[websites/rkward-kde-org/announce_0.7.2] /: Prepare 0.7.2 release announcement

Thomas Friedrichsmeier null at kde.org
Wed Oct 14 20:35:37 BST 2020 

Git commit 2774d8f097f768c162c44271b91e069448415a49 by Thomas Friedrichsmeier.
Committed on 14/10/2020 at 19:35.
Pushed by tfry into branch 'announce_0.7.2'.

Prepare 0.7.2 release announcement

M  +2    -4    Download_RKWard.md
M  +4    -4    RKWard_on_Mac.md
M  +3    -3    RKWard_on_Windows.md
M  +1    -1    _includes/2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_body.md
A  +24   -0    _includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_body.md
A  +10   -0    _includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_teaser.md
M  +1    -1    index.html

https://invent.kde.org/websites/rkward-kde-org/commit/2774d8f097f768c162c44271b91e069448415a49

diff --git a/Download_RKWard.md b/Download_RKWard.md
index 4595983..4677ebc 100644
--- a/Download_RKWard.md
+++ b/Download_RKWard.md
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@ layout: page
 
 The latest official source packages. See [Building RKWard From Source](Building_RKWard_From_Source.html) for help on compiling.
 
-[comment]: <> (- **[rkward-0.7.1](https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.1/src/rkward-0.7.1.tar.gz)** (released January, 23, 2020))
-[comment]: <> (- **[rkward-0.7.1b](https://files.kde.org/rkward/testing/for_packaging/rkward-0.7.1b.tar.gz)** (released May, 25, 2020))
+[comment]: <> (- **[rkward-0.7.2](https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.2/src/rkward-0.7.2.tar.gz)** (released October, 16, 2020))
 
-- **[rkward-0.7.1b](https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.1b/src/rkward-0.7.1b.tar.gz)** (released May, 25, 2020)
-- [ChangeLog](https://cgit.kde.org/rkward.git/plain/ChangeLog?h=releases/0.7.1)
+- [ChangeLog](https://invent.kde.org/education/rkward/-/blob/releases/0.7.2/ChangeLog)
 
 ## Compiled packages and system specific instructions
 
diff --git a/RKWard_on_Mac.md b/RKWard_on_Mac.md
index 7462b16..fbae9c5 100644
--- a/RKWard_on_Mac.md
+++ b/RKWard_on_Mac.md
@@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ title: RKWard on macOS
 Developer access to Mac computers is still limited for the main contributors. While RKWard is thought to work reasonably well on Mac OS X, we want to encourage you to send feedback to our
 [**mailing lists**](Contact.html), be it success stories or bug reports, because without it is hard improve our support for this operating system in the future\!
 
-## Installing RKWard version 0.7.1
+## Installing RKWard version 0.7.2
 
 ### Requirements
 
-* RKWard 0.7.1 currently requires Mac OS X 10.13 or higher.
-* You have to install R, separately, version 3.4.4 or higher. Get it from <https://www.r-project.org/>. The upcoming R 4.0.0 is *not* expected to work with this installer.
+* RKWard 0.7.2 currently requires Mac OS X 10.13 or higher.
+* You have to install R, separately, version 4.0.1 or higher. Get it from <https://www.r-project.org/>. For older versions of R, continue using RKWard 0.7.1b.
 
 ### Installation procedure
 
 **We hope to find a way to make gatekeeper accept RKWard out of the box**. Currently the installation procedure is as follows:
 
-1. Download the installer from <https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.1b/mac/rkward-0.7.1b-OSX-10.3.dmg>.
+1. Download the installer from <https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.2/mac/rkward-0.7.2-OSX-10.3.dmg>.
 2. Drag the downloaded DMG to your Desktop (or some other location on your harddrive)
 3. Right-click / Ctrl-click on the DMG, and select Open. Drag RKWard to Applications. When warned that "Apple cannot check it for malicious software", click "Open".
 4. The **first** time you start RKWard, you have to start it from Finder: Go to "/Applications", right-click / ctrl-click on RKWard and select "Open". When warned that "Apple cannot check it for malicious software", click "Open", again.
diff --git a/RKWard_on_Windows.md b/RKWard_on_Windows.md
index 2fd2482..89c6db2 100644
--- a/RKWard_on_Windows.md
+++ b/RKWard_on_Windows.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ On this page:
 
 ## Installing the official release
 
-Installation of RKWard on windows should be straight-forward: Simply download and run the [latest installer](https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.1b/win32/rkward-0.7.1b-R-3.6.2.exe). The installer includes RKWard 0.7.1b, R 3.6.2, and all required KF5
+Installation of RKWard on windows should be straight-forward: Simply download and run the [latest installer](https://download.kde.org/stable/rkward/0.7.2/win32/rkward-0.7.2-R-4.0.2.exe). The installer includes RKWard 0.7.2, R 4.0.2, and all required KF5
 frameworks (version 5.64).
 
