Release notes/10.1.3

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Purpose

An update to software release 10.1.2 aiming to roll as many blockers and high bugs as possible along with activity improvements.

Installation

XO-1.5

How to install unsigned build os358-4g of release 10.1.3 on XO-1.5.

The build is installed to the internal microSD device. You will need a USB drive of at least 1 GB capacity, but only for the duration of the installation.

ALL USER DATA WILL BE ERASED FROM THE LAPTOP!

• Prepare the USB drive:
  • Download os358-4g.zd,
  • Save the file to the top directory of the USB drive,

• Prepare the laptop:
  • Make a copy of any data you wish to keep,
  • Obtain a Developer key and disable security,
  • Check the battery is inserted and locked,
  • Check that the power cord is in place and the battery indicator is green,
  • Turn off the laptop, unless it is already off,
  • Insert the USB drive into any USB port on the laptop,

• Start installing:
  • Obtain the Ok prompt,
  • Type the command:

fs-update u:\os358-4g.zd

Installation progress will be displayed. Green colour will fill grey blocks. It will take about ten minutes. Once finished, the Ok prompt will return. Remove the USB drive. The laptop must be rebooted using bye or the power button, not with the boot command. The USB drive can be used on other laptops.

XO-1

How to install unsigned build os358 of release 10.1.3 on XO-1.

The build is installed to the internal NAND flash device. You will need a USB drive of at least 1 GB capacity, but only for the duration of the installation.

ALL USER DATA WILL BE ERASED FROM THE LAPTOP!

• Prepare the USB drive:
  • Download os358.img,
  • Save the file to the top directory of the USB drive,
  • Download os358.crc,
  • Save the file to the top directory of a USB memory stick,
  • Check the USB drive contains at least the two files os358.img and os358.crc

• Prepare the laptop:
  • Make a copy of any data you wish to keep,
  • Obtain a Developer key and disable security,
  • Check the battery is inserted and locked,
  • Check that the power cord is in place and the battery indicator is green,
  • Turn off the laptop, unless it is already off,
  • Insert the USB drive into any USB port on the laptop,

• Start installing:
  • Obtain the Ok prompt,
  • Type the command:

copy-nand u:os358.img

Installation progress will be displayed. Green colour will fill yellow blocks. It will take about five minutes. Once finished, the Ok prompt will return. Remove the USB drive. The laptop may be rebooted. The USB drive can be used on other laptops.

New features

Ad-hoc networking by default

<trac>9845</trac>

Known Problems

to be completed

See Release_notes/10.1.2#Known_Problems_2 prior release known problems.

Bugs fixed

sugar

os350

• Journal: Show alert when error occurs while writing to external devices <trac>10312</trac>
• AP: separate signal strength from status <trac>10347</trac>
• Add default Ad-hoc networks <trac>9845</trac>
• Connect to gabble immediately when possible <trac>10350</trac>
• Unable to register a laptop after trying on the wrong network <trac>6857</trac>
• Feedback when deleting files on an external device <trac>10351</trac>
• Do not break if the string contains no conversion specifier <trac>10372</trac>
• Save title when closing <trac>10346</trac>

os351

• Disable start option for entries that can't be opened <trac>8733</trac>
• Cleanup temporary files on startup <trac>10301</trac>
• restore sugar-launch by bundle id substring, fixes <trac>9189</trac>
• New go-home icon, needed by Browse <trac>10364</trac>
• Remove shared activity from the neighborhood view when no members left <trac>10308</trac>
• Deal with unicode nick names <trac>889</trac> (moved patch from rpm into repository)

os353

• Adapt bundleregistry to use the new activity version scheme <trac>10379</trac>
• Sugar Ad-hoc icons show in search results when connect/disconnect to AP OLPC <trac>10412</trac>
• Add new activity numbering scheme <trac>10379</trac>

os354

• Add new activity numbering scheme to the activity updater <trac>10397</trac>

os355

• bundlebuilder: install mimetypes.xml and associated icon <trac>10427</trac>
• Apply new version scheme as well to content bundles <trac>10379</trac>

os357

• Convert Journal entries that have been saved to a storage device in 0.82 <trac>9658</trac>
• Possibility to share Journal entry using a storage device <trac>9657</trac>
• Adjust copyright in Control Panel <trac>10273</trac>
• Journal bundle removal won't remove installed activity <trac>10486</trac>

olpc-kbdshim

os351

• dpad rotates wrong <trac>10380</trac>

olpc-powerd

os351

• avoids resume from suspend when lid opens <trac>10402</trac>

os354

• Better collaboration support when idle suspend is enabled <trac>9535</trac>
• Do not wake up on lid open on XO-1 <trac>10424</trac>

os357

• better power logging

olpc-utils

os352

• add config for screen rotation (part of <trac>9350</trac>)
• Enable SiSUSB support (part of <trac>10210</trac>)

squeak-vm

• Remove MySqueak option from GNOME <trac>9785</trac>

kernel

os354

• Support for uvcvideo <trac>10378</trac>
• Lid wakeups on XO-1 are now implemented via new /sys/power/wake-on-lid node <trac>10398</trac>, <trac>10399</trac>, <trac>10424</trac>

xorg-x11-drv-openchrome

os351

• Screen rotation support for XO-1.5 <trac>9350</trac>

xorg-x11-drv-sisusb

os352

• Make SISUSBVGA devices trivial to use <trac>10210</trac>

Browse

os351

• Browse has no "busy" indication <trac>10383</trac>

os353

• Web activity uses gettext on file name <trac>6874</trac>
• History not right when resuming activity <trac>10437</trac>
• Add Home Button in Browse <trac>10364</trac>
• Browse fails to download some files with non-ascii characters <trac>8857</trac>
• Can not save pictures from the olpc library with Browse to Journal <trac>10365</trac>
• Palettes in Browse do not always go away <trac>10407</trac>

