Finally, it's done!  The most polished release of Pd yet.  We are further refining Pd into a truly powerful and usable programming platform.  

This release is dedicated to Jamie Tittle, aka tigital, who recently died of cancer.  He was a long time and key contributor to Gem and Pd in general, even while he was in the hospital undergoing treatment.  He is sorely missed in this community, and I am sure by many others.

Some highlights of this release:

 * more functional namespace tools ([declare] and [import])

 * new appearance designed to enhance readability

 * GLSL shader support in Gem

 * usability improvements

 * on Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications

 * standard locations for user-installed externals

 * many bug fixes

Here's the rough changelog:

- next visual appearance designed for readability

- default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.

 GNU/Linux:  /usr/local/lib/pd-externals and ~/pd-externals

 Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd

 Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/Application Data/Pd

- lots of standard key bindings added:

Enter/Return for OK

Escape for Cancel

Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows

on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows

on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows

Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window

Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window

Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console

Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser

- you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in paths

- improved Cut/Copy/Paste support for working in object and message boxes

- fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console

- [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading (but much work needs to be done before there namespace support is complete)

- "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/) on Mac OSX

- new patches default to the folder last saved in

- included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

- 'hardware' and 'deprecated' removed from libraries loaded by default

- On Debian/Ubuntu, the packages now install into /usr rather than /usr/local

- On Mac OS X, you can now build "standalone" applications from the File menu.

- bug fixes and clean up of [hid] and mapping externals

- included config in Info.plist for the Spotlight Importer

KNOWN BUGS

- check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs

- Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup preferences

- pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd

- loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying to load it

- the GUI runs slower in some situations

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