This is a page for notes on what needs to happen for the next Pd-extended release: 0.42. Report any bugs or comments to the pd-list:

http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/

planned features

ChangeLog

• removed automatic classname aliasing introduced in Pd vanilla 0.42.5

• updated portaudio to v19 from SVN on 2010-03-26 for 64-bit support on Mac OS X and Windows

• (Windows) improved ASIO support and support for multichannel devices

• update portmidi to portmidi-src-131.zip

• added a watch mouse cursor when loading files

• (Mac OS X and Windows) ARToolKit support for Gem [pix_artoolkit]

• major performance improvements to [comport] at higher speeds

• removed deprecated and hardware libraries

• make Help Browser be generated based on libdirs anywhere in the path

• move all help patches into the libdir in extra, then have the Help Browser generate a 'reference' section based on the pattern *-help.pd

• split out [pow~], [wrap], and other internals into optional 'vanilla' lib

• made [pow~] and [wrap] throw pd_error() to warn people about incompatibilities

• switch from Bitstream Vera to DejaVu? fonts

• use Pd-extended-specific preferences, i.e not the same as Pd-vanilla

• (Debian/Ubuntu) pd-extended package now can be installed in parallel with the puredata package

• (Debian/Ubuntu) pdsend and pdreceive are no longer in the pd-extended package, install puredata

• (GNU/Linux) use pasuspender to start Pd in the pd-extended.desktop file 1 2 so that the audio works without changing anything

• (Mac OS X and Windows) removed "audio stuck" function so that sound works after sleep

• removed iem_matrix library since it is unsupported and deprecated in favor of iemmatrix

• (Mac OS X and Windows) eliminate "audio stuck" behavior

• (GNU/Linux and Mac OS X) fixed delwrite~ problems when using -nogui

• fixed delwrite~ problems with different sample rates

• fixed crashes in plugin~ and improved search path for plugins

• added all aliases to iemmatrix library

• many Graph-On-Parent fixes

• (Mac OS X) [shell] works without a Crash Dump popping up

• (Windows) fixed crashes with long names in [print]

• PiDiP? fixes and [pdp_vloopback]

delayed for 0.43

• [comport] crashes Pd when a USB-serial devices is unplugged while open

• make [comport] handle EAGAIN

• add "pd perf" mode to Media menu

• fix type-punned pointer issues in externals so we can use auto-vectorization

• complete 64-bit builds on all platforms

• (GNU/Linux) complete Tcl/Tk 8.5 support

• xapian documentation search engine

• remove unsupported libraries and distribute them as separate, standalone libdirs (libraries to consider: memento, rradical, pixeltango, ext13, cxc, mjlib, moonlib, motex, gyre, puremeasurement, sigpack, keyboardkeys, la-kitchen, toxy, nqpoly)