turtlestitch/HISTORY.md

Snap! (BYOB) History

in development:

6.9.0

• Notable Changes:
  • JS-functions are now disabled by default until switched on in the settings menu per session
  • error messages in presentation mode are now shown as pop-up messages onstage
• Notable Fixes:
  • register unsaved changes when the user edits a comment
  • fixed bignums library and and made colors library faster, thanks, Brian!
  • fixed setting the IDE language via a url parameter, thanks, Joan!
• Translation Updates:
  • Polish, thanks, Witek!
  • new Hindi translation, thanks, Barthdry!
  • German

2021-06-14

• prepared release

2021-06-11

• byob, blocks: catch JS functions inside custom dropdown definitions
• German translation update

2021-06-10

• threads: error messages in presentation mode are now shown as pop-up messages onstage
• store: commented out modal prompt to enable JS when loading a project that uses it
• gui: renamed setting to "JavaScript extensions"

2021-06-09

• new dev version
• Polish translation update, thanks, Witek!
• blocks: register unsaved changes when the user edits a comment
• new Hindi translation, thanks, Barthdry!
• fixed bignums library and and made colors library faster, thanks, Brian!
• gui: fixed setting the IDE language via a url parameter, thanks, Joan!
• threads, gui, objects, byob, store: reinstated JS-function control, disabled JS-functions by default
• gui, store: automatically logout when the user enablesJavaScript, commented out for now

6.8.1

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed peeling off niladic custom block instances from prototype templates

2021-05-04

• new dev version
• gui: fixed "peeling off" niladic custom block instances from prototype templates
• prepared patch

6.8.0

• New Features:
  • first-class colors, sorta, in the new "Colors" library, thanks, Brian!
  • you can now also "peel off" custom block instances from their prototype templates in the block editor
• Notable Changes:
  • speed-up talk bubble positioning by 5x
• Notable Fixes:
  • work around a floating point precision glitch in "ray length"
  • fixed an occasional rendering glitch when changing the display style of a variable watcher
  • fixed color effect for negative inputs, thanks, Brian!
  • fixed some issues round bignums, thanks, Brian!
• Documentation Updates:
  • updated manual, thanks Brian!

2021-05-03

• new versions of "Colors" and bignums libraries, updated documentation, thanks, Brian
• bumped dev version to v6.8
• prepared minor release

2021-04-23

• objects: fixed color effect for negative inputs, thanks, Brian!

2021-04-17

• objects: fixed an occasional rendering glitch when changing the display style of a variable watcher
• objects: tweaked CellMorph shadow rendering
• byob: enable "peeling off" custom block instances from their prototype templates

2021-04-17

• new dev version
• threads: worked around a floating point precision glitch in "ray length"
• objects: speed-up talk bubble positioning by 5x

6.7.4

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed DEAL in the APL library, thanks, Brian!
  • fixed a resizing edge case bug for the stage prompter (ASK command)
  • fixed finding "index of" block by search

2021-04-09

• objects fixed #2821 - "index of" block not found by search
• prepared patch

2021-03-28

• new dev version
• fixed DEAL in the APL library, thanks, Brian!
• objects: fixed a resizing edge case bug for the stage prompter (ASK command)

6.7.3

• Notable Changes:
  • hyperized "key _ pressed?" predicate
• Notable Fixes:
  • repeat stops when encountering a non-numerical counter input, thanks, Stefan!
  • updated list-utilities library, thanks, Brian!
• Documentation Updates:
  • updated manual with links in the toc, thanks Brian!

2021-03-19

• manual updated with active links and links in the toc, thanks, Brian!
• threads: hyperized "key _ pressed?" predicate
• prepared patch

2021-03-17

• new dev version
• threads fixed repeat for non-numbers, thanks Stefan!
• updated list-utilities library, thanks, Brian!

6.7.2

• Notable Changes:
  • disabled empty-slot implicit parameter in FOREACH
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed "transpose" in the APL library, thanks, Brian!
• Translation Updates:
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!

2021-03-15

• new dev version
• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!
• lists, apl: fixed "transpose", thanks, Brian!
• threads: disabled empty-slot implicit parameter in FOREACH
• prepared patch release

6.7.1

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed recursive calls in PIPE
  • the "length of list" block no longer appears twice in search results
  • prevent inserting items at non-integer / out-of-bounds indices
  • save all items of a heterogeneously structured linked/arrayed list

2021-03-09

• new dev version
• objects: fixed #2797
• fixed recursive calls in PIPE
• lists: prevent usage of lists as dictionaries
• store: fixed #2798
• prepared patch

6.7.0

• New Features:
  • undelete sprites
• Notable Changes:
  • optimized special cases for COMBINE (sum, product, min, max) by up to 34 x
  • rebind (relabel) recursive calls when duplicating a custom block definition
  • custom block label parts inside the prototype (in the block editor) are now displayed the same as in block instances
  • variadic ring inputs are now arranged vertically (e.g. the reporter rings in PIPE)
  • changed zebra-coloring for yellow custom block prototypes (in the block editor) so the hat block changes the shade, not the prototype
  • improved layout and rendering of (+) buttons in custom block prototypes
  • updated libraries: list utilities, variadic reporters, iteration-composition, colors and APL, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Fixes:
  • displaying a table containing the stage no longer crashes the page
  • correct identities when combining the items of an empty list with + / * / min / max
• Documentation Updates:
  • updated manual, thanks Brian!
• Translation Updates:
  • German

2021-03-08

• prepared minor release

2021-03-06

• updated libraries and manual, thanks, Brian!

2021-03-05

• tables, objects: displaying a table containing the stage no longer crashes the page
• gui: added "trash is empty" information, commented out for now
• gui: changed gui strings for undelete feature
• updated German translation
• byob: rebind (relabel) recursive calls when duplicating a custom block definition

2021-03-04

• gui: added trash button for undeleting sprites
• gui: accept drops of sprites and sprite-icons in trash button
• gui: animate undeleted sprites to glide back onstage

2021-03-03

• symbols: added "trash" symbol
• symbols: added "trashFull" symbol

2021-03-02

• threads: optimized special cases for COMBINE (sum, product, min, max) by up to 34 x
• threads: optimized special cases for compiled version of COMBINE
• gui, objects: undelete sprites
• threads: correct identities when combining the items of an empty list with + / * / min / max
• gui: pushed dev version to 6.7 because of new documentable features

2021-03-01

• byob: improved layout and rendering of (+) buttons in custom block prototypes
• byob: display custom block label parts in the prototype (in the block editor) the same as in block instances
• byob: changed zebra-coloring for yellow custom block prototypes (in the block editor) so the hat block changes the shade, not the prototype

2021-02-27

• new dev version
• blocks: arrange variadic ring inputs vertically (e.g. the reporter rings in PIPE)
• blocks: removed a redundant unused case for block highlights

6.6.0

• New Features:
  • new "reshape" primitive for lists
  • list operations as dropdown menu of new "length of list" block
• Notable Changes:
  • 2D lists inside ITEM OF now have the right order of dimensions (rows, columns, planes, etc.)
  • changed "length of list" to become a general list operations primitive
  • enhanced MIN and MAX to also operate on text
  • added "is _ identical to _ ?" to relabel options of equals
  • enabled scientific notation in numeric text fields
  • removed experimental "transpose (list)" primitive - has been merged into "length of list"
  • removed "reverse" block from the "frequency distribution analysis" library
• Notable Fixes:
  • don't show internal "compile" reporter in search results
  • fixed a bug for showing the senders of a message
  • compiled "find first" now also reports empty instead of false if none is found
  • support one level of currying in the experimental JS JIT compiler
• Documentation Updates:
  • updated manual with hyper-semantics of ITEM OF, thanks Brian!
• Translation Updates:
  • German

2021-02-25

• updated manual, thanks, Brian!
• prepared minor release

2021-02-23

• threads, objects: commented out experimental slice() primitive

2021-02-20

• lists: removed experimental list.slice() feature from production code
• threads, objects: experimental list slice() primitive, hidden, available via find / relabel

2021-02-16

• objects: reverted list palette reordering

2021-02-15

• threads: fixed #2783
• threads: fixed #2784
• blocks: took out "transpose" from "length" dropdown
• German translation update
• removed "reverse" block from the "frequency distribution analysis" library
• support for ranges of indices using zero and negative numbers inside index-lists in "item of"

2021-02-14

• lists: fixed transcription typos in strideTranspose(), thanks, Brian!

2021-02-13

• blocks, threads, lists: distinguish between "columns" (<3D) and (deep) "transpose"
• byob: fixed a bug for showing the senders of a message

2021-02-12

• blocks, threads, lists: distinguish between "transpose" (<3D) and "deep transpose"

2021-02-11

• objects: rearranged the blocks in the lists category palette
• lists: fixed list.reverse() to return a shallow copy instead of mutating the original

2021-02-10

• objects: added "is _ identical to _ ?" to relabel options of equals
• morphic: enable scientific notation in numeric text fields
• threads: changed error message for "lines" conversion
• updated German translations

2021-02-09

• lists: refactored matrix ops to avoid JS stack overflows
• objects: fixed internal migration for "transpose" block
• threads: enhanced MIN and MAX to also operate on text
• threads: enhanced list attributes 'rank', 'shape' and 'ravel' to also handle scalars
• threads: enhanced 'reshape' to also handle scalars
• lists: limit crash-dangerous matrix-exploding ops to 1 MM elements (reshape, crossproduct)
• objects, threads: took out "crossproduct" primitive option from the palette
• objects, blocks: added defaults to RESHAPE in palette

2021-02-08

• lists, objects, threads: new RESHAPE primitive
• lists: added internal naive (recursive) version of CROSSPRODUCT
• lists: added TRANSPOSE for higher dimensions, thanks, Brian!
• objects, blocks, threads: added "cross product" to "append" as dropdown, and "reverse" to "length"

2021-02-06

• simplified private list.range() method
• blocks: changed wordings for list attributes

2021-02-05

• new manual for v6.6, thanks, Brian!
• objects: don't show internal "compile" reporter in search results
• blocks, objects, threads: added experimental "atribute of list" reporter primitive to dev mode
• objects: replaced "length of list" primitive with new "attribute of list" reporter
• objects: added "txt" option to list attribure dropdown - not yet operational
• lists, threads: added "txt" list conversion

2021-02-04

• lists, threads: changed query semantics for table selectors in ITEM OF to rows, columns, planes, etc.
• pushed dev version number
• lists: tweaked query()
• cloud: trimmed usernames, thanks, Michael

2021-02-03

• new dev version

6.5.2

• Notable Changes:
  • identity comparison of texts is now case-sensitive
  • hyperized image attribute reporter primitive (monadic)
  • when constructing a costume from a pixel list handle single values as greyscale
  • experimental "transpose (list)" primitive relabelling option for "all but first"
  • renamed "Obsolete!" blocks to "Undefined!"
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a glitch in the animation library's "sine in-out" easing function
  • fixed a postMessage glitch in the API, thanks, Bernat!
  • fixed a glitch in the Turkish translation that broke the "Looks" blocks category
  • fixed a glitch that prevented the text cursor from displaying instantly in certain situations
  • fixed importing exported reporter-scripts (experimental feature)
• Translation Updates:
  • Tamil, thanks, Barthdry!
  • German
  • Turkish

2021-02-02

• lists: added a few internal - as of now unused - matrix operations
• lists, threads: refactored hyper list access
• prepared patch

2021-02-01

• lists: refactored some matrix operations
• threads: made identity comparison of texts case-sensitive
• blocks, gui: fixed importing exported reporter-scripts (experimental feature)

2021-01-30

• threads, objects, lists: renamed experimental "rotate" primitive into "transpose"
• objects: added "transpose" to palette for testing
• updated German translation for "transpose"
• morphic: fixed #2768
• objects: removed "transpose" from the palette for now

2021-01-29

• threads, objects: new experimental "rotate (list)" primitive relabelling option for "all but first"
• threads, objects: removed previous experimental "column" and "width" primitives again
• lists, threads, objects refactored experimental "rotate" primitive
• updated German translation
• added more relabelling options for "rotate"

2021-01-27

• threads: hyperized new experimental "column" primitive

2021-01-26

• threads: handle single values as greyscale when constructing a costume from a pixel list
• threads, objects experimental "column _ of _" reporter relabelling option for "item _ of _"
• threads, objects experimental "width of _" reporter relabelling option for "length of _"
• updated German translation (with experimental block specs)
• fixed an input slot spec glitch in the Turkish translation
• store: renamed "Obsolete!" blocks to "Undefined!"

2021-01-25

• threads: hyperized image attribute reporter primitive (monadic)
• pulled pending PRs

2021-01-21

• new dev version
• animation library: fixed a glitch in the "sine in-out" easing function

6.5.1

• New Features:
  • experimental (non-hyperized) "not equals" primitive reachable via "relabel"
• Notable Changes:
  • 10% speed-up for reporters, WARP and TURBO
  • updated list utilities library, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a bug when changing a Boolean input slot with a default value to numerical type
• Documentation Updates:
  • Snap! Manual sources and compiling documentation, thanks, Brian!
  • updated "contentWindows" part of the Snap! API, thanks, Bernat
• Translation Updates:
  • Dutch, thanks, Joek!

2021-01-11

• prepared patch

2021-01-08

• updated Snap! Manual and manual compiling documentation, thanks, Brian!

2021-01-07

• updated Snap! API documentation, thanks, Bernat!

2021-01-05

• widgets: fixed a conversion bug when retrieving a numerical value from an input field
• objects, threads: experimental (non-hyperized) "not equals" primitive reachable via "relabel"
• Dutch translation update, thanks, Joek!
• updated list utilities library, thanks, Brian!

2021-01-04

• new dev version
• threads: optimized frame stepper, reduced frames for input evaluation, 10 % speed-up for reporters, WARP and TURBO

6.5.0

• New Features:
  • warning about "unsaved changes" when opening or creating a new project
  • visual indication of unsaved changes in the IDE's project label
  • automatic backup of unsaved changes to localstore, option to restore in the file menu until the first change in the new project
• Notable Changes:
  • 25% speed-up for reporters, WARP and TURBO
  • up to 40x speed-up for "new costume from list" reporter primitive
  • re-enabled reporter drops in "key _ pressed?" input slot
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a bug in hyperblocks
  • fixed keyboard formula entry for subtraction
• Documentation Updates:
  • new Manual for v6.5, thanks, Brian!
  • added unsavedChanges() method and documentation to the Snap! API
• Translation Updates:
  • German
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!
  • Russian, thanks, Pavel!

2020-12-23

• Manual updated, thanks, Brian!
• prepared release

2020-12-22

• threads: up to 40x speed-up for "new costume from list" reporter primitive
• api: added unsavedChanges() method and documentation
• blocks, gui: visual indication of unsaved changes in the IDE's project label
• Russian translation update, thanks, Pavel!

2020-12-21

• gui: tweaked backup / restore
• new Manual for v6.5, thanks, Brian!
• German translation update

2020-12-20

• gui, blocks, objects: keep track of unsaved edits

2020-12-19

• threads: added code-documentation for the WARP/timestamp optimization
• gui: new auto-backup to localstore feature

2020-12-18

• threads: optimized scheduler, reduced system calls to Date.now(), 25 % speed-up for reporters, WARP and TURBO
• threads: fixed a typo in hyperDyadic()

2020-12-17

• blocks: added hook for caching variadic inputs
• blocks: refactored blockSequence() non-recursively
• reverted variadic input caching experiment

2020-12-16

• threads, objects: added dev debugging hook for counting yields

2020-12-14

• new dev version
• objects: fixed keyboard formula entry for subtraction
• blocks: re-enabled reporter drops in "key _ pressed?" input slot

6.4.1

• Documentation Updates:
  • new Manual for v6.4, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed zebra coloring for imported scripts

2020-12-14

• new dev version
• new Manual for v6.4, thanks, Brian!
• gui fixed zebra coloring for imported scripts
• prepared patch

6.4.0

• New Features:
  • ray casting: new "ray length" option in the "relation TO object" primitive
  • hyperdyadic MIN and MAX primitives reachable via "relabel"
  • hyperdyadic less / great than or equals primitives reachable via "relabel"
  • hyperdyadic ATAN2 primitive reachable via "relabel"
  • new SIGN function in arithmetic dropdown
• Notable Changes:
  • searching for blocks and keyboard entry now includes the contents of dropdown menus
  • disabled dropping reporters into certain dropdowns (monadic functions, types, costume attributes, graphic effects, layers, audio attributes, pen attributes, dates, relation, keys, video attributes)
  • changed VIDEO _ ON _ reporter primitive to be hyper-monadic (second slot)
  • hyperized OBJECT reporter primitive in sensing
• Notable Fixes:
  • keep internal linked-list organization intact for hyperblocks
  • improved SVG loading in Firefox, thanks, Joan!
  • prevent browser override for ctrl+o gesture
  • fixed layout issue when importing a sprite in presentation mode
• Translation Updates:
  • Spanish, thanks, Joan!
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!
  • Tamil, thanks, Barthdry!
  • German

2020-12-11

• blocks: fixed special drop-downs for keyboard entry
• store: fixed layout issue when importing a sprite in presentation mode
• prepared minor release

2020-12-09

• Tamil translation update, thanks, Barthdry!
• threads, objects: added hyperdyadic ATAN2 primitive reachable via "relabel"
• threads: hyperized OBJECT reporter primitive in sensing

2020-12-07

• GUI: improved SVG loading, thanks, Joan!
• threads, objects, blocks: compiled multimap, thanks, Brian
• reverted multimap, let's use a JS-block based custom block to engineer it first

2020-12-05

• objects: alternative collision detection method using the video-cache, commented out for reference.
• German translation update for "ray length"

2020-12-04

• threads: refactored raycasting
• integrated raycasting into "relation TO object" primitive

2020-12-03

• threads: raycasting edge detection, under construction

2020-12-02

• threads, blocks: added SIGN function to monadic dropdown
• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!
• Morphic: prevent browser override for ctrl+o gesture
• objects, threads: refactored mouseX / mouseY to use generic coordinate conversion

2020-12-01

• threads, objects: added hyperdyadic MIN and MAX primitives reachable via "relabel"
• threads, objects: added hyperdyadic less/greaterThanOrEquals prims
• blocks: made monadic functions and data types menus static
• blocks: made costume attribute, graphic effects and layers menus static
• blocks: made audio attributes menu static
• blocks: made pen attributes menus static
• blocks: made sensing attributes menus largely static
• threads: changed reportVideo() to be hyper-monadic
• lists: made sure map() doesn't mutate internal list linked-ness

2020-11-30

• threads: keep internal linked-list organization intact for hyperblocks
• update libraries

2020-11-27

• objects: extended block-search to include dropdown choices in primitives
• byob, objects: extended block-search to include dropdown choices in custom blocks

2020-11-26

• blocks, objects: refactored input slot specs
• blocks: refactored special input slot dop-down menus for search

2020-11-23

• new dev version

6.3.7

• Notable Changes:
  • added "loadProjectXML" method to the api
  • hyperized "atrribute OF sprite" reporter primitive in the sensing category
  • show the common attributes for sprites in the OF-dropdown by default
  • hyperized "color/sprite AT location" reporter primitive
  • hyperized "VIDEO _ ON _" reporter primitive
• Documentation Updates:
  • API update for "loadProjectXML"
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed display of inherited sprite-local variables
• Translation Updates:
  • Greek, thanks, HM100!

2020-11-23

• Greek translation update, thanks, HM100!
• prepared patch

2020-11-22

• objects: fixed display of inherited sprite-local variables
• threads: make sure video capture is turned on before accessing it programmatically

2020-11-21

• new dev version
• api: new loadProjectXML() method
• updated api documentation
• threads: hyperized "atrribute OF sprite" reporter primitive
• blocks: show the common attributes for sprites in the OF-dropdown by default
• threads: hyperized "color/sprite AT location" reporter primitive
• threads: hyperized "VIDEO _ ON _" reporter primitive

6.3.6

• Notable Changes:
  • changed determining "neighbors" from rectangular to circular perimeter
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a loading bug for projects with watchers on SVG costumes
  • fixed stretching SVG costumes with fixed aspect ratios in Firefox
  • only report neighbors that are visible
• Translation Updates:
  • Italian, thanks, Stefano!
  • Spanish, thanks, Joan!

2020-11-20

• threads: only report neighbors that are visible, thanks Frederic, for reporting this bug!
• Italian translation update, thanks, Stefano!
• Spanish translation update, thanks, Joan!
• threads, objects: changed determining "neighbors" from rectangular to circular perimeter
• objects: fixed a loading bug for projects with watchers on SVG costumes
• prepared patch

2020-11-19

• new dev version
• objects: rasterize SVGs internally before stretching them, so it all works on Firefox

6.3.5

• Notable Fixes:
  • support exported SVGs to be edited in Inkscape

2020-11-19

• new dev version
• objects: tweaked exported SVG's color alpha part as stroke-opacity so Inkscape can handle them, sigh.
• prepared patch

6.3.4

• Notable Changes:
  • added "postMessage" mechanism to the api for communicating with Snap! inside an iFrame, thanks, Bernat!
• Documentation Updates:
  • API update for "postMessage", thanks, Bernat!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed updating cells showing sprites or costumes inside list watchers
  • fixed a project loading bug (for watchers showing costumes)

2020-11-18

• new dev version
• objects: fixed updating cells showing sprites or costumes inside list watchers
• objects: fixed a project loading bug (for watchers showing costumes)
• api: new postMessage mechanism, thanks, Bernat!
• prepared patch

6.3.3

• Notable Changes:
  • added type assertion for numerical value in CHANGE VARIABLE BY NUM block, thanks, Eckart, for the suggestion
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a costume fitting issue, thanks, Joan!
  • fixed keyboard formula input for "power of", "neg", "lg" and "id"
  • fixed repositioning sprite after "editRotationPointOnly"
• Translation Updates:
  • Spanish, thanks, Joan!

2020-11-1/

• blocks, objects: refactored and unified default values for block templates
• Spanish translation update, thanks, Joan!
• gui, objects: fixed #2715 - reposition sprite after "editRotationPointOnly"
• prepared patch

2020-11-15

• new dev version
• objects: fixed costume fitting, thanks, Joan!
• objects: fixed keyboard formula input for "power of"
• objects: fixed keyboard formula input for "neg"
• objects: fixed keyboard formula input for "lg" and "id"
• threads: added type assertion for numerical value in CHANGE VARIABLE BY NUM block

6.3.2

• Notable Changes:
  • added meaningful defaults to blocks in the palette that didn't already have them
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a costume-shrinkWrap edgecase bug, thanks, Brian, for reporting it!
  • fixed dynamic costume-inheritance for PASTE and CUT
  • fixed being unable to place the cursor at the end of a multi-line text

2020-11-12

• morphic: fixed being unable to place the cursor at the end of a multi-line text
• prepared patch

2020-11-11

• objects: added meaningful defaults to blocks in the palette that didn't already have them
• threads: fixed dynamic costume-inheritance for PASTE and CUT

2020-11-09

• new dev version
• objects: fixed #2712 - a costume-shrinkWrap edgecase bug, thanks, Brian, for reporting it!

6.3.1

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed PASTE and CUT for the stage

2020-11-05

• new dev version
• objects: fixed #2709
• prepared patch

6.3.0

• New Features:
  • new gesture: holding the shift-key when dragging extracts a single command from a stack of blocks
  • new "extract" single command block context menu option
  • new CUT FROM command in the pen category
  • added "pie chart" option to PLOT command in the frequency distribution analysis library
  • added getProjectXML() method to the API
  • new noCloud flag that disables cloud access, thanks, Bernat
• Notable Changes:
  • security: pause generic WHEN hat blocks when loading a project or importing a sprite until the user clicks the green flag or un-pauses the red stop sign, unless opening it with #present:&noRun
• Documentation Updates:
  • API update
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a translation bug for zero-value menu selection entries
  • wait until all assets have loaded before auto-triggering the green-flag event
  • don't show some development-only blocks as search results
  • fixed "rename costume" dialog title to distinguish between costumes and backgrounds
• Translation Updates:
  • Russian, thanks, Pavel!
  • German
  • French, thanks, Jeremy!

2020-11-04

• prepared minor release

2020-11-03

• Russian translation update, thanks, Pavel!
• objects: added "relabel" feature for the new "cut from" / "paste on" primitives

2020-11-02

• objects: tweaked drop-shadows for sprites
• blocks: tweaked drop-shadows for comments
• objects, threads: added new CUT FROM command to the pen category
• updated German translation with new "cut from %spr" entry
• morphic: reverted "unclosable menu prevention", because it broke the search box in the project dialog

2020-10-28

• gui: tweaked wait-until-assets-are-loaded mechanism
• gui: fixed "rename costume" dialog title to distinguish between costumes and backgrounds
• German translation update for "rename background"
• French translation update

2020-10-27

• gui, objects, store: pause generic WHEN hat blocks when loading a project or importing a sprite until the user clicks the green flag or un-pauses the red stop sign, unless opening it with #present:&noRun
• morphic: prevent unclosable menus, thanks, Brian B.!

2020-10-26

• objects: added test for the existence of generic WHEN hat blocks

2020-10-23

• pushed dev version to v6.3.0 because of new features
• objects: don't show some development-only blocks as search results
• blocks: fixed a multi-line-text spec typo
• blocks: removed unused %month slot
• blocks: removed unused %lst slot

2020-10-22

• blocks: fixed UNDO/REDO for "extracted" (single) command blocks
• blocks: refactored userExtractJustThis
• blocks: refactored userDestroyJustThis
• blocks: un-hid "extract" menu-option
• morphic: create drop-shadows just in time
• blocks: holding the shift-key when dragging extracts a single command from a stack of blocks
• German translation update for new string "extract"

2020-10-21

• gui: wait until all costumes have loaded before auto-triggering the green-flag event
• gui, objects, store: wait until all sounds have loaded before auto-triggering the green-flag event
• gui, cloud: added noCloud flag that disables cloud access, thanks, Bernat!
• blocks: new experimental (hidden) "extract" single command block context menu option

2020-10-20

• added "pie chart" option to PLOT command in the frequency distribution analysis library
• morphic: enabled zero values for menu selection entries
• blocks: fixed translation bug for zero-value menu selection entries
• Russian translation update, thanks, Pavel!
• api: added getProjectXML() method
• gui: removed an obsolete comment

2020-10-15

• new dev version
• Russian translation update, thanks, Pavel!

6.2.4

• Documentation Updates:
  • Reference manual update
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed showing message senders if there are comments in scripts
• Translation Updates:
  • Russian, thanks, Pavel!

2020-10-09

• new dev version
• objects: fixed showing message senders if there are comments in scripts
• Russian translation update, thanks, Pavel!
• prepared patch

6.2.3

• Notable Fixes:
  • disabled "result pic" option for custom block definitions
• Translation Updates:
  • Greek, thanks, HM100!

