0.84/Notes

Sucrose 0.84 Release Notes

Introduction

This is the Final Release in our 0.84 development cycle! Thanks to our testers the developers were able to bring in bug fixes to stabilize the platform. And the translators were busy to get all the strings translated. All the details what have changed from a user point of view will be handled in the detailed 0.84 release notes.

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

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
• imageviewer
• 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.