Its time to announce the next big Pd-extended release, 0.43.4! This release has the most new features of any release before, so many annoyances are gone, many new tools help you patch, and. There will be more updates to cover some of the new features here, in the form of news items on puredata.info, blog posts, screencasts and more.

Download here for all platforms (Debian, Mac OS X, Mint, Raspbian, Ubuntu, Windows, and of course the source code):
http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

For Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/etc., you can add an apt source by following the instructions at the top of the page here:
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/debian

ChangeLog

Here you can get a good overview in what has changed, so you know where to find out more.

changes since 0.43.1

* search-plugin included by default
* improved audio performance on Mac and Windows, Mac now uses half the
CPU when idle (portaudio update)
* (Windows) full unicode support
* support full unicode MIDI device names (portmidi)
* many completed translations
* many bugfixes

changes since 0.42.5

== changes to the editor ==

* GUI Plugins! can customize a wide array of features of the editor
* Autotips in Edit Mode to get information about inlets, outlets, and objects
* Magic Glass to snoop on messages as they pass thru connections
* Search everything! Thanks to Jonathan Wilkes' search plugin, now included
by default
* full Unicode support throughout Pd (there are still some layout issues
with right-to-left alphabets and character-based languages)
* fully localizable GUI, with full translations for French, German, Japanese,
Italian, and Greek
* full interface translations with limited search translation for Catalan,
Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Danish, German, Hungarian, Korean,
Portuguese (Brazil), Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico)
* partial translations for: Russian, Turkish
* contribute to translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/puredata/
* paths are no longer saved in the preferences. Use the [path] or
[declare -path] objects, or use the standard global install locations
* complete Tcl/Tk 8.5 support and integration
* drastically improved Pd window logging/print performance (1000 lines/sec
and you can still patch)
* Ctrl-click/Cmd-click error messages in Pd window to find the object with
the error
* five log levels and dynamic filtering of Pd window log ('fatal, error,
normal, debug, all')
* library loading printed to Pd window at level 'debug' so the Pd window
is blank when Pd-extended starts
* hierarchical display of open subpatches/abstractions in Window menu:
http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease/window_hierarchy.png
* generate complete Pd window log using 'File->Save As..' when on the
Pd window
* 'File->New' creates the new patch in the folder of the current patch
* 'File->Print' now prints the entire canvas rather than just the visible
part (thanks Trevor Fancher)
* 'File->Save As...', 'Edit->Copy', and 'Edit->Select All' now work on
the Pd window
* Ctrl/Cmd < and > cycle through open windows
* added Autopatch, Autotips, and Perf Mode control on the Edit menu
* improved handling of multiple monitors
* (GNU/Linux) realtime mode enabled by default (-rt)
* (GNU/Linux) window placement logic can be handled in plugin for better
support of many Window Managers (`pdtk_canvas_place_window`)
* (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X) [comport] no longer crashes Pd when open
USB-serial devices are unplugged
* (GNU/Linux and Windows) !TkDND drag-n-drop support for dropping files
onto Pd and patch windows
* (GNU/Linux and Windows) added Alt shortcuts to menus
* (GNU/Linux and Windows) Navigate menus with arrow keys
* (GNU/Linux and Windows) Pd window and patchses now have a Pd icon
when Alt-Tabbing
* (Windows) zip-only distro with pd-extended.bat to run without installing

== updates to the core ==

* updated to latest stable portaudio v19-20110326
* free methods always called on quit, so cameras, network sockets, etc.
are properly freed
* GUI objects no longer send pointless draw updates, reducing GUI load
* (Windows) external libraries can now include DLLs in a library folder
* [loadbang] has a convenience inlet
* sys_open() / sys_close() and sys_fopen() / sys_fclose() functions in
m_pd.h for full UTF-8 support in externals that use files

== updates to libraries and objects ==

* added all lowercase aliases to cyclone for Max/MSP >= 4.6 compatibility
* fix type-punned pointer issues in most externals so everything is built
using auto-vectorization optimization on all platforms
* [sys_gui] now outputs a bang when the command completes
* [canvas_name] can query based on inlet, using float as depth and symbol
for canvas name
* [tabplay~] can play up to 13.5 hour long tables accurately (up from 6 mins)
* (Windows) fixed 'unauthorized' GUI objects [playlist], [cooled~], etc.