2020-10-09

• new dev version
• Greek translation update, thanks, HM100!
• blocks: disabled "result pic" option for custom block definitions
• prepared patch

6.2.2

• New Features:
  • new "add comment" option in the block context menu, thanks, Rob Fidler!
  • new "settings" button in the input slot dialog
  • added "bar / lines" option for plotting charts in the "frequency distribution analysis" library
  • enabled "result pic" for command scripts containing a "report" block
• Notable Changes:
  • made (hidden) "Blurred shadows" setting persistent, use to get rid of "red bar" artifacts on old laptops using Chrome
  • specifying alpha values is now optional for generating pixels in bitmaps (costumes), none means the pixel is solid
  • attribute selection in the SET block are now prefixed with "my"
  • assume stage dimensions for "SWITCH TO COSTUME" with list if current costume dimensions don't fit
  • new "48 kHz" option in the "sampling rate" dropdown
  • increased area / sensitivity for collapsing variadic input slots, esp. on mobile devices
• Notable Fixes:
  • "append" block now shows up when searching for it
  • disable blurred shadows inside input slots if the hidden "blurred shadows" setting is turned off, use this setting on old laptops displaying "red bars" in Chrome
• Translation Updates:
  • Greek, thanks, HM100!
  • German

2020-10-08

• blocks: enabled "result pic" for command scripts containing a "report" block
• prepared release

2020-10-07

• byob: added "settings" button to input slot dialog
• symbols: added "gearPartial" icon
• blocks: fixed an empty-slot detection issue (reported in the forums), but left it commented out for now, until researching the consequences ;-)
• blocks: increased area / sensitivity for collapsing variadic input slots
• blocks: tweaked expanding variadic inputs
• blocks: reverted sensitivity tweaks for variadic inputs
• blocks, threads: reintroduced a different approach for making it easier to collapse variadic inputs

2020-10-06

• blocks: disable blurred shadows inside input slots if the hidden "blurred shadows" setting is turned off
• widgets: honor (hidden) blurred shadows setting for input widgets
• objects: honor (hidden) blurred shadows setting for watcher cell widgets
• tables: honor (hidden) blurred shadows setting for pictograms in tables
• gui: made (hidden) "Blurred shadows" setting persistent, use to get rid of "red bar" artifacts on old laptops using Chrome
• blocks: fixed a zoom blocks glitch
• byob: fixed positioning of loop arrow symbol in the input slot dialog

2020-10-05

• Greek translation updata, thanks, HM100!
• blocks, threads: prefixed attribute selection in the SET block with "my"
• German translation update
• objects: assume stage dimensions for "SWITCH TO COSTUME" with list if current costume dimensions don't fit

2020-10-04

• threads: made alpha values optional for generating costume pixels, none = solid
• objects: fixed #2694 - removed "dev" flag from "append" primitive - made sure it shows up in block-search

2020-09-28

• tweaked "frequency distribution analysis" library to plot lines in any color or style

2020-09-25

• new dev version
• updated "frequency distribution analysis" library: New "lines" option for plotting
• blocks: new "add comment" option in the block context menu, thanks, Rob Fidler!
• blocks: added "48 kHz" option to the "sampling rate" dropdown

6.2.1

• New Features:
  • added "get value from key" reporter to database library, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Changes:
  • updated reference manual for v6.2, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed translatability of certain drop-downs such as "point in direction _"
• Translation Updates:
  • Turkish, thanks, Turgut!
  • Italian, thanks, Stefano!

2020-09-21

• reference manual update to v6.2, thanks, Brian!
• added single record query to data library, thanks, Brian
• Turkish translation update, thanks ,Turgut!
• Italian translation update, thanks, Stefano!

2020-09-20

• new dev version
• blocks: fixed translatability of certain drop-downs such as "point in direction _"

6.2.0:

• New Features:
  • show message senders and receivers from the blocks context menu
  • "export block definition" including dependencies
  • hyperized "distance/direction to _" reporter primitive
  • new "Database" library operating on localstore
• Notable Changes:
  • swapped version number and "Build Your Own Blocks" in page title
• Notable Fixes:
  • changing the type of a custom block from reporter to command in the block editor changes the prototype instead of adding another one
  • deleting project notes in the "save" dialog now also deletes them in the saved project
  • items in list-boxes such as the project list are no longer auto-translated
  • fixed a redo issue
  • fixed a rare race condition when loading projects
• Translation Updates:
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!
  • Norwegian, thanks, Olav!
  • German

2020-09-18

• objects: Fixed costume thumbnail for asynch loading, thanks, Bernat!
• prepared release

2020-09-14

• blocks: fixed "redrop" (redo)
• byob: consolidated custon block definition update counter, thanks, Brian B.!

2020-09-12

• morphic: don't auto-translate ListMorph items

2020-09-10

• added input type assertions to Database library

2020-09-08

• swapped version number and "Build Your Own Blocks" in page title

2020-09-07

• gui: deleting project notes in the "save" dialog now also deletes them in the saved project

2020-09-04

• byob, blocks, objects: refactored scanning for message senders
• blocks: support scanning for message receivers from inside a block editor
• blocks: fixed changing the type of a custom block from reporter to command in the block editor

2020-09-03

• byob: experimental: Inspect & export dependencies for global custom blocks (shift-right-click for context menu)
• byob: new feature: "export block definition" including dependencies
• blocks, byob, objects: find message sends in global custom blocks dependencies

2020-09-02

• threads: hyperized "distance/direction to _" reporter primitive

2020-09-01

• Norwegian translation update, thanks, Olav
• gui, blocks: fixed a bunch of typos and UI strings, thanks, Brian Broll!
• colors library update, thanks, Brian H.!
• German translation update
• objects: also scan custom blocks for message sends

2020-08-31

• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!

2020-08-18

• blocks: tweaked menu separator line above "senders.../receivers..." to only show once

2020-08-08

• blocks: changed "show senders/receivers" menu entry to "senders.../receivers..."
• gui: tweaked SpriteIconMorph>>flash() for flat design mode

2020-08-07

• new dev version
• added new localstorage library
• show message senders / receivers from the blocks context menu, thanks, Bernat!

6.1.4:

• fixed "green flag" symbol size for embedded proects (for real ^^)

6.1.3:

• Notable Changes:
  • exporting pictures of (semi-) faded blocks now includes the cropped solid background color
  • "to lowercase" reporter now also in Strings library, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed restoring ringed inputs when relabelling and compiling HOFs
  • added viewport, thanks, Radman!
  • fixed "green flag" symbol size for community website, thanks, Bernat!
• Translation Updates:
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!
  • Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!

2020-08-05

• threads: experimental hyperized reporter-if, commented out for now
• blocks: fixed restoring ringed inputs when relabelling and compiling HOFs
• added viewport, thanks, Radman!
• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!
• added blocks to Strings library, thanks, Brian!
• fixed "green flag" symbol size for community website, thanks, Bernat!

2020-08-04

• new dev version
• blocks: include background color when exporting (semi-) transparent script pics

6.1.2:

• fixed variable scope for ASK/TELL

2020-08-01

• threads: fixed variable scope for ASK/TELL

6.1.1:

• rolled back scope binding change

2020-07-31

• rolled back scope binding change

6.1.0:

• New Features:
  • fade blocks
• Documentation Updates:
  • added migration guide for Morphic2/Snap!6
• Notable Changes:
  • changed label of green "length of" reporter to "length of text"
  • new iconic buttons for grow, shrink and flip actions in the paint editor, thanks, Jadga!
  • UI: automatically switch to scripts tab when dragging a block into the editor pane
  • slightly darker default (non-flat) IDE colors, more cotrast
  • enabled grouping the libraries dialog, thanks, Brian!
  • cleaned up, grouped and annotated libraries, thanks, Brian!
  • updated "About Snap!" dialog box
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed FOR EACH for hybrid lists, thanks, Brian!
  • fixed script execution behavior when turning turbo mode off programmatically, thanks, Jadga, for reporting it.
  • fixed keyboard shortcuts for saving projects (ctrl + s), finding blocks (ctrl + f) etc..
  • fixed shift-key constrain mode and "clear" in paint and vector editors, thanks, Joan!
  • made remaining synchronous http requests asynch (url: #open, #run)
  • update the Hand's position on mouse-down - avoid triggering at the origin point if clicking before the mouse has been moved
  • fixed a list-watcher direct-editing index offset bug
  • fixed input slider target update rendering
  • fixed sprite speech balloon display for sounds
  • library browser: import selected library on pressing enter
  • fixed binding contexts to other receivers (variable scope for ASK / TELL)
  • fixed numeric input fields in dialog boxes
  • fixed reacting to keyboard input in dialog boxes
  • fixed zoom blocks type-in dialog
  • made stack-highlights un-touchable
• Translation Updates:
  • German

2020-07-30

• gui: updated Jadga as contributor in credits
• prepared release

2020-07-29

• blocks: made stack-highlights un-touchable

2020-07-28

• blocks: tweaked stack-highlight for (partially) faded blocks

2020-07-27

• threads: fixed binding contexts to other receivers (variable scope for ASK / TELL)
• gui: updated "About Snap!" dialog box
• gui: library browser: import selected library on pressing enter
• widgets: fixed numeric input fields in dialog boxes
• widgets: fixed reacting to keyboard input in dialog boxes
• blocks: fixed zoom blocks type-in dialog

2020-07-26

• objects: fixed sprite speech balloon display for sounds
• cleaned up, grouped and annotated libraries, thanks, Brian!

2020-07-24

• gui: cleaned up block-fading pre-sets
• updated German translation
• gui: tweaked IDE colors for block-fading
• blocks, threads, byob, widgets: tweaked block representations in widgets for fading
• blocks, byob: tweaked more block representations in widgets for fading

2020-07-23

• morphic: fixed mouseDown events for touch devices
• morphic, gui: added separators to list morphs, '~' for the libraries dialog
• blocks: tweaked block-fading coloring

2020-07-22

• morphic, blocks, gui: tweaked block-fading mouse-over
• blocks, threads: tweaked context visualizations to be alpha-independent
• gui: save block-transparency in settings
• morphic: fixed input slider target update rendering

2020-07-21

• blocks: tweaked block highlights for fade-out
• widgets, gui: tweaked scripts tab for fade-out
• blocks, gui: tweaked default mode colors to slightly darker

2020-07-20

• objects: fixed a list-watcher direct-editing offset bug
• morphic: update the Hand's position on mouse-down - avoid triggering at the origin point
• symbols: added hooks for dynamic coloring
• blocks: added blocks-fading support for symbols (under construction)
• morphic: tweaked transparency of grabbed morphs

2020-07-19

• blocks: blocks-fade-out support for label arrows (under construction)
• blocks: blocks-fade-out support for multi-line inputs (under construction)

2020-07-17

• morphic, blocks: blocks-fadeout (under construction)

2020-07-15

• morphic: made keyboard handler (more) invisible, thanks, Bernat!
• gui: made remaining synchronous http requests asynch (url: #open, #run)
• morphic, gui: switch to scripts tab when dragging a block into the editor pane
• blocks: refactored transparency handling for syntax elements

2020-07-13

• paint, symbols: new iconic buttons for grow, shrink and flip actions, thanks, Jadga!
• sketch: tweaked layout to match the paint editor's
• fixed shift-key constrain mode and "clear" in paint and vector editors, thanks, Joan!

2020-07-10

• morphic: prevent the browser from hijacking cmd-d/f/i/p/s key events
• added migration guide for Morphic2/Snap!6
• updated Eisenbergification library, thanks, Brian!

2020-07-09

• new dev version
• threads: fixed FOR EACH for hybrid lists, thanks, Brian!
• threads: fixed script execution behavior when turning turbo mode off programmatically, thanks, Jadga, for reporting it.
• locale: added English translation for 'length of %s' to 'length of text %s' to avoid confusion among both blocks
• updated German translation for 'length of %s'

6.0.0:

• New Features:
  • new Morphic architecture, faster loading, smaller memory footprint, mobile-friendly
  • hyper-blocks
  • new "send msg to sprite" primitive in control
  • new "index of" primitive in lists
  • new fast "append" reporter in lists
  • show login status in the cloud button (outline = logged out, solid = logged in)
  • custom drop-downs (experimental, uses JS)
  • blockify lists / tables with atomic values in watchers
  • extended libraries (APL, thanks, Brian) and programmatic handling of variables (thanks, Joan)
  • "result pic..." context menu entry for reporters (used to be hidden "script pic with result..." option)
  • more block relabelling options, e.g. for loops
  • prefix keys in custom drop-down menus with '§_' to only show them if the shift-key is pressed
  • new "id" option in the monadic function reporter primitive (hyperizable to support deep copies of nested lists)
  • new api for creating new lists for embedded Snap sessions
• Notable Changes:
  • repeated WARPs inside loops have been sped up
  • duplicated blocks / scripts are grabbed by their top-left corner rather than their center
  • close all widgets when opening a new project
  • scan first ten rows of a list to determine the number of columns to show in table views
  • give duplicated custom block definitions unique names
  • sort sound and message names in drop-down menus alphabetically
  • changed result for FIND to empty instead of false if none is found
  • new flat design
  • increased contrast in dark mode
  • toggling Retina support has been hidden (because it no longer works the same)
• Notable Fixes:
  • multi-c slots embedding reporters has been disabled
  • programmatically changing a clone from "permanent" to "temporary" now works in presentation mode
  • costumes and sounds of clones are now properly shadowed when modifying them programmatically
  • fixed editing cells in multi-page list watchers
  • recursive calls to "broadcast and wait" execute smoothly again
  • expanding a collapsed comment or clicking on it now brings it to the front
  • long project titles no longer overlap other buttons in the control bar
  • "empty" continuations referring to the end of a script no longer throw an error.
• Translation Updates:
  • New Hebrew translation
  • Ukranian
  • Catalan
  • Portuguese
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Bengali
  • German

5.4.5:

• Notable Change:
  • always record audio in mono
• Translation Update:
  • German, thanks, Sven!

2020-01-28

• new dev version
• gui: record sounds in mono
• gui, objects: force stereo audio recordings to mono
• Germans translation tweak, thanks, Sven!

5.4.4:

• Notable Fixes
  • fixed strings library format
  • automatically remove orphaned variable watchers

2020-01-11

• objects: automatically remove orphaned variable watchers
• prepared patch

2020-01-10

• fixed strings library format

5.4.3:

• Notable Fix
  • render Boolean slots correctly after mouse-over

2020-01-06

• blocks: reset BooleanSlotMorph canvas context's global alpha after rendering the slider button
• prepared patch

5.4.2:

• Notable Fix:
  • prevent Morphs from sharing canvasses when rerendering

2020-01-04

• morphic: fixed tagging of shared Canvasses
• prepared patch

5.4.1:

• Notable Change:
  • optimized loading projects
• Notable Fix:
  • reduced distortion and clicks when playing notes
• Translation Update:
  • Catalan

2020-01-03

• new dev version
• morphic: recycle cached Canvasses
• gui: recycle cached Canvasses
• objects: recycle cached Canvasses
• blocks: recycle cached Canvasses
• widgets: recycle cached Canvasses
• byob: recycle cached Canvasses
• symbols: recycle cached Canvasses
• symbols: recycle cached Canvasses
• Catalan translation update
• objects: tweaked notes to reduce distortion and clicks
• prepared minor release

5.4.0:

• New Features:
  • log pen vectors
  • export pen trails as SVG
  • access pen trails as SVG_Costume: new "pen vectors" reporter variant of "pen trails"
  • new Snap! API: broadcast and react to messages, access global variables from outside Snap!
• Notable Change:
  • when creating a costume from pen trails (raster or vector) make its rotation center the position of the sprite
• Notable Fixes:
  • support null-serialization in list-csv conversions
  • avoid circular inheritance when using blocks to set sprites' parents
• Translation Updates:
  • NEW Slovak translation, thanks, Peter Lukacovic
  • German

2019-12-19

• objects, threads: refactored inheritance circularity avoidance
• prepared release

2019-12-18

• gui, api: rearranged Snap! API into its own file
• added API documentation
• threads: avoid circular inheritance when using blocks to set sprites' parents

2019-12-16

• gui, objects: added ability to add general message listeners for "any" message
• gui: added IDE >> getMessages() to Snap! API
• gui: refactored IDE >> addMessageListenerForAll(callback)

2019-12-15

• gui, threads: new Snap! API: programmatically broadcast messages and optionally wait from outside Snap!
• gui: added global variable access methods to the new Snap! API
• gui, objects: added ability to add message listeners to broadcasts

2019-12-13

• added direct relabelling option to pen trails blocks' context menus

2019-12-10

• NEW Slovak translation, thanks, Peter Lukacovic

2019-12-09

• store: save and restore "log pen trails" setting in project file

2019-12-08

• lists: support null-serialization in list-csv conversions

2019-12-07

• threads: turn "log pen trails" off when loading or creating a new project

2019-12-05

• threads: set the rotation point of "pen vectors" costumes to the position of the sprite that creates them
• objects: set the rotation point of "pen trails" costumes to the position of the sprite that creates them

2019-12-03

• objects, blocks, threads, gui: added "log pen vectors" session setting
• updated German translation

2019-12-02

• new dev version
• objects: export pen trails as SVG (under construction)
• threads: new "pen trails (SVG)" reporter (experimental, hidden in dev)
• objects, threads: adjusted rotation center of SVG-pen-trails
• objects: added aspect racio governance and generator tags to trails SVGs
• threads: catch empty trails log when trying to generate a vector trails costume
• objects: support relabelling "pen trails" to "pen trails (SVG)" and vice-versa
• gui: added "svg" entry to the stage icon's context menu
• objects: renamed "pen trails (SVG)" to "pen vectors"
• German translation update
• cleaned up change markers

v5.3.8:

• Notable Change:
  • optimized color collision detection

2019-11-29

• new dev version
• objects, threads: optimized color collision detection
• prepared release

v5.3.7:

• Notable Fixes:
  • wait until the camera actually records something when turning video capture "on"
  • only report video capture as "on" when the camera actually records something

2019-11-19

• threads: when turning video capture "on" wait until the camera actually records something
• prepared release

2019-11-18

• new dev version
• threads: only report video capture as "on" when the camera actually records something

v5.3.6:

• Notable Fix:
  • fixed variadic reporters library

v5.3.5:

• Notable Fix:
  • make sure list watchers are correctly initiailized

v5.3.4:

• Notable Fixes:
  • allowed reserved JS object property names as variable names in Snap (e.g. "constructor")
  • disabled direct editing of list watchers for non-literal typed lists (such as costumes) in speech bubbles and prompters
  • now preserving the sprite's rotation point when taking a video-snap on it
  • now preventing costumes from becoming "broken" when pasting video snaps on them while the camera is not yet fully initialized
  • now catching sub-pixel sized thumbnails

2019-11-15

• objects: prevent costumes from becoming "broken" when pasting video snaps on them while the camera is not yet fully initialized
• objects: catch sub-pixel sized thumbnails
• prepared release

2019-11-14

• lists: disabled direct editing of list watchers for non-literal typed lists (such as costumes) in speech bubbles and prompters
• objects: preserve the sprite's rotation point when taking a video-snap on it

2019-11-13

• new dev version
• threads: allowed reserved JS object property names as variable names in Snap (e.g. "constructor")

v5.3.3:

• Notable Change:
  • dropdown translation improvements, thanks, Joan!
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed submenu translation control for dropdowns
  • fixed help screens for "distance to _" and "answer" primitives, thanks, Brian and Michael!
• Translation Update:
  • Catalan

2019-11-12

• new dev version
• drop-down menu translation improvements by Joan
• submenu-title translation control
• help screen fixes by Brian and Michael
• prepared release

v5.3.2:

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed #2518 (broken localization system)
  • fixed size of MY help screen, thanks, Brian
• Translation Updates:
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan

2019-11-06

• new dev version
• morphic, blocks: reverted recent changes to tranlation mechanism
• morphic: added support for "verbatim" (untranslated) menu items
• blocks: don't translate variable names in drop-down menus
• objects: don't translate variable names in "delete a variable" button menu
• blocks: don't translate variable names in "inherit" block menu
• blocks: fixed dropdown menu generation for untranslated items
• blocks: don't translate message names in drow-down menus
• blocks: don't translate names in dropdowns
• byob: don't translate items in dropdowns
• help: fixed size of MY help screen, thanks, Brian
• prepared release

v5.3.1:

• Notable Fixes:
  • no longer translate variable names in drop-down menus for which translations exist
  • fixed zero extent costume creation, thanks, Bernat!

2019-11-05

• threads: fixed zero extent costume creation, thanks, Bernat!
• prepared release

2019-11-04

• new dev version
• morphic: limit translation of menu items to specially marked ones
• blocks: translate "my" submenu label in "set" block

v5.3.0:

• New Features:
  • expanding the rings in "map", "keep" and "find" shows 3 inputs named "value", "index" and "list"
  • limited expanding rings in special HOFs to 3 parameters
  • calling an empty reporter-ring with no formal parameters passing a single argument treats it as the identity function of that argument
• Notable Changes:
  • dropping a ring parameter inside a reporter-ring no longer replaces the ring
• Notable Fix:
  • fixed the initial scale of new clones when the stage has been resized
• Translation Update:
  • German

2019-11-02

• blocks: limit expanding rings in special HOFs to 3 parameters
• blocks: renamed default special HOF parameters to "item, index, list"
• updated German translation
• blocks: dropping a ring parameter inside a reporter-ring no longer replaces the ring
• threads: calling an empty reporter-ring with no formal parameters passing a single argument treats it as the identity function of that argument
• blocks: renamed default special HOF parameter "item" to "value"
• updated German translation for "value"
• objects: fixed the initial scale of new clones when the stage has been resized
• prepared release

2019-11-01

• new dev version
• expanding the rings in "map", "keep" and "find" shows 3 inputs named "item", "idx" and "data"
• German translation update for "idx" and "data"

v5.2.5:

• Notable Fix:
  • resume AudioContext on every request

2019-10-30

• objects: resume AudioContext on every request

v5.2.4:

• Notable Changes:
  • optimized performance for backgrounds and pen trails
  • optimized performance for sprite rendering and rotation
  • added support for counting down using the "numbers" reporter
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed FOR so it can take numbers entered as text (bug report by Kathy from Piazza)
  • removed "current" option from "switch to costume" block's drop-down menu

2019-10-30

• threads: optimized HOF primitives to only assert input types once
• objects: documented new canvas architecture for sprites
• prepared release

2019-10-29

• threads: added support for counting down using the "numbers" reporter
• morphic: improved canvas recycling
• objects: optimized sprite rendering and rotating
• threads: FOR so it can take numbers entered as text (bug report by Kathy from Piazza)

2019-10-28

• new dev version
• morphic: enable recycling and deep copying canvas elements
• objects, maps: recycle Stage layers - optimizes backgrounds and pen trails frame rate
• blocks: removed "current" option from "switch to costume" block's drop-down menu

v5.2.3:

• *Notable Changes:
  • added sprite dimension selectors to the OF reporter's dropdown menu

2019-10-25

• blocks, threads: added sprite dimension selectors to the OF reporter's dropdown menu
• prepared patch

v5.2.2:

• Notable Fix:
  • more optimizations for collision detection
  • Translation Update:
  • Catalan

2019-10-25

• morphic, objects: optimized collision detection yet more
• prepared patch

v5.2.1:

• Notable Fix:
  • optimized collision detection

2019-10-24

• morphic, objects: optimized collision detection
• prepared patch

v5.2.0:

• New Features:
  • new media creation primitives:
  • new primitive in "looks": NEW COSTUME from a list of pixels and dimensions, allowing CURRENT
  • new primitive in "sound": NEW SOUND from a list of samples
  • added selectors for sprites' and the stage's bounding box (LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM) to MY dropdown
  • new experimental entry for "green flag pressed" in the BROADCAST block's dropdown when the shift key is pressed
• Notable Changes:
  • running STOP ALL now also toggles (pauses and resumes) all generic WHEN hat blocks (just like pressing the stop button)
  • changed default name for new costumes created with STRETCH etc. to localized 'costume'
• Notable Fixes:
  • loading a project that fires STOP ALL from a WHEN hat block no longer "hangs" Snap
  • fixed pixel-manipulation distortions on newly imported hi-res images
  • assert that dimensions given for STRETCH are finite numbers (avoid crash)
  • disabled direct editing of list watchers for non-literal typed lists (such as costumes, avoids unloadable projects)
  • fixed occasional "dead clicks" on buttons and menu items
• Translation Updates:
  • English
  • German

2019-10-24

• prepared release

2019-10-23

• lists: disabled direct editing of list watchers for non-literal typed lists (such as costumes)

2019-10-22

• morphic: url-clicking fix by @brollb, updated morphic documentation
• pushed dev version to release-candidate status
• objects: normalized (de-retinized) costume thumbnails, fixed pixel-manipulation distortions on newly imported hi-res images

2019-10-21

• blocks, threads: new experimental entry for "green flag pressed" in the BROADCAST block's dropdown when the shift key is pressed
• updated English and German translations for __shout__go__
• updated German translation for new media creation primitives
• objects: rearranged "looks" and "sound" palettes for new media creation primitives

2019-10-20

• objects, threads: added "new sound" from list of samples primitive reporter to "sound" category
• objects, threads: added sampling rate input to "new sound" primitive
• threads: changed default name for new costumes created with STRETCH etc. to localized 'costume'
• threads: generate stereo sounds
• threads: added list type assertion for samples to "new sound" primitive
• objects: tweaked labels for "new costume" and "new sound" primitives
• objects: delegate (quasi-inherit) Stage>>newSoundName() from Sprite

2019-10-18

• objects, blocks, threads: added dimension getters for the stage
• German translation update (left, right, top, bottom selectors in MY)
• blocks, objects, threads: added "new costume" primitive reporter to "looks" category

2019-10-17

• objects, blocks, threads: added selectors for sprites' bounding box (left, right, top, bottom) to MY dropdown

2019-10-16

• new dev version
• morphic: added "enableLinks" flag to text elements, off by default
• widgets: made only URLs inside dialog boxes' bodies clickable
• threads: running STOP ALL now also pauses (pauses and resumes) all generic WHEN hat blocks
• threads: removed a conflicting thread from STOP ALL - loading a project that fires STOP ALL from a WHEN hat block no longer "hangs" Snap
• threads: assert that dimensions given for STRETCH block are finite numbers

v5.1.1:

• New Features:
  • new cloud-menu entry: "Open in Community Site", thanks, Michael!
  • accept a list of pixels in the SWITCH TO COSTUME block
  • URLs in dialog boxes are now clickable and can open new browser tabs, thanks, Brian Broll!
• Notable Changes:
  • made "i" upvar inside FOR loop's C-Shape slot mutable by user script
  • prevent switching to another sprite if a block editor is open (so local blocks of different sprites don't mix)
  • display a permanent warning when using IE
• Notable Fixes:
  • typing strings into the search-field again shows relevant blocks (regression from IME)
  • fixed project dialog's search-field behevior (regression from IME)
  • morphic collision detection off-by-1 fix, thanks, Dariusz!
  • fixed MY PARTS so mutating the result list has no effect
  • fixed a typo in the OF-reporter's help screen, thanks, @jasonappah
  • enable costumes created in the vector editor to be stretchable in Firefox, thanks, @coproc
• Translation Updates:
  • Catalan
  • Ukrainian, thanks,
  • Galician, thanks, Bernat
  • Turkish, thanks, Turgut!
  • German

2019-10-15

• gui: prevent switching to another sprite if a block editor is open (so local blocks of different sprites don't mix)
• updated German translation
• gui: simplified asset loading scheduler
• gui: display a permenent warning when using IE
• prepared release

2019-10-14

• morphic: new "reactToInput" text-editing event
• objects: fixed #2485 (find blocks and text-entry mode feature)
• gui: fixed ProjectDialog's search field behavior for IME
• threads: fixed MY PARTS so mutating the result list has no effect
• threads: made "i" upvar inside FOR loop's C-Shape slot mutable by user script
• URLs in dialog boxes are now clickable and can open new browser tabs, thanks, Brian Broll!

