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

sugar-toolkit

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

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).