code of each module at the links below.

Glucose

• sugar-toolkit 0.84.0
• sugar 0.84.0
• sugar-artwork 0.84.0
• sugar-base 0.84.0
• sugar-datastore 0.84.0
• sugar-presence-service 0.84.0
• etoys 4.0.2206

Fructose

• read 65
• chat 64
• terminal 23
• imageviewer 6
• jukebox 7
• turtleart 41
• browse 105
• etoys 100
• write 63
• calculate 28
• log 17
• pippy 25

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.9

Detailed changes

Glucose

• sugar
• sugar-toolkit
• sugar-base
• sugar-presence-service
• sugar-datastore
• sugar-artwork
• etoys

Fructose

• Terminal
• Read
• Browse
• Chat
• Write
• iImageviewer
• Jukebox
• TurtleArt

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop

Looking at the release cycle details

You can browse the notes of each development release in DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap/0.84#Schedule. Their respective sources are listed there as well.

Looking Forward to 0.86

Planning of the next release cycle has started at DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap/0.86.

Credits

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