RELEASE LiveCode 9.6.0 DP-4

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RELEASE LiveCode 9.6.0 DP-4

Post by LiveCode_Panos » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:24 pm

Dear forum members,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.0 DP-4.


Developer Preview Release
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Warning: this is not a stable release. Please ensure that you back up your stacks before testing them.


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


Release Contents
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LiveCode 9.6.0 DP-4 comes with more than 20 changes, including:
New Features
- Ability to detect dark mode on MacOS, iOS and Android
- Improvements on mobilePickPhoto on Android, including support for front camera
- Ability to highlight none of the icons in the navigation bar widget
Bug Fixes:
- Improvements in the text-to-speech library
- Improvements in the android mobile player
- Improvements in the iOS native browser
- Improvements in the Android barcode scanner widget
- Support for dark mode on mobilePick on iOS

For the full list of all fixes, updates and enhancements please see the release notes:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ ... 0_dp_4.pdf


Known issues
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- 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
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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 11.3.1 - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 13.2 SDK (also covers iOS 13.3)
- macOS 10.15.3: Xcode 11.3.1 - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 13.2 SDK (also covers iOS 13.3)

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 will only be 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.


Important Note
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As it stands 9.6 no longer supports Android 4.x. It might be possible for us to push back dropping support for this (now unsupported) Android version to 9.7, however, this is only something we will consider if we assess that there is a real need. IF you are a commercial license holder AND you have a significant customer base still using this very old operating system AND there is a genuine reason why that customer base cannot upgrade AND there is a genuine reason you will need to use 9.6 to support them, please give us feedback to support@livecode.com so that we can assess the need. Please do not feedback on the basis that you think there may be a handful of customers still using it. We're looking for definite evidence that there are significant numbers of your end users still reliant on this OS AND that you will need to be able to use 9.6 to support them.


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 viewforum.php?f=93


Have fun!
The LiveCode Team
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