From ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Oct 2 17:25:34 2020 From: ewbrown at andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Brown) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:25:34 -0700 Subject: alice-teacher Alice 3.6.0.1 Patch Release Candidate: Available and Looking for Testing Help Message-ID: <3E2B2A0A-2396-412B-91EE-880F8E102756@andrew.cmu.edu> Dear All, We have had several things come up since the release of the newest version of alice 3.6. We are working hard to get a new patched version out for the following fixes: 1. Errors (crash outcome) for all Sims models on Mac OS versions before 10.14 - We apologize that we didn?t test more thoroughly on pre 10.14 to catch this. 2. World migration from old versions of Alice - We have tried to support this over time and it has generally been working for people opening worlds from a version or two previous to the newest release but we have seen a lot of errors related to people trying to open very old versions of Alice (3.2 and before) so we dug in and cleaned up how we manage that many migrations and have put in a fix. We still recommend that if you are going to continue to use old worlds for classes that you occasionally open and resave in a newer version of Alice and repost. 3. We grabbed a couple other minor errors that were coming through from 3.6 and put them in as well (one example was an error occurring from malformed functions - we were never able to figure out how someone was able to cause this to happen so if you experienced this crash please let us know). We are doing a more intense test against this build before we will formally release it but in case one of the above issues is something you have faced we would love for you to help us by testing this newest build (or passing it to anyone who was unable to work in the newest release of Alice because of the first issue). We will continue our full test and push as an official release when we are confident that the changes to the build to support the above don?t have unintended consequences. You can download this release candidate for the different platforms from our Github project here: https://github.com/TheAliceProject/alice3/releases/tag/3.6.0.1-rc.1 Thank you for all of your support and patience as we work hard to improve the Alice experience. A quick reminder if your students are using the latest version of Alice and have made something very cool they should try running it in the Alice Player or even creating their own distributable stand alone app: http://www.alice.org/resources/how-tos/making-an-alice-app/ Sincerely, Eric From dslater at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Oct 13 09:11:54 2020 From: dslater at andrew.cmu.edu (Donald Slater) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:11:54 -0400 Subject: alice-teacher Update for Alice 3.6 Message-ID: We have just released a updated version of version 3.6 with a patch that fixes the following: ? In the initial 3.6 release the Sims resources were not working on Mac OS 10.14. and earlier anyone using these OS should be sure to get the latest version of Alice 3.6 available at our website http://www.alice.org/get-alice/alice-3/ ? We address the world migration issue affecting worlds built on much older versions of Alice. The newest build will open worlds built with older versions of Alice but worlds created with the newer versions of Alice will not be backward compatible so if you need an archived build to align with a computer lab or other please view archived builds below for download links. We still highly recommend that if you are going to continue to use a world for your class for a long time that you save them out in the newer version each time. Please let us know if you continue to have problems? All the best, Don Slater Alice Project -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: