[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.48-0 released

[Alex]

Thanks a ton for putting together these release notes! I was wondering what
all was new!

-Alex

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for all the great efforts on this major update by everyone
> involved.
>
> I'm really happy and excited wit the new features.
>
> Anyway, thought I'd share the final release notes as well, if anyone
> missed the major changes:
>
> ---------------------
>
> Release notes:
>
> ------------------ 0.48-0 ------------------------------
>
> It's possible to save and recall "settings" to files, and/or to erase
> system settings. On Pcs, the settings are now stored in the "user" resource
> area (before, it was per-machine, and users who weren't administrators
> apparently couldn't save their settings.)
>
> On the first startup, Pd queries the user as to whether to create a
> directory such as ~/Doculemnts/Pd and set path to point there. Many updates
> were also made to the "path" dialog and deken to better integrate
> downloading stuff and path maintanance.
>
> The expr family (expr, expr~, fexpr~) got an update from Shahrokh
> Yadegari, and the help file was reorganized and updated by Alexandre
> Porres. Many more math functions are supported, and the parser was updated
> so that expressions using "if" skip evaluating the argument that isn't used.
>
> New "fudiparse", "fudiformat" objects.
>
> New "list store" object for faster and easier concatenation and splitting
> apart of lists.
>
> New notification outlet in "text define" so the patch can know when the
> text is changed.
>
> New "text insert" object.
>
> "delwrite~" now has a "clear" message.
>
> "declare -path" inside abstractions was changed so that, if the
> declaration isn't an absolute filename, it's relative to the abstraction's
> directory, not to the owning patch's directory. This might be considered an
> incompatible change; but since the situation with paths declared inside
> abstractions has always been so confused, I think nobody will have got away
> without editing patches that relied on it as things changed in the past.
>
> But the biggest changes are under the hood. Pd now can manage more than
> one running instance, so that it is possible to make plug-ins of various
> sorts out of Pd and they can coexist with each other. This will allow
> people to write much better VST plug-ins in Pd. I'm grateful to Carlos
> Eduardo Batista for much help on this.
>
> The Pd API allows starting and/or shutting down the GUI dynamically while
> Pd is running.
>
> Another internal change: the pd~ object now communicates with
> sub-processes in binary by default. This increases the numerical accuracy
> of signal passing (it should be exact now) and makes the passing back and
> forth of audio signals much more efficient.
>
> Thanks to much effort by Dan Wilcox and Iohannes Zmoelnig, the
> compile-and-build system is much improved, especially for Macintosh
> computers. One visible effect is that language support is finally working
> in the compiled versions on msp.ucsd.edu.
>
>
> 2017-08-13 19:33 GMT-03:00 Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu>:
>
>> To Pd-announce:
>>
>> Pd version 0.48-0 is available on http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm
>> or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data
>>
>> cheers
>> Miller
>>
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