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| 1 | +# Processing 4.0 alpha 4 |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +*Revision 1273 - 15 June 2021* |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +Happy birthday to my goddaughter Kelsey! Let's celebrate with another alpha release. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +This should be a bit more stable than the last round. I've rolled back some of the more aggressive anti-AWT changes (bad for longevity, good for compatibility) so images in particular are now behaving better. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +But enough of that, let's go to the phone lines: |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +### What bugs have been fixed; why should I care? |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +* Sketch window location is saved once again: re-running a sketch will open the window in the same location. This was broken for a while! [#158](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/158), [#5843](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5843), [#5781](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5781) |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +* When using multiple monitors, new Editor windows will open on the same display as the most recently opened Editor window. [#205](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/205), formerly [#1566](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1566) |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +* A major Undo fix, this may even be [the big one](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4775), but it's not confirmed. (Please help confirm!) [#175](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/175) |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +### Were you too hasty with exorcising AWT? |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +* `cursor(PImage)` broken everywhere because `PImage.getNative()` returns `null` [#180](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/180) |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +* `PImage.resize()` not working properly. [#200](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/200) |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +* `copy()` not working correctly. [#169](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/169) |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +### Did you find any particularly niggling, but small issues? |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +* Catch `NoClassDefError` in `Platform.deleteFile()` (still unclear of its cause) on Big Sur. [#159](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/159), [#6185](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/6185) |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +* Fixed `Exception in thread "Contribution Uninstaller" NullPointerException` when removing an installed contribution. [#174](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/174) |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +* If the default display is selected in the Preferences window, store that, rather than its number. It was discovered that plugging in a second display could bump the “default” display to number 2, even while it was still selected. Yay! |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +* Sort out calling `unregisterMethod()` for `dispose` from `dispose()` makes for bad state situation. [#199](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/199) |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +### How about contributions from the community? |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | ++ Don't sort user's charset array when calling `createFont()`. [#197](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/197), [#198](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/198) |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +* Some exciting things are on the way for the documentation and web site. [#191](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/191) |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +* Update Batik to 1.14. [#179](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/179), [#192](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/192), [#183](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/183) |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +* Tweak the circle for number of updates based on Akarshit's initial attempt. [#201](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/201), [#4097](https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/4097) |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +* Make `parseJSONObject()` and `parseJSONArray()` return `null` when parsing fails. [#165](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/165), [#166](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/166) |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +### Is there anything new? |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | ++ Added `PVector.setHeading()` for parity with p5.js. [#193](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/193) |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +* The default font (what you get if `textFont()` isnot used) has been changed to Source Sans instead of Lucida Sans. I just couldn't take Lucida any longer. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +### Were there any internal changes I probably won't notice? |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +* Updated to JDK 11.0.11+9 |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +* Update from JNA 5.2.0 to 5.7.0 |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +* Modernize the RegisteredMethods code to use collections classes w/ concurrency. [#199](https://github.com/processing/processing4/pull/199) |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +* Set closed issues to [automatically lock](https://github.com/dessant/lock-threads) after they've been closed for 30 days. (This has no effect on open issues, only closed ones.) Actually this one you may have noticed if you had a lot of notifications turned on. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +* Slowly transitioning some of the older code to newer syntax (lambda functions, etc). This is not a priority for anyone else: it's being done slowly, and as a chance to do code review on some very old work. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +* Fix `textMode(SHAPE) is not supported by this renderer` message with SVG Export. [#202](https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/202), [#6169](https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/6169) |
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| 76 | + |
1 | 77 | # Processing 4.0 alpha 3 |
2 | 78 |
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3 | 79 | *Revision 1272 - 17 January 2021* |
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