 Please note that **the installer may appear to "hang" around 70% completion**. This is just a problem with the progress bar not updating. Please be patient.
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ instructions an an [earlier version of this page](https://web.archive.org/web/20
 ## Installing development snapshots
 
 Development snapshot are available from
-<https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_mingw64/> . Note that
+<https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/RKWard_Nightly_win64/> . Note that
 these are built, automatically, and provided without any human testing.
 Back up your data, before using these.
 
 ## Updating R inside the RKWard installation
 
-Since RKWard 0.7.1, updating R is often possible without any updates to RKWard, especially, for patch level releases of R (e.g. 3.6.**2** over 3.6.**1**).
+Since RKWard 0.7.1, updating R is often possible without any updates to RKWard, especially, for patch level releases of R (e.g. 4.0.**3** over 4.0.**2**).
 
 The recommended way to update R is to
 
diff --git a/_includes/2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_body.md b/_includes/2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_body.md
index 91721a3..7982ce7 100644
--- a/_includes/2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_body.md
+++ b/_includes/2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_body.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ your feedback, suggestions, and contributions\!
     - Code hinting in script editor windows has been reworked, and now also completes argument names
     - Instead of installing rkward R packages at build time, install them at runtime, when needed
     - Add new commandline option "--r-executable=auto" for auto-detection of R installation
-    - <browser> element in save file mode gains checkbox to control overwriting of existing files
+    - \<browser\> element in save file mode gains checkbox to control overwriting of existing files
     - Add command-line option --autoreuse to avoid shipping two separate .desktop files
     - \<select\> elements in plugin dialogs can be set to accept only a single selection
     - New R functions rk.capture.output() and and rk.end.capture.output()
diff --git a/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_body.md b/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_body.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d85b2cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_body.md
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+As usual, please don't hesitate to [contact](Contact.html) us with
+your feedback, suggestions, and contributions\!
+
+#### The changes in detail:
+
+  - New features and improvements
+    - Script preview keeps vertical scroll position when updating
+    - Add function rk.home() for retrieving applicaton paths, similar to R.home()
+    - Add menu option to switch application language
+    - Remove direct dependency on libintl
+    - Add "Check installation" wizard to test for several common basic instation issues all in one place
+    - Add rkward internal package location to end of library search path, to make it accessible to help.search()
+    - Add menu action to open any supported file type, directly
+    - Support using QWebEngine instead of QtWebKit (still supported)
+    - \<text\> elements in plugins may now also contain clickable links, including rkward://-scheme links
+    - The new code hinting features from version 0.7.1 are now also available in the console
+    - On unix-systems, RKWard can now be run without installation
+    - Kate addons are now supported within RKWard. Intially, search-in-files, snippets, and projects are loaded by default
+    - Python development scripts have been ported to python3
+  - Bug fixes
+    - Fix some problems with plot preview in wizard-type plugins
+    - Fix several small memory leaks
+    - Clean some logged warnings and potential issues during R backend shutdown
+    - Fixed: Avoid shorcut clash with kate part by removing conflicting (default) shortcuts, automatically
diff --git a/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_teaser.md b/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_teaser.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5faf87f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_includes/2020_10_16_announce_0.7.2_teaser.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+### RKWard 0.7.1 - Script and R markdown previews,
+
+*16 October 2020*
+
+A new release, RKWard 0.7.2, is available for [download](Download_RKWard.html), today. 
+This release brings kate plugins to RKWard, thereby adding a lot of functioality all at
+once, including search-in-files, and project management. But also the code hinting features
+from 0.7.1 have been brought to the R console window, a new "first run wizard" checks for
+common configuration issues.
+
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 6565718..a25a3e3 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ layout: default
     <div class="main">
         <div class="block">
             <h2>Current News</h2>
-            {% capture dummy_include %}{% include 2020_03_23_announce_0.7.1_teaser.md %}{% endcapture %}
+            {% capture dummy_include %}{% include 2020_10_26_announce_0.7.2_teaser.md %}{% endcapture %}
             {{ dummy_include | markdownify }}
             <a href="News.html">Read more...</a>
         </div>

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