Howdy, please allow me to share a rather personal and detailed report to this dear list about this release: The Cyclone Library (a set of Pure Data objects cloned from Max/MSP) is finally upgraded to version 0.3! The main goal of Cyclone 0.3 was to update it to Max 7! Max 8 is out now and there are minor updates that could be included in cyclone, which may be ported in a possible future 0.4 release. Cyclone 0.3 also provide numerous fixes, several new objects and a newly written documentation!

In the last release (cyclone 0.3 release candidate 1), we noted how we finished updating our last object to Max 7! The catch was that we still needed to update [comment], which won't be updated to Max 6+. Now it's been updated but not yet fully compliant to Max 5 - nonetheless it's "acceptable" and further work can be taken care in future 0.3.x releases. Anyhow, there were also other updates and fixes and the thing is, with what we have now, I just feel comfortable and happy to state: "*Mission Completed: Cyclone 0.3 stable release is out!*".

This took 3 years. In fact, this release happens in the exact day of the 3rd anniversary of our repository. I was pretty clueless on how to code externals when we started and I still struggle a lot - even though I was able to learn a thing or two in the meantime :) -, this is to say that if it weren't for my colleagues Derek and Matt, nothing of this would be possible! I feel I have to praise and thank them (which I can't do enough) as I don't want to outshine them (since I'm the usual spokesman of the project). We made a great team! My limitations actually came in handy as I could just deal with what I could, which was the most tedious and manual labor that this project needed, like revising every object, looking for bugs, cleaning things up, dealing with the less complicated stuff while I learned how to code and etc. Then after a lot of attention, I could deliver a good briefing so they could help me fix the more hardcore stuff without all that hassle.

After this long period, it's also noticeable to say we lost steam. I can only speak for myself and I'm now taking care of my own library (thanks to all I've learned dealing with cyclone, I must say). I don't know much and can't promise that cyclone will keep receiving the same attention from now on, but don't expect it to be abandoned ;) The project is obviously open for collaboration and any help is welcome. We actually had a very good and recent contribution from Diego Barrios Romero, who made it possible for anyone to compile cyclone now as a single library! Apparently he needed this to load cyclone with libpd more conveniently. Further cyclone releases may also bring the option of a single compiled binary. Instructions on how to compile cyclone as a single library and more about the project in genera can be found here: https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/blob/cyclone0.3/README.md Also check the changelog for a full list of changes: https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/blob/cyclone0.3/documentation/extra_fil...

Cyclone is now available for the main architectures via Pd (Help => Find Externals) - it might take a while until it shows up in the system. You can also get it from here: https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/releases/tag/cyclone0.3

For last, I can't finish this message without thanking the Pd Community in general (specially Dan and IOhannes for being big players and great leaders) but mostly Miller Puckette, of course, without whom there's be no Max or Pd (and therefore no cyclone). We obviously need to also thank the original author of Cyclone, Krzysztof Czaja, who created this important library for Pd! Hans Christof Steiner needs to be honored for maintaining this library and keeping it in Pd Extended for a long time, and later Fred Jan Kraan was also very important to start fixing and updating this library after so long in the cyclone 0.2 releases.

Cheers