[ANN] Release LiveCode 9.6.5

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[ANN] Release LiveCode 9.6.5

Post by LiveCode_Panos » Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:53 pm

Dear list members,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.5


Getting the Release
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You can find the release in your LiveCode account area or get it via the automatic updater


Release Contents
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LiveCode 9.6.5 comes with several changes, including:

New Features
- Android standalones can now be deployed as app bundles
- The Android engine is now built using version 30 of the Android API
- In-app purchases for Google Play Store now use v4 of the Google Billing Library

Bug Fixes:
- Fix browser widget on iOS not sending load events in response to user navigation
- Fix library conflicts between maps and barcode widgets on Android
- Improve speed of appending to large strings and encoding large arrays on Windows
- Fix long engine exit time when many loaded fonts and objects/paragraphs are still in memory


For the full list of all fixes, updates and enhancements please see the release notes:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ ... -9_6_5.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 10.15.4: Xcode 12.4.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 14.4 SDK
- macOS 11+ : Xcode 12.5.x - LiveCode builds iOS apps using the iOS 14.5 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 start of April 2021, Apple is only accepting apps built using iOS14.x SDKs. This means that, if you wish to submit apps to the AppStore you will have to be running at least macOS 10.15 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/

Have fun!
The LiveCode Team
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Re: [ANN] Release LiveCode 9.6.5

Post by richmond62 » Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:06 pm

Will this be the last in the 9 series before LiveCode 10?

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Re: [ANN] Release LiveCode 9.6.5

Post by LCMark » Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:10 pm

@richmond: No :)

Maintenance releases for 9.6.x will continue until 10 is ready. We're already working on a 9.6.6-rc-1 release with more bug fixes, and (most notably) iOS15 build support.

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Re: [ANN] Release LiveCode 9.6.5

Post by richmond62 » Fri Dec 03, 2021 2:46 pm

more bug fixes
You're the man! 8)

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