== newly included libraries ==

* 'pdlua' for loading objects written in Lua like regular objects
* 'tclpd' for loading objects written in Tcl like regular objects
* 'log' library for logging to the Pd window at different levels
* 'iemguts' library for controlling abstractions and patches from Pd
* 'mediasettings' library for controlling the Audio/MIDI device preferences
* 'pduino' library for controlling Arduino boards via the Firmata protocol
* 'syslog' added IEM's object for logging to syslog (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X)

== removed libraries ==

* remove unsupported, unmaintained libraries: controctopus,
Externals-HOWTO, flashserver, flatspace, flib, gyre, keyboardkeys,
memento, memento-p, nqpoly4, nqpoly~, nusmuk, pixeltango,
puremeasurement, rradical, toxy
see: [http://puredata.info/docs/LibrariesInPdExtended
* pidip removed because of license conflicts

For more details, check the complete changelog, see the bottom of
the release page:
http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4/

More Details

* the Mac OS X PowerPC builds are a bit out of date because the
PowerPC build machine died at the end of December. We're trying
to get it back up so we can have up-to-date Mac OS X PowerPC builds!

* the Raspbian build is barely tested, please try it and report back
so we can improve things on Raspbian.

Maybe i'm dreaming but i'm having the impression that the visual side of the new pd release has become a little more sluggish than before? On the other hand the audio (asio) implementation seems to have improved a lot, so that's certainly a good thing. But before I never had to pay a lot of attention of what was going on on the screen, my pc seemed to cope with it without a problem, but now i have to be more carefull with what's going on. Oh well, that's just me nagging a little bit...

yeah, so I deleted my preferences in HD>Library>Preferences,
but there is no "Library" in my home folder, and when I run
"rm ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pdextended.plist"
in terminal, I get "no such file or directory"
and still my pd won't load several external libraries.
little desperate now.
idiot-proof help would be appreciated with love

if anything, just help on setting up my "extras" library as a path, so I don't have to create paths for every single library in there that I need

If you need to load a library that doesn't load by default, you can use [import libraryname]. You can also use [declare] or [path] if you need to add other search paths to your patch.

Coming back to topic of gui responsiveness i'm afraid. I've got a synth which i can control with the computer keyboard and the same patch which takes midi notes as input. However, when i use the midi version of the patch no single gui widget redraws itself anymore. So they're all actually working, because when i select for instance a new value in a horizontal radio, i hear the patch reacting to the value changes but the gui doesn't redraw itself. Has anyone else encountered this problem with the new pd release? This wasn't giving a problem in the previous release (0.42.5 i believe).

d.

Hello Domien:
Yes, I had those problems with the Gui on pd-extended 0.43.1.
In fact, the gui issues when the number of elements is more than a few dozens are filling up my glass, so to speak.
Meanwhile, thanks to all that are working so hard to fix the issues.

Sumidero

I also had the gui updating problem, but not anymore. It should have been fixed in 0.43-4.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3594476&group_id=55736&atid=478070

1. I'm russian and i use russian Win7. Then i install PD it try to be russian to, but the transfer is terrible (some mix of ukrainian or bulgarian... =). I want to use only english version - how to enable it?
Only way i found is to rename(remove) "po" directory with msg.* files.

2. Can't create [bng], [tgl], [cnv], [dac~] and other ~60% of standart objects! I 'reset to default' in 'preferences' - it didn't help.

@kyro said:

I also had the gui updating problem, but not anymore. It should have been fixed in 0.43-4.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3594476&group_id=55736&atid=478070

Yes, your're right, kyro !! Fortunately I didn't find the issues on (which I think it was) version.0.43-1
All the best, and keep on making music!

Sumidero

great update. my main patch can now use 25-50% smaller latency with the same cpu usage.

@mozz said:

1. I'm russian and i use russian Win7. Then i install PD it try to be russian to, but the transfer is terrible (some mix of ukrainian or bulgarian... =). I want to use only english version - how to enable it?
Only way i found is to rename(remove) "po" directory with msg.* files.

Yea, I had the same problem, as you mention it, just delete ru.msg from po folder

Can't wait for 0.44 release!

Can someone help me with my pd-extended 0.43.4 installation on windows XP?

get errormessage can't create [dac~], [cnv], [bang] etc.
tried Reset to Default,
put [declare -stdpath extra/vanilla] in the patch (dac~.dll is in pd/extra/vanilla): same story

OK, solved it myself. I will describe what I did for other newbies:

First I pressed Reset to Default
Then I made a small patch according the example in import. I used [import osc cyclone extra vanilla] maybe double up... I don't know... but it worked for me.
banged it through the list.
Then I closed the patch and opened my orignal patch. No problems then anymore.

Pd keeps crashing though in different situations (e.g. loading test audio and midi)