Sucrose 0.83.1 Release Notes

Announcement

Thanks

Glucose modules

Glucose news

sugar-toolkit

#8420 Failure to handle 404 in ChunkedGlibHTTPRequestHandler
#7649 Activities needs to access sugar-toolbox's members directly
#8617 Clipboard scroll buttons icons point left/right, should point up/down
#8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag
#8840 Can't join shared activity
#8674 8.2-764, Software Update erased complete /home/olpc/Activities directory
#8626 Icons overlap unnecessarily in crowded neighborhood view.
#8563 Sugar Palette doesn't handle 'table menus'.
#8532 SIGCHLD fights with threads.
#8485 Shell navigation leaks
#8375 gst usage in the shell wastes 2.6mb
#8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
#8469 palette.menu is leaked
#8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
#8392 Remove "dynamic" font height computation
#5428 downloads not starting in Browse due to old compreg.dat
#7999 7+% of shell startup time is spent in `grab' of sugar._sugarext.KeyGrabber
#8000 Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up
#7270 setup release does not update the bundle number
#7959 gettext translations slows journal's scrolling
#7733 Cannot install Wikipedia-10.xo
#7533 Activity does not respond to ctrl-q keyboard shortcut unless the 'Activity' tab is visible

sugar

#5867 "Battery fully charged" shows up in error (battery is removed)
#8623 Jabber server description is ambiguous
#8900 Should re-request closed random views
#7545 Should request random activities/buddies to populate the mesh view
#5751 Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.
#8606 Dragging within the clipboard creates duplicate clippings
#7408 Cursor lock while dragging icons in Home (or anywhere)
#8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag

sugar-artwork

sugar-base

Add dispatcher implementation from django
Mark modules as STABLE

sugar-presence-service

#7581: Don't ignore buddies without keys. This improve interoperability with non Sugar clients.
#7849: Display PS version in the log.
Use gconf to get Sugar profile settings.
#8444: Don't rely on the roster to check if a contact handle is channel specific or not - so PS will properly create Buddy objects discovered using Gadget. Furthermore, this workaround has the nice side effect to improve compatibility with bugged shared roster (as the one of ejabberd).
#5618: Discard invalid handles if InspectHandles failed.

etoys

This version copes with the datastore using byte arrays for strings, thus allowing to resume again

Fructose modules

Fructose news

read-activity

The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Read-52 which is the current stable release.
#8350 Use journal object picker if not resuming a file

chat-activity

The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Chat-48 which

is the current stable release.

#8471 Can't resume a previous Chat entry with Write anymore

browse-activity

Add a "Download image" option to the image palette (tomeu)
Add a "Download link" option to the link palette (tomeu)
Get downloads and upload alerts for multiple windows to work (marco)
Handle download names with non-ascii characters #8857 (tomeu)

terminal-activity

#4646 Systemwide keyboard shortcuts break terminal apps (e.g. nano)
#8515 Terminal-activity: path does not contain olpc-update

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Fructose dependencies

hulahop 0.4.7

Fructose dependencies news

hulahop

Provide the ground to make downloads and uploads work for multiple instances (marco)

0.84/0.83.1 Notes

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