RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

[Benjamin Beaumont]

Dear list members,

We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This is a stable release.

WARNING: LiveCode 7.0 contains breaking changes particularly when reading
and writing data out of LiveCode or working with the char chunk type.
Details can be found in the release notes which are linked below. LiveCode
6.7, which was also released today, provides a fully backward compatible
new edition of LiveCode for all those users who need time to migrate their
stacks to 7.0. Most people will be unaffected but please check the release
notes and ask your questions on the list if you are unsure, we are very
happy to help. LiveCode 7.0 has been available for most of 2014 so I expect
most of you are well aware of the changes and likely already updated stacks
where necessary.

*Release contents*
LiveCode 7.0 is a massive release for us as custodians of LiveCode and for
us as a community. We've been working on it for almost 2 years and it sees
us modernise the core of the engine and pave the was for LiveCode 8. We've
introduced lots of new features, most notably, transparent unicode support
which is a huge step forward for the technology. For more information of
the changes in the release you can visit our website at:
http://livecode.com/livecode-7/

Our release notes contain full details of all the changes made during this
cycle as well as details of all the bugs that were fixed. The can be found
here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-7_0_0.pdf

*Yosemite*
During the release candidate phase we added support for Yosemite and will
be working on adding wider ranging support for that platform in the coming
week. Apple have tweaked how some of their pickers work which we'd like
make available to your applications. We plan to do this in the form of
6.7.1 and 7.0.1 releases in the coming two weeks.

Thanks once again to you as a community. Your support in testing and bug
reporting does not go unnoticed!

Warm regards,

The LiveCode Team