Summary: Disc 5.28

Summary of changes to Disc image (5.24 to 5.28)

The following are the headline changes to modules or components in the HardDisc4 for 5.28.
For brevity only the top 9 changes have been described, because many of the 366 changes in the full change logs are administrative in nature or a result of other work, but they all contribute to stability and ease of use.
Access+, Squash, OmniClient, NFS, URI, T1ToFont, Boot & Filer & Screen & Internet setup plug-ins, and UnicodeLib have all had previously hidden memory leaks and similar programming mistakes fixed by analysing their source code with cppcheck.

Offers to produce 4k and 64k colour RISC OS Sprites (previously it could read them, but not output them) via a simplified Sprite output dialogue

The user interface for this application has been completely overhauled to be Style Guide compliant with new templates and high resolution sprites
Breve, semibreve and minim rests are now properly distinguished and given their own sprites and positions
Double barlines can be added on screen and printed
The vertical position of rests can now be set
When a MIDI interface is available where the notes are sent can be configured to be either the system sound interface or the MIDI interface

A new module, AcornSSL, provides up-to-date system wide network security using the TLS protocol, developed as part of the TCP/IP security bounty
The SharedCLibrary now includes C18 language functions
The Installer module now takes into consideration a module’s 32 bit flag before deciding whether to remove redundant copies of things installed into !System, and updates the System path variable after any add/remove operation
An updated ABCLib is provided with thanks to Pineapple software
The PPP serial module has been updated and made available once more

Adds a section to configure the mouse’s scroll wheel when interacting with windows in the desktop
Allows for more and longer mice names

Can now auto detect the GENET interface type used on the Raspberry Pi 4
Gets the enable/disable logic correct for networks without TCP/IP when only Acorn Access is enabled

Now saves its choices in the Choices directory inside the Boot application rather than in a system variable, saving can be triggered from the Save choices menu entry

An important fix for problems when lots of archives are open simultaneously. Note that version 1.46 supplied here is the read-only version, if you have bought the full read-write version from David Pilling use that instead