Finally, it's done! The most polished release of Pd yet. We are further refining Pd into a truly powerful and usable programming platform.

http://puredata.org/downloads/

This release is dedicated to Jamie Tittle, aka tigital, who recently died of cancer. He was a long time and key contributor to Gem and Pd in general, even while he was in the hospital undergoing treatment. He is sorely missed in this community, and I am sure by many others.

Some highlights of this release:

* more functional namespace tools ([declare] and [import])
* new appearance designed to enhance readability
* GLSL shader support in Gem
* usability improvements
* on Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications
* standard locations for user-installed externals
* many bug fixes

Here's the rough changelog:

• next visual appearance designed for readability

• default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
  GNU/Linux: /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-externals
  Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
  Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/Application Data/Pd

• lots of standard key bindings added:
  Enter/Return for OK
  Escape for Cancel
  Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows
  on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows
  on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows
  Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window
  Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window
  Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console
  Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser

• you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths

• improved Cut/Copy/Paste support for working in object and message boxes

• fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console

• [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading (but much work needs to be done before there namespace support is complete)

• "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/) on Mac OSX

• new patches default to the folder last saved in

• included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

• 'hardware' and 'deprecated' removed from libraries loaded by default

• On Debian/Ubuntu, the packages now install into /usr rather than /usr/local

• On Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications from the File menu.

• bug fixes and clean up of [hid] and mapping externals

• included config in Info.plist for the Spotlight Importer

KNOWN BUGS

• check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs

• Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup preferences

• pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd

• loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying to load it

• the GUI runs slower in some situations

I think this is the final release, last chance to test your patches and make sure everything is working well in this release. Also, double-check the translations. I'll do one final import of translations from Transifex before finalizing it. Download here:

http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Its been a long time coming, but its finally reached completion! This release includes the most new features of any release before, here are some highlights:

* complete help search: search all installed docs (Help->Search)
* loaders: you can now write native Pd objects in Lua (pdlua) and Tcl (tclpd)
* new libraries: log, iemguts, mediasettings, pduino, syslog
* GUI plugins: customize your editing experience
* full Unicode support, write patches in any language
* fully translatable GUI, with many languages already included
* Magic Glass to see what's going through connections as it happens

And much more: http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

Download it here:
http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Or if you are using Ubuntu/Mint, you can use the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended/

run these commands in the Terminal to add this PPA to your system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended

There are some bugs that will have to wait until the next release:

* Windows command line args don't work with unicode
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3595309&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* [initbang] worked with GUI objs in 0.42 but not in 0.43
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3599058&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* Right-click menu causes CPU spike
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3525646&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* specific kinds of "GUI overload"
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-12/099534.html

Hello hans. I just installed the latest version and got this in the Pd window:

WARNING: 64-bit builds are still beta, some libraries are known to have serious issues (cyclone, maxlib, moonlib, moocow, pdp, bsaylor, etc.)

Since I depend on cyclone quite a bit, I tried installing the i386 one instead, but apt-get didn't want to fix the dependencies. Before I do anything too major to resolve this, do you happen to know which specific objects from these libraries don't work in 64-bit?

If you've been using cyclone on 64-bit already, then you are probably not affected. The 64-bit bugs are not new and are because cyclone uses the old 32-bit only API for accessing arrays.

You can see more info in the Help Browser, you'll see at the top of the listing "64bit-warning-plugin", and in there, there is a README.txt with more detail.

Ah, thanks. I was worried the list would be longer than that. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to have the warning direct the user to that README so they can find out quickly whether or not their patches will be affected should they upgrade to 64-bit?

my thoughts exactly :-D
http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/scripts/guiplugins/64bit-warning-plugin/64bit-warning-plugin.tcl?r1=16838&r2=16837&pathrev=16838

thanks for all the work you guys have been doing. I'm really stoked about this new release. Magic Glass is great for debugging. Can't wait to get into GUI editing more. Also little details, like the signal cords being wider is great.

I've trying out 0.43 right now, but the first thing I've noticed is that all menus are in Dutch (I'm a dutch speaking belgian, so I guess pd detected the locale settings on my Win7). Is there an option to have everything back in english?

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@hans said:

Finally, it's done! The most polished release of Pd yet. We are further refining Pd into a truly powerful and usable programming platform.

http://puredata.org/downloads/

This release is dedicated to Jamie Tittle, aka tigital, who recently died of cancer. He was a long time and key contributor to Gem and Pd in general, even while he was in the hospital undergoing treatment. He is sorely missed in this community, and I am sure by many others.

Some highlights of this release:

* more functional namespace tools ([declare] and [import])
* new appearance designed to enhance readability
* GLSL shader support in Gem
* usability improvements
* on Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications
* standard locations for user-installed externals
* many bug fixes

Here's the rough changelog:

• next visual appearance designed for readability

• default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
  GNU/Linux: /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-externals
  Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
  Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/Application Data/Pd

• lots of standard key bindings added:
  Enter/Return for OK
  Escape for Cancel
  Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows
  on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows
  on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows
  Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window
  Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window
  Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console
  Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser

• you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths

• improved Cut/Copy/Paste support for working in object and message boxes

• fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console

• [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading (but much work needs to be done before there namespace support is complete)

• "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/) on Mac OSX

• new patches default to the folder last saved in

• included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

• 'hardware' and 'deprecated' removed from libraries loaded by default

• On Debian/Ubuntu, the packages now install into /usr rather than /usr/local

• On Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications from the File menu.

• bug fixes and clean up of [hid] and mapping externals

• included config in Info.plist for the Spotlight Importer

KNOWN BUGS

• check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs

• Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup preferences

• pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd

• loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying to load it

• the GUI runs slower in some situations

The new visual style is very nice indeed,