2019-10-11

• objects, threads: accept a list of pixels in the SWITCH TO COSTUME block

2019-10-09

• new dev version
• morphic: collision detection off-by-1 fix, thanks, @DarDoro
• translation updates for: Catalan, Ukrainian, Galician and Turkish
• gui: new cloud- menu entry: "Open in Community Site", thanks, Michael!
• fixed a typo in the OF-reporter's help screen, thanks, @jasonappah
• enable costumes created in the vector editor to be stretchable in Firefox, thanks, @coproc

v5.1.0

• New Features:
  • new "paste on" block in the pen category, prints a sprite onto another one
  • new "r-g-b-a" option in "(aspect) AT (location)" sensing reporter, returns a 4-item list of values from 0-255 (same as pixels from a costume)
  • "temporary?" attribute is now programmatically settable (in the SET->my... block)
• Notable Changes:
  • generated costumes that are not in the wardrobe are now made persistent in the project (saved & restored)
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed tainted audio context for auto-playing projects when the user interacts, thanks, Bernat!
  • saved clones no longer forget if they inherit the "costume #" attribute
• Translation Updates:
  • German
  • Galician, thanks, Miguel!

2019-08-08

• store: allow wardrobe-less costumes to be shared among several sprites (e.g. when inheriting the "costume #" attribute)
• objects: fixed an issue when a sprite inherits both the wardrobe and the costume #
• store, objects: fixed the bug that made clones forget inheritance of costume # when saved
• prepared minor release

2019-08-07

• new dev version
• blocks, threads: added "r-g-b-a" option to (aspect) AT (location) reporter in the sensing category
• blocks, threads: made "temporary?" attribute for clones settable (in the SET->my... block)
• objects: made the "paste on" block avaible in the "pen" palette
• fix for tainted audio context when the user interacts with an auto-playing project
• store: persist temporary costumes that aren't in the wardrobe (e.g. generated graphics, maps, paste-ups)
• German translation update
• Galician translation update, thanks, Miguel!

v5.0.9

• New Feature:
  • new experimental "paste on" block in the "pen" category, currently hidden in dev mode
• Notable Fixes:
  • resolved scroll bar conflicts (allow vertical scrolling past horizontal scroll bar), thanks, Michael!
  • support for importing OGG audio files, thanks, Bernat!
• Translation Update:
  • Chinese, thanks, Simon!

2019-08-06

• new dev version
• objects, threads: new experimental "paste on" block in the "pen" category, hidden in dev mode
• morphic: resolved scroll bar conflicts (allow vertical scrolling past horizontal scroll bar), thanks, Michael!
• gui: fixed color of scripts scroll frame
• morphic: support for importing OGG audio files, thanks, Bernat!
• Chinese translation update, thanks, Simon!
• prepared maintenance release

v5.0.8

• Notable Fix:
  • fixed default names for 'script variables' block

2019-07-25

• blocks: fixed default names for 'script variables' block
• prepared maintenance release

v5.0.7

• Notable Fix:
  • fixed #2041

2019-07-24

• byob: fixed #2041
• prepared maintenance release

v5.0.6

• Notable Fix:
  • IME text editing support, thanks, Zhenlei Jia @swiperthefox!

2019-07-23

• morphic: minor code reformatting for LINTers
• prepared maintenance release

2019-07-22

• new dev version
• morphic, blocks: support for enhanced character set keyboard input, thanks, @swiperthefox!

v5.0.5

• Notable Fix:
  • fixed cloud project collection support, thanks Bernat!

v5.0.4

• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a glitch when running a generic WHEN hat block with a literal Boolean input
  • fixed a bug in the SHOW PICTURE block of the "Pixels" library

2019-07-10

• threads: fixed a glitch when running a generic WHEN hat block with a literal Boolean input
• fixed a bug in the SHOW PICTURE block of the "Pixels" library
• tweaked "messages" menu for custom blocks, thanks, Joan!
• maintenance release

v5.0.3

• Notable Change:
  • CSV-parsing auto-detects the most likely delimiter among comma, semi-colon, pipe and tab

2019-07-10

• threads: enhanced CSV-parsing to auto-detect the most likely delimiter among comma, semi-colon, pipe and tab
• maintenance release

v5.0.2

• New Feature:
  • experimental tolerant color collision detection (in dev mode)
• Notable Fixes:
  • fixed a layout glitch for variadic C-shaped input slots, thanks, Bernat, for reporting it!
  • updated the manual for the new WRITE block, thanks, Brian

2019-07-09

• blocks: fixed a layout glitch for variadic C-shaped input slots, thanks, Bernat, for reporting it!
• updated the manual for the new WRITE block, thanks, Brian (was #2448)
• maintenance release

2019-07-08

• new dev version
• morphic, objects, threads: experimental tolerant color collision detection (in dev mode)

v5.0.1

• Notable Changes:
  • gliding animation when inserting blocks using the keyboard
  • optimized collision detection
• Notable Fixes:
  • show "browser" source option in project dialog when (deprecated) locally stored projects still exist
  • list watchers occasionally didn't show cells after reassigning a changed list to a variable
  • FOREACH over a linked list failed for scripts mutating it
  • eliminated an occasional empty label line when variadic inputs wrap as a whole, thanks, Mary, for reporting this bug!

2019-07-04

• gui: show "browser" source option in project dialog when (deprecated) locally stored projects still exist
• maintenance release

2019-07-03

• blocks: eliminated an occasional empty label line when variadic inputs wrap as a whole, thanks, Mary, for reporting this bug!

2019-07-02

• morphic: optimized collision detection by only looking at the alpha channel data

2019-07-01

• new dev version
• lists: fixed #2446
• threads: fixed an issue when iterating over a linked list with a script mutating it, thanks, Brian!
• cloud: fixed collection grid page size, thanks, Bernat!
• morphic: fixed a race condition in Morph.glideTo()
• blocks: added gliding animation when inserting blocks using the keyboard

v5

2019-06-27

• New Features:
  • the "tools" library has been integrated as primitives
  • export 1- /2- dimensional lists with atomic data as CSV
  • export n-dimensional lists with atomic data as JSON
  • import CSV, Text, or JSON via drag & drop
  • option to import CSV etc. as "raw data", i.e. unparsed
  • parse JSON using the SPLIT reporter
  • new "aspect AT location" reporter in Sensing category for sniffing colors and sprites
  • new blocks for setting and changing the stage's background color
  • new "microphone" reporter in Sensing for getting volume, note, pitch signals and frequencies
  • new experimental live audio-scripting support
  • new video capturing and video-motion detection support, thanks, Josep!
  • new "object" reporter in the Sensing category for getting a sprite by its name
  • blocks for changing and querying the "flat line ends" setting
  • selectors for changing and querying "draggable" and "rotation style" settings
  • new sound + music "volume" feature + blocks
  • new sound + music stereo "panning" feature + blocks
  • new sound attribute getter reporter
  • new "play sound at sample rate" command
  • accept lists and lists of lists as inputs to all sound primitives
  • new "play frequency" commands in the Sounds category
  • pixel access primitives for bitmap and vector (!) graphics
  • new "stretch" primitive for costumes, also for flipping
  • new "get graphic effect" reporter
  • new "get pen attribute" reporter
  • new "pen down?" predicate
  • new "shown?" predicate
  • new "write" command in pen category (used to be "label" in tools)
  • new "numbers", "is empty", "map","keep", "find", "combine" and "for each" primitives in list category
  • 2 optional formal inputs for rings in MAP, KEEP, FIND, COMBINE: index and source list
  • new JIT-compiler "blitz-HOF" primitives for "map", "keep", "find" & "combine" via "compile"
  • new "for" loop and "if then else" reporter primitives in the Control category
  • added "neg", "lg" (log2) and "2^" selectors to monadic function reporter in Operators
  • added "^" reporter (power of) in the Operators category
  • added "width" and "height" to the MY blocks dropdown
  • added "width" and "height" as attribute selectors of the OF primitive
  • added "costume" selector to the MY attributes dropdown
  • added plus (+) and minus (-) keys to sensing and key hat
  • special context-aware drop-downs for custom blocks
  • new "stick to" submenu in the sprite context menu where applicable
  • multi-line and monospaced "code" input slots for custom blocks
  • new "string" library, thanks, Brian
  • new "text costumes" library for generating costumes from letters or words of text
  • new "World Map" extension and library for interactive maps
  • graphic effects and sound attributes can now be animated with easing functions
  • enhanced support for embedding Snap in other website, thanks, Bernat!
  • export sounds
• Notable Changes:
  • added third hsv dimension to pen colors, changed SET and CHANGE pen blocks
  • added transparency (alpha) to pen colors
  • new drop-down options for sprite-layer control ("GO TO front/back")
  • "loop arrow" symbol for primitive loops, also available for custom blocks
  • optimized in-project storage of atomic-data lists (more efficient, less space)
  • remove all clones when the Green Flag is clicked
  • adjust bottom of STOP block to reflect the menu selection (show / hide bottom notch)
  • enable dropping commands into all rings
  • colors in the vector editor are now named "Edge color" and "Fill color", thanks, Brian!
  • renamed "whitespace" option in SPLIT to "word"
  • made the "name" attribute programmatically settable
  • made the "temporary?" attibute readyble
  • deprecated storing projects in the browser's localStorage
  • deprecated some (useless) graphic effects
  • additional "publish / unpublish" buttons in the project dialog
  • buttons for saving & loading projects to disk in the project dialog
  • more language options for the Text2Speech library, thanks Joan!
• Notable Fixes:
  • predicates inside generic WHEN hat blocks can now pass upvars
  • eliminated "clicks" when playing music notes
  • "relabel" blocks with translated drop-down choices
  • transforming arrayed to linked lists without loosing the last element
  • using "inherit" no longer un-hides the palette in presentation mode
  • relabelling custom blocks with empty numerical input slots no longer fills in zeroes
  • the language menu now has a "globe" icon (so it can be found in any language)
  • accept a number as input for a sound - interpret as index
  • fixed many costume sizes, thanks, Brian!
• Translation Updates:
  • Chinese, thanks, Simon!
  • Turkish, thanks, Turgut!
  • Indonesian, thanks, Emanuella!
  • Greek, thanks, Alexandros!
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!
  • Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!
  • Spanish
  • German
  • French

2019-06-27

• updated manual and help screen for COMBINE, thank you, Brian!
• updated CRAYONS library, thanks you, Brian!
• prepared release

2019-06-25

• threads: 2 optional formal inputs for rings in MAP, KEEP, FIND, COMBINE: index and source list
• objects, threads: renamed COMBINE label, switching the inputs
• objects: took out "relabel" options for COMBINE
• adjusted German translation to the switched order of inputs for COMBINE
• adjusted Spanish translation to the switched order of inputs for COMBINE
• adjusted Portuguese translation to the switched order of inputs for COMBINE
• adjusted Catalan translation to the switched order of inputs for COMBINE
• adjusted French translation to the switched order of inputs for COMBINE

2019-06-24

• removed "such that" from KEEP and FIND block labels
• adjusted German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan translations
• updated Catalan translation, thanks, Joan!
• updated Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!
• fixed #2417
• fixed #2416

2019-06-06

• Maps: fixed a typecasting issue, thanks, Bernat!

2019-06-04

• Objects, Lists: fixed #682
• Lists, Tables: fixed table watcher cell updates for costumes (save / load)

2019-06-03

• Threads: fixed #2249, predicates inside generic WHEN hats should be able to pass upvars
• Blocks: fixed #1740
• Blocks: fixed #670 and #1804

2019-06-02

• Objects, Store: made "pen down?" and "shown?" attributes watchable onstage
• Objects, Blocks: made "shown?" attribute inheritable
• Objects, Blocks: made "pen down?" attribute inheritable
• Objects: made watchers immediately react to inheritance changes

2019-06-01

• Objects: new "pen down?" predicate
• Objects: new "shown?" predicate
• updated German translation for "shown?" and "pen down?"

2019-05-31

• Threads: optimized FOREACH performance for large linked lists
• German translation update (FINDFIRST, WORD, TEMPORARY?)
• Threads: also allow numbers as sprite names in SET
• updated "animation" library (purged unused blocks)
• updated "audioComp" library (purged unused blocks)
• updated "frequency distribution" library (changed PIPE to use EMPTY prim)
• Maps: added support for zxy, zyx and xyz style maps and satellite imagery
• updated "World Map" library with options for Satellite, Streets and Shading

2019-05-29

• Threads, Objects: added "Find First" primitive to lists category
• Blocks, Threads, Objects: added "blitz" version of FIND
• Blocks, Threads, Objects: renamed "whitespace" option in SPLIT to "word"
• GUI, Threads: made "name" attribut programmatically settable, (I hate my life!)
• Blocks: made the "temporary?" attibute readable (I hate my life even more!)

2019-05-28

• Maps: added various different tile hosts
• added "set map style" command to maps library

2019-05-25

• added credits and license information to map costumes

2019-05-24

• new experimental Maps module, our own thin slippy maps client for Snap!
• adjusted "World Map" library to the new client

2019-05-23

• Objects: changed WRITE block to print at the rotation center instead of the geometric one

2019-05-21

• Objects: fixed stage-size settings bug
• new "World Map" library
• enhanced detecting '+' and '-' keys for Firefox

2019-05-20

• Objects, Blocks added plus- and minus- keys to key pressed predicate and hat block
• Objects: refactored projection layer update
• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!

2019-05-16

• Objects: more refactoring to generalize projection extensions

2019-05-15

• Objects, Treads: refactored videoLayer so it can also be used for other extensions (maps, 3d)
• Objects: refactored video frame capture

2019-05-14

• Objects: fixed originalCloneName reference when setting a new parent

2019-05-12

• Threads: fixed costume names and thumbnails for computed costumes

2019-05-09

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: tweaked new video-snap (still capture) feature
• Objects: fixed video still "snap on sprite" for Firefox
• GUI: added credits in the "about" dialog for @jferran6 and @jguille2
• German and Catalan translation updates

2019-05-08

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: integrated video capture control into global settings prims in Sensing
• Blocks, Threads: added a %self menu
• Blocks, Threads, Objects: Finalized Video ops
• Objects, Threads, GUI: auto-start video capture when querying, stop video on stop-all
• GUI, Objects: arranged video blocks in palette
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: new video-snap (still capture) feature

2019-05-07

• Blocks, Objects, Threads, Video: optimized video motion detection
• Objects: actually stop the webcam, i.e. all tracks of the media stream when stopping video

2019-05-06

• Blocks, Objects, Threads, Video: New video motion detection feature by Josep Ferràndiz i Farré, under construction

2019-05-03

• Blocks: reverted reordering MY block dropdown by data type - back to similarities
• Blocks: added "compile / un-compile" options to HOF-prims
• Objects: added relabelling options for HOF-prims
• German translation update
• removed new HOF prims from the "atomic HOFs" library (aka "Bigger Data")
• edited "parallelization" library to use the new "is (list) empty" primitive

2019-05-02

• Blocks: reordered MY block dropdown by data type
• Blocks, Threads: added "width" and "height" to the MY block's dropdown
• Blocks, Threads: added "width" and "height" to the OF block's dropdown for sprites
• Blocks, Objects: added hidden "blitz-HOF primitives" for MAP, KEEP and COMBINE
• updated German, Catalan, Spanish and French translations for "blitz-HOF" primitives
• duplicated help-screens for "map" & friends for their atomic "blitz" variants
• Objects: expose "import raw data" option in variable watcher context menu
• German translation update for "raw data" importing feature
• Threads: added JIT-Compiler support for new IF/ELSE reporter primitive

2019-04-30

• Blocks, Threads: added "id" to image attributes dropdown
• Blocks, Threads: removed "id" from image attributes
• Blocks, Threads: added "costume" selector to MY dropdown
• German translation update
• Objects: adjusted costume stretch minimum to 1 pixel

2019-04-29

• optimized animation library
• Threads: stop audio frequency instances when "stop all" is executed

2019-04-28

• more helpscreens and bignum library update, thanks, Brian!
• more language options for the Text2Speech library, thanks, Joan!
• Objects, translations: changed "hz" typo to "Hz", thanks, Brian, for catching this!

2019-04-27

• Lists, Threads, Objects: new "is empty" predicate primitive in List category
• Threads, Objects: new "numbers" constructor primitive in List category
• Threads: renamed "aggregation" property to "accumulator"
• GUI: removed "tools" library, yay!
• updated German, Catalan, Spanish and French translations for former tools
• renamed help screen for "is _ empty?"

2019-04-26

• updated Catalan translation (for new HOF prims)
• updated Spanish translation (for new HOF prims)
• updated French translation (for new HOF prims)
• corrected French translation for "warp" to be "warp" instead of "englobe"
• moved "for each" down in the lists pallette towards the imperative blocks
• updated "tools" library (for new HOF prims)
• removed "catch" etc. from "tools" library (has been moved to "iteration" lib)
• updated "cases" library (for new HOF prims)
• updated "bignums" library (for new HOF prims)
• updated "crayons" library (for new HOF prims)
• updated "animation" library (for new HOF prims)
• updated "audio comp" library (for new HOF prims)
• updated "parallelism" library (for new HOF prims)
• renamed help screens for the new HOF prims
• Theads: added support for single implicit parameter to FOR EACH prim

2019-04-25

• updated German translation (for new HOF prims)
• Costume size fixes, yay! Thank you, Brian!!

2019-04-24

• Threads, Objects: new "combine" primitive in list category
• Threads: added type-assertions for the new HOF prims
• Threads, Objects: new "for" loop primitive in Control category
• Threads, Objects: new "if then else" reporter primitive in Control category

2019-04-23

• Threads: fixed JS stack overflow issue for MAP primitive
• Threads: new "map" and "for each" primitives in list category
• Threads: new "keep" primitive in list category

2019-04-22

• Threads: fixed variable binding for "arguments", turned dictionary key into a Symbol

2019-04-15

• Catalan translation update

2019-04-12

• Objects: enabled text-variables as inputs for graphic effects / pen attributes
• updated amination library with graphic effects and audio attributes

2019-04-11

• Blocks, Threads: renamed monadic selectors: "neg" to "-" and "log2" to "lg", added "2^"
• Objects: moved costume-pixels primitives down in the palette towards the graphic effects
• German translation update
• re- renamed minus selector back to "neg"
• updated tools library (removed "label", because it's now a primitive)
• updated text-costumes library (removed "label", because it's now a primitive)
• updated pixels-library (removed blocks that are now primitives)
• updated audio-comp library (removed blocks that are now primitives)

2019-04-10

• Objects: took out MAP and FOREACH primitives (available in dev mode)
• Objects: fixed #2371 (playing sounds in the stage)
• GUI: fixed #2367 (changing project source after exporting to disk)
• GUI: fixed #2373 (limit zoom blocks slider to 5x)

2019-04-09

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: new "getImageAttribute" reporter primitive
• Objects, Threads: let "getImageAttribute" deal with null costumes
• Objects, Threads: new "stretch" primitive for costumes, also for flipping
• Threads: new feature: new costume from list of pixels
• Objects, Threads: added "current" to costume input slot dropdown
• Blocks: deprecated graphic effects: "duplicate", "comic" and "confetti"
• Objects: added reporter for graphic effects
• Objects, Blocks: added pen attribute reporter
• Objects: added "write" command to Pen category (same as "label" from tools
• Objects: added "map" and "for each" primitives to List category
• Objects: made HOF primitives hidable

2019-04-08

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: new "getSoundAttribute" reporter primitive
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: new "play sound at sample rate" command primitive
• Objects: added relabelling information for the new "play sound at sample rate" block
• Objects, Threads: accept a number as input for a sound - interpret as index
• Objects, Threads: accept lists and lists of lists as inputs to all sound playing primitives
• Threads: accept lists and lists of lists as inputs to the "get sound attribute" primitive

2019-04-05

• Objects: eliminated "clicks" when playing music notes
• Objects: eliminated "clicks" when playing a frequency
• Widgets, Objects: Adjusted PianoKeyboard for the new audio engine
• Objects: tweaked oscillator fade-out
• Blocks, Threads: added "sample rate" selector to microphone drow-down
• updated German translation for "sample rate"
• Objects: stop microphone output when the user presses the stop button

2019-04-04

• Objects, Threads: new "play frequency" commands in the Sounds category
• Objects, Store: renamed "pan left/right" to "balance"
• updated German translation
• moved "stage width" and "stage height" into attribute menu of the OF block for the stage
• added 'volume' and 'balance' selectors to the OF block
• Objects, Threads, Blocks: added inheritance support for "volume"
• Objects, Threads, Blocks: added inheritance support for "balance"

2019-04-03

• Objects, Threads: Safari compatibility tweaks (only use StereoPanner if available)
• Objects, Store: new feature: volume blocks
• Objects: added relabelling information for the new volume blocks
• Objects, Store: new feature: audio stereo-panning blocks
• Objects: added relabelling information for the new stereo-panning blocks
• German translation update for volume and panning blocks
• updated AudioComp library for the new volume and stereo-panning features

2019-04-02

• Objects, Threads: lazily initialize volume property
• Objects: use AudioContext to play recorded sounds
• Objects: new audio scheme support for the stage
• Objects: added basic stereo-panning support for sounds (under construction)
• Objects, Threads: added basic stereo-panning support for notes
• Objects: map volume to a logarithmic gain scale
• Blocks, Threads: added "log2" function selector to monadic reporter, tweaked "log"

2019-04-01

• Objects: let the Microphone share the Note prototype's AudioContext
• Objects: took out gain node from Note oscillator (will be used for "volume" setting)
• Objects: refactored audio context sharing and lazy initialization
• Objects, Threads: added volume support for notes (under construction)

2019-03-31

• Blocks, Threads: added "stage width" and "stage height" as gettable attributes to MY
• updated German translation
• updated AudioComp library (removed stage width/height blocks, added translation)

2019-03-30

• Objects: support multi-channel live-audio scripting
• Threads, Objects: added JIT-compilation to live-audio scripting

2019-03-28

• Blocks, Threaeds, Objects: new experimental live audio scripting support

2019-03-26

• updated French translation
• updated animation library with partial French translation

2019-03-25

• GUI: fixed unintentional pen trails when manually cloning or duplicating a sprite whose pen is down

2019-03-18

• Threads: replaced 'colorBehindSprite' with 'colorAtSprite'
• Blocks: renamed some items of the microphone dropdown
• updated German translation

2019-03-17

• Threads: renamed 'colorAtSprite' to 'colorBelowSprite' (first step to refactoring it altogether)

2019-03-15

• Objects: improved microphone pitch detection

2019-03-14

• atomic HOFs lib: consolidate names with tools lib, thanks, Brian
• atomic HOFs lib: added translations from tools lib

2019-03-13

• Objects: Simplified and optimized pitch detection, made it work on Safari
• Objects: made "play frequency" command experimental / only revealed in dev
• added "play hz" and "stop hz" blocks to AudioComp libary
• Objects: Optimized microphone volume detection

2019-03-12

• Threads: changed microphone volume (back) to a scale of 0-100
• Threads, Objects: added "play frequency" primitive to "Sound" category
• updated German translation for "play frequency" primitive
• Objects, Threads: added "^" reporter (power of) in the Operators category
• Objects: updated relabel-dictionary
• updated Animation und AudioComp libraries with new powerOf primitive
• disabled pitch detection for Safari, so at least the other microphone features work

2019-03-11

• added note / hz conversion blocks to audioComp library
• ported multiline library to new (custom input slot) format
• new "text costumes" library for generating costumes from letters or words of text
• took out "b block" costume from catalog
• added microphone "resolution" concept governing "bins" (buffer / bin sizes)
• added microphone "resolution" settings to GUI
• updated German translation for microphone settings
• removed microphone resolution setters from audioComp library

2019-03-10

• Objects, Blocks, Threads: added microphone note and pitch detection
• Tweaked note detection to only change when the audio signal is strong enough
• updated German translation for pitch-detection
• tweaked pitch detection to smoothen low audio signals

2019-03-07

• AudioComp lib: added block to set the microphone's buffer and fft sizes
• German translation update (microphone features)
• simplified "globe" symbol

2019-03-06

• AudioComp lib: turn off mic after 5 secs of idling
• AudioComp lib: support Safari
• removed "loudness / microphone" block from AudioComp lib (turned into primitive)
• new "microphone" reporter in Sensing for getting volume, signals and frequencies
• Objects: keep microphone always on when running Snap! locally
• GUI: let users turn off microphone manually in the settings menu (in the offline version)

2019-03-05

• GUI: added "globe" icon to language menu item
• AudioComp lib: added @mjguzdial style live signal and fft support

2019-03-04

• GUI: deprecated storing projects in localStorage
• GUI: reenabled publish / unpublish buttons in the project dialog
• GUI: spread project dialog action buttons over 2 rows
• GUI: changed project dialog's initial & miminum extent
• Updated German translation

2019-02-26

• Symbols: new "globe" symbol
• GUI: replaced "storage" icon in project dialog with "globe" symbol

2019-02-26

• GUI: made "inheritance support" setting hidden
• Objects: disabled calls to world.worldCanvas.focus()

2019-02-25

• German translation for animation library
• GUI, snap.html: don't focus embedded worlds

2019-02-24

• Catalan translation update, thanks, Joan!

2019-02-23

• new help screens for some blocks, thanks, Brian!

2019-02-22

• Paint, Sketch: fixed pipette bug for fill color introduced
• Tweaked German translation
• Tweaked sharing scripts with global custom blocks among projects, thanks, Bernat!

2019-02-21

• Blocks: fixed deleting a single command inside a stack

2019-02-20

• Tweaked German translation
• Vector editor color name changes, thanks, Brian!

2019-02-19

• Threads: fixed #2332. I hate it. It's fixes like this that bog Snap! down.
• Udated German translation

2019-02-18

• Objects: enable sprite nesting via the context menu

2019-02-15

• BYOB: tweaked yesterday's fix...
• Blocks: fixed a glitch in the custom block help mechanism (show only the prototype)

2019-02-14

• BYOB: keep empty numerical input slots in custom blocks empty when relabelling

2019-02-07

• Store: tweaked loading mechanism to enable command blocks inside reporter rings
• Objects: tweaked spec for settings getter
• Blocks: improved dropping command blocks into reporter rings
• Morphic: simplified and optimized Node>>parentThatIsA / parentThatIsAnyOf
• Blocks, Lists, Tables: refactored for optimized parent-by-type detection
• Blocks: adjusted keyboard typing for command blocks inside reporter rings
• GUI, Blocks: enable dropping command blocks into all rings by default. Yeah!

