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Sucrose 0.108.0 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.108.0 is a new stable release of the Sugar Learning Platform. It was released on February 13th 2016.

What is new?

  • Collaboration works on newer systems (e.g. Fedora 23) with activities that do not use Tubes (e.g. Chat).
  • The search box in home view grabs focus automatically.
  • Changing the Frame settings in the control panel no longer requires to restart Sugar.
  • Added new keyboard controls to access and navigate the control panel.
  • The control panel can display the serial number for commodity hardware.
  • Multiple bundles can be installed at once using good old sugar-install-bundle script.
  • The shell now claims file transfer channels so Empathy won't interfere anymore.
  • Custom Home views names can be changed now.
  • Neighborhood icons are no longer placed randomly.
  • Sugar can now start even when the disk is full.
  • More fixes for the Sugar theme.
  • Many bug fixes.

Community members have contributed with complete translations for Aymara, Catalan, Polish, Igbo, and Spanish.

What is new for developers?

  • A new SUGAR_VERSION environment variable is available to activities developers.
  • There is more documentation for our gtk3 toolkit.

Tarballs

How to contribute with testing?

Please visit our testing section to see all the alternatives to test this new release.

Credits

Patches contributors

  • James Cameron
  • Sam Parkinson
  • Ezequiel Pereira
  • Martin Abente Lahaye
  • Gonzalo Odiard
  • Ignacio Rodríguez
  • Batchu Venkat Vishal
  • Jonas Smedegaard
  • Frederick Grose
  • Julio Reyes
  • Nick DeFilippis
  • et al.

Special thanks to all of our Google Code-In students for their contributions over the past months.

Translations contributors

  • Edgar Quispe Chambi
  • Robert Antoni Buj Gelonch
  • Tymon Radzil
  • Chihurumnaya Ibiam
  • Martin Abente Lahaye
  • et al.

We want to especially thank

  • the Infrastructure team which does all this great work in the background without which the development would not be possible at all,
  • the deployments that provide the development team with feedback from the field,
  • the Design team which guided the design of features with UI changes or impact on the workflow,
  • the Translation team which makes sure that Sugar is enjoyable in the local languages of our users,
  • the developers that submit patches for new features and bug fixes and do review other's patches,
  • the maintainers that make sure their code is shippable and which provide packagers with new tarballs,
  • the packagers which provide distributions with new Sugar packages,
  • the SoaS, Toast and Debian team for providing a Sugar version to test with during the development cycle,
  • the testers for finding the small and bigger issues,
  • the release team and Development team for coordinating those efforts.

This time, Martin Abente Lahaye took the responsibility of managing the release.