BETA RELEASE: LiveCode 6.1.0 RC3

[Benjamin Beaumont]

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.1.0-rc-3. This is a
release candidate not a stable release so please be sure to make backups of
your stacks before testing. We expect this to be the final release
candidate for this cycle with the stable release to be pushed out shortly,
assuming not major bugs are reported.

*Installation*

The easiest way to update is to choose "check for updates" from the help
menu in LiveCode. Alternatively, you can download the installers manually
here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_1_0/

*This release contains the following changes*

   - Crash when using 'flip' on a referenced image.
   - Images with filenames that look like URLs can cause slowdown.
   - ASCII string check
   - UUID Generation
   - Improved properties Property
   - Additional statistical functions
   - Activation removed in Community edition
   - The cardIds of group
   - The childControlNames and childControlIds of group
   - the effective visible
   - Chained Behaviors
   - iOS Remote Control Support
   - Locking Group Updates
   - Random Number Generation
   - Getting the Page Ranges of a Field
   - 18 bug fixes: 11006 - Crash on Mac when attempting to load a stack
   with non-ascii title after transferring from Windows.
      - 10989 - mobilePickPhoto ignores size parameters if they are passed
      as strings and not numbers.
      - 10991 - If a memory warning is received whilst acceleratedRendering
      mode is enabled, a crash can occur on iOS.
      - 10990 - Memory leak when using acceleratedRendering on iOS in
      certain cases.
      - 10986 - 'select before/after field ...' selects the field object,
      rather than the text in the field.
      - 10982 - RevDB doesn't work with LiveCode server on Mac
      - 10914 - PIE binaries are now built for ARMv7+ meaning the 'Non-PIE
      Binary' warning from iTunes Connect should no longer occur.
      - 10976 - Ungrouping objects can result in their id's changing.
      - 10975 - Image objects don't properly resolve filenames to be
      absolute before searching the cache.
      - 10974 - Instability in acceleratedRendering caused in specific
      circumstances when a static layer moves just above a dynamic layer.
      - 10967 - Import snapshot on 16-bit displays on Windows causes a
      blank image to be produced.
      - 10966 - Fetching properties of function expressions now works
      correctly (e.g. the name of controlAtLoc(the mouseLoc)).
      - 10961 - Passing script locals as parameters to external functions
      doesn't work correctly in behaviors.
      - 10960 - Getting 'the lockUpdates of ' now works correctly.
      - 10950 - 'is a color' now checks the input string more carefully, in
      particular it doesn't allow trailing characters, or more than 3 items.
      - 10945 - mobileControls() returns deleted controls in the list
      - 10926 - 'filter' does not honour the lineDelimiter property.
      - 10863 - Group command doesn't throw an error when attempting to
      group a shared group.


Warm regards,

The LiveCode Team