Snap

minor maintenance release:

• Blocks: fixed #2234 (display all reachable local variables in drop-down menu). This also fixes a bunch of issues with the "rename all" feature for refactoring variables
• new "does variable _ exist" predicate in var-library, thanks, Brian!

• New Features:
  • new fast atomic "analyze" and "group" reporters in the "Bigger Data" library
• Notable Changes:
  • don't stamp if the canvas is too small, avoid a JS error message
  • changed "csv" option in SPLIT to comply with RFC 4180 and parse the whole table
• Notable Fix:
  • help for local custom blocks
• Translation Update:
  • Japanese, thanks Yoshiteru Nakamura!

minor maintenance release:

• capture argument reporter's lexical environment in JIT-compiler

• new Ukrainian translation
• new timed FOR-loop in the animation library

• New Feature:
  • support for stand-alone offline usage (open file snap.html in a web browser)
• Notable Changes:
  • renamed github repo to "Snap"
  • reorganized source code files and translations into a subfolder structure
  • SET PEN COLOR TO (number) now wraps the hue around for numbers < 0 and > 100
• Notable Fixes:
  • restore propagation of inherited attributes when loading
  • support for older versions of Chrome, thanks, Michael!
  • fixed "letter of" primitive for numeric input, thanks, Michael and Dan!

minor maintenance release honoring @bromagosa 's son born this very day

• fixed a conflict when calling a block with a collapsed empty variadic input without passing arguments
• enabled the INHERIT block's drop-down menu for clone-initialization scripts

Maintenance Release

New Feature:

• new "&lang=nn" url parameter for specifying a session translation in a web-link

Changed:

• smart ternary Boolean slots - only 2 states except inside rings and in the palette
• made project dialog wider to accommodate translations for the "recover" button

Fixes:

• corrected scope for outer script variables in inter-sprite messages (TELL, ASK, OF)
• eliminated false "reporter didn't report" error messages

maintenance release:

• reverted Cache-Control header for HTTP requests b/c of CORS issues

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!

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!

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

important maintenance release:

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

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!

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

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

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

minor maintenance release

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

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