writing release notes

Author: benfry

build/shared/revisions.md

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+# Processing 4.2
+
+*Revision 1292 – 20 February 2023*
+
+Impress your friends with new `pde://` protocol handlers! With Processing 4.2, you can link to `.pdex` and `.pdez` files to immediately run and install libraries and sketches. How it works:
+
+* Linking to `pde://processing.org/somesketch.pdez` in the browser will download `somesketch.pdez` and load it into the editor. It also works for files, for instance `pde:///Users/ada/Desktop/somesketch.pdez` will open an archive found on the Desktop.
+
+* This also works for contributions (Libraries, Modes, Tools) archived as `.pdex` files.
+
+Both file types are simply a renamed `.zip` file. So to create sketches in `.pdez` format, use Tools → Archive Sketch, and replace the `.zip` with `.pdez`.
+
+This is implemented for macOS and Windows ([#559](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/559)), based on [this article](https://web.archive.org/web/20210601082308/https://support.shotgunsoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/219031308-How-to-launch-external-applications-using-custom-protocols-rock-instead-of-http-?mobile_site=true) which appears to be from @pboucher. Thank you! We still need help with implementing and testing it on Linux ([#674](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/674)). We would also like to add a warning dialog when opening files this way ([#560](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/560)).
+
+In addition to the protocol handlers, there are a number of fixes in this release, especially for Windows users (and soon, for Python users).
+
+
+## Windows users, we still love you
+
+* The `.pde`, `.pdex`, and `.pdez` icons now work on Windows!
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+* Exporting projects to Windows resulted in “cannot find Java” errors, now fixed. [#667](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/667)
+
+
+## Snake people, we love you too
+
+* Several internal changes have been made to better support future releases of [Python Mode](https://github.com/jdf/processing.py/tree/processing4). Fingers crossed that we'll be able to launch some of this soon.
+
+
+## And still we fix the bugs
+
+* Fix encoding problem in “has been resized from 100?100 to 116?100 by the window manager” messages when using OpenGL.
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+* `fullScreen(P2D)` not using the full screen when Windows display is scaled to fractional sizes. [#514](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/514).
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+* `Table.getString()` raises stack overflow when column type set to `double`. [#671](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/671)
+
+* Added support chained decimals during SVG Parsing (contribution from @bsapozhnikov) [#515](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/515), [#659](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/659)
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+* Applications were being exported to the wrong folder. [#601](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/601)
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+* Fixed more `/tmp` folder problems on Linux. [#666](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/666)
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+
 # Processing 4.1.3
 
 *Revision 1291 – 9 February 2023*

todo.txt

@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ X   https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/559
 X   implemented for macOS
 X   implemented for Windows
 X   Windows implementation https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=94914f2852f0c32e60361648ec82da153b8d70ae
-_   https://web.archive.org/web/20210601082308/https://support.shotgunsoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/219031308-How-to-launch-external-applications-using-custom-protocols-rock-instead-of-http-?mobile_site=true
-_     presumably from https://github.com/pboucher ?
-_   check on Linux implementation
-_   need to also warn people about running 'em
+X   https://web.archive.org/web/20210601082308/https://support.shotgunsoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/219031308-How-to-launch-external-applications-using-custom-protocols-rock-instead-of-http-?mobile_site=true
+X     presumably from https://github.com/pboucher ?
+X   check on Linux implementation
 X implement icon files on Windows
 X   pdez (and presumably pdex) files have the wrong icons on Windows
 X   implement document icons for pdez etc on Windows
@@ -31,6 +30,7 @@ X when exporting, the "exporting application" message doesn't seem to clear
 X   was a regression caused by ExportPrompt changes
 X   after exporting application, open the sketch folder
 
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 _ change the welcome screen to be wide instead of vertical
 
 _ exporting application while still running on Windows
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ _   just copy jars to /lib?
 _   point to binaries in /Applications/Processing.app? (no)
 
 
-
 known issues
 _ mixed mode warning now broken
 _   https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/519