Release Notes for Etoys download - Sept 2008

Release Notes - Etoys -September 2008

These notes accompany the download of Etoys available via  
www.squeakland.org as of September 11, 2008.   In the past, the  
system has often been referred to as "Squeak", but to help  
distinguish it from other versions of Squeak, we will refer to the  
version now available on the website simply as "Etoys."

The team at Viewpoints Research Institute (VPRI) has been working on  
the "Etoys" activity for the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) "XO"  
platform.  We started from the previous version of "Squeakland  
Squeak", then added new features and made many bug fixes, performance  
improvements, and visual tweaks.

VPRI has decided to release the Etoys activity for the XO as the  
"universal" Etoys version for all platforms.  Advantages include:
1) Two years of work have gone into improving Etoys overall;
2) Etoys will be identical on the XO, Windows, Macintosh and Linux  
operating systems;
3) The new features, enhancements, and fixes will be beneficial to  
everyone.

In this way, all users of the XO and other platforms will be  
"compatible" and be able to share their projects and documentation.

Below is a list of "New Features", "New UI Changes", and "Notes on  
Compatibility".

"New Features"