0.86/Notes
Sucrose 0.86 Release Notes
Introduction
Sucrose 0.86 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 0.86 continues this tradition and is our third well-planned release to date.
You can learn more about Sugar itself by studying the Sugar definition or by reading the comic strip about the learning platform from Dongyun Lee.
What is new for users
Resume Activity
In order to make it easier to continue past work, the Home View will display recent activity entries in the activity Palette.
You can choose to resume past entries or, with the Start option in the Palette, start a new instance of the activity.
When clicking on the activity icon in the Favorites View, the last entry will be resumed by default. This is based on the assumption, that in most cases, one want to resume previous work rather than creating from scratch.
What is new for developers
The following changes are important for developers using the Sucrose 0.86 developer platform. If you're not interested in changes for developers, you can skip forward to Section Internationalization and Localization.
Widgets
API
Dependencies
What is new for packagers
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
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
Fructose
Fructose dependencies
Detailed changes
Glucose
Fructose
Fructose dependencies
- hulahop
Looking at the release cycle details
You can browse the notes of each development release in Development Team/Release/Roadmap/0.84#Schedule. Their respective sources are listed there as well.
Looking Forward to 0.88
Planning of the next release cycle has started at Roadmap/0.88.
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.