Finally,
Padre 0.51 was released last weekend.
It took longer than planned to make this release for various reasons. Padre hat some kind of code silence during the last weeks since 0.50. It was the worst “code silence” I noticed since I first tried Padre – we even had some days without one commit this time!
While 0.51 was coming up, many people got time to work on Padre again and we got a good release with new features and bugfixes.
Special thanks to Peter
Lavender (waxhead) for becoming release manager for 0.51. He managed to publish the release while being busy with other work, a kids birthday and really strange Perl::Critic problems. He did the official 0.51 promotion blog post. Don’t miss it.
Padre news
Here are some (few) lines from the changelog for 0.51:
- Find all option showing all matches in bottom tab (CODE4PAY)
- Improved “Find Method Declaration” based on perltags (SMUELLER)
- XS (perlapi) calltips based on the perlapi of 5.10.1 by default. Can be configured to show the perlapi of any release of perl back to 5.6.0 if Padre::Plugin::XS is installed. (SMUELLER)
- Fixed a number of search/replace related bugs (ADAMK)
- Upgraded tracing to new Padre::Debug that compiles out when not being used. (ADAMK)
Many more are listed in Peter’s blog and the full list could be found in the 0.51 changelog.
I was really happy to see Adam Kennedy, Steffen Müller and Ahmad M. Zawawi back on the list of regular committers. Ahmad promised “it is gonna be something special before the end of the year…” on IRC lately.
Upcoming
It looks like Padre 0.52 will be a big bugfixing release. If you don’t want to wait, feel free to look at the current changelog.
Please help!
Padre has a strange problem filed as ticket #750: Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab don’t work anymore on Ubuntu and maybe other Linux versions. I suspect some Wx issue but I’m no Wx guy at all. If you got any idea about this, please come to the Padre IRC channel #Padre on irc.perl.org or add your ideas to the ticket. Please also add your experience to it if you’re using a OS not mentioned there.
