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RELEASE LiveCode 9.6.0 RC-1

Post by LiveCode_Panos » Mon May 11, 2020 2:02 pm

Dear forum members,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.0 RC-1.


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 RC-1 comes with more than 30 changes, including:

New Features
- Support for Storyboard launch images and backgrounds on iOS
- Support for using the flash as a torch in the Android Barcode Scanner
- Support for building with Xcode 11.4, using the iOS 13.4 SDK
- New tsNet and mergExt builds, built with the iOS 13.4 SDK

Bug Fixes:
- Improvements in the text-to-speech library
- Improvements in the iOS native browser
- Improvements in the camera control object
- Significant performance improvement when saving stacks on Windows
- Improvements in the Windows FFI in LCB

For the full list of all fixes, updates and enhancements please see the release notes:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ ... 0_rc_1.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.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 13.2 SDK
- macOS 10.15.2: Xcode 11.4.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 13.4 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 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.


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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