Hi,
We are pleased to announce the release of GCompris version 0.95.

This new version contains 7 new activities:

Binary bulbs: to learn how to count in binary

Railroad activity: to train visual memory

Solar System: to learn about our solar system

Name that Note: to learn to recognize musical notes and their names

Play Piano: to train reading notes on a score

Play Rhythm: to train following a musical rhythm

Piano Composition: to learn composition of a musical score

You can find packages of this new version for Linux and Windows on the download page. This update will also be available in a few days on the Android and Windows store. For Raspberry Pi, we'll provide an installer in the beginning of 2019. The updated versions for MacOS and iOS are still not available, we hope to be able to release those during next year.

On the translation side, we have 15 languages fully supported: British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Galician, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Malayalam, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian.
We also have 19 languages partially supported: Basque (78%), Belarusian (69%), Brazilian Portuguese (74%), Breton (54%), Chinese Simplified (69%), Estonian (63%), Finnish (61%), German (86%), Hindi (77%), Indonesian (84%), Irish Gaelic (82%), Norwegian Nynorsk (89%), Russian (74%), Scottish Gaelic (71%), Slovak (62%), Slovenian (57%), Spanish (95%), Polish (94%), Turkish (74%).

Usually we only ship translations that are at least 80% complete. However for this release, several translations dropped below 80%. We decided to keep them exceptionally for this release, and hope to see former or new translators complete those translations. If we get updates or new translations, we will make a release update for those.
So if your language is in the partially supported list, or is not yet supported at all, and you want to help, please contact us and we will give you instructions to get started translating.

Another way to help is to write some posts in your community about GCompris, and don't hesitate to give us feedbacks.

Notes:

On Linux and Windows, we used to have two separate installers for OpenGL and software rendering. Now both rendering modes are available from the same installer. By default we try to use the OpenGL rendering, and if not working, we show an error and switch to the software rendering. This automatic switch is new and may not work everywhere. In case it doesn't, you can manually select the software rendering mode by editing the configuration file (in ~/.config/gcompris/gcompris-qt.conf for Linux, %LocalAppData%/gcompris/GCompris.conf for Windows): find the line "renderer=auto", replace auto with software and save the file. We are also interested to get some feedback to help us improve this auto-detection.

For the Malayalam language, we noticed some issues with the default font "Andika-R". We recommend Malayalam users to select the font Noto-Sans-Malayalam from the application menu (if it is not available in the list you need to install this font on your system to be able to select it).

Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny

Hi,
Here is GCompris 0.91, a new bugfix release to correct some issues in previous version and improve a few things.

Every GNU/Linux distribution shipping 0.90 should update to 0.91.

With 68 commits since last release, the full changelog is too long for this post. But here is a list to summarize the changes.

Activities:

fix English text in several activities

fix score position in several activities

block some buttons and interactions when needed in several places

lots of fixes for audio in several activities

number_sequence (and others based on it), fix base layout

update dataset for clickanddraw, drawnumbers and drawletters

crane, add localized dataset

lightsoff, add keyboard support and other fixes

algorithm, add keyboard support and other fixes

money, fixes for locale currency used

ballcatch, improve audio feedback

calendar, several little fixes

memory-case-association fix icons size

Other changes:

re-enable sound effects on linux

improved playback of sound effects, no more delay

add captions to images and OARS tags in the appdata

add Scottish Gaelic to core, and update some datasets for it

main bar, fix some items size

remove unused images

You can find this new version on the download page, and soon in the Play store and Windows store.

On the translation side, we have 16 languages fully supported: British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, Greek, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
We also have 15 languages partially supported: Norwegian Nynorsk (97%), Hindi (96%), Turkish (90%), Scottish Gaelic (86%), Galician (86%), Brazilian Portuguese (84%), Belarusian (84%), German (81%), Chinese Simplified (79%), Russian (78%), Estonian (77%), Slovak (76%), Finnish (76%), Slovenian (69%), Breton (65%).

If you want to help completing one of these translations or adding a new one, please contact us.

Else you can still help by making some posts in your community about GCompris and don't hesitate to give feedbacks.

Thank you all,
Timothée & Johnny