[ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

[Richmond Mathewson]

Unfortunately not installing on Xubuntu 16.04.

Oh, and before you ask, I did remember to set the executable bit on the 
installer.

Richmond.

On 6/15/17 7:42 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.0.0 DP-7.
>
>
> Developer Preview Release
> =========================
> Warning: this is not a stable release.  Please ensure that you back up your
> stacks before testing them.
>
> Getting the Release
> ===================
> You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via
> the automatic updater.
>
> Release Contents
> ================
> LiveCode 9.0.0 DP-7 comes with 70 bugfixes. Moreover, more than 90 bugfixes
> that were fixed in LiveCode 8.1.x, are now merged into LiveCode 9.0.0 DP-7.
>
> In addition, LiveCode 9.0.0 DP-7 includes a lot of amazing new features:
>
> - Widgets now work in HTML5 standalones
> - Support for Android listener callbacks in LiveCode Builder is now added
> - The version of the Skia Library, used for text rendering, is now updated.
> This allows LiveCode to render colored emojis on Mac, Windows and iOS
> (previously they were rendered in black and white)
> - New array commands "difference" and "symmetric difference" have now been
> added
> - New syntax forms of the "create" command have been added, so you can now
> do "create card X in stack Y", or "create control Y in card Z"
> - New Standalone Settings for iOS, that enable background execution and
> support various background modes
> - Support for adding a whitelist of custom URL schemes has been added to
> the iOS Standalone Settings
> - IDE runs on 64 bit mode on Mac by default, and the "64 bit" option is
> checked by default on new OS X standalones
> - New version of CEF Browser, which allows to play WebM videos on Browser
> widget on Windows
> - New syntax has been added for reversing the contents of sequence types
> ("List", "String" and "Data"). The "reverse <Value>" statement reverses the
> order of the sequence.
> - The Property Inspector is now resizable
> - LiveCode Builder has now a complete set of C integer types, as well as a
> complete set of sized integer types
> - A new messageDigest(<type>, <message>) function that allows access to a
> large variety of cryptographic message digest hash functions, including
> SHA2 and SHA3, has been added.
>
> New script libraries:
>
> - A new HMAC script library has been added, to compute Keyed-Hashing for
> Message Authentication as described in RFC 2104
> - A new dropbox v2 script library has been added.
> - A new diff script library has been added
> - A new AWS S3 script library has been added (available on Indy and
> Business Editions)
>
> New experimental features:
>
> - [Experimental] A new "Android Native Button" widget is added to
> LiveCode's widget collection
> - [Experimental] Support for the the load command, similar to that in the
> mobile engines has been added for HTML5 standalones
> - [Experimental] Support for HTML5 Callbacks has been added - you can now
> enable calling handlers in LiveCode HTML5 standalones from JavaScript
> - [Experimental] An infrastructure to allow LiveCode Builder modules to
> start and stop a background service on Android is now added
>
> In this context, "experimental" means that these features will continue to
> be developed and supported. However, how they are used in script may change
> during the development cycle of 9, before it gets to final release.
>
>
>
> Known issues
> ================
> - The Browser widget can cause hang in the IDE in some Linux distros - see
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19658
> - The Android Native Button widget uses "labelColor", not
> "foregound"/"textColor" to set the text color
> - The Android Native Button widget has the default icon in the Tools
> palette - see http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19871
> - The Android Native Button widget "enabled" (and "disabled") property does
> not work
>
> The following 3 issues are probably caused by the same bug, so hopefully
> they will be fixed in one go:
> - Clock widget in HTML5 standalone is missing number 12 - see
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19873
> - Graph widget in HTML5 standalone is missing last part of x-axis - see
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19874
> - Header bar widget is missing the + icon in a HTML5 standalone - see
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19875
>
>
> The full release notes are available from:
>
> http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/9_0_0/LiveCodeNotes-9_0_0_dp_7.pdf
>
> Feedback
> ========
> Please report any bugs encountered on our BugZilla 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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