0.88/0.87.7 Notes

Sucrose 0.87.7 Release Notes

Announcement

This is our release candidate! The Features have been landed, we are in UI and String freeze and only critical bug fixes can be landed by now. See the 0.88/Roadmap#Schedule for more details.

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues, as of today.

Update to this version

Please use the instructions for your distribution (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc) of choice to upgrade to this release. Note that it may take a while until the release is packaged for each distribution. Please stay tuned for distribution specific announcements and watch out for updates at Get Sugar.

Glucose modules

Updated

Not updated

Glucose news

sugar

  • Add GConf key for specifying alternate locale dir #1721
  • Use the correct icon for the 3G device
  • Pin Punk Configuration for 3G devices

sugar-toolkit

  • Title: autogen.sh: pass --enable-maintainer-mode to configure
    • Author: Bernie Innocenti
  • Title: Check the private key syntax to detect corrupted files #1568
    • Author: Sascha Silbe
  • Title: Log saving errors in activities #1703
    • Author: Tomeu Vizoso
  • Title: Removes the use of O_SYNC on logs #1656
    • Author: James Cameron
  • Title: Do not fail while closing object less activities #1714
    • Author: Aleksey Lim
  • Title: Override canvas property in Activity class #1795
    • Author: Aleksey Lim

sugar-datastore

  • Rebuild index on migration #1787
    • Author: Aleksey Lim

sugar-artwork

  • Title: autogen.sh: pass --enable-maintainer-mode to configure
    • Author: Bernie Innocenti
  • Title: Add icons for data upload/download
    • Author: Gary C Martin

etoys

  • use compressed sources file (EtoysV4.stc)

What is new for packagers

sugar: cjson -> simplejson: Sugar moved back to use simplejson instead of cjson. cjson has a big bug dealing with slashes, this is a significant long-term bug and upstream has not been responsive other than acknowledging it. This bug breaks journal entry bundles #1553.

sugar-toolkit: the python module dateutil has been added. Please add this to the requires (i.e. in Fedora python-dateutil).