[L2Ork-dev] Purr Data 12.20.0 released

[Albert Graef]

Dear all,

Hard on the heels of Ico's new pd-l2ork release, there's also a new
purr-data version available. At almost 280 commits since last year's
2.19.3, this is a big update including many bug fixes and improvements.
Some highlights are:

- Pd 0.54 compatibility -- this includes MovementGH's backport of various
objects and multi-channel support for pd-l2ork (thanks MovementGH, this
made my job much easier!) and many of my own fixes, like vanilla-compatible
message forwarding for inlet~, a new vanilla-compatible listbox gatom, and
vanilla-compatible backslash quoting.

- pd-lua was updated to 0.12.21, including support for Tim Schoen's new
graphics and signal APIs and Ben Wesch's multi-channel support in pd-lua.
These are fully supported in purr-data now.

- moocow/flite was replaced with Lucarda's pd-flite 0.3.2 which provides
better cross-platform compatibility and some interesting new features.

- Fixed explicit line breaks and added some rich-text formatting tags to
comments.

- Improved intelligent patching mode 4, which implements a new heuristic
for determining object pairs in row- or column-based layouts, and a new
parallel connections mode.

- Improved help browser, with subdirectory links in the directory view,
also added the "Meet the Cat" tutorial in pdf format to the Help menu so
that it can be read off-line.

- Device Refresh buttons in the Audio and MIDI preferences.

- Contributions by our GSoC 2025 students, including some games and
improvements of the auto-completion dropdown.

More details and two little screencasts demonstrating some of the new
features can be found in the release notes on GitHub:
https://github.com/agraef/purr-data/releases/tag/2.20.0

Best,
Albert

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
Email: aggraef at gmail.com, web: https://agraef.github.io/
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