I think this is the final release, last chance to test your patches and make sure everything is working well in this release. Also, double-check the translations. I'll do one final import of translations from Transifex before finalizing it. Download here:

http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Its been a long time coming, but its finally reached completion! This release includes the most new features of any release before, here are some highlights:

* complete help search: search all installed docs (Help->Search) * loaders: you can now write native Pd objects in Lua (pdlua) and Tcl (tclpd) * new libraries: log, iemguts, mediasettings, pduino, syslog * GUI plugins: customize your editing experience * full Unicode support, write patches in any language * fully translatable GUI, with many languages already included * Magic Glass to see what's going through connections as it happens

And much more: http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

Download it here: http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Or if you are using Ubuntu/Mint, you can use the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended/

run these commands in the Terminal to add this PPA to your system: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended

There are some bugs that will have to wait until the next release:

* Windows command line args don't work with unicode https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3595309&group_id=55...

* [initbang] worked with GUI objs in 0.42 but not in 0.43 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3599058&group_id=55...

* Right-click menu causes CPU spike https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3525646&gr...

* specific kinds of "GUI overload" http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-12/099534.html