2019-02-06

• Blocks, BYOB: refactored custom block input options and drop-down menus
• Blocks: adjust bottom of STOP block to reflect the menu selection (show / hide bottom notch)
• Blocks: enable dropping commands into all rings, under constructions

2019-02-05

• BYOB: radio button symbols for special slot / drop-down menu options

2019-02-04

• BYOB: new experimental feature: special context-aware drop-down menus for custom blocks
• BYOB: identify multi-line input slots by the pilcrow symbol in the slot editor
• BYOB: support default values in multi-line input slots inside custom blocks
• Blocks: enable piano keyboard menu to work with textual values representable as numbers
• Blocks: enable dial menu to work with textual values representable as numbers

2019-02-01

• BYOB: new experimental feature: special multi-line and monospaced input slot types

2019-01-28

• Threads, Objects: new "object" reporter in the Sensing category
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: added "flat line ends" option to "turbo mode" accessor blocks
• Blocks, Threads: added 'draggable' and 'rotation style' selectors to accessor blocks
• Greek translation update, thanks, Alexandros!
• German translation update
• pushed version to "Beta"

2019-01-25

• Threads: tweaked CSV-parser to handle \r-only record delimiters
• Cloud, GUI: Decouple cloud access from GUI, thanks, Michael and Bernat!
• GUI: added ability to export sounds

2019-01-24

• Turkish translation update, thanks, Turgut!
• updated audio-comp library blocks with new loop-arrow symbols

2019-01-23

• Objects, Threads: new blocks for setting and changing the stage's background color
• Store: save stage's background color in project
• updated German translation
• Blocks: Tweaked rendering of C-shaped slots in predicates
• updated cases library blocks with new loop-arrow symbols
• updated animation library blocks with new loop-arrow symbols, tweaked FOR block

2019-01-22

• Objects: Remove all clones when the Green Flag is clicked
• Blocks: adjust label row below C-Slot to accomodate loop icon, if any
• updated iteration-composition library blocks with new loop-arrow symbols
• updated list-utilities library blocks with new loop-arrow symbols
• Threads: cleaned up CSV parser
• Objects: fixed pen hsv-cache invalidation for clones

2019-01-21

• let users make C-shape slots with loop arrow symbols. Sigh.
• updated internal "for each" primitive block with new arrow symbol. Sigh.
• updated Indonesian translation, thanks, Emmanuella Rumanti
• updated FOR and FOREACH in tools library with new new loop-arrow symbols

2019-01-19

• fixed "Staatsgalerie bug" - relabel did not restore drop-down choice when localized

2019-01-17

• Greek translation update, thanks, Alexandros Prekates!
• cloud: user role support, thanks, Bernat

2019-01-16

• suppress 'loop' arrow symbol where label text follow the C-slot in translations

2019-01-15

• updated German translation
• updated all translations for the new %loop slot

2019-01-14

• Symbols: added 'loop' arrow symbol
• Blocks, Objects, Store: added 'loop' symbol to primitive loop blocks
• pushed dev version to 5.0

2019-01-12

• Threads: try to identify Brian's problem with parsing a CSV

2019-01-11

• Chinese translation update, thanks, Simon!
• Turkish translation update, thanks, Turgut Guneysu!
• new string library, thanks, Brian!
• project renaming and remixing support, thanks, Bernat!
• pushed dev version to 4.3

2019-01-10

• Morphic: recognize data sets in dropped text files (csv, json)
• Lists: updated list documentation, enabled table support by default
• GUI: import & examine data sets and text files via drag'n'drop or "import" menu
• updated German translation

2019-01-09

• Store: tweaked format for serializing atomic data lists
• Morphic: added option to include alpha in color comparison
• Objects: fixed "set pen color (color picker)" to observe, i.e. overwrite transparency
• Lists, Threads, Objects: added (Bernat's) JSON parser to SPLIT block
• Lists, Objects: added "export as JSON" capability
• Lists, Objects: automatically parse json files on import
• Lists: prevent Booleans in CSVs

2019-01-08

• Objects: automatically parse csv files on import, experimental "raw data" and "parse" ops
• Lists: fixed an off-by-one error in becomeLinked()
• Store: optimized serialization of lists with atomic data in project files
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: renamed "color" to "hue" in pen-blocks and in location sensor
• updated German translation

2019-01-07

• Lists, Objects: directly export and import lists as csv files, under construction

2019-01-04

• Objects, Blocks, Threads: new feature/block: sense colors and sprites anywhere
• updated German translation
• Objects: fixed pixel color sensing for stage pen trails

2019-01-02

• Objects, Blocks, Threads, GUI, Store: added third color dimension and transparency to pen
• renamed help screens for "setHue" to "setPenHSVA" and "changeHue" to "changePenHSVA"
• pushed dev version to 4.2.3
• updated German translation

2019-01-01

• Morphic: added HSL color conversion support
• Morphic: fixed glitch in WorldMorph >> getGlobalPixelColor

2018-12-28

• Blocks, Threads: added 'neg' selector to monad operator dropdown
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: added "front/back" options to "go to front" layer primitive
• updated German translation
• renamed help screen for layer primitive
• fixed #2294

2018-12-07

• GUI: fixed #2284 (executing "inherit" should not un-hide palette in presentation mode)

v4.2.2.9

2018-11-29

• GUI: prepared release
• GUI: fixed offline version (avoid sessionStorage access)

2018-11-28

• Objects: added special checks to make imporing text-based files into vars easier in Windows
• GUI: allow smaller stage extent in embed mode (for social website)

2018-11-27

• Objects: Cache stage>>penTrailsMorph to optimize collision detection
• Objects: Fixed a collision detection errror when objects are sub-pixel sized
• Objects: made importing files into variable watchers more lenient wrt to file types
• Objects: added "open anyway?" option to "unable to import" dialog for variables

v4.2.2.8

2018-11-21

• Tools library: Fixed LABEL block to again allow printing both text and numbers
• Frequency Distribution Analysis library: Added histogram and plot blocks

2018-11-13

• Blocks: fixed #2261 (check for selectedBlock before declaring an InputSlotMorph to be "empty")

2018-11-12

• new dev version
• BYOB: updated version date
• Objects: fixed #2250
• Frequency Distribution Analysis library: added "pipe" and "lower case" blocks
• Store, XML: fixed #2251 (sorta, load project anyway even though costumes / sounds are missing)
• BYOB: fixed #2260

v4.2.2.6

2018-11-06

• prepared release

2018-11-06

• new dev version
• Blocks: fixed a scope issue introduced in v4.2.2.4
• Blocks: enabled "duplicate block definition" in the palette
• updated German translation

v4.2.2.5

2018-11-02

• new library: Frequency Distribution Analysis, separated from "Bigger Data"
• Objects: avoid rendering graphic effects for null-extent canvasses

v4.2.2.4

2018-10-29

• Blocks: fixed #2234 (display all reachable local variables in drop-down menu)
• new "does variable _ exist" predicate in var-library, thanks, Brian!

v4.2.2.3

• New Features:
  • new fast atomic "analyze" and "group" reporters in the "Bigger Data" library
• Notable Changes:
  • don't stamp if the canvas is too small, avoid a JS error message
  • changed "csv" option in SPLIT to comply with RFC 4180 and parse the whole table
• Notable Fix:
  • help for local custom blocks
• Translation Update:
  • Japanese, thanks Yoshiteru Nakamura!

2018-10-26

• Blocks, Threads: changed SPLIT "csv" to comply with RFC 4180, took out others options
• fixed #2235 (help for local custom blocks)

2018-10-24

• Blocks, Threads: added "csv records" to SPLIT options, renamed "csv" to "csv fields"

2018-10-23

• Objects: Don't stamp if the canvas is too small (and would throw an error)
• Threads: New "reportAtomicGroup" HOF primitive using the JIT compiler
• "Bigger Data" library: Added "group" function for fast data drill-down analyses
• Japanese translation updates, thanks, Yoshiteru Nakamura!

2018-10-22

• "Bigger Data" library: Added "analyze" function for fast frequency distributions

v4.2.2.2

2018-10-19

• Threads: fixed #2227 - capture argument reporter's lexical environment in JIT-compiler

v4.2.2.1

2018-10-16

• New translation for Ukrainian, thanks, Serhiy Kryzhanovsky, for the contribution!
• added timed FOR-loop to Animation library

v4.2.2

• New Feature:
  • support for stand-alone offline usage (open file snap.html in a web browser)
• Notable Changes:
  • renamed github repo to "Snap"
  • reorganized source code files and translations into a subfolder structure
  • SET PEN COLOR TO (number) now wraps the hue around for numbers < 0 and > 100
• Notable Fixes:
  • restore propagation of inherited attributes when loading
  • support for older versions of Chrome, thanks, Michael!
  • fixed "letter of" primitive for numeric input, thanks, Michael and Dan!

2018-10-07

• renamed repo to "Snap"

2018-10-05

• Objects: Adjusted pen hue wrapping and took out pen shade wrapping
• Store: Fixed #1918 - escape options in block drop downs #2174, thanks, Michael!

2018-10-04

• GUI, Cloud: improved UX when running Snap! locally without a web server
• pushed dev-version to v4.2.2
• added OFFLINE.md
• Objects: made SET PEN COLOR and SET PEN SHADE inputs wrap around

2018-10-03

• Threads: fixed "letter of" primitive for numeric input, thanks, Michael and Dan!

2018-10-02

• new dev version
• Store: fixed #2219 - properly restore propagation of inherited attributes when loading
• Cloud: fixed cloud check, thanks, Michael!
• deduped tools, thanks, Michael!
• moved translations into subfolder "locale"
• removed obsolete doc files
• moved *.js files into subfolder "src" (and edited gui.js to deal with ypr.js)
• moved media files (icon, logo, click sound) into "src" subfolder

v4.2.1.4

2018-09-09

• new dev version
• Threads: fixed #2176 ('arguments' not found for calling empty multi-slots)
• Blocks: enabled drop-down for "inherit" command for clone-initialization scripts

v4.2.1.3

2018-07-19

• Threads: fixed a regression conflict between "when I am stopped" and broadcasts

v4.2.1.2

• New Feature:
  • new "&lang=nn" url parameter for specifying a session translation in a web-link
• Changed:
  • smart ternary Boolean slots - only 2 states except inside rings and in the palette
  • made project dialog wider to accommodate translations for the "recover" button
• Fixes:
  • corrected scope for outer script variables in inter-sprite messages (TELL, ASK, OF)
  • eliminated false "reporter didn't report" error messages

2018-07-13

• Blocks: enabled smart ternary Boolean slots by default

2018-07-12

• Threads: tweaked outer script variable scope for TELL/ASK and OF
• Blocks: fixed #2145 - newlines in block labels conflict with input declarations
• GUI: increased project dialog width to accommodate translations for the "recover" button

2018-07-11

• GUI: added support for "&lang=nn" url parameter, made it non-permanent
• Threads: fixed outer script variable scope for TELL/ASK and OF
• Tools: fixed JOIN WORDS and LIST -> SENTENCE

2018-07-10

• Threads, GUI: fixed #712 - false "reporter didn't report" error messages

v4.2.1.1

2018-07-10

• Threads, GUI: reverted Cache-Control header for HTTP requests b/c of CORS issues

v4.2.1

• New Features:
  • new libraries for parallelization and JSON support
  • new "loudness" reporter in audio comp library, thanks, Bernat!
• Notable Changes:
  • significant speed-up for HTTP based robot APIs such as the Hummingbird kit
• Notable Fixes:
  • "When I am stopped" hat block now also works for stacks of HTTP based robot commands
  • resolved name conflicts in pixels and audio comp libraries
• Translation Updates:
  • New Basque translation, thanks, Asier Iturralde Sarasola!
  • Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!
  • French, thanks, Nathalie and Joan!
  • Spanish, Catalan and French translations of the tools library, thanks, Nathalie and Joan!

2018-07-09

• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!
• New Basque translation, thanks, Asier Iturralde Sarasola!
• French translation update, thanks, Nathalie and Joan!
• Spanish, Catalan and French translations of the tools library, thanks, Joan!
• New JSON library, thanks, Bernat!
• URL cache issue fix, thanks, Joan!

2018-07-06

• Objects: fixed #2142 - search and keyboard entry support for custom block translations

2018-07-05

• Threads: added JIT compiler support for "change variable" primitive
• Threads: optimized RUN with reportURL (fire-and-forget)

2018-07-03

• speed up HTTP based hardware APIs (by not waiting for the result if the URL reporter is used inside a REPORT block within a custom COMMAND block definition)

v4.2 "Solstice"

• New Features:
  • "recover project" feature, (cloud backups), thanks, Bernat Romagosa!
  • vector paint editor, thanks, Carles Paredes and Bernat Romagosa!
  • "When I am stopped" event option, runs one atomic frame before terminating, use-case: stop robots when a user hits the stop button
  • experimental JIT compiler for atomic HOFs, used in new "Bigger Data" library
  • new library for programmatically creating variables, thanks, Brian Harvey!
  • added options for sprite attributes to the SET block
  • new "webcam snap" reporter in the "Pixels" library
  • new "record" reporter in the "Audio Comp" library
  • added "name" selector to the "Pixels" library
  • added drop-down menu to "letter _ of _ ", adjusted all translations (thanks, Joan!)
• Notable Changes:
  • hidden sprites can no longer be collision detected (but can test for other sprites)
  • new sprites created by pressing the arrow button no point in random directions (unless you hold down the shift-key)
  • new "center" option for location blocks (GO TO, POINT TOWARDS, DISTANCE TO and DIRECTION TO)
  • disabled keyboard shortcuts for green-flag (cmd-enter) and stop (esc) in presentation mode
• Notable Fixes:
  • rearranging and scrolling sound icons
  • rendering and layout of variadic C-shaped input slots
  • when collapsing ring-typed multi-arg slots only filled rings are preserved
  • support for numerical custom block input names
  • no more "leftover" clones when pressing the stop button or executing the STOP block
• Translation Updates:
  • German, thanks, Jadga!
  • Portuguese, thanks, Manuel!
  • Catalan, thanks, Joan!

2018-06-21

• Threads, Objects: made "When I am stopped" scripts atomic, so you can use loops

2018-06-20

• Sketch: enable right-click to select secondary color in vector paint editor
• GUI: allow only one instance of Camera and Sound Recorder to open
• new "webcam snap" reporter in the "Pixels" library
• new "record" reporter in the "Audio Comp" library

2018-06-18

• Threads: added capability to JIT-compile command scripts to JS

2018-06-17

• GUI: fixed cloud scope issues

2018-06-15

• BYOB: fixed #2043 (regression)

v4.2 Release Candidate

2018-06-14

• Threads: Prevent terminated threads from launching new ones

2018-06-12

• Renamed vectorPaint.js to sketch.js
• GUI: updated credits for Carles Paredes
• "Pixels" library: Enabled multiple references to the same pixel (variable)

2018-06-11

• Objects, Threads: fixed #2108 (added drop-down menu to "letter _ of _ ")
• German translation update

2018-06-09

• Objects, Threads: Also trigger "When I am stopped" when programmatically calling "stop all"

2018-06-08

• Blocks, Objects: new experimental "When I am stopped" event option
• Threads: Prevent terminated threads from forking new ones and from cloning

2018-06-06

• updated German translation, thanks, Jadga!
• updated Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!
• new Project Cloud Backups feature, thanks, Bernat!
• BYOB, Blocks, Threads, Store: fixed support for numerical custom block input names

2018-06-05

• VectorPaint: fixed rotation center editing for existing costumes
• VectorPaint: fixed initial rendering, so costumes can be re-opened after saving
• Symbols: fixed 'polygon' symbol rendering

2018-06-04

• Blocks: tweaked layout of variadic C-shaped input slots

2018-05-24

• Blocks: fixed rendering and layout of variadic C-shaped input slots

2018-05-08

• Threads: tweaked JS-Compiler to better handle process related ops

2018-05-03

• GUI: (again) randomize pen color when creating a new sprite

2018-05-02

• Blocks, Threads: added "center" to drop-down options of location blocks (GO TO, POINT TOWARDS, DISTANCE TO and DIRECTION TO)
• updated German translation
• disabled keyboard shortcuts for green-flag (cmd-enter) and stop (esc) in presentation mode
• Blocks, Threads: added options for sprite attributes to the SET block

2018-04-27

• GUI: when creating a new sprite only randomize color and direction when shift-clicking

2018-04-25

• GUI: fixed rearranging sound icons in the jukebox
• GUI: fixed scrolling for the jukebox (updating the sounds list version)
• GUI: only randomize position when shift-clicking on new turtle-sprite button

2018-04-24

• added 'name' selector to pixel library

2018-04-16

• Blocks: only preserve filled rings when collapsing ring-typed multi-arg-slots
• Blocks: minor tweaks

2018-04-13

• Objects: added implicit parameter count to experimental JIT compile reporter

2018-04-12

• Threads: disable detecting collision with hidden sprites

2018-03-23

• Threads: new experimental atomic COMBINE utilizing JIT compiler
• added atomic COMBINE to new experimental "Bigger Data" library
• removed unused blocks from the audio comp library
• added and removed atomic FOR EACH to new experimental "Bigger Data" library

2018-03-22

• Threads: extended implicit parameters handling for experimental JS-Compiler
• Threads: new experimental atomic HOFs utilizing JIT compilation (MAP, KEEP, SORT)
• new experimental "Big Data" library using JIT compiler

2018-03-20

• Threads: refactored experimental JS-compiler
• Threads: enabled variables access for experimental JS-compiler

2018-03-19

• new Vector Paint Editor, thanks, Carles Paredes and Bernat Romagosa!

v4.1.2.7

2018-03-19

• Threads: initialize Process>>gensyms with null (because it's hardly ever needed)
• Objects: remove obsolete STOP primitive from the stage's palette

2018-03-16

• Threads: experimental JIT compiler support for multi-word formal parameters and a single implicit formal parameter mapped to all empty input slots

v4.1.2.6

2018-03-14

• Threads: changed testing order for type inference, speeds up list operations significantly
• Cloud: remix project method, thanks, Bernat!

v4.1.2.5

2018-03-13

• Objects: draw a "dot" pentrail when moving zero steps while the pen is down

v4.1.2.4

2018-03-09

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: added "random" option for "go to", "point towards" and "point in direction" primitives

2018-03-08

• Objects: fixed #2053
• GUI: fixed #2052

v4.1.2.3

2018-03-05

• cloud tweaks, thanks, Bernat and Michael!
• fixed "join words" in the tools, library, thanks, Brian, for reporting the bug!
• added new "text to speech" library
• made sure sound data is always stored in the project (not referenced)
• added capability to compile input slot options to experimental JIT
• Spanish and German translation updates

v4.1.2.2

2018-02-22

• crayons library: fixed "nearest crayon to" reporter

v4.1.2.1

• Notable Changes:
  • account verification
  • optimized "broadcast and wait" for atomic subroutines
  • changed leap motion library to https
• Translation Updates:
  • Spanish

2018-02-20

• Libraries: Changed LeapMotion library source to https
• account verification

2018-02-19

• GUI, snap.html: started v4.1.2.1 development
• Threads: optimized "broadcast and wait" for atomic subroutines
• Spanish translation update

v4.1.2

2018-02-17

• Notable Changes:
  • new cloud backend
• New Features:
  • experimental JIT compiler (in progress)
• Translation Updates:
  • new Catalan-Valencia translation
  • Catalan
  • German

2018-02-15

• Threads, Blocks, Objects: experimental JIT compiler

2018-02-12

• Threads: Allow JS-functions for invoke()
• Threads, Objects: Small compilation experiment

2018-02-09

• Store, GUI: small tweaks
• new Valencian Catalan translation, thanks, Jose A. Múrcia!!

2018-02-08

• Cloud, GUI, Widgets: New Cloud API, thanks, Bernat!
• GUI: fixed a url-bar refresh bug introduced by the new cloud mechanism
• GUI: made sure user names are lower case when sent to the cloud
• Cloud: made sure project thumbnails are normalized when saved
• Cloud: warn user if overwriting an existing project with another one

2018-02-06

• GUI: start developing v4.1.2
• Morphic: roll back temporary rectangle filling workaround for a bug in Chrome v57

v4.1.1

• New Features:
  • translation support for custom blocks
  • new "direction to..." primitive as variant of "distance to..." in "Sensing"
  • included local methods in the OF-block's left drop-down menu
  • added "width" and "height" selectors to Pixels library
  • added scroll events, thanks, Bernat!
  • new dial widget POINT IN DIRECTION's drop-down menu
  • new "rotate" option for sprite context menu
  • new sound recorder, thanks, Bernat!
  • new "Crayons" library, thanks, Brian!
• Notable Changes:
  • global and local variables are now separat in the palette, each sorted alphabetically, local vars marked with location pin (only in palette)
  • keyboard events are now always thread safe (the same as in Scratch nowadays)
  • the OF-block auto-unringifies when being dropped on ring-slots, such as in CALL
  • accidentally clicking on a custom block definition no longer fires up the Block Dialog
• Notable Fixes:
  • scroll menus if they are taller than the world
  • enabled color picker for pen trails on stage
  • track keyboard events after accepting ASK using the keyboard
  • improved support for emojis, thanks, Michael!
  • avoid occasional stuck text cursors, thanks, Bernat!
  • paint editor flood fill alpha issue, thanks, Bernat!
  • implicit parameter binding in visible stepping, thanks, Joan!
  • when deleting a temporary clone, detach all its parts and delete the temporary ones
  • new release protocol to avoid browser caching related version conflicts
• Translation Updates:
  • German
  • Greek
  • Turkish
  • Chinese
  • Spanish
  • Russian

2018-02-05

• Russian translation update, thanks, temap!

2018-02-02

• Libraries: Crayons library, thanks, Brian!

2018-02-01

• GUI: encode recorded sounds to base64
• snap.html: added version queries to script urls

2018-01-25

• Morphic: new DialMorph widget
• Blocks: added dial widget to POINT IN DIRECTION's drop-down menu
• Objects: added "rotate" option to Sprite context menu
• Threads, Blocks: fixed Joan's fix for #1972, because it broke HOFs
• new Sound Recorder, yay!! Thanks, Bernat!
• Blocks: fixed a glitch in the error-bubble handling mechanism

2018-01-23

• fixed #1972, thanks, Joan!
• Objects, GUI: When deleting a temporary clone, detach all its parts and delete the temporary ones

2018-01-22

• Morphic: fixed occasional stuck cursors, thanks, Bernat!
• Paint: fixed a flood-fill alpha issue, thanks, Bernat!I
• Blocks, GUI: minor fixes, contributed by the community
• various Translation updates, contributed by the community
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: separated global and local variables in the palette, marked local ones with location pin
• Blocks, Objects: added scroll events, thanks, Bernat!

2018-01-21

• Threads: fixed a scope-glitch in the new OF-block's drop-down mechanism
• Blocks: made the OF-block auto-unringify when dropped on ring-slots
• Blocks: disabled firing the Custom-Block-Dialog when accidentall clicking on a custom block definition script

2018-01-19

• merged a bunch of pull requests (unicode support for emojis, translation updates)

2018-01-18

• Blocks, Threads, BYOB, Store: included local methods in the OF-block's left drop-down menu

2018-01-17

• Objects: made keyboard events always be thread safe (same as in Scratch nowadays)

2018-01-04

• Objects: fixed #1979 - make sure to always re-focus the world-canvas

2018-01-04

• Morphic: scroll menus if they are taller than the world
• Morphic: added keyboard navigation for menus that scroll
• added "width" and "height" selectors to Pixels library

2018-01-02

• new "direction to..." primitive as variant of "distance to..." in "Sensing"

2017-12-12

• fixed #1963

2017-12-01

• GUI: started development on v 4.1.1
• BYOB, Store, Threads: Localization support for custom blocks (experimental)
• Tools: German translation of tools (experimental)

v4.1.0.5

2017-11-26

• GUI: fixed #1933 - avoid creating "obsolete" blocks by not copying method blocks into sprites that don't understand them
• Store: fixed #1937 - allow stage width to be a minimum of 240 pixels

v4.1.0.4

2017-11-16

• Threads: suppress "exit" context when forking a process while single-stepping, this avoids a false "reporter didn't report" error message
• Blocks: avoid coloring the block-highlight when re-coloring a syntax element, this prevents highlighted blocks inside LAUNCH statements to expand when repeatedly single-stepped.

v4.1.0.3

2017-11-15

• Portuguese & Polish translation updates, thanks, Witek and Manuel!!
• escape xml attribute contents, thanks, Brian Broll!
• changed minimum stage width to 240
• new Audio Comp library for Guzdial-style sound samples fun

v4.1.0.2

2017-10-28

• Store: fixed a glitch that raised an error instead of creating an “obsolete” block

v4.1.0.1

2017-10-28

• Store: fixed a glitch when loading method blocks stored in sprite-local vars
• Objects: sped up "turbo" mode frame rate (slowing down "turbo" but making it more generally usable)
• Chinese and Catalan translation updates

2017-10-20

• fixed SVG encoding, thanks, Joan for the contribution!
• German translation update

v4.1 "New York"

• Features:
  • polymorphic sprite-local custom blocks
  • inheritance of sprite-local custom blocks
  • inheritance of sprite attributes (x, y, direction, size, costumes, costume #, sounds, scripts)
  • first-class costumes and sounds
  • visual indicator (map-pin icon) for sprite-local custom blocks (i.e. methods)
  • camera snapshots for costumes and new sprites
  • localization support when typing expressions
  • support for user-forced line-breaks in custom block labels
  • ternary Boolean slot setting: support to limit Boolean input slots to “true/false” outside of rings and in palette
  • support for default values in custom block Boolean slots
  • experimental: duplicate block definition (hidden in shift-click context menu)
  • support for codification of String, Number and Boolean value types
  • costume icons indicate svg costumes
  • sprites’s rotation centers can be adjusted onstage
  • clones share their original sprite’s scripts, not a shallow-copy of them
  • a highlight-colored balloon indicates the number of active processes per shared script
  • new musical “notes”, "location", "footprints", "cross" and "keyboard" symbols
  • new “visible stepping” toggle button in the control bar
  • new "keyboard entry" toggle button in the scripts tool bar
  • turn on the “Inheritance support” setting per default
  • Assert data types to list operations for more meaningful error messages
  • programmatically hide and show primitives in the palette
  • new "pen trails" reporter primitive and stage context menu entry
  • two-item lists as x-y coordinate arguments for "point towards”, "go to" and “distance to” primitives
  • Piano keyboard as drop-down menu for entering musical notes, Thanks, Lucas and Michael!
  • Basic “instruments” support: sine, square, sawtooth and triangle waves
  • Support https in “url” reporter
  • splitting csv-text
  • prevent context menu and dragging for stage watchers in presentation mode
  • "floating" search and make-a-block buttons in the blocks palette
  • "Make a block" button in every category
  • experimental "download script" feature
  • new "Animation" library
  • new "Pixels" library for MediaComp
  • double-clicking a corral sprite icon flashes the sprite onstage
• Fixes:
  • changed keyboard shortcut indicator for “find blocks” to “^”
  • prevent Snap from “hanging” when encountering certain errors in visible stepping
  • only mark implicit parameters if no formal ones exist
  • optimized thread-launch and script highlighting to a single frame instead of formerly two
  • changed direction attribute of sprites to automatically confine to 0-360 degrees
  • fixed rotation-bug when flipping costumes in "only turn left/right" mode"
  • fixed variable renaming (“refactoring”) bugs, thanks, Bernat!
  • fixed “fill” block crash when applying the same color twice
  • fixed occasional empty drop-down menu items named “close”
  • fixed some typos
  • limited sprites' direction and coordinates to finite numbers
  • made block vars transient for block libraries
  • keep “undo” and “redo” buttons at the same location
  • fixed SVG encoding for exporting vector costumes

2017-10-17

• Blocks: keep “undo” and “redo” buttons at the same location
• Objects, Threads: added "with inpus" to TELL and ASK prims, changed TELL's C-shape to command-style input
• Objects: moved TELL and ASK templates in the palette up underneath RUN CALL
• Blocks: show all own vars and attributes in INHERIT drop-down when inside a ring
• Objects: made 'myself' default input for "a new clone of" reporter
• German translation update
• GUI, Objects: double-clicking a corral sprite icon flashes the sprite onstage

2017-10-12

• Threads: make sure to retain the current instrument when launching a new thread
• Threads: retain the current receiver when launching a new thread

2017-10-11

• Objects: make sure to fully remove parts from their anchor when deleting them
• Objects: fixed a bounding-box-detection bug in Costumes. Thanks, Simon Mong!
• Objects: fixed a flood-fill rounding bug. Thanks, Simon Mong!

