Scintillator Release Notes

Reference and history for released versions of Scintillator.
See also: Scintillator User Guide

Release Notes


0.0.8 31 August 2020

  • Adds support for Linux versions as old as Ubuntu Xenial. [168 ,167 , 157 ]

  • Adds support for ScinGroups and execution ordering on the server [162 ]

  • Automatically stop all Scinths when Cmd+Period is pressed. [155 ]

  • Fixes a bug in (143 ) in image saving in non-aligned image widths [154 ]

0.0.7 27 July 2020

  • Updates documentation and examples, moves to a consistent naming convention for all objects. [142 ]

  • Adds automatic server crash reporting, fixes a long-standing intermittent server crash (115 ) [137 , 138 , 140 ]

  • Adds support for shape-rate and frame-rate VGens [131 , 135 ]

  • Renames fragment-rate VGens to “pixel-rate” to avoid ambiguity with frame-rate VGens [129 ]

  • Adds preliminary support for realtime audio input via PortAudio [125 , 126 , 127 ]

  • Adds an automatic installer for the Windows binary [122 ]

0.0.6 9 May 2020

Adds the Windows scinsynth binary.

0.0.5 3 May 2020

  • Automatically install server binaries on Quark install [103 ]

  • Renamed VGen fragment-rate functions from .fg to .fr [107 ]

  • Support for installations with spaces in pathnames [106 ]

  • Initialize ScinServer.default [104 ]

  • Added an server installation script [101 ]

  • Separating ScinServer.boot and ScinServer.init [97 ]

  • Add some VGen input validation [96 ]

  • Fix for startup crash on MacOS when a Vulkan SDK is installed separately on the computer [93 ]

0.0.4 22 April 2020

Adds the Linux scinsynth binary, distributed as an AppImage file.

0.0.2, 0.0.3 18 April 2020

Second (and third) attempt at a pre-alpha release of Scintillator. Fixes a bug in the Quark metadata formatting.

0.0.1 18 April 2020

This is a pre-alpha release of Scintillator. The primary purpose of this release is to test the distribution of the MacOS Scintillator server binary. The Linux redistributable binary is a work in progress, with the plan to release that in pre-alpha format for testing and validation as soon as it is ready.