Version 4.22.11

Maintenance and translation update

• Spanish and Finnish translation updates
• Minor updates to make the program work with the latest Python/Pygame/SDL - should solve the issue reported in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023469

The binaries (including the openSUSE Build Service one) to follow, for now just the latest tagged source code.

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Version 4.21.07

Bug fix and translation update

• Dutch translation by Steven Es, reviewed by Larry Myerscough.
• Arabic translation by Ayman Mahmoud.
• Hebrew translation of the word building activities borrowed from GCompris.
• More activities redesigned - background colours changed and hover states added.
• Various bug fixes.

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Version 4.20.01

• Bulgarian translation added by Vanyo Georgiev
• Multiple activities redesigned - background colours changed and hover states added.
• New activities without ready answers added to maths section.
• Touch typing activity redesigned to improve contrast.
• Some typos and errors fixed.
• Fixed clock activities - including a critical issue causing a crash in non-default colour schemes.
• Released for Android as an apk package.

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Version 4.19.02

• a number of translations updated and added to transifex.com
• word building activities added across multiple languages (Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese) - some with a limited word list, but work nevertheless.
• fraction matching game (102/242) enabled in Russian, Ukrainian and Italian
• a set of 12 word discovery activities added, also useful for confirming the correctness of word list translations
• a disabled state added to the eSpeak toggle button to indicate when text-to-speech is not available in a selected language

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Version 4.18.12

• the menu has been replaced with a full-screen activity selection screen
  • this allows displaying all activity icons without scrolling
  • more space for activities since the menu does not take up any screen space while in activity mode
  • the icons on new menu screen now display progress for each challenge activity
  • the category and activity icons have been redesigned and scaled up
  • categories rearranged into sub-groups to display fewer choices at a time.
• theme editing screen added to customize UI and menu colours
• a number of new activities added - covering elapsed time as well as negative numbers
• new activities on equivalent fractions as well as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions
• a lot of cosmetic fixes across the application

Version 3.80.411

• 20 new activities covering fractions, decimals, percentages and ratios - translations required for most languages.
• 4 new activities covering linear symmetry
• the menu has been slightly redesigned - the activity icons now also have an accompanying icon indicating whether the activity is a simulation/demonstration of a concept or if it is a task that needs solving, or something else.
• from this version the game will check for updates and will let users know if a new one has been released - the update will still have to be downloaded manually - can be disabled from the settings in the login screen. This option may need to be hidden before packaging for any distros - will sort it out with next release.

Version 3.71.115

The next release that fixes a number of issues but also introduces the following features:

• the feedback mechanism is now implemented in all activities that require completion
• new section added with 5 new games covering patterns (only in English and Polish at the moment)
• new section added covering negative numbers (only in English and Polish at the moment)
• new shape matching activity

Version 3.70.919

The first release of eduActiv8 on GitHub under new name.

• A lot of changes including the way the menu and levels work - menu content moved to xml file, levels also moved from game files to levels.xml file allowing customization of levels after deployment (mainly maths games covered so far); levels and menu can now be created for each locale separately (even after installation),
• new languages (Serbian and Lakota),
• compatibility with MacOS (Sierra - 10.12.3 and above),
• login screen redesigned,
• minor improvements across a number of activities,
• some images replaced.