yahaira

**yahaira**

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,