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.

Bimonthly Pd Meetup

This meeting's theme is: Patch art! 🎨

🖼️ So use cables, arrays, GUIs, fonts, data structures, pdlua, etc. to paint a picture or anything
It doesn't need to have sound, but it could be fun too...

When? Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 4 PM UTC
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=100,2950159,3448439,4671654&h=100&date=2026-9-27&sln=16-19&hf=1

Where? https://discord.gg/M4pAnAYXy?event=1549495382567030854

I use Git repositories to manage my patches, but sometimes I feel difficulty maintaining a project in the long term. The commit diff shown in text is not human-readable, therefore it is not straightforward to track multiple changes of a patch.

This motivates me to develop Pure Diff Viewer, a tool to render different commits of a patch and make comparisons. The changes will be highlighted and categorized. The user can ignore unimportant ones (e.g. simple element movements). This tool can either be used as a standalone app or invoked by Git commands.

This project is available at: https://github.com/chsh2/pure-diff-viewer , and I also participated the KVR Developer Challenge 2026 with it. The development is still in an early stage and any feedback is appreciated.

Pd version 0.56-3 is available from https://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm
or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data

This fixes some problems in 0.56-2. Changes are summarized in release notes: https://msp.ucsd.edu/Pd_documentation/5.current.status.htm#s5.1

cheers
Miller"

Release notes:

Fixed broken "keyup" object (IOhannes).

Improvements to window titles and IEM GUI settings (IOhannes).

Ben Wesch improved updating the Pd colors without recreating windows.

Documentation updates (Alexandre).

Fixed a situation in which Pd hangs when failing to connect to jack device in linux.

Updates to the "deken" ("find externals") mechanism.

Many other bug fixes.

It's time for our bimonthly virtual Pd community meetup at the Pd discord server.

The purpose of these sessions is to make a space for showcasing projects involving Pure Data, asking any questions, joining the conversation or just listening.

Here's the link to discord: https://discord.gg/aNd8RrT

PureVST version 0.8 is out on the usual site:

msp.ucsd.edu/tools/purevst/

This might fix some of the bugs in previous versions. It's available as source, or compiled for "M" series processors in MACOS and for fedora linux (Intel processors), or you can compile your own binaries from the source tarball.

The topics will be livecoding, the heavy compiler, plugdata and more.
We know it's a bit last minute, but we hope to see some of y'all there! 🇳🇱 🙂

https://www.hku.nl/en/contact-and-locations/location-ibb-laan

Last year I made a minor update (0.9.3) a couple of months after the 0.9.2 release, but I never formalized a release update with binaries into deken and an announcement. Let's just skip that, but here's the changelog for 0.9.3 while we're at it:

• Fixed bug in [unmerge] where it wouldn't deal well with mixed floats and symbols in a list
• Fixed crash and resize bug in [zl.group]/[zl.stream]

This one made it into the PlugData 0.9.2 release recently, by the way.

I was actually hoping I'd have a 1.0 right now to celebrate my 10 years involved with Cyclone, but I failed miserably. The plan is to release that along with PlugData 1.0 as well, whenever that happens (some updates to [mtr] is what's missing for me to call it 1.0.0 already, by the way).

So anyway, here's 0.9.4!

Many cosmetic changes in this one, which I'm kinda proud of. I did finally add a menu entry so people can disable the object browser plugin, while I also improved it to include browsing in more nesting level depth.

So, if you think my beautiful and hard work designing a nice plug-in browser is not welcome, you can go to Preferences=>Cyclone-Browser-plugin and disable it.

Other more cosmetic changes are that I made some updates to the text editing window of objects like [coll]. One of the things is that it now uses Pd's "theme" colors in it (so Pd >= 0.56 is needed)! I also made some other changes like being able to use CTRL+S to save and CTRL+W to close the window. Also, typing and editing it on the window now marks the patch as dirty if you have the "@embed" flag enabled (same is true for [table]).

There are some other bug fixes, and here's a full changelog if you're curious about all the details.

