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

Linz

New Features:

• translation support for custom blocks
• new "direction to..." primitive as variant of "distance to..." in "Sensing"
• included local methods in the OF-block's left drop-down menu
• added "width" and "height" selectors to Pixels library
• added scroll events, thanks, Bernat!
• new dial widget POINT IN DIRECTION's drop-down menu
• new "rotate" option for sprite context menu
• new sound recorder, thanks, Bernat!
• new "Crayons" library, thanks, Brian!

Notable Changes:

• global and local variables are now separat in the palette, each sorted alphabetically, local vars marked with location pin (only in palette)
• keyboard events are now always thread safe (the same as in Scratch nowadays)
• the OF-block auto-unringifies when being dropped on ring-slots, such as in CALL
• accidentally clicking on a custom block definition no longer fires up the Block Dialog

Notable Fixes:

• scroll menus if they are taller than the world
• enabled color picker for pen trails on stage
• track keyboard events after accepting ASK using the keyboard
• improved support for emojis, thanks, Michael!
• avoid occasional stuck text cursors, thanks, Bernat!
• paint editor flood fill alpha issue, thanks, Bernat!
• implicit parameter binding in visible stepping, thanks, Joan!
• when deleting a temporary clone, detach all its parts and delete the temporary ones
• new release protocol to avoid browser caching related version conflicts

Translation Updates:

• German
• Greek
• Turkish
• Chinese
• Spanish
• Russian

4.1.0.5

minor maintencance release:

• fixed #1933 - avoid creating "obsolete" blocks by not copying method blocks into sprites that don't understand them
• fixed #1937 - allow stage width to be a minimum of 240 pixels

4.1.0.4: fixed two issues when forking processes while single-stepping

minor maintenance release:

• suppress "exit" context when forking a process while single-stepping, this avoids a false "reporter didn't report" error message
• avoid coloring the block-highlight when re-coloring a syntax element, this prevents highlighted blocks inside LAUNCH statements to expand when repeatedly single-stepped.

4.1.0.3

minor maintenance release:

• Portuguese & Polish translation updates, thanks, Witek and Manuel!!
• escape xml attribute contents, thanks, Brian Broll!
• changed minimum stage width to 240
• new Audio Comp library for Guzdial-style sound samples fun

4.1.0.2: fixed a glitch that raised an error instead of creating an “obsolete”…

minor maintenance release:

• fixed a glitch that raised an error instead of creating an “obsolete” block when loading a project and missing the definition of a method block

4.1.0.1

minor maintenance release:

• fixes a glitch when loading projects that store method blocks (sprite-local custom blocks) in sprite-local variables
• increases the frame rate in "turbo" mode
• translation updates

New York

Major Release

Features:

• polymorphic sprite-local custom blocks
• inheritance of sprite-local custom blocks
• inheritance of sprite attributes (x, y, direction, size, costumes, costume #, sounds, scripts)
• first-class costumes and sounds
• visual indicator (map-pin icon) for sprite-local custom blocks (i.e. methods)
• camera snapshots for costumes and new sprites
• localization support when typing expressions
• support for user-forced line-breaks in custom block labels
• ternary Boolean slot setting: support to limit Boolean input slots to “true/false” outside of rings and in palette
• support for default values in custom block Boolean slots
• experimental: duplicate block definition (hidden in shift-click context menu)
• support for codification of String, Number and Boolean value types
• costume icons indicate svg costumes
• sprites’s rotation centers can be adjusted onstage
• clones share their original sprite’s scripts, not a shallow-copy of them
• a highlight-colored balloon indicates the number of active processes per shared script
• new musical “notes”, "location", "footprints", "cross" and "keyboard" symbols
• new “visible stepping” toggle button in the control bar
• new "keyboard entry" toggle button in the scripts tool bar
• turn on the “Inheritance support” setting per default
• Assert data types to list operations for more meaningful error messages
• programmatically hide and show primitives in the palette
• new "pen trails" reporter primitive and stage context menu entry
• two-item lists as x-y coordinate arguments for "point towards”, "go to" and “distance to” primitives
• Piano keyboard as drop-down menu for entering musical notes, Thanks, Michael!
• Basic “instruments” support: sine, square, sawtooth and triangle waves
• Support https in “url” reporter
• splitting csv-text
• prevent context menu and dragging for stage watchers in presentation mode
• "floating" search and make-a-block buttons in the blocks palette
• "Make a block" button in every category
• experimental "download script" feature
• new "Animation" library
• new "Pixels" library for MediaComp
• double-clicking a corral sprite icon flashes the sprite onstage

Fixes:

• changed keyboard shortcut indicator for “find blocks” to “^”
• prevent Snap from “hanging” when encountering certain errors in visible stepping
• only mark implicit parameters if no formal ones exist
• optimized thread-launch and script highlighting to a single frame instead of formerly two
• changed direction attribute of sprites to automatically confine to 0-360 degrees
• fixed rotation-bug when flipping costumes in "only turn left/right" mode"
• fixed variable renaming (“refactoring”) bugs, thanks, Bernat!
• fixed “fill” block crash when applying the same color twice
• fixed occasional empty drop-down menu items named “close”
• fixed some typos
• limited sprites' direction and coordinates to finite numbers
• made block vars transient for block libraries
• keep “undo” and “redo” buttons at the same location
• fixed SVG encoding for exporting vector costumes

4.0.10.2

minor maintenance patch, addresses an issue with filling rectangular canvas areas in recent versions of Chrome