Sfair’s blog

Today, 30th October, the Sfair version 2.5 is officially released after a year of development. It presents some nice improvements from the previous version (2.4).

The changelog for v2.5 is as follow:

• Hardware improvements
  • 5kg lost.
  • French hat.
  • sun glasses.
• Minor bugs correction.
• Social detachment had an overall increase.
• A preliminary version of the ‘dance even if you don’t know how to dance’ module was added
  • it currently works with Celtic (or Bretagne) songs
  • it works even in subway stations
  • Note: A funny easteregg can be activated using the sentence “the book is on the table”
• The social network was expanded overseas
• IDL is now an officially supported programming language (together with C, FORTRAN and BASH)
• L10n (language localization)
  • Portuguese package now follows the recent orthographic reform.
  • general improvement of the English module was done, specially listening/writing.
  • basic support to French was added.
  • new version of polish module is present (although the current dictionary contains only the correct pronunciation of the word Skłodowska).
  • simple version of Swedish dictionary with 2 words was lost due to a memory failure.
• The SPICE support is being rewritten from scratch. A preliminary version is available though.
• The teacher function now works with Celestial Mechanics, as well Computer Programming and Applied Math.
• Telescope pointing and operation now come as optional features.
• Image analysis package comes enable by default, as well some image centering algorithms (unfortunately photometry is not supported so far).
• New help menu was specifically developed for Paris. It offers some museums guides (Louvre, d’Orsay, and Les Invalides) and it has a specific kernel for historical events.
• Autosmile: it’s a brand new feature that automatically detects cameras in the surroundings and creates a natural smile for every photo. It was extensively in front of Notre-Dame.
• Many other small but significant changes.

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