2017-10-10

• Blocks: fixed #1885

2017-10-09

• changed label of "BYOB4 (Snap) history
• changed label of "Method" to "Method Editor", thanks, Brian!

2017-10-06

• Esperanto translate update, thanks, Sebastian!

2017-10-04

• Objects: limited sprites' direction and coordinates to finite numbers
• Store, BYOB: made block vars transient for block libraries
• updated “Animation” library

2017-09-28

• GUI: enable experimental setting for "ternary Boolean slots"
• GUI, Blocks: experimental feature: Download script, thanks, Bernat!
• Blocks: made "import script" undoable
• Objects: make sure inheritance hierarchies are consistently made temporary
• new "Animation" library
• new "Pixels" library for MediaComp

v4.1 release candidate

2017-09-26

• Symbols: added 'keyboard' and 'keyboardFilled' icons
• GUI: fixed camera support for Safari, thanks, Bernat!
• Morphic: added stopEditing() event for keyboardReceiver
• Blocks: added floating toggle for keyboard entry to scripts toolbar
• GUI: make Snap! work in Safari 11 offline (file:// protocol) again, Sheesh
• GUI, Blocks: Support "Keyboard Editing" setting in scripts toolbar

2017-09-25

• GUI, Symbols: added “visible stepping” toggle button to the control bar
• fixed camera retina issues, thanks, Bernat!!
• Widgets: inverted property name for “enabled” to “isDisabled” for PushButtons
• GUI: hiding camera support (again), because of issues with Safari
• Objects: added "Make a block" button to every category
• Symbols, Objects: new "floating" make-a-block button in the palette

2017-09-21

• GUI, Objects: added floating search button to search palette to take the user back

2017-09-19

• BYOB: added “inherited” option to inheritable method templates’ context menu in the palette
• fixes for exporting resources, thanks, Michael!
• GUI: let costume icons indicate svg icons (again! how come this was lost?!, I hate Git!!)
• Objects, etc.: added floating search button to blocks palette

2017-09-18

• Symbols: added ‘location’ icon (map-pin)
• Blocks: added visual “map-pin” icon to indicate local method blocks

2017-09-14

• Blocks, Objects: added “inherited” option to inheritable variable templates’ context menu in the palette
• Objects: disabled context menu and dragging for watchers in presentation mode

2017-09-14

• GUI: disable camera (but make it accessible as hidden setting) because of retina issues

2017-09-08

• GUI, Objects, Widgets, Symbols: Camera Snapshot Dialog. Thank you, Bernat!!

2017-09-06

• Blocks, Threads: added “csv” option to the SPLIT primitive
• Threads: allow https query from locally loaded sources (thanks, Michael, for the hint!)

2017-09-05

• German translation update
• Threads, Objects: Renamed “http” block to “url”, use location.protocol (support https)

2017-09-04

• Blocks, Objects: fixed #1339

2017-08-30

• Blocks, Threads: Confine programmatically setting the “temporary?” attribute to dev mode
• BYOB: enable exporting script pics of custom blocks in the newest Chrome version, which disables opening tabs on dataURLs
• Morphic, Objects: fixed #1843
• Croation translation update, thanks, Zeljko Hrvoj!

2017-08-29

• Threads: allow two-item lists as x-y coordinate arguments for “distance to” reporter
• GUI, Objects: enable exporting costumes and variable-data in the newest Chrome version, which disables opening tabs on dataURLs
• Blocks, Threads: added “temporary?” as gettable and settable attribute for clones

2017-08-04

• GUI: enable exporting project summaries in the newest Chrome version, which disables opening tabs on dataURLs

2017-08-03

• enable exporting script pics in the newest Chrome version, which disables opening tabs on dataURLs

2017-08-02

• Blocks: Improve PianoKeyboard for keyboard navigation & entry
• Blocks, Widgets: Moved PianoKeyboard code to widgets.js
• Blocks, Widgets: Added sound feedback to PianoKeyboard
• New file: symbols.js (moved out of blocks.js)
• Updated credits to reflect Michael’s piano keyboard design contribution
• Threads: simplified “instrument” access
• Threads: enable multiple instruments per sprite in parallel threads
• GUI, Widgets: Changed piano keyboard design credits to Lucas Karahadian
• GUI: fixed #1820

2017-08-01

• Morphic: Tweaks by Craig Latta (thanks!)

2017-07-31

• Blocks, Objects: fixed PianoMenu to work with block zoom etc.
• Threads, Objects, Blocks, Store: added “instruments”: sine, square, sawtooth, triangle waves

2017-07-27

• Objects: don't shadow costume # when editing a costume
• Blocks, Objects: remodeled context menu for inheritance to use check-boxes
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: fold two "stop" commands into one
• Objects: Allow two-item lists as arguments for "point towards" and "go to" primitives

2017-07-26

• Threads: programmatically hide and show primitives in the palette. Thanks, Cynthia Solomon, for this idea!
• Objects: added "pen trails" reporter primitive and stage context menu entry
• Threads, Blocks: added 'costume' and 'sound' as first-class data types
• Lists, Store, Objects, Threads: enable type-assertion for list elements (costumes, sounds)

2017-07-25

• Objects: fixed rotation-bug when flipping costumes in "only turn left/right" mode"
• BYOB: changed Block Editor label to "Method" for methods
• GUI: moved settings 'Keyboard Editing', 'Nested auto-wrapping', "Table support" and "Table lines" to hidden (default is "on" for all)

2017-07-15

• BYOB: shadow inherited scripts when changing the category of an inherited method

2017-07-12

• Blocks: fixed #1800. Thanks, Ken, for the bug report!
• Objects, Threads: “new clone of ...” primitive, made TELL, ASK primitives official
• Objects: only refresh certain propagated inherited attributes on being dropped
• Objects: renamed “delete” primitive to “inherit”

2017-07-11

• Objects: fixed an inheritance glitch for clones
• Objects: fixed variable inheritance for traditional Scratch-like clones
• Objects: tweaked inheritance indication for stage watchers
• Objects: fixed custom block inheritance for traditional Scratch-like clones
• Objects: optimized deleting traditional Scratch-like cones

2017-07-09

• Objects, Threads: added experimental (only shown in dev mode) “tell ... to ..." and “ask ... for ...” primitives

2017-07-08

• Threads: Assert data types to list operations -> meaningful error messages
• GUI: enable inheritance per default, must be user-enabled for existing projects

2017-07-07

• Objects, GUI, Store: tweak naming of instantiating to “clone”, enable inheritance by default
• Objects, GUI: run “When I start as clone” scripts when manually cloning a sprite, only position at hand pointer if no such scripts exist
• Morphic, Objects: confine turtle direction readout to 0-360 degrees, thanks, Cynthia for the bug report!!

2017-07-05

• Objects, GUI: UI for OOP

2017-07-04

• Morphic: Simplify contains()
• Unify Scratch-style clones and Snap-specimens, part 1: implement clones as specimens

2017-07-03

• Objects, Threads, GUI, Blocks, YPR: renamed Sprite::isClone to Sprite:isTemporary

2017-06-30

• Objects: reflect attribute inheritance status by ghosting / un-ghosting stage monitors
• Objects: migrate experimental “jukebox” reporters to the new “my sounds” reporter

2017-06-29

• Objects: manage inheritance relationships when setting a prototype or deleting a sprite

2017-06-27

• Objects: Inheritance of costumes and sounds - propagate changes
• Store: Tweaked loading sprites with inherited complex attributes (costumes, sounds)

2017-06-26

• Objects, Blocks, Threads, Tables, Store: First-Class Sounds
• Block: new musical “notes” symbol
• Objects, Blocks, Threads, GUI: inheritance support for sounds

2017-06-24

• Threads: tweaked error-catching & handling for receiver-less scripts
• Blocks: experimented with first-class sounds, deferred for now
• corrected a typo in the German translation. Thanks, Jadga, for reporting this!

2017-06-23

• Blocks: shadow inherited scripts on deleting blocks and comments via the context menu
• Blocks: shadow inherited scripts on “clean up”
• Blocks, Objects: shadow inherited scripts on keyboard entry
• Blocks: shadow inherited scripts on input edit, ringify/unringify, relabel action

2017-06-22

• Morphic: support for copy-on-write worlds (“selectForEdit”)
• Blocks, Objects: shadow inherited scripts on dragging & dropping blocks and comments

2017-06-21

• objects: stop all scripts for a sprite when shadowing or inheriting its scripts

2017-06-20

• threads, blocks, ide: make sure to stop active processes when deleting a block
• objects: migrate experimental “wardrobe” reporters to the new “my costumes” reporter

2017-06-19

• threads: fixed #1767 (optimized thread-launch and highlighting)
• threads, blocks: optimized thread count indicator for “glow” halos

2017-06-02

• added a thread count indicator to shared-script highlights

2017-05-31

• added inheritance support for scripts, partly done, copy-on-write is still missing

2017-05-30

• let clones share the orginal’s scripts without shallow-copying them

2017-05-12

• exposed ‘costumes’ as an attribute
• added inheritance support for the wardrobe (‘costumes’)
• added inheritance support for ‘costume #’

2017-05-09

• added tools to the library browser
• added attributes to the “delete” block’s drop-down menu

2017-05-05

• attribute inheritance support for ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘dir’ and ‘size’

2017-04-11

• Objects: export text from variable watchers to new browser tab by default

v4.0.10.1

2017-04-10

• Revert to 4.0.10 to prepare for newly surfaced bug in the Chrome browser
• fixed #1707 (new Chrome blitting issue)

2017-03-22

• sprite-local custom block inheritance, first pass, still under heavy development

2017-03-21

• Change: Methods (sprite-local custom blocks) can no longer have block (instance) vars

2017-03-07

• Morphic, Objects, translation: let sprites’s rotation centers be adjusted onstage
• BYOB: added attributes for dynamic method definition lookup
• BYOB, Blocks, Objects, GUI: distinguish custom blocks by shared “isCustomBlock” attribute

2017-03-01

• Objects: experiment with new dynamic method (cache) updating
• Objects, Blocks, BYOB, Store, Threads, GUI: roll-back double-pointer container cache for methods

2017-02-27

• Objects: experiment with new “methods” attribute

2017-02-16

• turn “definition” property of custom block instances into a double-pointer (Variable) structure, in preparation for OOP (method inheritance)

2017-02-14

• Lists: remove experimental methods for object-use
• Objects, BYOB: disable (comment out) experimental block inheritance for now

2017-02-09

• Blocks: fixed #1406

2017-02-09

• Blocks: prevent Snap from “hanging” when encountering certain errors in visible stepping mode
• Threads: fixed #1618 - only mark implicit parameters if no formal ones exist

2017-02-07

• Blocks: catch block label part issues, prevent palette from not showing

2017-02-02

• Objects, BYOB: highly experimental custom block inheritance, under construction…
• Blocks: fixed #1650

2017-02-01

• GUI: let costume icons indicate svg costumes

2017-01-31

• Lists: experimental methods for use as objects (hierarchical dictionaries)

2017-01-30

• Store: fixed #1645

2017-01-27

• Blocks, Objects, Threads, Store: added support for codification of String, Number and Boolean value types

2017-01-24

• BYOB: changed “new line” symbol to $nl
• German translation update
• BYOB: new experimental feature: duplicate block definition (hidden in shift-click context menu)

2017-01-23

• BYOB, Blocks, Store: added support for default values in custom block Boolean slots
• GUI, Blocks, Store: allow project-setting “Ternary Boolean slots” to be switched off
• German translation update

2017-01-20

• Blocks: improved inspectability of local variables
• GUI: improved library browser, thanks, Michael!
• BYOB: support user-forced line-breaks in custom block labels
• Blocks: limit Boolean input slots to “true/false” unless inside a ring or in the palette

2017-01-19

• GUI: began new development version
• Blocks: fixed #1630
• Objects: support localization when typing expressions
• German translation update
• Blocks: changed keyboard shortcut indicator for “find blocks” to “^”
• GUI: fixed #1631

2017-01-13

• GUI: added "savingPreferences" flag for bh's "Eisenbergification" library, sigh.

v4.0.10

• Features:
  • auto-wrapping of C-slots
  • undo / redo for blocks, unlimited, but has some issues
  • search field for projects, thanks, Bernat!!
  • basic typography support for custom block labels, thanks, Bernat!!
  • treat JS-function reporters the same as variable getters wrt rings
  • new url switch #dl: for downloading raw shared projects
  • new url option switch: &noExitWarning
  • svg support for images from the web (svg files have been supported for a long time)
  • use media dialog for browsing and importing sounds
  • highly experimental infix-expression-to-reporter parser. Thanks, Bernat, for the brilliant idea to add it to the search-blocks field!
  • hierarchical menus, also for custom blocks, thanks, Brian!
  • variable refactoring, thanks, Bernat!
  • “#run:” flags (same as “#present:”): ’editMode’, ‘noRun’, ‘hideControls’, thanks, Brian!
  • Libraries Browser, thanks, Michael!
• Fixes:
  • Music (play note) to work again in new and recent browser versions (Chrome 55)
  • IDE layout: fixed resizing issues when the window becomes too small
  • Keep left-over blocks from “relabel” around
  • Evaluate the generic WHEN-hat block’s predicate and first step of the attached script in the same atom
  • “go back _ layers” to work with out-of bounds numbers, thanks, Brian Broll!
  • Translation updates (Russian, Polish, Danish, Portuguese, Catalan, German)

2017-01-11

• Error handling improvements for custom drop-down submenus and generic WHEN hats

2017-01-10

• German translation update

2017-01-09

• GUI: “#run:” flags, thanks, Brian!
• GUI: Libraries Browser, thanks, Michael!
• Blocks: Fixed out of bounds issue with “go back _ layers”, thanks, Brian Broll!

2017-01-08

• Blocks: fixed #1608

2017-01-05

• Blocks: refactored variable refactoring code
• fixed #1604
• Blocks, GUI: changed shortcut symbol for “Ctrl” key to ^
• Blocks: fixed #696 - Keep left-over blocks from “relabel” around

2017-01-04

• Variable refactoring, yay! Thanks, Bernat!!
• Threads: fixed #1602

2017-01-03

• Hierarchical menus, thanks, Brian!
• Tweaks to hierarchical menus

2017-01-02

• Morphic: use animations to schedule tool tips

2016-12-31

• Morphic: support for menu shortcuts (ongoing)
• GUI, Blocks: menu shortcuts (experimental)

2016-12-29

• BYOB: Disabled hover-help for custom blocks (some people find it annoying)
• GUI: Hide setting for “prefer smooth animations” (now - mostly - redundant)

2016-12-27

• GUI, Threads, Objects, Store: Disable JS-Functions, to protect users from malicious scripts, commented out for now

2016-12-25

• GUI: update undrop controls when switching sprites and display modes

2016-12-23

• Objects: tweaked reporterize infixParser

2016-12-22

• Objects: simplified reporterize>>blockFromAST
• Threads: prevented color slots from flashing. Good catch, thanks, Joan!

2016-12-21

• Objects: added Boolean operators to “reporterize”

2016-12-20

• Objects: tweaked “reporterize”

2016-12-19

• GUI: new url-switch: &noExitWarning
• Blocks, Objects: highly experimental infix-expression-to-reporter parser

2016-12-13

• Catalan translation update, thanks, @jguille2 !

2016-12-12

• fixed #1560
• Morphic: added a few in-/out- only easing functions for animations
• Morphic: added easeOutElastic function thanks to @joshmarinacci’s excellent blog post

2016-12-09

• Translation updates (Russian, Polish, Danish, Portuguese)

2016-12-08

• GUI: use media dialog for browsing and importing sounds

2016-12-07

• Morphic, GUI: URI-encode SVG data for Firefox-compatibility

2016-12-06

• GUI: Switch to asynchronous loading of resources (costumes, sounds, libraries etc.)
• Morphic: Added support for dropping links to SVGs from other web pages onto the World
• GUI: Support importing unrasterized SVG_Costumes from the “Costumes” and “Backgrounds” dialog

2016-12-05

• Objects: fixed #1543

2016-12-01

• GUI: fixed #1540
• Morphic, Blocks, GUI: Filter Project Names in the “open” dialog, thanks, Bernat!!
• GUI: update scrollbars of the project dialog as the project list is filtered
• Blocks: fixed #1522

2016-11-29

• Blocks: added undo / redo icons to scripts pane context menu
• Blocks: added hidden “clear undrop queue” option to scripts pane context menu

2016-11-28

• Objects, Blocks: map keyboard shortcut ctr-y to “undrop” (in addition to shift-ctrl-z)
• Blocks: added symbols for “turnBack” and “turnForward”
• Morphic: added support for floating tool bars in scroll frames
• Blocks: added dynamic “undo” / “redo” buttons to each scripting pane
• GUI, Blocks: Enable nested auto-wrapping by default

2016-11-25

• Morphic: First-class animations
• Blocks, Objects, GUI: Switch to new animation mechanism, add a few

2016-11-24

• Morphic, Store: work around a dreaded FF NS_ERROR_FAILURE for supporting retina
• Blocks: drag-origin support for blocks and comments duplicated inside a block editor

2016-11-23

• Blocks, Morphic: “Undrop / Redrop” support for sticky comments

2016-11-22

• Blocks, GUI: “Undrop / Redrop” for deleting blocks via the context menu or in keyboard edit mode
• Morphic: support “onBeforeDrop” callback parameter in slideBackTo()

2016-11-21

• Blocks: Delete variable getter blocks if the user drops them on template slots (e.g. script vars)

2016-11-14

• Blocks, Objects: Unlimited “Undrop / Redrop” of block drops per script pane and session (under construction)
• GUI: new url switch #dl: for downloading raw shared projects

2016-11-09

• Blocks, GUI: preference setting to enable auto-wrapping inside nested block stacks
• Blocks: Treat JS-function reporters the same as variable getters wrt rings
• German translation update

2016-11-07

• New C-Slot auto-wrapping / snapping feature (similar to Scratch)

v4.0.9.2

2016-11-10

• new Galician translation, yay!! Thanks, tecnoloxia.org!
• Italian translation update
• German translation update

v4.0.9.1

v4.0.9

2016-10-27

2016-10-24

• Text Editing Tweaks, thanks, Bernat!!
• Store: fixed #1472
• Threads: Tweak continuations

2016-10-21

• Threads: Fixed #1422

2016-10-20

• Blocks: Tweak Keyboard-Entry

2016-10-11

• Objects: fixed #1456 (collect message names from all scripts, including custom block definitions)

2016-10-11

• Blocks: make sure to fix multi-args when deleting a custom reporter definition

2016-10-10

• Morphic: configure autoscrolling
• GUI: suppress autoscrolling for the palette and the project dialog

2016-10-07

• Blocks: [Keyboard-Entry] if an inserted block has inputs, go to the first one

2016-09-29

• Objects: fixed #1437

2016-09-24

• don’t update the recursion cache when updating a custom block definition

2016-09-23

• custom block execution: only yield if directly recursive and unwrapped (“speed up”)
• new feature: “wait 0” or “wait <empty>” now yields once, unless warped
• revert treating visual stepping as thread safe, because of music scheduling

2016-09-22

• renamed “single stepping” to “visible stepping”, thanks, Brian!
• updated German translation

2016-09-21

• remove shift-click-to-forward-one-frame option for the “resume” button

2016-09-20

• atomic synching of single-stepping

2016-09-19

• new “stepForward” symbol
• dragging the single-step speed slider all the way to the left turns the “resume” side of the “pause” button into “stepForward”

2016-09-18

• Treat single-stepping as thread safe (reverted on 160923)
• Allow user to trigger one step at a time, both in normal and single-stepping mode

2016-09-16

• enable single stepping for clone-scripts w. multiple blocks flashing per script
• enable single stepping for custom block definitions
• Objects: fixed #1410 (duplicating a sprite does not duplicate its sounds)

2016-09-15

• new single stepping feature (like Scratch 1.4) with flashing blocks
• slider for single-stepping speed
• pausing now flashes the currently active blocks

v4.0.8.7

2016-08-12

• Threads: for hidden sprites display ASK questions in the input box
• Morphic: replace deprecated KeyboardEvent.keyIdentifier with .key

v4.0.8.6

2016-08-03

• Store: restore implicit formal parameters for serialized lambdas

v4.0.8.5

2016-07-31

• GUI: fixed #1348 - opening projects from url not working in non-English

v4.0.8.4

2016-07-20

• GUI: fixed #1333 - paint a new costume not working in retina mode in FF and Edge

v4.0.8.3

2016-07-19

• Morphic: avoid blitting artifacts for non-integer devicePixelRatios in Firefox
• Widgets: fixed 3D corners for buttons in Firefox for Windows
• Objects: fixed color collision detection for retina mode
• Threads: enable broadcasts to be sent to specific sprites (experimental)

v4.0.8.2

2016-07-17

• Morphic: fixed collision detection for non-integer devicePixelRatios

v4.0.8.1

2016-07-15

• Blocks: activate generic hat blocks inserted via keyboard editing

v4.0.8

2016-07-14

• New Features
  • Retina Display Support, thanks, Bartosz Leper!!
  • Additional Graphic Effects, thanks, Dylan Servilla!!
  • Interactive Toggle Switches for Boolean Slots and Literals
  • Resizable Palette (double-click on resizers to slide back to normal)
• New Default Settings (now enabled by default)
  • Keyboard Editing
  • Tables Support
• Bugfixes (most notable only):
  • reject dropping hat-blocks into block editor scripting areas
  • accept multi-line inputs (e.g. in JS-functions or code-mapping blocks) with shift-enter
  • prevent “make a block” dialog from being closed by pressing “OK” if no label text has been specified
  • show error message balloons happening in other sprites next to their icon in the sprite-corral
  • (again) enable recursive cloning
  • prevent expandable blocks from expanding / collapsing inside the palette
• Translation updates
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Chinese
  • Russian
  • Catalan
  • German

v4.0.7.2

2016-05-09

• Threads: fixed #1212 - Null continuation doesn't escape from calling context.
• Updated Simplified Chinese translation, thanks to @ubertao!
• Media import dialog with thumbnail, thanks to @ubertao!

v4.0.7.1

• cloning speed-up

2016-05-04

• Morphic, Objects, Blocks, Threads, GUI: Partially shallow-copy clones for speed
• new Estonian translation! Yay!! Thanks, Hasso Tepper!

v4.0.7

2016-05-02

• first class sprites, new MY reporter block and extended functionality of TOUCHING
• fixed switching from list watcher to table view inside sprite speech bubbles
• fixed paint editor automatic rotation center issue
• enhanced functionality to SET a sprite’s attributes
• execute clone initialization scripts’ first step in the same frame as the clone command
• auto-repair (sorta) certain broken project files
• Threads: More aggressive emergency yielding
• “corpsify” deleted sprites, which might still be referred to by variables and lists
• Blocks: simplify block copying
• experimental hidden “live-coding support” preference
• updated penTrails library to shrinkWrap generated costumes
• demos from the documentation:
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=population
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Woodworm
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Ferris%20Wheel%202016
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=PathFollower
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=cartwheel
  • http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=rotation
• new Indonesian translation. Yay!! Thank you, Alexander Liu!!
• Translation updates: Slovenian, Portuguese, Chinese
• minor bug fixes

v4.0.6

2016-03-16

• Store, Objects, GUI: fixed #99 (saving linked lists)
• Objects: fixed #1163
• added web api / https reporter library
• Blocks, Store: New “transient variable” feature
• German translation update

2016-03-06

• Objects: Reenable custom hat blocks when dropping a sprite

v4.0.5

2016-02-24

• table views

2016-01-22

• Blocks: Fixed a slight rendering glitch when deleting reporters via the context menu

2016-01-19

• Threads, Store: Throw an error for “obsolete” blocks instead of (forever) doing nothing (and thus often freezing and crashing). Thanks, Paul, for helping identify this!

2016-01-18

• Paint: avoid pixel collision detection in PaintCanvas (optimization)
• BYOB: fixed a zebra coloring glitch in the block editor

2016-01-17

• BYOB: preserve custom block instances’ block var values when editing their definition

2016-01-16

• Blocks: fixed a multi-line input slot layout glitch

2016-01-11

• BYOB: fixed #1107

2016-01-08

• BYOB: fixed #1098
• Threads: remove a redundant yield from the fork primitive
• GUI: fixed #1099, thanks, Michael!
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!

2015-12-23

• Morphic: fixed #1083

2015-12-22

• Blocks, Objects, Threads, Locale: revert to ’any key’ in the key-pressed menu
• GUI: Improve sorting and tab switching in the Project Dialog, Thanks, Michael!

2015-12-21

• Morphic: Native Copy & Paste support, thanks, @cyderize, for this contribution!!
• GUI: Code tweaks
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!

2015-12-19

• Objects: Optimization: Don’t redraw unrotateable sprites on TURN

2015-12-18

• new Arabic translation, yay!! Thanks Tarek Galal!!!

2015-12-17

• Threads: fixed #1071 “length of list” type error possibility by no longer guaranteeing that the red “length of” reporter also works on text input

v4.0.4 (draft):

• Show result bubble when the user clicks on a command script that uses REPORT (You can now click on REPORT and it actually does something)
• New generic “When” hat block, enhances red stop button behavior
• New block (instance) variables feature (experimental)
• evaluator performance optimizations
• Morphic grab-threshold fix for scroll frames
• fixed several block rendering glitches
• List category LENGTH reporter now also works on text
• Changed “any” to “random” (in English only)
• new FILL primitive in the Pen category
• switched to animation frame scheduling, please use TURBO for music
• Updated German translation

2015-12-15

• snap.html: switch to animation frame scheduling because Chrome sucks sooooo much!!!!
• GUI: pushed version to 4.0.4

2015-12-15

• Cloud: 10 MB cloud upload limit for media per project
• Objects, Paint: Automatic Sprite Center Detection, Thanks, Craxic!!
• Morphic: Handling of diacritics, [Alt] + key in input fields (Windows), Thanks, DanDoro!!
• NL translation update
• Use Blob API to Save Files (to Disk), Thanks, Michael!!

2015-12-14

• Objects: added “fill” primitive to the Pen category
• Updated German translation
• GUI: Directly download projects from cloud by holding shift while opening - commented out
• GUI, Cloud: show size of uploaded / downloaded projects
• GUI, Cloud: upload size limit of 5 MB - commented out

2015-12-12

• Locale: change English ‘any’ (in “item of”) to ‘random’ because teachers

2015-12-11

• Threads: extend red LENGTH reporter to also work on Text
• GUI, Objects, Blocks: extend the red stop button to reflect whether custom hat blocks are paused (indicated by a red square instead of the stop sign)
• Blocks: Tweak C-Slots to better fit inside reporters

2015-12-10

• Store: persist block (instance) vars
• Threads: only show result bubble on user-clicked scripts if “Report” is in the lexical script (not inside a reporter block definition)
• Morphic: obey grab threshold when dragging inside scroll frames

2015-12-09

• Threads: allow invoke() to operate on both blocks and rings with arguments
• Blocks: cache reporter slot specs for evaluation performance (30% speedup)

2015-12-08

• Objects, Blocks, Threads, GUI, Store, Locale: Automatically enable/disable custom hat blocks when they’re used in a project
• BYOB: initialize custom block vars on every definition-refresh

2015-12-07

• Threads, GUI: Stop button stops / restarts custom hat blocks, green flag starts custom hat blocks

2015-12-02

• Threads: Only support block vars for blocks that actually define any, to avoid race conditions among parallel global blocks with the same definition that also access sprite-local variables

2015-12-01

• BYOB, Blocks: Fix BlockMorph.fullCopy() for block vars

2015-11-28

• BYOB, Store: Fix some bugs related to block vars (zebra coloring etc.)