CHANGELOG:

• We now have a preferences menu to disable the browser plugin! See Preferences => Cyclone-Browser-plugin. If you always hated this, disable it and save the setting. The browsing plugin is now also better organized with more nesting levels.
• [prob] removed the functionality for viewing the data because the MAX original doesn't have it and it makes no sense, cause we can't edit it and save it and you can already see the data with "dump" (which prints on the terminal window). When embedding, now we also have a dirty flag when setting data, just like [cyclone/coll] and [cyclone/table] (even though the MAX original doesn't do it).
• Text Editing Window Improvements: colors now adapt to Pd's theme (so >= 0.56 is needed) and font size also adapts to patch's font size. Allow ctrl+s to save and ctrl+w to close the window. This affects [cyclone/seq], [cyclone/coll], [cyclone/table] and [cyclone]/[capture~] (again, [cyclone/prob] doesn't have it anymore). Also make manually editing the window and saving it sets the dirty flag on the patch for [coll] and [table] (and not only with changes via messages as before).
• [coll]/[table] improved dirty management as it wouldn't mark dirty if the owning canvas wasn't visible (which was a stupid hack to not mark it as dirty when loading the patch).
• [coll] now forces a correct order of args and deals with 0/1-length list messages.
• [table] fixed trying to open the name argument as if it was a file. Now resizing updates the editing window if it is opened.
• Improved [cross~], it is now a 4th order filter (even though Max claims theirs is a 3rd order filter). The last one didn't sound good when adding the lowpass and highpass output.
• [scope~] improved resizing handle mechanism
• [comment] fixed "mouse release bug" annoying error and initialization with a zoomed patch.
• Fixed many typos in the docs.
• Improved github actions and added Raspberry Pi binaries
• Fixed CMake build for compiling a single binary

Cheers
Alexandre Torres Porres

Cheers~

https://github.com/takamiko8

PS:

One easy way is to install Thonny IDE for Python, in Linux, Mac or Windows, it will ask you to install the packages for the code to run and you will see a code for creation of MIDI with the detection of your fingers with the web-cam; and in the other hand; when you make a summatory in the calculator it creates a little Algorithmic composition in MIDI format. You can use the MIDI to compose in Pd or any MIDI software.

If Thonny creates an error because “you don’t have the packages installed”, you can ask a Python text which packages to install. Or try:

import cv2
import mediapipe as mp
import time
import tkinter as tk
import random
import threading
from mido import MidiFile, MidiTrack, Message

And, an explanatory video:

I have just released [vstplugin~] v0.6.1! Binaries are available on Deken (search for "vstplugin~").

Here is the full changelog: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases/v0.6.1

Please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

Have fun!

Full release notes:
https://github.com/plugdata-team/plugdata/releases/tag/v0.9.2

My last update aimed at a PlugData update but that didn't happen yet, though there's a PlugData 0.9-2 test release, based on 0.55-2. This new ELSE update will hopefully come soon right after at PlugData 0.9.3, or maybe even a newer update. I was hoping to better coordinate releases but it's not happening

There's a lot of new stuff, but I'm mainly focusing on my MERDA modules, which I'll show at PdMAXCon. They're coming out fancy with lots of stuff and details I can't get into. There's lots of eye candy, like Implementing a new mechanism for minimizing and maximizing the GUI or opening in a new window. Added "tab" navigation for most knobs in the modules. This is just the tip of the iceberg as there's lots of work to support this, so I made several changes and updates to [knob] and [button]. The [knob] object also gained several features and it became a feature-creep monster. Now I'm also including mouse wheel scrolling, for one thing.

There's a new "Super Saw/Square" oscillator (a sum of 7 oscillators based on JP-8000) abstraction object that also became a MERDA module. I wanna highlight a new [mix~] object made for it that makes convenient mixing and panning MC connections. There's also a cool [arpeggiator] abstraction, in the next release I hope I'll have a new MERDA module with that included.

This is the main deal! There are 15 new objects, I'd like to also mention mid/side encoding and stereo widening, and another one for envelope following. Total number of objects now is 587! The tutorial now has 561 examples and an expanded subchapter about stereo imaging and improvements to envelope following.

It's up in deken, let me know if something is wrong...

There are of course many many other numerous changes and fixes. Detailed changelog in https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc14

As of now, I started being more careful with breaking changes. I'm still allowing old patches to run, but telling people to adapt to new stuff. For instance, I had a [del~ in] and [del~ out] object now split into 2 ([del.in~]/[del.out~]) thanks to a new functionality in Pd 0.56-0, but you can still call the old [del~] object (for now). Like I've been saying, I'm just waiting for PlugData 1.0 to call this a final release as well.

Please support me on https://patreon.com/porres

#puredata #pdvanilla

cheers
Alex

Unfortunately, I can't remember off had what I did differently to get RC12 to compile. I remember removing some .c files and also commenting out a few bits from the cmake file. Basically anything referencing the offending objects. I also had to download something related to ffmpeg-devel, from memory.

Hope that helps for now. But I can have a look in a few weeks when I have time.