OpenSesame 2.8.1 "Gutsy Gibson" (1st maintenance release) released!

sebastiaan

OpenSesame 2.8.1, the first maintenance release in the 2.8 Gutsy Gibson series, has been released! You can get it from here:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/getting-opensesame/download/

This should be a smooth update for everyone, with bug fixes and added polish.

Credits

With thanks to Daniel Schreij (@dschreij) and Ronald Sprouse (@ronald) for their code contributions.

Changelog

Bugs fixed

• Do not choke on translations in font-selection dialog
• Fix buffer-flush issue in srbox plug-in (#234)
• Correctly parse non-Unix line separators in text_display plug-in (#237)
• Saner focus and event-handling in script view.
• Initial jitter_mode value in advanced_delay plug-in (#238)
• Fix crash on special characters in experiment title with legacy back-end

Improvements

• Validate form geometry (#222)
• Improvements to joystick plug-in
• Flush keyboard during sound playback to catch 'Escape' presses (#227)
• Sort comboboxes alphabetically (#233)
• Sort items alphabetically in OpenSesame script (#236)
• Improved validation of conditional statements (#235)
• Debug window respects QProgEdit theme
• Store filename-only logfiles relative to experiment folder (#161)
• Use one-tab mode by default

Windows packaging

• Update included libraries. See modules() output below.

OpenSesame 2.8.1
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
OpenCV is not available
OpenCV2 2.4.7
QProgedit 1.2.2
Expyriment 0.7.0 (Revision 7a6b73d; Python 2.7.6)
NumPy 1.8.0
PIL is available (version is unknown)
PsychoPy 1.80.00
PyAudio 0.2.7
PyGame 1.9.1release
Pyglet 1.1.4
PyOpenGL 3.0.2
PyQt 4.10.4
PySerial 2.7
python-bidi 0.3.4
python-markdown 2.3.1
SciPy 0.13.3