4.2.1

minor release

New Features:

• new libraries for parallelization and JSON support
• new "loudness" reporter in audio comp library, thanks, Bernat!

Notable Changes:

• significant speed-up for HTTP based robot APIs such as the Hummingbird kit

Notable Fixes:

• "When I am stopped" hat block now also works for stacks of HTTP based robot commands
• resolved name conflicts in pixels and audio comp libraries

Translation Updates:

• New Basque translation, thanks, Asier Iturralde Sarasola!
• Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!
• French, thanks, Nathalie and Joan!
• Spanish, Catalan and French translations of the tools library, thanks, Nathalie and Joan!

Solstice

not-so-minor release featuring among other things new media and data crunching capabilities.

New Features:

• "recover project" feature, (cloud backups), thanks, Bernat Romagosa!
• vector paint editor, thanks, Carles Paredes and Bernat Romagosa!
• "When I am stopped" event option, runs one atomic frame before terminating, use-case: stop robots when a user hits the stop button
• experimental JIT compiler for atomic HOFs, used in new "Bigger Data" library
• new library for programmatically creating variables, thanks, Brian Harvey!
• added options for sprite attributes to the SET block
• new "webcam snap" reporter in the "Pixels" library
• new "record" reporter in the "Audio Comp" library
• added "name" selector to the "Pixels" library
• added drop-down menu to "letter _ of _ ", adjusted all translations (thanks, Joan!)

Notable Changes:

• hidden sprites can no longer be collision detected (but can test for other sprites)
• new sprites created by pressing the arrow button no point in random directions (unless you hold down the shift-key)
• new "center" option for location blocks (GO TO, POINT TOWARDS, DISTANCE TO and DIRECTION TO)
• disabled keyboard shortcuts for green-flag (cmd-enter) and stop (esc) in presentation mode

Notable Fixes:

• rearranging and scrolling sound icons
• rendering and layout of variadic C-shaped input slots
• when collapsing ring-typed multi-arg slots only filled rings are preserved
• support for numerical custom block input names
• no more "leftover" clones when pressing the stop button or executing the STOP block

Translation Updates:

• German, thanks, Jadga!
• Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!
• Catalan, thanks, Joan!

4.1.2.7

minor maintenance release:

• support for multi-word and implicit (empty slot) formal parameters in the experimental JIT compiler
• removed a redundant STOP block from the stage's palette

4.1.2.6

important maintenance release:

• significantly speed up list operations by changing the testing order for type inferral
• remix cloud project method, thanks, Bernat!

4.1.2.5

minor maintenance release:

• sprites now draw a "dot" pentrail when moving zero steps with the pen down, thanks, Brian, for the idea!
• pressing "record" while the sound recorder is already recording stops it, thanks, Rui Zhi, for the fix!

4.1.2.4

minor maintenance release,

• fixes a problem with the tools library
• fixes a problem when loading examples from the project dialog
• adds "random" options for "turn towards", "point in direction" and "go to" primitivies

4.1.2.3

minor maintenance release:

• cloud tweaks, thanks, Bernat and Michael!
• fixed "join words" in the tools, library, thanks, Brian, for reporting the bug!
• added new "text to speech" library
• made sure sound data is always stored in the project (not referenced)
• added capability to compile input slot options to experimental JIT
• Spanish and German translation updates

4.1.2.2: fixed "nearest crayon to" reporter in the crayons library

minor maintenance release
(fixes the "nearest crayon to" reporter in the crayons library)

4.1.2.1

minor maintenance release

Barcelona

minor front-end release named "Barcelona" honoring Bernat's major work on the new cloud back-end architecture.

Notable Changes

• new cloud backend

New Features:

• experimental JIT compiler (in progress)

Translation Updates:

• new Catalan-Valencia translation
• Catalan
• German