Dear all, My "important changes" section is our 7.0 changes. My apologies.
For a full breakdown of the changes in LiveCode 6.7 please see the release notes here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_7_0.pdf Warm regards, Ben On 23 October 2014 20:26, Benjamin Beaumont <b...@runrev.com> wrote: > Dear list members, > > We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 6.7. This is a stable > release. > > Important Changes > > 1. We’ve update the platform component of the engine on Linux > substantially. Think of it as the equivalent of the cocoa port for MacOS X. > As a result, windowing related activities on Linux are subject to change. > If you are testing on Linux we would encourage you to focus on windowing, > window shapes, shortcuts, copy/paste and drag/drop. > 2. LiveCode 7.0 is now based on LiveCode 6.7. It includes cocoa, the > webkit browser, the new AVFoundation player on Mac. > 3. The file format has changed for this release to accommodate > Unicode. Old stacks will still work in 7.0, but stacks saved in 7.0 format > will not open in previous versions of LiveCode. Therefore it is doubly > critical to backup your stacks. > > *Release contents* > Our release notes contain full details of all the changes made during this > cycle as well as details of all the bugs that were fixed. The can be found > here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_7_0.pdf > > *LiveCode 7.0* > Many of you will notice that we've also released LiveCode 7.0 today. In an > ideal world we would have rolled these two releases into 1. However, > LiveCode 7.0 sees us release a near 2 year refactoring project which > contains same changes to engine behavior, particularly when reading and > writing data out of LiveCode or working with the char chunk type. Details > of these changes can be found in the release notes for LiveCode 7.0. In > summary, LiveCode 6.7 provides a new release of LiveCode that is fully > backward compatible allowing people to take advantage of the new features > like cocoa while providing time to move to 7.0. > > *Yosemite* > During the release candidate phase we added support for Yosemite and will > be working on adding wider ranging support for that platform in the coming > week. Apple have tweaked how some of their pickers work which we'd like > make available to your applications. We plan to do this in the form of > 6.7.1 and 7.0.1 releases in the coming two weeks. > > As always, a big thank you to all those who tested and reported bugs > during this cycle. Your efforts are valued by all of us here in Edinburgh > and Glasgow! > > Warm regards, > > Ben > -- _____________________________________________ Benjamin Beaumont . RunRev Ltd LiveCode Product Manager mail : 25a Thistle Street Lane South West, Edinburgh, EH2 1EW email : b...@runrev.com company : +44(0) 845 219 89 23 fax : +44(0) 845 458 8487 web : www.runrev.com LiveCode - Programming made simple _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