2015-11-27

• Blocks, BYOB, Store: new experimental block variables feature
• BYOB: more prototype label rendering fixes

2015-11-26

• Threads, Blocks: Performance optimizations (replace “contains” with chained tests)
• German translation update (for custom hat blocks)

2015-11-25

• Threads, Objects, GUI, Store: Generic “When” hat block
• BYOB: fixed a rendering bug when using plain prototype labels

2015-11-24

• Blocks: fix a re-rendering glitch when changing block specs in dev mode
• Threads: add optional receiver (environment) to invoke() function

2015-11-21

• Threads: Show result bubble when the user clicks on a command script that uses REPORT (You can now click on REPORT and it actually does something)

2015-12-04

• Cloud: doubled the number of supported backend slices
• Cloud, GUI: support new “raw” cloud project services

2015-11-20

• Lists: fixed linked lists identity loss when showing watchers

2015-11-17

• Blocks: fixed a zebra-coloring glitch for BooleanSlotMorph

v4.0.3 (unreleased)

2015-11-16

• Blocks, GUI: Slightly less transparency for dragged reporters and sprite icons
• new Bulgarian and Romanian translations contributed!
• fix for IE backspace and tab errors contributed!
• better resource loading mechanism contributed!

2015-11-14

• Frames, snap.html, snap_slo.html: remove initial version for now, needs more low-levelish rewrite (Map-based “shortcut” design doesn’t cut it).

2015-11-13

• Frames, snap.html: initial version of a new general purpose prototypal single inheritance object system
• snap_slo.html: alternative animation-frame based outer scheduler, experimental
• Threads: added optional timeout to the new synchronous invoke(block) function
• Blocks: fixed too brutally optimized redraw for “ringify” and “unringify”

2015-11-12

• Blocks, Objects, Threads: new internal slot type: %cl for auto-reifying C-slots that reject reporter drops. Changed (hidden) “for each” to reject reporters in C-slot

2015-11-11

• Objects: fixed a between slideBackTo() and possible running scripts in sprites, thanks, Paul, for reporting it!

2015-10-09

• Morphic: cache fullImage and fullBounds when dragging
• Blocks: make reporters semi-transparent while dragging
• GUI: make SpriteIcons semi-transparent while dragging
• Blocks: make it harder to drop reporters onto filled custom C-slots and variadic slot arrows
• Blocks: make ScriptsMorphs notice transparent clicks (addresses #997)
• Blocks: fixed “undrop” for replacing C-slots with reporters
• BYOB: fixed ctrl-f for the BlockEditor in all situations

2015-11-07

• Threads: invoke a block synchronously

2015-11-04

• Morphic: new grabTheshold preference to suppress accidental grabbing through micro-movements of the hand
• GUI: hidden (shift-click) option to adjust the grabThreshold for the current session
• Lists, Blocks: Expand list watchers inside result bubbles to show everything
• Objects: Expand list watchers inside speech/thought bubbles to show everything
• Morphic: fixed a bug that occasionally expanded the Hand’s bounds when dragging morphs

2015-11-01

• BYOB: Script pic: Always export comments attached to custom block definitions
• Blocks: fixed #982 (made %interaction slot static)
• Morphic: removed an obsolete line (“dragOrigin”)
• BYOB: make block editor big enough to show the whole definition, if possible
• BYOB: remember user-set position and size of block editor when pressing “OK”, per session (not serialized in project)
• Blocks: speed up stacking of commands (also when done programmatically) by suppressing redraws
• Morphic, Blocks, BYOB: Suppress redundant redraws

2015-10-30

• Blocks: Tweak precision of rendering of transparent “holes”
• updated Czech translation
• Morphic: Streamlined nop-stepping
• Blocks: Let SyntaxElements step (again), for better input slot editing experience

2015-10-07

• BYOB, Objects, GUI: New “Remove Unused Global Blocks” Feature
• GUI, Lists: “Export Project Summary” improvements:
  • show variable values as watcher pics
  • expand list watcher pics to show their complete contents (1. level)
  • url for shared projects
  • table of contents
  • basic support for sprite nesting and inheritance
  • make the summary “browsable” instead of editable
  • outline around sprite / stage snapshots
  • experimental hidden (shift-click) “drop-shadows” option
• GUI: Rearrange project menu, only show global blocks-related ops if there are any
• GUI: Remove URL location.hash information when loading a new project
• Store: Fix deserialization support for projects using inheritance
• German translation update

2015-10-02

• GUI, Blocks, BYOB: New “Export Project Summary” Feature, also: exporting script pics now includes attached comments
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: Key hat block and key sensor support for “any” key
• German translation update

2015-09-23

• Morphic, Objects: Improve display precision (stop rounding display coordinates)
• Added “ceiling” function, thanks, Michael
• Updated various translations

2015-09-15

• new Croatian translation. Yay!! Thanks, Zeljko Hrvoj!
• fixed #925

2015-08-14

• Blocks: fixed #907

2015-08-09

• Interlingua support, yay!! thanks, Ken Dickey!

v4.0.2

2015-08-06

• Polish & German translation updates

2015-07-30

• Blocks: improve keyboard editing for embedded rings

2015-07-28

• GUI: fixed relative urls, thanks, Michael!
• Morphic: escalate origin with “accept” and “cancel” events from text cursors
• BYOB: keep BlockEditors open when or keys are pressed
• GUI: stop keyboard editing of blocks when selecting another sprite

2015-07-27

• Polish translation update, thanks, Bartosz Leper!
• Turkish translation. Yay!! Thanks, Hakan Ataş!
• Hungarian translation. Yay!! Thanks, Makány György!
• GUI: relative-url fixes, Thanks, Michael!
• Morphic: enable exporting a screenshot of the World
• Morphic: enable more fine-grained control over dragging position correction
• Morphic: enable all Morphs to “scrollIntoView()”
• Morpic: keyboard accessibility for menus
• Objects: fixes and enhancements for nested sprites
• Blocks, Objects, BYOB, GUI: keyboard editing support
• Objects, Blocks, Threads, GUI, Store, Widgets: Prototypal inheritance for sprite-local variables
• Objects, Blocks: enable monitoring closurized non-locals and thread-temporaries (script vars of running processes)
• GUI: stage resizing handle

2015-06-26

• Morphic: Fix Inspector duplication, update documentation

v4.0.1 (unreleased)

2015-06-25

• Morphic, Objects, Blocks, XML: Optimizations and dramatic speed-up. Thanks, Nathan!!
• Objects: push maximum clone count up to 1000, tweak Note::play

2015-06-08

• Blocks: Fixed #820

2015-05-23

• BYOB: Fix encoding glitch

2015-05-21

• BYOB: Fix encoding for exported libraries of global blocks

2015-05-18

• Objects, GUI: Fix encoding for exported sprites (esp. comments)
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!!

v4.0

2015-05-01

• Morphic, Blocks: select all text when first clicking an input slot
• BYOB: indicate numeric inputs in the block prototype with the # sign
• Threads: return empty string when querying first letter of a list
• GUI: hide “save to disk” option behind shift-click again (has issues in Chrome)
• GUI: parameters for embedding projects in iFrames, thanks, Bernat!

2015-04-26

• Store: fixed #784

2015-04-15

• Threads: flush Stage>>keysPressed when prompting the user
• Objects: fixed #770

2015-03-25

• Threads: fixed #752

2015-03-15

• Store: fixed #743
• GUI, html: switch from beta to release candidate

2015-03-09

• Blocks: fixed #738
• GUI, Blocks: Only enable input caching for blocks

2015-03-06

• Blocks: fixed #736

2015-03-02

• BYOB: fixed #730

2015-02-28

• Blocks, Store, GUI: Cache inputs, accelerates evaluating recursive reporters and warped / turbo recursive commands by up to 40%
• Objects: slightly optimize warped / turbo execution
• Threads: fixed #715
• BYOB: fixed #716

2015-02-24

• Store: fixed #725

2015-02-23

• Blocks, Objects: Add user-interaction choices to the “When I am ...” hat block
• Update German translation
• Store: Avoid incompatibility warning for very old (pre-earmarked) projects

2015-02-20

• Malayam, Tamil and Telagu translations, thanks, Vinay Kumar!!
• Un-hide “Save to disk” feature (currently supported by both Chrome and Firefox, but not by Safari)
• Update German translation
• GUI: Make “project data in URLs” a hidden dev option (prevent long urls per default)

2015-02-06

• GUI: Added url switch #cloud: to open a shared project in edit mode

2015-01-28

• Objects: Fixed #710

2015-01-21

• Objects: Keep layering of nested sprites thru drag & drop
• GUI, Store, BYOB: Generate ScriptsPaneTexture programmatically
• GUI: Fix Zoom Dialog’s sample background in “flat” design
• Updated Korean and Catalan translations, thanks, Yunjae Jang and Bernat Romagosa!
• Objects: Fix speech bubbles of dragged nested sprites

2015-01-13

• BYOB: fixed #702
• GUI: fixed #680

2015-01-12

• Cloud, GUI: Backend load balancing support, eliminate now obsolete authentication roundtrip, Cloud error message tweaks
• Store: notify users of potential incompatibilities when opening projects created in other forks (e.g. BeetleBlocks)
• Threads: Don’t highlight scripts running inside clones (boosts performance), Thanks, @aranlunzer, for the hint!
• Objects: Disable clones from being edited via their context menus or double-click
• Italian translation update, thanks, Alberto Firpo!
• GUI: add additional yields to nextSteps() (work around a bug in Chrome)

2014-12-17

• Objects, Store: Experimental “processes” count watcher (hidden in dev mode)
• Threads: Remove terminated processes from expired clones
• Threads: Let “zombifying” scripts access receivers’ local vars

2014-12-15

• New Swedish translation! Yay!! Thanks, Erik A Olsson!

2014-12-11

• Threads: yield after each cycle in the experimental “forEach” primitive

2014-12-06

• Store: Fixed #668

2014-12-05

• Morphic: Avoid auto-scaling artefacts in Safari on retina displays (resulting in “traces” when dragging items)

2014-12-04

• Threads, Objects: Experimental “ForEach” primitive (hidden in dev mode)
• GUI: Another attempt at pointing the project dialog to the cloud if signed in

2014-12-03

• Morphic: Cache actual bounding box of the Pen arrow shape
• Threads, Objects: Improve edge-collision detection of default sprite “arrow” shape

2014-12-02

• New Kannada translation. Yay!! Thanks, Vinayakumar R!!

2014-12-01

• Objects: Hide hidden elements in the project thumbnail
• GUI: Point project dialog to cloud if already signed in, thanks, Michael!
• favicon: Transparent background, thanks, Michael!

2014-11-225

• Threads: Fixed #656

2014-11-225

• Threads: Evaluator optimizations (reducing the stack size for reporters)
• Threads: Full TCO (tail-call-elimination), now Snap! is Scheme :-)

2014-11-224

• Threads: Fixed #318
• Objects: Fixed #416
• Objects: Fixed #372
• Threads: Fixed #644
• Store: Fixed #34
• Threads: Fixed #131
• snap.html, favicon.ico: new Favicon, thanks, Michael!
• Threads: improved whitespace detection for “split” primitive, thanks, Michael!
• Threads: tail-call-elimination for reporters experiment (commented out, under construction)

2014-11-213

• Threads: Fix “stop this block” primitive for tail-call-elimination

2014-11-21

• Threads, Blocks: Fix STOP THIS BLOCK’s lexical awareness

2014-11-20

• Lists: Fixed #642 avoid “freezing” when calling CONS on non-list/null
• Threads: Fixed #364 avoid “freezing” when calling LAUNCH on empty ring
• Threads: Added optional “onComplete” callback to Process, thanks, @bromagosa!
• GUI: Set Default Save location to Cloud on load, thanks, @cycomachead!
• GUI: Updated the “About” Dialog with a mention of support from CDG (SAP Labs)
• BYOB: Percent sign fix for block labels, thanks, @natashasandy!
• Threads: fix ‘line’ option in ‘split’ block for Windows files, thanks, @brianharvey!
• Morphic: fix slider range 1, thanks, @tonychenr !
• translation update, thanks, Manuel!

2014-11-17

• Threads, Blocks: Treat REPORT blocks inside custom command definitions as STOP THIS BLOCK / IGNORE INPUTS

2014-11-14

• Threads, Store: Fix reporting out of nested custom C-shaped blocks

2014-11-06

• Morphic: Enable mouseMove events with right button pressed

2014-10-08

• Objects: fixed #608, #610

2014-10-06

• GUI, Objects: fixed #604. Thanks, @Gubolin!

2014-10-02

• GUI: New feature - minimal stage mode (shift-click on small-stage button)

2014-10-01

• Threads: workaround for some REPORT issues
• Objects: fixed #599 (disable IDE keyboard shortcuts in presentation mode)
• Blocks: correctly display symbol for %obj type input slots in the prototype template
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!

2014-09-30

• Objects: fixed #593 match broadcast numbers with event hat blocks containing strings that can be parsed as numbers
• BYOB: allow percent symbols in custom block texts (fix #361), thanks, @Gubolin!!
• Morphic: allow negative min/max values for sliders (fix #285), thanks, @Gubolin!!
• Objects: fixed #378 (disable context menus for boolean representations)
• Blocks: fixed #584

2014-09-29

• Threads: fixed #591 fully copy local variables for sprite duplicates and (Scratch-like) clones
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!
• fixed #590 (Russian translation syntax glitches) Thanks @alexf2000 !
• Paint: flood fill issue fixed, thanks, Kartik!

2014-09-22

• Blocks: Make upvars mutable
• GUI: fixed #585 (sprite name conflict with stage). Thanks, Michael, for the report!

2014-09-18

• Threads: fixed #174, replace UpvarReferences with references to Variable objects, fixes upvar scope issues

2014-09-17

• Threads, Objects, Store: Refactor variables handling, introducing Variable objects, all functionality stays the same

2014-08-13

• Threads, Blocks: enable Zombiefication of JS-Functions
• Morphic: Fix #563 (Paste into Chrome), thanks, @Muon, for the hint!

2014-07-30

• Objects: propagate HIDE and SHOW to nested sprite parts
• GUI: propagate DELETE to nested sprite parts
• Blocks, Threads: export script pic with result bubble (shift-context-menu of reporter scripts)
• updated Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!

2014-07-29

• fixed #526, thanks, Bernat, for reporting it!
• Objects, GUI: duplicate and clone nested sprites
• GUI, Store: export and import nested sprites
• Objects: double clicking on a sprite in the stage selects it in the IDE
• Objects: added ‘move’ option to the sprite context menu, lets the user move (nested) sprites in edit mode without changing their layering, and also sprites marked “undraggable”
• updated Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!
• updated German translation
• Morphic: fixed #497 (prevent bubble shadows from getting cut-off)
• Blocks: keep result-bubbles within the enclosing scripting pane

2014-07-28

• Lists: fixed "Load Failed Type Error Cannot read property 'isLinked' of null"
• Threads: enable “JS function” block to create custom control structures and HOFs

2014-07-25

• Objects, Threads: new “JavaScript function” primitive. Go figure…
• GUI: updated Credits

2014-07-24

• Objects: fixed “lost sprites bug” - ensure duplicated sprites keep wearing their current costume through save and re-load
• GUI, Objects: improve unique sprite- and costume names
• Threads: Display “empty” Contexts (e.g. continuations) as empty rings

2014-07-23

• Objects: Scale down oversized images to current stage dimensions. Thanks, Dan, for reporting this!

2014-07-22

• Objects, Threads: fixed #521 (deleting variable watchers by dropping them on the palette results in wrong ones to be created when showing them again)

2014-07-21

• fixed #518

2014-07-18

• Lists: incorporate Brian’s adhoc fixes, thanks, Brian!
• GUI: Use new mechanism for unique costume names on the paint editor, renamed costumes and costumes dragged and dropped onto sprite icons
• add “letter” option to the split block’s list of delimiters, Thanks, Michael!
• update German translation

2014-07-17

• new translation into Bangla (Bengali)!!! Yay, thanks, Mokter!!
• Lists: make internal list ops iterative (instead of recursive), thanks, Brian!
• Objects, Blocks: new feature (hidden in dev mode): Save screenshot, thanks, Viraj!
• GUI: Use new mechanism for unique costume names on imported costumes as well

2014-07-11

• Morphic: keyboard shortcut ctrl/cmd-shift-a for ‘@‘
• Morphic: allow directly editing properties in inspector widgets
• Blocks: change the color of the %pause symbol to be more yellowish
• Threads: fixed #506, thanks @haritop, for both the report and for providing the fix!!
• GUI: fixed #412 (incomplete sprite-removal)
• GUI: fixed #507 (limit persistent block zoom to 12x), thanks Michael!
• Morphic, GUI, Objects: fixed #508 (don’t popup empty menus), thanks Michael!

2014-07-08

• Threads: show error messages for custom blocks (propagating to the script’s top block)
• Threads: adjust to Doug Crockford’s latest infuriating nitpickings in JSLint
• GUI: show username in ‘logout’ entry of cloud menu
• GUI, Objects: fixed scrolling glitch in the palette, thanks, Kunal!
• GUI, Objects: add keyboard shortcut for “new project”: ctr-n
• revert changes made for JSLint’s sake after the issue was fixed in JSLint
• Blocks: change “delete” behavior in context menus to only delete this particular blocks (and reconnect the next block to the previous one)
• fixed #490

2014-07-06

• Blocks: add “ringify” to every context menu that already has “unringify”

2014-06-23

• Morphic: Inspector enhancements (dynamic property update, keyboard shortcuts)
• GUI: update visibility of share/unshare buttons, Thanks, Kunal!

2014-06-05

• Objects: gracefully hide & show the stage, fixed #281
• Objects: add hide and show blocks to the stage’s “looks” category
• Objects: added more relabelling options to SAY and THINK variants
• Blocks, objects: enable relabelling blocks with C-Slots
• Blocks: enable relabelling blocks across categories
• Objects: more relabelling options for SAY, THINK, ASK
• BYOB, Blocks: relabelling custom blocks (experimental)

2014-06-05

• Objects: stop replacing the empty string with the number zero in watchers
• Threads: initialize new variables with zero (instead of null)
• Objects: fixed #465
• Objects: fixed #457

2014-06-04

• Blocks: refactor “script pics” feature
• BYOB: new scriptsPicture() method for custom block definitions
• GUI: new (hidden) feature: “Export all scripts as pic” (including custom block refs)
• Graphic effects!!! Yay, thanks, Yuan!
• Bug fixes from Nathan, yay, thanks, Nathan!!
• German translation update
• Paint Editor transforms, yay, thanks, Kartik!!

2014-05-26

• Objects: Fixed #445 (minor search + zoom issues)
• Localization additions and Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!
• GUI, cloud: Show last-changed-timestamp when opening cloud projects

2014-05-20

• Morphic: Prevent default action for ctrl-/cmd-key event
• Snap.html: Focus the world canvas on startup, so Snap reacts to keyboard events right away
• Threads: new Variable data structure, for refactoring upvar references, not yet used anywhere
• Objects, GUI: Search Blocks, feature. Thanks, Kyle, for architecting and designing this!!!
• Objects, GUI: Keyboard-shortcuts for opening (cmd-o), saving (cmd-s) projects and for finding blocks (cmd-f)

2014-05-02

• error message when trying to import a non-text file into a variable, thanks, Nate!
• fixed #407 (custom-block coloring w/ zebra off)

2014-04-30

• new Finnish translation, yay! Thanks, Jouni!
• new Brazilian Portuguese translation, yay! Thanks, Aldo!
• Russian translation update
• Portuguese translation update
• additional localisations, thanks, Manuel!
• text-encoding fix for exporting variable contents, thanks, Blob!
• set turbo mode block fix, thanks, Michael and Nathan!
• enable storage and retrieval of first-class costumes in both file formats

2014-03-31

• Objects: experimental “wardrobe” and “jukebox” reporters in dev mode
• Blocks, Objects: display costume thumbnails in speech/thought/value bubbles and watcher cells
• Objects: let “switch to costume” block accept actual costume objects (in addition to names and numbers)

2014-02-13

• GUI, Store: constrain minimum stage size to 480 x 180
• GUI: Fixed #322, #324
• Widgets: new “promptVector” dialog box feature
• GUI: Use new vector prompter for stage dimensions
• German translation update

2014-02-11

• GUI: Set stage dimensions arbitrarily (new entries in the settings menu when holding shift)
• Store: Saving & Loading for arbitrary stage dimensions in the project data
• new Date block, thanks, Michael!!!

2014-02-05

• Objects, Paint: One-stop-shopping for stage dimensions (changing the stage dimensions in line 3720 of objects.js takes care of everything)

2014-02-04

• GUI: Import costumes and backgrounds from the project menu, thanks, Brian, for the changeset!
• GUI: Import sounds from the project menu, thanks, Brian, for the changeset!
• Objects, Store, GUI: Flat line end option in the settings menu, saved with the project
• German translation update
• Objects: Enable playing sounds and notes on Firefox, thanks, Dean Brettle, for this fix!!
• Update Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!
• Update French translation, thanks, grego!

2014-02-03

• Threads: Fixed #313. “Block of sprite” now works for interpolated (“timed”) blocks and for reporters (i.e. SAY FOR, THINK FOR, GLIDE, ASK etc.)
• Morphic: replace deprecated DOM “body” references with “documentElement”

2014-01-10

• Threads: Revert pull request #295 (xhr-headers), breaks existing installations
• BYOB: Fixed #292 (pulldowns loose lines when exported as library)
• BYOB: Fixed #291 (readonly custom menus become non-readonly when block is edited)

2014-01-09

• Objects: Mechanism for migrating blocks in existing projects to newer versions
• Blocks, Objects, Threads: Collapse old STOP primitives into a single one with a dropdown of options
• German translation update for new (migrated) STOP block
• Morphic: Fixed updateReferences() (how could nobody notice so long?!)
• XML: resolved unexpected assignment expressions (conform to the latest JSLint quibbles)
• validated all source files against the latest JSLint version

2014-01-08

• Threads, Blocks, Objects: The FOR reporter’s first input now also accepts blocks and scripts („rings“), and reports a copy that is bound to the sprite indicated by the second input. This lets you „zombify“ (or remote-control) sprites (and create custom TELL and ASK blocks)
• Blocks: initial support for „sensing“ sprite-only custom block definitions, commented out for now
• Paint: Add mouseLeaveDragging() event behavior, thanks, Kartik, for this fix!
• Objects: Only shrink-wrap sprite costumes, thanks, Kartik, for this fix!
• Threads: Added xhr-headers to HTTP block, thanks, Tim!
• Threads, Blocks, Objects: Added StopOthers primitive, thanks, Kartik!
• Added „all but this option“ to StopOthers primitive, fixed the implementation
• Updated German translation with new strings

2013-12-19

• Objects: stage watchers for „mouse x“ and „mouse y“ sensing reporters. Thanks, Michael!
• Store: fixed saving/loading/localisation of new mouse coordinate stage watchers

2013-12-12

• Objects, Morphic: fixed #277, #279 (blitting null-canvasses fails)

2013-12-11

• Threads: accept lists as inputs to the green (text) LENGTH OF reporter

2013-12-05

• Threads: fixed literal-to-non-literal zero-value comparison bug
• Objects: fixed #264 (mapped <ctrl-enter> to green-flag instead of <enter>)

2013-12-04

• Threads: handle text comparisons case-insensitive (again)
• Lists: harmonize equality testing and List CONTAINS testing
• French translation update, thanks, Martin!
• Threads: fixed #261 (less tolerant null-value-to-number-coercion)

2013-11-26

• Cloud: fixed #125 (encode email address when signing up), thanks, Nathan!
• Threads: fixed #207 (stricter comparison of strings vs. numbers). Some edge cases remain, such as empty string equals zero and disregarding trailing / leading blanks. These are intentional. Please don’t nitpick and spare me the fundamentalism :-)
• Threads: fixed #245 (consistently auto-convert empty strings to zeroes)
• Localization and Portuguese translation updates, thanks, Manuel!
• Catalan translation update, thanks, Bernat!!
• Threads: Text comparisons are now case-sensitive („fixes“ #175)
• Threads: fixed #179 - don’t identify primitive (static) C-Slots as implicit formal parameters
• Threads: fixed #249 - preserve variable value types with edge cases (empty string, Boolean false)
• Threads: fixed #133 - preserve edge-cased argument types (empty string, Boolean false)
• Fixed issue #244 (relabelling now preserves empty input slots), thanks, Nathan!

2013-11-22

• Morphic: Don’t trigger events for eclipsed morphs (whose parent-chain contains a hidden morph)
• Blocks: Prevent „hide“ menu option for non-palette template blocks
• new Catalan translation! Yay, thanks, Bernat Romagosa Carrasquer!!

2013-11-15

• Blocks, BYOB, Store: „read-only“ option for editable custom block input slots
• BYOB, Blocks: custom block input slots reverting to default now show their default value
• Blocks: fixed read-only input slot coloring glitch, thanks Bernat, for reporting it!
• Objects: fixed #231 (watcher-display of Booleans)

2013-11-12

• Blocks, BYOB, Store: customizable drop-down menus for input slots
• Objects: fixed wrong NaN display for variable watchers
• Blocks: left-align multi-line text in value-bubbles
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!

2013-11-07

• GUI, Cloud: transmission integrity check

2013-11-04

• GUI: filter quotation marks from project names (for backend index)
• BYOB: only show symbol menu for label fragments
• BYOB: customizable drop-down menus for input slots (experimental, commented out)

2013-10-25

• Blocks: enable Costumes as Symbols and Symbols as custom block label parts
• BYOB: Symbol selection menu for BlockLabelFragmentMorphs
• Portuguese translation update
• Widgets: enable Symbols in InputField drop down menus
• BYOB: enable Symbols in InputSlotDialog Morph’s drop down menu

2013-10-17

• Threads: fixed #213 - Empty else block breaks return to caller

2013-10-15

• Morphic: further condense damage list by merging nearby rectangles, thanks, Craxic!

2013-10-14

• Morphic: Condense damage list by merging overlapping dirty rectangles, thanks, Craxic!
• Objects: Increase maximum clone count from 128 to 300
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!!

