November 22, 2008

Scratch 1.3.1 fixes a number of bugs in the Scratch 1.3 release. For best results, please upgrade your Scratch installation to this latest release.

  See also Scratch 1.3 Release Notes

New Features

There are no new features in this version. Internally, however, there is improved support for uploading projects to Scratch partner websites and improvements to the code that support Scratch on the OLPC XO computer and the Portuguese Telecom Magellan computer.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

• could not import certain BMP files
• external sensor protocol did not work in presentation mode
• Unicode rendering glitch in file dialog directory menu
• deleting a list variable when both a global and local list have same name
• including % in variables names leads to strange blocks
• error when setting pen to very large size
• character encoding issue sometimes prevented launching downloaded projects
• errors when moving by +/-Infinity
• could not "say" or "think" +/-Infinity

New Languages 

In addition to some translation fixes and enhancements, a few new languages have been added to Scratch in this release:

Bahasa Indonesia
Bahasa Melayu
Eesti
Slovak

Periodically between Scratch releases, new accumulated languages and additions to existing translations will be made available here.