"To Pd-announce:

Pd version 0.57-0 is available from https://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm
or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data .

cheers
Miller"

Release notes
0.57-0
The "zoom" feature is entirely reworked, thanks to Antoine Rousseau.
[receive] can (at last!) be set to receive from a variable symbol - thanks to Christof and Alexandre
Many new features added to [pointer], [struct], [drawnumber], etc., objects.
After many requests: logical binops such as [==~] and [||~] now included.
IEMGUI number boxes can highlight their image when activated
[clone] object can dynamically allocate copies at run time.
New [siginfo~] object to get sample rate, number of channels, etc.
New [list foreach], [list join] and [list unjoin] objects.
Button to rescan MIDI device list - thanks Ben.
New [snake~ sum], [snake~ pick] and [snake~ split] objects.
Cut/Copy/Paste for patch fragments now work across apps.
Configurable keyboard shortcuts - thanks Iohannes.
[oscparse] object allows non-standard but widely used "double" type.
The [float] object now can parse integers out of symbols such as "preset45.txt".
MacOs "App ID" and "preferences" storage now under info.puredata to agree with website URL.
Incremental improvements to experimental GTK3 front end.
Classes now have a user slot, "c_data" for storing per-class data.
Updates to "find externals" feature - thanks Iohannes.
Much work by Iohannes on the translation infrastructure, and as always, documentation by Alexandre.
And... at long last, '{' and '}' characters are no longer dropped.

And PlugData also makes the best job keeping up with the latest Vanilla

Just use Vanilla people I don't see forks giving you much more, besides PlugData of course, which does load Pd as a plug in (besides working hard on the GUI).

that's more alive and kicking, but also no external compatibility and lagging behind some libraries (though I hope they're finally updating cyclone)

well, Pd 0.57 is coming out and [receive] now has an inlet, and there's a [list foreach] for iteration

purr data doesn't take Pd externals, just what they ship... and it's outdated and not paired/compatible to current vanilla

good, fixing it

report at https://github.com/porres/pd-else/issues

not sure what you need, but I could look into and add one to ELSE

well, then be happy there's no limit go crazy on it