Distance

os353

• Changes ringdown values for mor stable meassures (part of <trac>10122</trac>)

Paint

os353

• Use new colorchooser (still use ColorSelector for <= 0.82) <trac>1015</trac>
• Fixed aspect ratio mode for Shape tools <trac>3705</trac>
• New suggestion for arrow drawing in Paint <trac>4170</trac>
• Changes made to save the last added text item <trac>5917</trac>
• Paint - Rect. Marquee icon changes erratically <trac>5882</trac>
• Implemented Mirroring Effect in Paint Activity - SL#2463
• Added Invert Color Effect to Paint Activity - <trac>2495</trac>
• Title for 'Rectangualar Marquee' tool changed to 'Select Area' - SL #2266
• Paint starts with a random color selected SL #2053
• Paste images from clipboard - SL #813, <trac>9022</trac>
• paint overwrites file type instead of creating new file - SL #1771
• Slider bar should change brush and line width - <trac>8865</trac>
• Tools & Shapes would be a radio button set - <trac>3695</trac> and <trac>3694</trac>
• Active point of Paint pointers should be at tip of penscil, brush, drip on fill bucket, etc - SL #296
• The free form polygn tool should be in the shapes toolbar - <trac>3693</trac>
• turn off activity sharing - SL #1863
• Make "keep aspect ratio" selection visible in the UI. - SL #931
• Under tools tab, pencil size funcionality is not working - SL #1902
• Change in the icon activity to avoid errors in new librsvg
• Clean up cursors
• Add binary files to python 2.7

Write

os353

• Change the default method to insert images <trac>3066</trac> and <trac>7405</trac>. This adds a checkbox to enable the user to select the method
• Preserve the mime type when reading and saving files. Related to tickets <trac>8972</trac>, <trac>5291</trac>, <trac>1925</trac> and SL #2127.
• Add option to export to PDF - SL #1458
• Paste images in write <trac>2507</trac> and <trac>7186</trac>. Now you can copy an image from Paint, Browse or Write and paste in Write.

os354

• Don't set the activity metadata property when save PDF file because Write can save PDF files but can't open them <trac>10442</trac>
• The mime types from files rtf and html have text/plain in mime_parents. We need to modify the criteria to open them like rich text <trac>8972</trac>

Read

os353

• Add scrolling options for PDFs <trac>10396</trac>

Help

os353

• Fix permissions for HTML pages: use 0644
• Fix icon for F13 changes in rendering <trac>8513</trac>
• Use go-home icon <trac>8575</trac>, <trac>10267</trac>
• Add view toolbar, with zoom in, zoom out and full screen buttons
• Remove width from content section in css to improve screen usage
• Merge with latest XO 1.5 branch

Pippy

os353

• Cannot start "Thanks" example <trac>10384</trac>
• Add EditToolbar & modify toolbars for <=0.84 compatibility <trac>10395</trac>
• Fix svg icons for Pippy
• Remove the 'dobject'/groupthink submodule
• Switch activity.info from class to exec

Memorize

• Game not transferred when loading a created game <trac>10302</trac>

Etoys

• added translation: hi, ta
• update translations: de, mn, vi
• use compressed sources file (EtoysV4.stc) To take up less space on machines with a non-compressing file system (i.e., about anything except XO-1, but in particular the XO-1.5) this version uses a compressed sources file (before: 18 MB, now: 4.5 MB).

Sratch

• new camera plugin 0.8, fixes import from camera on XO-1 <trac>10413</trac>

Physics

• Fix for cpu idling events when in background special case for Sugar 0.84.
• Physics now idles when in the background to free up the cpu and save power.
• Saves thumbnail image of simulation for details view in Journal.
• Better behaviour when attempting to create minimum sized triangles, boxes, and circles (SL#1249).
• Fixed new toolbars expanding separator from overflowing the Stop icons off the XO toolbar
• Fixed the python/gtk/pygame int/float bug affecting F14 based builds (SL#2363).
• Includes latest translations.
• Switch activity.info from using the depreciated class, to exec.
• Source code clean-up.
• Added support for new toolbar design for Sugar 0.86 (old toolbars still work for Sugar 0.84 and back)
• Objects can now be moved with the Grab tool while the simulation is paused!
• Tool code cleanup and refactoring
• Includes latest translations

Turtle Art

Bug Fixes:

• Refactoring of audio/video code based on Jukebox (#1613)
• Catch depreciated format during project load (#2501, #2447)
• Reorganized some palettes (flow, portfolio) to fit smaller screen sizes
• Map mouse coordinates to screen coordinates (#2502)
• Also closed #2490, #2475, #2449, and #1057

Enhancements:

• Sample Python code stored in individual files
• New sample Python code (#548): (copy/paste heap to/from clipboard and to/from Journal)
• Sensor calibration for XO 1.5 hardware (Tony Forster)
• Text-only support for RTF files (#893)
• Block at bottom of stack is hidden when stack is 'collapsed' (#2506)
• Palette hides on repeat click of selector (#2505)
• Elimination of redundant Hide Palette button (#2505)
• Spanish translation of new blocks

Jukebox

• New translations updated in this release