2013-10-10

• Cloud: added "sanity check" to cloud-saving mechanism that errors if the serialized project data is corrupt and cannot be parsed as XML, addresses #203, #200, #171

2013-10-09

• Theads: added a variant for linked lists to the experimental MAP primitive reporter

2013-10-08

• Lists: fixed type-issue for linked list indices (thanks, Nate, for reporting it!)
• Threads, Objects: experimental MAP primitive reporter in lists category, visible in dev mode
• Blocks: fixed #199 (can't delete reporter with attached comment via context menu)

2013-10-04

• Threads: Type-check the SPLIT block's input before eval'ing it
• Objects: Prevent watcher cells from growing wider as their contents becomes taller
• Objects: Keep watchers onstage when hiding/showing them, fixes #195
• BYOB, GUI, locale: New preference setting for plain block prototype labels

2013-10-01

• Objects: smooth numerical values displayed in watchers

2013-09-30

• Blocks: fixed #186 (can't duplicate blocks with anchored comments)

2013-09-20

• Morphic: fixed #172, Rectangle.amountToTranslateWithin() for IF ON EDGE, BOUNCE

2013-09-18

• Objects, GUI: prevent costumes with CORS-tainted canvases, expected to fix #155, #154, #151, #148, #147, #127 for future projects
• BYOB: Prevent local custom blocks in global custom block definitions, fixes #167 for future projects

2013-09-19

• Objects: fixed #169 (sprites are sometimes off-placed when the project is loaded)
• Objects, GUI: fixed #146 (filter out empty costumes)

2013-09-17

• Cloud: encodeDict() fix and new parseDict() method - used for accessing shared projects
• GUI: fixed #119, #149 (accessing a shared projects requires lowercasing the username)
• Portuguese translation update for SPLIT block, thanks, Manuel!
• Store, Objects: prevent costumes from being drawn while they are loading, fixes parts of #154

2013-09-16

• new Danish translation, yay!! thanks, Morten and Hanne!
• new Greek translation, yay!! thanks, Ino!
• Portuguese translation update, thanks, Manuel!
• French translation update,
• Norwegian translation update
• threads: minor custom block evaluation scope fix
• paint: flood fill freeze fix, thanks for the contribution, Kartik!
• objects: new SPLIT primitive reporter
• German translation update for new SPLIT primitive and delimiter options
• GUI: getPublicProject adjustments (lowercase username)
• GUI: prompt() - invocation fixes (null-choices)
• GUI: synchronous URL fetching simplifications for libraries and example projects
• GUI: fixed #115 - prevent loading several instances of the same block definition

2013-08-17

• Norwegian translation, yay!! thanks, Olav Marschall!
• "Dynamic" library list, thanks, Brian

2013-08-14

• Traditional Chinese translation, yay!! thanks, Chu-Ching-Huang!

2013-08-12

• Objects, Threads: Nestable Sprites Collision Detection & fixes
• Dutch translation update

2013-08-10

• Objects, GUI: Nestable Sprites fixes
• German translation update

2013-08-09

• GUI: Nested Sprite Rotation style buttons on corral icons
• Store, Objects: Nested Sprite saving / loading

2013-08-08

• Objects: Nested Sprite Scaling
• Objects: Nested Sprite Rotation
• Objects: Nested Sprite synchronous / independent rotation
• Dutch translation update, thanks, Sjoerd Dirk Meijer!

2013-08-07

• Objects, GUI: Sprite Nesting preliminaries
• Objects: Fixed stage costume scaling & misplacing bug. Thanks, Josh, for the report!
• Objects, GUI: Sprite Nesting GUI
• Objects: Nested Sprite Motion

2013-08-05

• Polish translation, yay!! Thanks, Witek Kranas!
• Morphic: mouseEnterDragging fix

2013-08-02

• Blocks: Undrop Reporters feature tweaks
• Blocks: Undrop Comments feature
• Blocks: Undrop Commands feature
• German translation update (for Undrop feature)

2013-08-01

• Blocks, Threads: "whitespace" & other options in SPLIT reporter's dropdown
• Blocks: Italicize editable input options (e.g. for the SPLT block)
• Blocks: Undrop Reporters feature (in script areas' context menus)

2013-07-31

• Blocks, Threads, Objects: experimental text SPLIT primitive in the operators category

2013-07-30

• Blocks: Made it harder to drop reporters on the variadic input per se (as opposed to into one of its slots) in (default) "prefer empty slot drops" setting
• Blocks, Threads, Objects: PAUSE primitive command block
• GUI: fixed #104 (storing a cloud project under another name causes media loss)

2013-07-24

• Dutch translation, yay!! Thanks, Frank Sierens

2013-07-15

• Objects: increased palette's vertical growth by scrollBarSize
• Objects, Blocks, Threads: experimental text-function primitive (hidden, shown only in dev mode)

2013-07-13

• Paint: fixed pipette tool for floodfill

2013-07-12

• Blocks: Pipette symbol
• Paint: Pipette tool

2013-07-11

• Blocks: fixed occasional flickering in scripting areas (caused by deleted feedback morphs, a bug that surfaced in Chrome 28 on OSX and may be due to a possible Chrome GC issue)
• Blocks: preserve nested blocks in the scripting area when replacing a variadic input list with another input ("kick out" the nested blocks instead of "swallowing" them)
• Blocks, Threads: new floor() function in monadic math reporter's drop-down

2013-07-10

• GUI: Reset hidden primitives and code mappings upon loading a new project

2013-07-09

• Objects, Blocks, Threads: Collapsed codification primitives (code, header) into a single block
• Blocks: Added isEmptySlot() to BooleanArgMorph (thanks, Brian, for the bug report!)

2013-07-08

• Store: fixed serialization placement-bug for sprites

2013-07-05

• Blocks: fixed CommentMorph hiding/showing bug when switching to / from presentation mode

2013-07-04

• Codification (text code mapping and block header support)

2013-07-02

• Objects: took out "security margin" in Costume's shrinkWrap() method b/c Chrome no longer needs it -> fixed empty costume bug when drawing over the paint editor's bounds
• GUI: Import libraries feature (in the project menu)

2013-06-28

• Morphic, GUI: improved importing costumes by dragging in pictures from other web pages

2013-06-27

• Objects: fixed speech bubble scaling when sprite is not onstage (reported in the forums)

2013-06-26

• GUI: fixed #100 saving costumes to the cloud

2013-06-25

• Widgets, Blocks: code mapping dialog input is now multi-line monospaced

2013-06-24

• Objects, Blocks: pretty printing for mapped code, now supporting Python mappings

2013-06-21

• Morphic, Blocks: "flat" design fix: Handle manually "unshadowed" StringMorphs
• Objects, Blocks: %code input slot - multi-line, monospaced, type-in slot for code mappings

2013-06-20

• GUI: add code mapping preference to persistent settings
• Blocks, BYOB, Lists, Objects: "flat" design enhancements for blocks and watchers
• Blocks: Multi-line input slots (TextSlotMorphs - %mlt)
• Objects: doMapCode() primitive now uses a multi-line input slot

2013-06-19

• Store: persisting code mappings in project and block library files

2013-06-18

• Code mapping (generating textual code from blocks), first iteration

2013-06-06

• BYOB: Newly created custom reporters now have an initial default REPORT block as definition body

• Morphic: focus World canvas on mouse down (otherwise prevent default)

2013-06-05

• Objects: fix for hiding 'getLastAnswer' and 'getTimer' primitives

2013-06-04

• Morphic: Prevent undesired native dragstart events (introduced in Chrome 27)

2013-05-17

• GUI: user preferences (settings) are now made persistent in localStorage

2013-05-16

• "flat" GUI design preference (in the settings menu)

2013-05-15

• Objects: Costume shrinkWrap adjustments
• Morphic: Flat design preference introduced (default is off)
• Widgets: preparing for "flat GUI skins"

2013-05-14

• paint.js: Paint editor, first version, contributed by Kartik Chandra, Yay!!
• Threads, Objects, Blocks: Broadcast & message enhancements: When I receive <any msg>, and getLastMessage reporter + watcher

2013-05-10

• Reset Password via e-mailed link (frontend only)

2013-05-06

• Reset Password feature (frontend only)

2013-04-30

• Objects: Costume shrink-wrapping
• Morphic: Allow triggers to be dragged if so specified (#83)
• GUI: select dragged costume
• Blocks: eraser symbol for paint editor
• Morphic: ScrollFrame scrollY() fix (fixes #24)

2013-04-29

• Blocks: symbols for solid rectangles and circles

2013-04-27

• Blocks: paint bucket symbol
• highlight adjustments when merging scripts (#70)

2013-04-26

• Morphic: ensure unique World stamps
• Blocks: symbols for paint editor

2013-04-25

• Objects, Blocks, GUI, Store: Hide primitives feature
• Morphic: Introducing World.stamp as reference in multi-World setups
• Widgets: restore multi-dialog restrictions for multi-world setups
• Translation update for "hide primitives" feature

2013-04-24

• Widgets, BYOB, GUI: prevent multiple block editors on the same block definition, allow multiple dialogs on different objects, handle dialog instances in DialogBoxMorph.prototype

2013-04-23

• Lists, Objects: Circularity no longer breaks watchers
• Widgets: Multiple Dialogs of the same kind are prevented except for a few (e.g. BlockEditor). Thanks for this fix, Nathan! (and for the many little UI things you've fixed as well)
• German translation update

2013-04-22

• GUI: Double clicking support for cloud side of project dialog

2013-04-21

• using the percent character in variable names is now safe (fixes Github issue #65)
• Morphic: added Doubleclick support, example: inspectors
• GUI: Double clicking a project in the project dialog performs the dialog's action on it (open / save)

2013-04-19

• German translation update for "scripts pic" feature

2013-04-18

• plenty of bug fixes from Nathan. Yay, you go!!

2013-04-17

• Blocks: "scripts pic" option in the ScriptsMorph's userMenu lets you export a picture of all scripts (including comments)

2013-04-16

• Cloud, GUI: additional dev settings

2013-04-15

• Blocks: place sticky comments on World layer on dragging their anchor block

2013-04-12

• Lists: fix for typecasting bug in CONTAINS
• BYOB: Tooltips for custom block templates (sitting in the palette): mousing over a custom block in the palette pops up its definition hat comment in a comment-colored speech bubble
• GUI: Sharing/Unsharing/Deleting now available in all version of the project dialog

2013-04-11

• Morphic: virtual keyboard enhancements (see Morphic.js)
• GUI: disabled localStorage (as in I9 running locally) no longer prevents Snap! from loading

2013-04-10

• Fixes for type casting and dragging dialogs by buttons, thanks, Nathan!
• Fix for loading shared projects in different formats (cloud data and plain project data)

2013-04-09

• various formatting and encoding normalizations
• Morphic: Formatting options for Triggers and MenuItems (and ListItems): bold, italic
• Morphic: ListMorph (items) manipulation capabilites
• GUI: display shared project names bold typed in the project dialog
• GUI: Feedback msg when sharing / unsharing projects
• GUI: Shield (hide) IDE while opening a shared project for presentation
• GUI: Support for debugging shared projects

2013-04-08

• Cloud, GUI: Sharing / Unsharing projects finalization
• Lists: Adjust initial list watcher size to blocks' zoom scale
• Portuguese and Italian translations update, thanks, Manuel and Stefano!
• GUI fix: switch to edit mode and tab to scripts when loading a project,
• Objects: new feature (hidden in shift-clicked stage context menu): turn pen trails into new costume

2013-04-05

• renaming variable blobs now features a drop-down with reachable variable names and a picture of the block to be renamed

2013-04-04

• loading shared projects in presentation mode, exporting URL for shared projects
• Selecting "Help" for a custom block now pops up the comment attached to its definition's prototype hat, if any
• BYOB fix for detaching comments from prototype hat blocks

2013-04-03

• YPR converter fix: No more text area in upper left corner of the Snap! IDE
• Blocks, BYOB, Store: PrototypeHatBlocks in the BlockEditor accept anchored comments

2013-04-02

• Japanese translations update, thanks, Kazuhiro Abe!
• Content-type support for Cloud backend
• sharing / unsharing projects support and GUI
• the Block Editor now allows anchored comments
• duplicating a block / script / sprite now also duplicates anchored comments
• deleting a block / script now also deletes anchored comments

2013-03-25

• Spanish translation! Yay, thanks, Victor Muratalla!!
• Objects: Boolean value block representations are now translated, thanks, Victor, for the report
• Simplified Chinese translation update, thanks 邓江华 !!

2013-03-22

• Widgets: optional sliders and "lively" graphics for numerical prompters
• Blocks, GUI: "Zoom blocks…" feature in the settings menu (no longer hidden)
• Objects: numeric prompters for watcher's sliderMin/Max
• translation updates
• Objects: 'pic…' screenshot feature for the stage
• GUI, Cloud: Fallback message support before showing an error

2013-03-21

• Cloud: allow every XMLHttpRequest to transport cookies (withCredentials = true)

2013-03-20

• GUI: deactivated motd and cloudmsg mechanism for now (has some issues)
• Updated Portuguese translation, thanks, Manuel!
• Updated all translations for %keyHat and %msgHat specs
• YPR: fixed turnLeft / turnRight swap bug

2013-03-19

• Blocks: SyntaxElementMorph fixLayout() optimization for active highlights
• Russian translation!! Yay, thanks, Svetlana Ptashnaya!!
• Store, GUI, Blocks: Scaling support for Comments and serialization/deserialization
• GUI: motd support: On startup Snap! looks for http://snap.berkeley.edu/motd.txt, if it exists it is shown in a dialog box
• GUI: fix for #run: URL switch
• GUI: cloudmsg support: cloud related notifications can be put into http://snap.berkeley.edu/cloudmsg.txt

2013-03-18

• GUI, Blocks, BYOB, Widgets: Scaling Blocks and Scripts (shift-click on settings menu)
• Widets: numerical prompts
• GUI: #signup URL switch
• Blocks: adjusting highlights when modifying active scripts

2013-03-14

• GUI: When logged into the Cloud, "cloud" becomes default in the project dialog
• Store: local custom blocks can now store their definition receiver directly as value (avoiding turning them into "Obsolete!" blocks when re-opening the project), this is important for reified blocks assigned to variables elsewhere, and such for the part of OOP we can already do now.

2013-03-13

• Store: context receiver persistence fix (for reified scripts)
• Threads: Execute reified blocks in the callee's context (not in the caller's)

2013-03-12

• Threads: OR, AND are now special form primitives ("lazy")
• Threads: fix for minor pen optimization glitch (catching the stage)
• Lists, Objects: Resizing list watchers no longer makes them "tremble"

2013-03-11

• Czech translation update, thanks, Michael!
• Morphic: "pic..." fix for scroll panes, thanks, Davide!
• Morphic fix: Clicking on editable text once again moves the caret to the mouse cursor

2013-02-28

• "Updating..." message while updating the cloud project list
• Morphic: Clipboard "paste" text support (works currently only in Chrome)

2013-02-27

• Morphic: onNextStep and nextSteps() mechanism
• GUI, Cloud: Ersatz-progress-bar-messages, using nextSteps()

2013-02-25

• Extended Signup dialog (COPPA-conforming, I hope)
• Morphic: mouse click event bubbling for input fields
• Widgets: Optional drop-downs for input fields

2013-02-22

• Objects: Fix for playNote distortion issue in Chrome

2013-02-21

• Cloud work: Connect / Reconnect mechanism and password hashing "salt"
• Exporting SVG_Costumes

2013-02-18

• SVG_Costumes (partial)
• Cloud work
• scaling during WARP glitch fix

2013-02-15

• Store: Sprites are now first class stored objects (can be "values"), needed for OF block
• Blocks, GUI, Threads: "Turtle" and "Empty" costume names, gosh, Brian!
• Threads: Error messages fix

2013-02-14

• clone drop-down menu fix (removed "close" entry)
• auto switching to small stage mode if the window gets narrow. Commented out b/c I don't like it
• changed costume name 'Turtle' to 'default'
• link to s.b.e/tos.html in signup dialog
• "Save project to disk" experimental feature (works currently only in Chrome)
• RUN variable OF sprite fix

2013-02-13

• GUI, Widgets: Cloud frontend complete
• OF reporter block in the sensor palette (Scratch functionality, not yet BYOB)
• CLONE block now takes sprite name or 'myself' as input, drop-down menu
• FAST TRACKING renamed to TURBO MODE
• unscheduled execution again made the default.
• "Prefer smooth animations" setting, runs strictly scheduled at around 30 fps max.
• scheduling mode saved in project data
• Settings menu clean-up
• Input slots in Hat blocks are now static (cannot receive reporters drops)

2013-02-11

• Fixed / Variable Frame Rate option in the settings menu (default is fixed, as in Scratch)

2013-02-05

• Cloning collision detection refinements, still very experimental

2013-02-05

• Cloning, basic Scratch style, still very experimental

2013-02-04

• fast tracking, a.k.a. "Turbo Mode"

2013-02-02

• Morphic, Objects, GUI, Store: "turtle costume pen" options (tip, middle)

2013-02-01

• Blocks: Context-menu-delete fix for CommandBlocks inside C-Slots: userDestroy()
• Morphic: Pen-redraw() optimization for warp() fix
• Cloud: Dual-component project optimization
• GUI: <enter> key now works with ProjectDialog

2013-01-29

• Cloud: persistent log-in and auto-log-in
• GUI, Widgets: Cloud work...
• Morphic: "pic..." generic exporting feature

2013-01-25

• Morphic: Better padding support for ScrollFrames
• Morphic: Better resizing & re-rendering support for Menus and ListMorphs
• Morphic: Inspection improvements for Menus and ListMorphs
• Morphic: Text scrolling improvements (scrollCursorIntoView())
• Widgets: Rendering improvements for InputFields
• BYOB: changed all 'Ok' occurrences to 'OK'
• Threads, Lists: JOIN zero / false bug fix
• GUI: new ProjectDialogMorph

2013-01-23

• Import / Export text files from variable watchers (context menu)
• Max. size of displayed text in CellMorphs and value bubbles set to 500 characters

2013-01-22

• Symbols for local storage and for examples
• Cannot evaluate to null or undefined within an argument -> use empty string instead

2013-01-21

• Threads: No more type coercion when setting a variable's value, instead only when incrementing it

2013-01-18

• new YPR version. Thanks, Nathan!
• Blocks: fixed "sometimes list watchers can be dragged out of value feedback bubbles"
• BYOB/Blocks: fixed restoring existing inputs and upvar names when editing custom blocks

2013-01-17

• "Reference Manual" entry in the Snap! Menu
• BYOB: Editing custom-block-prototypes only changes the prototype in the block editor (no longer every instance of the block), pressing OK or APPLY propagates changes to all block instances, pressing CANCEL does nothing (no longer reverts previously edited slots in instances back to their default state)

2013-01-16

• Store, GUI: Cloud Data Format support
• Lists: CONS fix for zero CAR value

2013-01-15

• Threads, Blocks: Continuations tweaks (enabling reporter - CATCH / THROW)

2013-01-11

• Morphic: StringMorph leftClick event error catch

2013-01-10

• "input list:" (with colon)
• Blocks: Drawn symbols for TURN RIGHT / LEFT
• continuations tweaks
• revert of "returning 'undefined' to parent frame fix" (121204), breaks call/cc
• ScriptPane cleanUp tweak for attached comments

2013-01-08

• Blocks: ArgLabelMorph. Dynamic labels for "kicked out" variadic inputs ("input list")
• Dynamic input label support in BLOCKS, STORE, THREADS, BYOB, GUI and LOCALE
• Blocks, BYOB: Zebra coloring fix for rings in grey blocks

2013-01-07

• Slovenian translation!! Yay, thanks, Sasa!!! (Snap now supports a dozen languages!)
• list-colored drop "halo" for variadic inputs
• most modules: space / tab white space reformatting
• help screens!! Thanks, Brian!!!
• help screen API for custom blocks (currently only for the tools library)
• importing libraries is now "silent", i.e. it doesn't show a dialog letting you select which blocks to import anymore.

2012-12-19

• Threads, Cloud: switched most XMLHttpRequests to asynchronous (except URL switches)
• Morphic: Allow StringMorphs to hide their characters for password input
• Widgets: Login-Prompter
• cloud api work

2012-12-17

• cloud api work
• Morphic: auto-text selection fix
• all modules: replaced tabs for spaces
• "Clean up" now arranges sticky comments correctly

2012-12-13

• "elastic" anchor lines for sticky comments
• cloud api work

2012-12-11

• better alignment for sticky comments
• cloud api work

2012-12-10

• Sticky comments (attachable to blocks in main scripting area)

2012-12-08

• Objects: SAY nothing bug fix. Thanks, Brian!

2012-12-07

• Blocks: Drop target feedback for comments (in preparation for sticky ones)
• Objects: redraw turtle on pen color change, disable clicking on watchers

2012-12-05

• Morphic: trigger "reactToEdit()" when tabbing among text fields
• GUI: display tool's name when importing the module

2012-12-04

• Morphic: text element mouse event propagation fix (list boxes)
• Lists: Empty list element follow-up fix
• Threads: Returning "undefined" to parent frame fix (caused type errors)

2012-12-03

• GUI, BYOB: tools module can be imported from the project menu
• Morphic: enhancement for editing non-left-aligned texts
• Morphic: minor text element fix for initial mouse down behavior
• Lists, Objects: text elements in list watcher cells are now editable
• Lists fix: comparing something with a non-existent list element no longer produces an infinite loop, thanks, Aleks, for reporting this!
• dynamically load ypr.js when first needed
• minor translation strings updates

2012-11-29

• Store: Cloud Data Format now references media by its name, obliterating the need to re-save media when reordering wardrobes or jukeboxes, but relying on unique names (within each sprite or the stage)
• Store: serializing / de-serializing of media in different receptacles
• Morphic: CTR-Z / CMD-Z for undo in text input fields
• Morphic: SHIFT-arrows selects text in input fields
• Morphic: new global method sizeOf(object) returns number of keys
• Morphic: redundant (quasi-inherited) code taken out of TextMorph
• GUI: "hasChangedMedia" property for IDE_Morph (Cloud Data Format support)
• GUI: When a sprite's current costume is deleted, it switches to the default one

2012-11-28

• Morphic: Interactive Tooltips ("isClickable" and resizing support for SpeechBubbleMorphs)
• Blocks: list watchers inside evaluation bubbles are now interactive
• Store: The user-edited name for the stage is now persistent
• Store: Cloud Data Format fix - mediaIDs are now independent of sprite sorting and layer
• French translation update

2012-11-27

• Morphic: SpeechBubbleMorph shadow artefact fix
• Morphic: Backtab support & entry field tabbing ("wrapping") fix
• Objects: List watchers inside speech bubbles are resizable again
• Store, GUI: Cloud data formats (separating media from program data)
• Store: Fix for saved "obsolete" blocks (projects can be re-loaded)
• new Operators primitive: IS IDENTICAL TO?
• new translation string for new primitive
• Simplified Chinese translation update
• BYOB, Objects: global custom block refresh fix

2012-11-23

• Blocks: C-Slot rendering fix (eliminate occasional transparent line)
• Store, GUI: Beginnings of the Cloud data format (in progress...)

2012-11-22

• Blocks: right click delete reporter fix (restores slot), thanks, Ryan!
• Blocks: restore zero-value default fix
• Objects Fix: Variable blobs become undraggable on save / load. Thanks, Ryan!
• Morphic: enable all keys for text input (take out legacy browser support)
• new "Animations" option in the settings menu
• zooming the stage in & out now animates depending on the user's preference

2012-11-21

• Morphic: fixed reactToEdit() event trigger -> fixes scrambled sprite names
• Threads: hide / show variable watcher fix for watchers on globals
• Threads: Process reentrancy fix for played notes in non-thread-safe mode
• Store: global watcher load fix
• Store: Sprite ordering fix for Safari
• Objects / GUI / Blocks: fix for "relabel"

2012-11-20

• major refactoring of blocks dict and blocks generation code
• new "show all entry in the stage's context menu

2012-11-19

• blocks context menu: duplicate "this block only" feature
• blocks context menu: relabel feature
• blocks context menu: ringify / unringify misplacement fix
• Morphic: MenuItem icon shadow dimension adjustments
• store: fixes STOP ALL block spec
• added some more translation strings
• updated Korean translation

2012-11-16

• Esperanto translation! Woohoooo, thanks Sebastian Cyprych!
• a few additional localizable strings
• store.js: "Obsolete!" Reporter fix, thanks, Nathan!
• Morphic.js: support for dropped binary files
• .ypr project loading, Whoa! Awesome, Nathan!!
• French translation stub! Thanks, Jean-Jacques Valliet!

2012-11-15

• WARP block moved up in Control palette (for better discoverability)

2012-11-14

• first experimental Web Audio API version, sine-wave only. Thanks, Achal!
• new blocks: TEMPO, REST FOR n BEATS, PLAY NOTE, CHANGE TEMPO, SET TEMPO
• currently only fully supported by Safari

2012-11-12

• Simplified Chinese translation! Wohoo, thanks, 邓江华 !

2012-11-09

• Widgets: fixed minor rendering bugs for dialog boxes
• GUI, Blocks: changed control bar layout, added cloud button (under construction...)
• new module stub: cloud.js (likewise under construction)

2012-11-07

• Morphic: new slider edit event, updated documentation (text editing)
• blocks, GUI: New "Execute on slider change" option for "live coding"

2012-11-06

• Morphic: Menu re-vamp, now supporting multi-line items, icons, and icon-text pairs

2012-11-05

• GUI, Objects: Pressing <enter> triggers the green flag, the red stop sign

2012-10-30

• Morphic: allow edited text scrolling to be disabled

2012-10-29

• Czech translation! Woohooo, thanks, Michael Moc!
• translations now dynamically load and unload. Thanks, Nathan, for the hint!
• Morphic now supports <cmd> + a on Macs, thanks, Davide!

2012-10-26

• fix: Process inputOption() backward compatibility for localizable drop-down options

2012-10-25

• Korean translation! Woohooo, thanks, Yunjae Jang!
• Portuguese translation! Wohoo, thanks, Manuel Menezes de Sequeira!
• Morphic optimizations in FrameMorph and InspectorMorph, thanks, Davide!
• removed defunct "Open Projekt" entry in lang-de.js, thanks, Manuel!

2012-10-24

• sprite sequence in corral can be ordered via drag & drop (& persists)

2012-10-23

• added "Edit label fragment" to translator dictionary
• minor fix in language changing mechanism
• minor fix re. block rendering (hole erasing) b/c of new ascenders
• minor fix re. dialog box rendering b/c of new ascenders
• minor fix re. dialog box shadow rendering. Thanks, Brian, for spotting this!

2012-10-22

• Japanese(Kanji and Hiragana) translations! Woohooo, thanks, Kazuhiro Abe!
• IF ON EDGE BOUNCE fix. Thanks, Stefano!
• additional localization strings and snap.html fix, thanks, Kazuhiro Abe!
• global / local watcher label fix. Thanks, Nathan!
• Morphic: Text scrolling when editing. Thanks, Nathan and Stefano!
• Morphic: Took out WorldMorph.trailsCanvas handling, thanks, Davide!
• Morphic text rendering ascender space fix (+ adjustments mostly everywhere)

2012-10-19

• the costumes tab now also displays the default "Turtle" icon symbols
• fixed a small scoping bug in Morphic's touched event (thanks, Davide!)
• new version of lang-it.js (thanks, Stefano!)

2012-10-18

• minimal translation dict updates ('rename costume' and 'rename sound')

2012-10-17

• Italian translation! Woohooo, thanks, Stefano!
• added "unringify" to translator dictionary, thanks, Stefano!
• fixed a require() bug in XML, thanks, Nathan!
• fixed #run: URL switch. #run: is now officially supported!

