alice-teacher Alice 3.6.0.1 Patch Release Candidate: Available and Looking for Testing Help

[Eric Brown]

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