[ANN] Release 9.6.1 RC-1

[panagiotis merakos]

Dear list members,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.1 RC-1.


Getting the Release
===================
You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via
the automatic updater.


Release Contents
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LiveCode 9.6.1 RC-1 comes with more than 50 changes, including:

New Features
  - Support for building against API 29 on Android - which is now (starting
from the 3rd of August 2020) a requirement for new apps submitted to the
Play Store
  - Support for building with Xcode 11.5, using the iOS 13.5 SDK
  - New tsNet and mergExt builds, built with the iOS 13.5 SDK
  - Improved security, by using a New OpenSSL version (1.1.0g)

Bug Fixes:
  - Several improvements and bug fixes in HTML5
  - Faster auto-updater
  - Improvements in the barcode scanner widget
  - Several crashes have now been addressed


For the full list of all fixes, updates and enhancements please see the
release notes:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/9_6_1/LiveCodeNotes-9_6_1_rc_1.pdf


Known issues
============
- The Browser widget's native layer is not shown in some Linux distros with
Cinnamon window manager.
- The use of the Browser widget is not supported on Ubuntu 18.04 64 bit LTS
yet.


Required Software
=================
To build iOS apps with LiveCode you must have the appropriate versions of
Xcode as follows:

  - macOS 10.13.4: Xcode 10.1 - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 12.1
SDK
  - macOS 10.14.4: Xcode 11.3.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS
13.2 SDK
  - macOS 10.15.2: Xcode 11.5.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS
13.5 SDK

There is a full list of working LiveCode/macOS/Xcode combinations here:
https://livecode.com/docs/9-5-0/faq/faq/

Note: Whilst we endeavour to release updated versions of LiveCode
supporting the latest Xcode/iOS SDKs as quickly as possible; we strongly
recommend disabling automatic update of Xcode or downloading the specific
version of Xcode required directly from the Apple developer portal and
installing it separately.

Important: From the end of June 2020, Apple is only accepting apps built
using iOS13 SDKs. This means that, if you wish to submit apps to the
AppStore you will have to be running at least macOS 10.14 in order to be
able to install the necessary version of Xcode.


Feedback
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Please report any bugs encountered on our quality center at
http://quality.livecode.com/

We have a forum available for discussing LiveCode Builder at
http://forums.livecode.com/viewforum.php?f=93


Have fun!
The LiveCode Team
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