2012-10-16

• fixed clicking sound entry in the settings menu
• input slots are now deselected on losing focus
• fix: Cannot delete the only label part in a custom block prototype anymore
• button acknowledgement label now spells 'OK' instead of 'Ok'
• fix: Cannot create unnamed ('') variables anymore
• fix: ScriptVariables' names' spaces are now normalized & can't be set to empty ('')
• changed wording of "Import" tooltip
• Thanks, Nathan, for spotting and reporting these bugs!
• added localization for block definition deletion and about dialogs
• edits in the sprite name field no longer need to be acknowledged by pressing <enter>
• new file: Translation Guide (translating Snap.txt)

2012-10-15

• Morphic: New "reactToKeystroke()" events are escalated when editing strings/texts
• Blocks, Threads, Objects, Store: InputSlots now have localizable menu options
• GUI, Locale, lang-de: localization re-organized (now considered complete for LTR)

2012-10-10

• generalized localization hooks merged into Morphic.js and Widgets.js
• Morphic: TextMorphs (multi-line strings) now support text shadows (used in widgets)

2012-10-04

• Morphic: triggering "reactToEdit" when text editing is terminated

2012-10-02

• basic localization mechanism, use settings menu to switch languages
• German translation (for testing), #lang:de launches Snap! localized

2012-09-25

• xml.js: escape tilde character to avoid file corruption thru serializer.store()

2012-09-24

• threads.js fix for REPORT inside C-Slots (pop another frame under certain conditions)

2012-09-20

• js: blocks, byob, morphic, objects, threads, widgets edited for latest JSLint

2012-09-19

• store.js: minor fixes
• gui.js: URL #open: feature now works with all importable resources (e.g. blocks)

2012-09-18

• comments (non-sticky)
• ScriptsMorph duplicating fix
• block editor cleanUp fix (prototype hat always stays on top)
• block editor persistence of free-floating objects (scripts, comments)

2012-09-14

• store.js: fix for loading variables containing reporters and unevaluated inputs

2012-09-13

• morphic.js: Refactoring to conform with JSHint's line breaking checks
• new morphic.txt documentation version
• new version of "Contributing to BYOB4" guideline with section on coding style
• exporting & importing sprites

2012-09-12

• serialization adjustments (app attribute in top-level XML node)
• same-named custom block conflict detection and resolution
• overloading of custom blocks with samed-named imported ones
• cascaded block library support (block sets depending on each other)

2012-09-11

• exorting & importing global custom blocks

2012-09-10

• exporting global custom blocks (beginning)
• byob.js: BlockExportDialogMorph (beginning)

2012-08-30

• custom block definition export (disabled for now)
• zebra-coloring fix (for Hummingbird-video bug)
• any number of script vars possible

2012-08-16

• SNAP! Connection Strategy
• OS-native File Dialog for importing projects, pictures, sounds (also for Safari 6)

2012-08-15

• octagonal stop sign symbol
• cache manifest
• SWITCH TO COSTUME (-1) goes back one costume in the list & wraps around
• Variable blobs can be renamed

2012-08-14

• fix: disappearing and undraggable sprite bug (thanks, Kirk!)
• widgets: ToggleMophs can now have two different labels/symbols to reflect their state
• gui/blocks: switching symbols for all toggles, re-introducing the green flag symbol

2012-08-13

• dev-mode reporter for FRAMES for thread performance monitoring
• minor refactoring of store.js to conform with the latest JSLint

2012-08-10

• blocks: bug fix for input accessing in variable drop-downs
• dev-mode reporter for STACK SIZE for tail-call-elimination monitoring

2012-08-09

• Pause button: Pauses/resumes all currently active stage processes (scripts)
• blocks: minor performance tweaks

2012-08-08

• Morphic, GUI, blocks, BYOB: More "gentle" font control (can be overridden by browser)
• BYOB: new "Apply" button in the block editor (updates definition keeping editor open)
• BYOB: editing custom block prototpyes preserves existing inputs in custom block instances

2012-08-07

• SymbolMorphs for object type slot and identifier, and for "new sprite" button
• Verdana font preference for block labels (wider)
• store fix: Watcher label for "answer" now survives save/load (Thanks, Tom!)

2012-08-06

• blocks: SymbolMorph replaces Unicode characters for "green flag" and "stop" signs
• widgets: allow SymbolMorphs as button labels, new layout rule: minLabelExtent for buttons
• gui: button layouts moved to minLabelExtent rule
• fix: prevent drops on multi-arg arrows
• SymbolMorphs for all items in the GUI's tool bar

2012-08-03

• blocks fix: enable reporter drops on empty rings in "prefer empty slot drops" mode

2012-08-02

• threads: Invoking a lambda with empty input slots without arguments binds them to ''
• blocks/gui/byob: MultiArg layout fix
• "Clicking sound" option in the settings menu

2012-08-01

• JOIN can now have any number of input slots, and be CALLed with an input list

2012-07-31

• lists fix: preserve zero/false values when assigned in list blocks
• threads refactored (eliminated now redundant context.isInsideCustomBlock attribute)
• blocks/byob: mutable formal parameters for custom block definitions and rings
• threads: CHANGE VAR typecasting bug fixed

2012-07-30

• adjust REPORT / STOP BLOCK semantics (special case implicit C-shaped slot lambdas)

2012-07-28

• speech bubble scaling
• Boolean value representations in operator color (green)
• eliminated "ring" type

2012-07-26

• REPORT primitive moved to STOP blocks in palette
• graphical representation of Boolean values in watchers and bubbles
• fix: empty numerical input slots evaluate to zero (thanks, Stephen!)

2012-07-25

• fix: SET PEN COLOR no longer offsets the sprite
• settings menu: optional input sliders (for Android)

2012-07-24

• Color collision detection & thumbnail adjustments and fixes, incl. helpscreens

2012-07-23

• Color collision detection (first rough pass)

2012-07-20

• fix: textify zero and false values in JOIN primitive (don't skip)

2012-07-19

• graphic effects (currently only "ghost") for the stage
• new feature: Pen trails collision detection
• fix: Keystroke detection

2012-07-18

• fix: catch nil inputs in motion and looks primitives
• fix: answer variable value Boolean false not as zero
• GUI: window-reflow adjustments
• store fix: Booleans retain their type thru save/load (not converted to Strings)
• threads fix: using REPORT/STOP BLOCK inside a WARP block now stops warping

2012-07-17

• costumes/sounds: omit filename suffixes when importing
• costumes/sounds: rename via context menu
• costumes: export via context menu
• thumbnails: are now centered within their widgets

2012-07-16

• Morphic scroll frames: customizable "growth" property, used in scripting panes
• store: Sprites' visibility state gets persisted thru save/load
• store: Watchers' visibility attribute format now same as sprites' (hidden="true")
• BYOB fix: Custom block prototype rendering fix when opening a Block Editor instance
• blocks fix: Predicate slots no longer turn into reporter slots upon save/load
• blocks fix: made dropping reporters into empty slots easier when preferring empty slots

2012-07-13

• objects fix: zero values now show up in watchers (are no longer blank)
• objects fix: dragged sprites now keep their correct relative stage coordinates
• threads fix: dragged sprites are identifiable by running scripts

2012-07-12

• small stage mode (for bigger scripting area, e.g. in lectures or on mobiles)

2012-07-11

• app mode: arbitrary stage scaling (auto-resizes to fill the browser's client area)

2012-07-10

• app mode related adjustments to blocks.js, gui.js and threads.js
• fix: line breaks in project notes are now preserved thru export/import (xml)

2012-07-09

• xml decoding fix
• app mode, first rough pass (no stage scaling yet)

2012-07-05

• store: stage watchers monitoring lists remember their dimensions

2012-07-04

• major refactoring of serialization (new xml.js, store.js)

2012-07-03

• GUI: open a project from URL via #open:URL
• GUI: run a project from data via #run:XML or from URL via #run:URL

2012-07-02

• store fix: Newly loaded projects did not get keyboard events (now they do)
• threads fix: Evaluating STOP ALL did not stop sounds (now it does)

2012-06-29

• Morphic: StringMorphs now have the option to visualize blanks (as colored dots)
• Blocks: all input slots (in blocks) are now visualizing blanks
• GUI: re-ordering sounds via drag & drop
• GUI copying sounds among sprites via drag & drops on corral icons

2012-06-28

• GUI: re-ordering costumes via drag & drop
• GUI: copying costumes among sprites via drag & drop on corral icons

2012-06-27

• blocks/store/objects/threads fix: STOP BLOCK gets converted to REPORT on save/reload
• byob/GUI: new entry in the settings menu to always show input dialog in long form
• blocks/GUI: new entry in the settings menu to prefer empty slots for reporter drops
• blocks: in scripting areas rings and variable reporters can be nested inside each other
• in general rings will not vanish on ring/var drop if already inside other rings
• context menu help feature for blocks

2012-06-26

• blocks/threads fix: "any unevaluated" slots now reify their typed-in input values
• byob/threads fix: custom block definition reification now ignores empty-slot bindings
• GUI: copying scripts among sprites via drag & drop on corral icons (first rough version)

2012-06-25

• objects fix: changing pen properties sometimes offsets the sprite
• blocks: variable slots no longer accept reporter drops (Jens regrets but doesn't agree to auto-ringify dropped variable blobs at this stage of development)
• blocks: better (yet) control over where reporters can be dropped
• blocks fix: sometimes reporters cannot be dropped into slots in the block editor
• threads: comparing strings (the = block) is now case-insensitive
• threads/blocks: multi-args can now be eval'ed with variadic inputs
• lists: equality testing fix for mixed linked/arrayed lists (thanks, Brian!)
• LIST primitive with new, static input spec
• store: stage watcher styles (small, large, slider) are now persistent thru save/re-load
• objects: stage watcher slider min/max is now settable thru context menu
• store: stage watcher slider min/max are now persistent through save/re-load

2012-06-22

• changed license to AGPL (all modules and documentation)

2012-06-21

• POINT TOWARDS and GO TO primitive command blocks in the motion category

2012-06-20

• Morphic/Blocks: More precise control over where reporters are dropped and snap
• Morphic documentation update

2012-06-19

• store.js fixes for empty, non-editable input slots (e.g. list and boolean slots)
• objects.js/byob.js fixes for editing recursive custom blocks

2012-06-18

• GUI: Screenshot feature
• GUI, store.js: Error catching turned off in dev mode (for debugging store.js)
• store.js: saving / loading of sprites' scale, draggability and rotation style
• Morphic/GUI: Virtual keyboard support can be toggled (to hide caret in Opera etc.)
• GUI, store.js: Saving / loading of "thread safety" setting
• blocks caching limited to primitives
• introducing palette caching

2012-06-15

• store.js: Stage vars (watchers) fix
• store.js: Empty (bodiless) custom blocks fix
• store.js: Global custom blocks support

2012-06-14

• store.js: Global vars fix (xml.js deprecated)

2012-06-13

• new module: xml.js, a simple XML DOM/encoder/parser for Morphic.js

2012-06-12

• global custom blocks (first pass, no serialization yet)

2012-06-11

• Morphic: auto-detect Chrome issue 90001 and set "useBlurredShadows" appropriately
• Blocks: solid block highlighting (as in Scratch 1.4) when "useBlurredShadows == false"
• GUI: Settings menu entry for blurred / solid shadows and highlights
• Threads: Type checking, <IS [] A [] ?> primitive in the operators category

2012-05-25

• late-binding custom blocks, changes in threads.js, byob.js and store.js (et al.)

2012-05-23

• Morphic: single-touch-and-hold pops up the context menu
• Morphic: pinch-zoom and virtual keyboard improvements

2012-05-22

• Morphic/Blocks: SlideBackToFormerSituation

2012-05-21

• Pinch-Zoom for touchscreen devices
• Virtual keyboard for touchscreen devices

2012-05-18

• Morphic: better keystroke detection
• new interpolating HTTP reporter in the sensor palette

2012-05-16

• monadic OF primitive block in the operators category

2012-05-15

• GUI: disabled file dialog for now due to some issues
• Blocks/BYOB: Prototype block zebra coloring adjustment
• Store: minor fixes in the blocks dictionary

2012-05-14

• Morphic: droppedText() event
• GUI: opening project files via drag & drop
• GUI: invoking the file dialog to open projects, import costumes and sounds
• Threads: nested upvar fix
• Threads: hybrid variable scope taken out (it's all lexical again for now)
• Blocks/BYOB: zebra-coloring related fixes

2012-05-09

• exporting projects (holding the shift key URI-encodes the XML)

2012-05-07

• reification: omit empty slots inside nested lambdas for implicit parameters
• display fixes for rings inside rings
• DISTANCE TO reporter block primitive in the sprite's sensing category

2012-05-04

• rotation style support for sprite "turtle" costume
• rotation style buttons hidden for stage
• export background-less pictures of scripts
• sprite draggability control checkbox (in the IDE's sprite bar)

2012-05-03

• text- and object- type slots (and hints)
• zebra coloring fixes for input slots with pull-down menus
• costume flipping
• rotation styles

2012-05-02

• settings menu item for toggling zebra coloring
• new thumbnail() for StageMorph
• store.js: Fixes for local storage in local instance ("airplane saving")

2012-04-25

• unringify menu item for Blocks
• evaluator: variable setters can refer to variables by their reified getters

2012-04-30

• zebra coloring (first pass)

2012-04-24

• Rings (first pass completed)

2012-04-20

• Rings (basics)

2012-04-17

• Snap! Build Your Own Blocks. Alpha

2012-04-16

• custom block prototype slot type and default value indicators
• Sounds, first pass (thanks, Ian!)

2012-04-03

• ASK/ANSWER for the stage

2012-04-06

• ASK/ANSWER for sprites

2012-04-03

• minWidth property for SyntaxElements

2012-04-02

• pressing the stop sign makes all speech bubbles disappear
• null continuations now behave the same as STOP SCRIPT blocks

2012-04-01

• settings menu: touchscreen settings
• thread safety option
• store.js: Costumes & pen trails support. Thanks, Nathan!
• context menus for watchers (thx, Nathan!)

2012-03-31

• Stage: extra pen trail layer
• Morphic: texture handling (eliminating canvas patterns b/c of Chrome problems)
• Objects: motion precision fixes

2012-03-29

• Sprites: the rotation center now is the pen tip

2012-03-28

• Costumes: rotation center functionality

2012-03-27

• Costumes, first iteration

2012-03-23

• Morphic: handle multiple image file drops

2012-03-22

• GUI: WardrobeMorph
• Slider and ScrollFrame colors

2012-03-21

• Costume, CostumeEditorMorph, CostumeIconMorph

2012-03-20

• Morphic: droppedImage() event

2012-03-19

• THREADS: unevaluated inputs
• Morphic: detect and respect minimum font size renderable
• Morphic: text selection display fix for FF

2012-03-16

• long form input dialog speedup (pictograms are now plain pictures instead of Toggles)
• Morphic: Morphs behind another one no longer receive mouseEnter/mouseLeave events
• Blocks: ScriptPanes behind other Morphs no longer show drop target feedbacks

2012-03-15

• Morphic: colored shadows
• Widgets: ToggleMorph with embedded toggle elements
• pictographic slot type buttons in the long form input dialog
• palette speedup
• Error message when RUN/CALL/LAUNCHing a block w/o passing the expected no. of inputs
• Illegal drops prevented in user mode (enabled in dev mode)

2012-03-14

• JOIN becomes variadic (Jens isn't enthusiastic about it)
• About text changed according to Mitch's suggestion
• BYOB: JaggedBlockMorph
• pictographic type buttons in the short form input dialog

2012-03-13

• Widgets: ToggleElementMorph, TabMorph
• BlockEditor: Pictographic type buttons
• IDE: Tabs for scripts/costumes/sounds

2012-03-09

• SAY _ FOR _ SECS primitive command block for Sprites
• Morphic: thought bubble display variant of SpeechBubbleMorph
• THINK and THINK FOR SECS primitive command blocks for Sprites
• STAMP primitive command block for Sprites
• ROUND, JOIN, LETTER OF, LENGTH OF, UNICODE OF and UNICODE AS LETTER primitive reporters

2012-03-08

• Morphic: SpeechBubbleMorph orientation left/right
• Threads: empty block definitions no longer raise an exception
• SAY primitive command block for Sprites

2012-03-07

• object collision detection (TOUCHING? predicate block for Sprites)
• poly-key state detection

2012-03-06

• Morphic: prevent text edits from reversing
• added "WITH INPUT LIST" variants for RUN/LAUNCH/CALL primitives - commented out
• changed '%inputs' slot type to non-static (makes "w/input list" redundant)
• Threads: fixed tail-call optimization induced bug in pushContext()
• WHEN I AM CLICKED hat block (control)
• WHEN KEY PRESSED hat block (control)
• MOUSE DOWN? predicate (sensing)
• KEY PRESSED? predicate (sensing)

2012-03-05

• upvars
• globals vars serialization fix
• MultiArgs: shift-clicking on an arrow repeats action 3 times

2012-03-01

• store.js: color slot and global vars patch (thanks, Nathan!)
• blocks.js: bug fix for drop-down menus (wouldn't allow selecting empty)

2012-02-29

• global variables
• hybrid lists CDR fix (thanks, Brian!)
• debugging primitives (alert, console.log) in development mode
• all libraries edited to conform to JsLint's latest petty rules ('else' after 'return')

2012-02-26

• primitive control structures adjusted to new REPORT rule

2012-02-24

• STOP BLOCK primitive
• error catching turns off in development mode (on in user mode)

2012-02-22

• Morphic: Tabbing among input fields fix
• Threads: REPORT primitive fix

2012-02-21

• user and development modes (shift-click on Snap! logo)
• Open Project dialog (thanks, Nathan)
• blocks caching for primitives and custom blocks
• custom block prototype edits visible in the palette while editing
• sprite duplication
• custom block definition duplication and re-binding
• the only sprite in the IDE is now deletable
• primitive blocks for GHOST effect

2012-02-17

• Morphic: introducing combined mouse-keyboard events
• GUI: Project label

2012-02-16

• saving & loading, xml serialization, thanks, Nathan!

2012-02-15

• scriptable and programmable stage, selectable in the corral
• stage watchers with "active", auto-updating object name labels
• IF ON EDGE BOUNCE primitive, still buggy
• GUI fixes, all frame morphs in the corral now reject object drops

2012-02-14

• multiple sprites & lots of new stuff in all modules
• Morphic: dragging optimization
• Nathan's fixes to Morphic (shadow fix, mouse wheel fix)

2012-02-09

• Morphic: formatting capabilities for Menus and ListMorphs
• Morphic: optional 'own properties' highlighting in the Inspector's "show" menu

2012-02-08

• categories and block type editing for existing custom blocks

2012-02-07

• BYOB: categories (colors) for new custom blocks

2012-02-06

• Morphic: color specifiable in String() constructor
• Widgets: ToggleButtonMorphs
• Objects: block categories
• GUI: tabbed palette mock-up (not yet within a real GUI)

2012-02-03

• Morphic: horizontal mouse wheel scrolling (thanks for this fix, Nathan!)
• more primitives in the Pen category

2012-02-02

• more primitives in Motion, Looks and Pen categories

2012-02-01

• upvars in %var slot drop-down menu

2012-01-31

• upvar GUI in input slot long form dialog (w/o upvar functionality)

2012-01-30

• input slot long form dialog - multiple inputs
• input slot long form dialog - default input values

2012-01-27

• input slot long form dialog - basic (single) input types

2012-01-25

• STORE: serializing, saving and loading projects, first pass, all by Nathan
• HatBlock bezier curve fixed width
• settings for AlignmentMorph regarding handling of hidden Morphs
• GUI enhancements
• input slot long form dialog variant outline
• pointless filters in most FORINS in response to Nathan's derogatory comments :-)

2012-01-23

• Threads: tail call elimination

2012-01-20

• Morphic: question mark input for WebKIT 2 compatibility (does it break on Windows?)
• Morphic: turtle tracks round endings for WebKIT 2 compatibility (cannot use closePath())

2012-01-19

• MOD, TRUE and FALSE reporter blocks
• AND, OR, NOT reporter blocks
• BROADCAST AND WAIT command block

2012-01-15

• BlockLabelPlaceHolderMorphs
• BlockInputDialogMorph (short form)

2012-01-09

• Morphic: single quote input for WebKIT 2 compatibility
• BYOB: BlockInputFragmentMorphs

2012-01-06

• InputSlotEditor basics
• bigger tick for radio buttons
• PushButtons redone for WebKIT 2 compatibility

2011-12-14

• feature: deleting block instances and custom block definitions

2011-12-13

• call/cc for lambdas and custom blocks

2011-12-12

• BlockDialogMorph (basics)
• CustomReporterBlockMorph

2011-12-09

• BlockEditor basics for CustomCommandBlocks

2011-12-07

• byob.js (CustomBlockDefinition, CustomCommandBlockMorph)

2011-12-05

• new primitives: MOUSE X, MOUSE Y, TIMER, RESET TIMER

2011-12-02

• Widgets: InputFieldMorphs
• Prompters based on DialogBoxes
• Renaming of input templates
• Morphic keyboard enhancements

2011-11-30

• Widgets: AlignmentMorphs
• keyboard events for DialogBoxMorphs

2011-11-29

• Widgets: DialogBoxMorph basics

2011-11-28

• layout optimization merged into Morphic.js -> trackChanges

2011-11-24

• layout optimization for dropped and snapping blocks (thanks, John!)
• Equality testing for lists (thanks, Brian!)

2011-11-23

• hybrid lists (arrayed and linked)
• CONS and CDR

2011-11-21

• Atomicity (WARP)
• REPEAT UNTIL
• WAIT UNTIL

2011-11-18

• Lists: watcher shows list range (speed-up, stability)

2011-11-16

• Lists: conservative watcher updating (speed-up)
• GUI: logo pane and 'about' box

2011-11-15

• Morphic: more tolerant grabbing
• Lists: synchronized Watcher updating (speed-up)

2011-11-14

• Morphic: fullImageClassic() for ListWatcherMorphs
• Threads: MultiArgMorph now use Lists instead of JS-Arrays
• List Blocks
• GUI: adding/removing variables doesn't make the palette jump to the top
• Blocks: list type slots

2011-11-11

• Morphic: visibleBounds() bug fix

2011-11-09

• ListWatchers (basics)

2011-11-08

• Lists

2011-11-03

• widgets: ToggleMorphs (check boxes and radio buttons)
• non-variable watchers
• checkbox toggling for variable watchers

2011-11-02

• Morphic: StringMorph shadows

2011-10-31

• new: widgets.js
• PushButtons

2011-10-27

• more extensive Error catching
• slider for numerical text entries in "mobile mode"
• bigger blocks in "mobile mode"

2011-10-26

• Blocks: empty choice for input drop down menus
• automatic positioning of new watchers
• watchers on temporary variables are deleted by HIDE VARIABLE block (not hidden)
• HIDE VARIABLE with empty input deletes all watchers on temporary vars

2011-10-25

• GUI: WatcherMorphs
• SHOW VARIABLE, HIDE VARIABLE blocks

2011-10-21

• GUI: CellMorphs (for stage watchers)

2011-10-20

• unevaluated FunctionSlotMorphs (%f)
• autolambdafying ReporterSlotMorphs (%r, %p)

2011-10-19

• Morphic: scrolling speedup

2011-10-17

• another take on continuations

2011-10-12

• autolambdafying CSlotMorphs (C-shaped) and CommandSlotMorphs (inline)
• Morphic: right mouse click emulation for Mac

2011-10-10

• hybrid scope

2011-10-09

• call/cc

2011-10-07

• swooshy hat block tops (instead of circle segments)

2011-10-06

• force yield after timeout

2011-09-28

• GLIDE block

2011-09-27

• WAIT block

2011-09-26

• basic message broadcasting
• thread forking (LAUNCH block)

2011-09-23

• error catching for block evaluation

2011-09-22

• implicit parameters

2011-09-19

• formal parameters
• recursion
• closures

2011-09-14

• c-slots in primitives are now static by default
• basic THE BLOCK, CALL and REPORT

2011-09-13

• basic Lambda primitives
• basic Lambda visualization (showBubble)

2011-09-12

• Threads: renamed StackFrame to Context
• Blocks: persistent input default values

2011-09-11

• Morphic: PenMorph.setHeading() fixed

2011-08-26

• TemplateSlotMorphs (%t, %mult%t, %scriptVars)
• script variables
• lockable inputs

2011-08-24

• numerical virtual keyboard (pop-up-sliders - taken out again)
• sliders now work with negative floor numbers
• mouse wheel scroll events (thanks, Nathan!)

2011-08-23

• Sprite-scoped variables

2011-08-18

• optimizations for menu bubble help and Blocks layout

2011-08-17

• Threads: evaluating reporters
• showValue bubbles

2011-08-16

• Morphic: SpeechBubbleMorphs and bubble help for menus/buttons

2011-08-11

• Morphic: broken rect fix for float-positioned Morphs
• Blocks: straight bottom edges for stop-blocks
• PenMorph: round line ends

2011-08-10

• nasciturus: objects, gui

2011-08-04

• evaluator: ThreadManager, Process, StackFrame, VariableFrame

2011-07-27

• Morphic: fullBounds() now ignores hidden submorphs
• MultiArgMorphs: Optional label and minimum inputs settings, '%inputs'
• Morphic: simplified BoxMorph rendering
• Same-colored (white), semi-transparent reporter drop feedbacks

2011-07-26

• MultiArgMorphs (%mult%x)

2011-07-22

• stringField settable as numeric, supresses textual input
• editable numeric input slots supress textual type-in
• evaluation helper methods and properties
• collision detection

2011-07-21

• scrollBarSize can now optionally be specified individually
• block highlighting
• specs for any-unevaluated and Boolean-unevaluated inputs

2011-07-20

• HatBlocks

2011-07-19

• high-level documentation and code comments
• optional blurred slot shades (off by default)

2011-07-18

• ColorSlotMorphs (%clr)
• collision detection groundwork

2011-07-14

• optional drop-down menu for type-in slots
• read-only menus for type-in slots (%inst, %var, %lst, %obj, %eff, %dir, %cst, %snd, %key, %idx, %msg, %att, %fun, %typ)
• global pixel color sensing
• renamed TypeInSlotMorph to InputSlotMorph

2011-07-12

• rectangular reporter layout
• label mutli-line wrapping for reporters
• user-definable label line breaks (%br)
• font size customizable for individual menus
• ArrowMorphs

2011-07-11

• optional intra-block-label word wrap (flag) layout setting

2011-07-08

• extrapolate blockSpec upon label part drop

2011-07-07

• BlockMorph color changing
• entry field tabbing (Firefox and Opera only)
• label multi-line wrapping for command blocks

2011-07-06

• BooleanSlotMorphs (%b)
• Color mixing
• contrast setting for SyntaxElementMorphs
• exit confirmation

2011-07-05

• block specs

2011-06-30

• StringMorphs and TextMorph notify their parents of layout changes
• TypeInSlotMorphs (round - %n - and rectangular - %s -)

2011-06-28

• World menu in every Morph's developersMenu
• changed the standard to "sharp shadows" because of Firefox5 bug

2011-05-31

• ReporterBlockMorphs

2011-05-30

• C-slots only attach to blocks' tops (no longer also to bottoms)

2011-05-27

• Templates
• Padding for ScrollFrames

2011-05-24

• CommandSlotMorphs (%c)

2011-05-18

• Textures

2011-05-16

• Autoscrolling

2011-05-11

• Scrolling by dragging
• Scrolling by dragging velocity