4.0.8.4

a minor maintenance release:

• fixed #1333 (paint new costume not working in retina mode in Firefox and Edge)

4.0.8.3

maintenance release with bugfixes:

• avoid blitting artifacts for non-integer devicePixelRatios in Firefox, Edge, IE
• fixed 3D corners for buttons in Firefox for Windows
• fixed color collision detection for retina mode
• enabled broadcasts to be sent to specific sprites (experimental)

4.0.8.2: fixed #1312

minor maintenance release, fixes collision detection for non-integer devicePixelRatios

4.0.8.1

Minor maintenance release, immediately activates generic "when" hat blocks that are inserted in keyboard editing mode.

Demo / Test Case:

Bordeaux

(nicknamed "Bordeaux", because that's where it was first demoed at RoboEduc16)

• New Features
  • Retina Display Support, thanks, Bartosz Leper!! Note: This is currently not supported by Safari, and therefore also not available on iOS devices
  • Additional Graphic Effects, thanks, Dylan Servilla!!
  • Interactive Toggle Switches for Boolean Slots and Literals
  • Resizable Palette (double-click on resizers to slide back to normal)
• New Default Settings (now enabled by default)
  • Keyboard Editing
  • Tables Support
• Bugfixes (most notable only):
  • reject dropping hat-blocks into block editor scripting areas
  • accept multi-line inputs (e.g. in JS-functions or code-mapping blocks) with shift-enter
  • prevent “make a block” dialog from being closed by pressing “OK” if no label text has been specified
  • show error message balloons happening in other sprites next to their icon in the sprite-corral
  • (again) enable recursive cloning
  • prevent expandable blocks from expanding / collapsing inside the palette
• Translation updates
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Chinese
  • Russian
  • Catalan
  • German

May 9, 2016

• Threads: fixed #1212 - Null continuation doesn't escape from calling context.
• Updated Simplified Chinese translation, thanks to @ubertao! #1209
• Media import dialog with thumbnails, thanks to @ubertao! #1213

May 4, 2016

minor maintentance release:

• cloning speedup
• new Estonian translation

May 2, 2016

in depth release notes / documentation attached as pdf below

• first class sprites, new MY reporter block and extended functionality of TOUCHING
• fixed switching from list watcher to table view inside sprite speech bubbles
• fixed paint editor automatic rotation center issue
• enhanced functionality to SET a sprite’s attributes
• execute clone initialization scripts’ first step in the same frame as the clone command
• auto-repair (sorta) certain broken project files
• Threads: More aggressive emergency yielding
• “corpsify” deleted sprites, which might still be referred to by variables and lists
• Blocks: simplify block copying
• experimental hidden “live-coding support” preference
• updated penTrails library to shrinkWrap generated costumes

demos from the documentation:
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=population
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Woodworm
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Ferris%20Wheel%202016
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=PathFollower
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#present:Username=jens&ProjectName=cartwheel
http://snap.berkeley.edu/run#cloud:Username=jens&ProjectName=rotation

• new Indonesian translation. Yay!! Thank you, Alexander Liu!!
• Translation updates: Slovenian, Portuguese, Chinese
• minor bug fixes

March 16, 2016

in-depth release notes / documentation attached as pdf below

• linked lists are now automatically saved in the project
• new "transient variable" feature:
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• fixed keyboard editing for uppercase variable names
• added web-api http block library
• German translation update

March 11, 2016 v4.0.5-1

• Fix a couple minor glitches with generic when hat blocks
• Adds a new pen trails library

[testing releases to be added to the snap site.]