Release notes for 2.8.0

Changelog

New functionality and improvements

• Add runner functionality
• Improved exception handling
• Migrate to QProgEdit editor component
• Updated offline help pages
• Improve support for non-Latin alphabets (#211)
• Add correct-response option to touch_response plugin (#214)
• Add style argument to canvas.fixdot()
• Add item.set_response() convenience method
• Add gamma and suppress-warnings options to psycho backend

Bugs fixed

• Line wrapping causes double spaces (#203)
• Keywords to decode() break compatibility with Python < 2.7 (#201)
• Respect focus=no in form_base (#208)
• Fix ugly exception on Escape press in joystick plugin (#162)
• Correctly parse non-Unix line separators in HTML parser
• Do not give ugly warning on close (#124)
• Set subject_parity in Android runtime (#221)

Debian packaging

• Remove large template files

Windows packaging

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

OpenSesame 2.8.0
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 1.0.0
Expyriment 0.7.0b~opensesame2 (Revision 0b10a83590c31285a5d94b3b8479f302f1abc8f3; Python 2.7.6)
NumPy 1.8.0
PIL is available (version is unknown)
PsychoPy 1.78.01
PyAudio 0.2.7
PyGame 1.9.1release
Pyglet 1.1.4
PyOpenGL 3.0.2
PyQt 4.10.3
PySerial 2.7
python-bidi 0.3.4
python-markdown 2.3.1
SciPy 0.13.2