4.0 Pre-Release 4

4.0 Pre-release 4 is here. This includes a lot of bug fixes since the last pre-release.

Please check it out and give us feedback.

• Windows 32-bit installer or zip, tested on Windows 10
• Mac 64-bit dmg, tested on Catalina
• Linux binaries:
  • Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit (works also on Mint 19.3),
  • Ubuntu 19.10 AMD 64-bit (for PC) or ARM 64-bit (for Raspberry Pi 3/4),
  • Debian Buster 64-bit (works also on MX-19),
  • Raspbian Buster

What's new in 4.0

• The user interface is based on Qt, so XaoS has a modern look and feel.
• Works on macOS Catalina, which broke older versions.
• Animation rendering has been fixed.
• Menu entries are now standardized.
• TrueType text rendering so fonts look nicer and non-Latin alphabets are supported.
• Russian translation.
• Lots of bug fixes.
• Zooming is possible also with the mouse wheel.
• Mouse cursor has been changed to cross.
• Lots of source code cleanup and refactoring. It may not be obvious to end users but this will allow us to make better features and more frequent releases in the future.

4.0 Pre-Release 3

4.0 Pre-release 3 is here. This includes a lot of bug fixes since the last pre-release.

Please check it out and give us feedback.

• Windows 32-bit installer or zip, tested on Windows 10
• Mac 64-bit dmg, tested on Catalina
• Linux binaries:
  • Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit (works also on Mint 19.3),
  • Ubuntu 19.10 64-bit,
  • Debian Buster 64-bit (works also on MX-19),
  • Raspbian Buster

What's new in 4.0

• The user interface is based on Qt, so XaoS has a modern look and feel.
• Works on macOS Catalina, which broke older versions.
• Animation rendering has been fixed.
• Menu entries are now standardized.
• TrueType text rendering so fonts look nicer and non-Latin alphabets are supported.
• Russian translation.
• Lots of bug fixes.
• Zooming is possible also with the mouse wheel.
• Mouse cursor has been changed to cross.
• Lots of source code cleanup and refactoring. It may not be obvious to end users but this will allow us to make better features and more frequent releases in the future.

4.0 Pre-Release 2

As a Christmas surprise we humbly present a prerelease of version 4.0. The forthcoming version is based on Qt 5.6+ and available on all major platforms that support it: on Windows, Mac and Linux.

• Windows .zip file contains a Windows executable in the bin folder that is known to work on 32 and 64 bits system as well.
• Ubuntu 18.04 and 19.04 or 19.10 .deb packages are provided for 64 bit desktop architecture.
• Raspbian Buster .deb package for Raspberry Pi 3 and above.
• Mac OS X .dmg containing a 64-bit executable, which is tested on Catalina.

Most of the work for 4.0 was done by J.B. Langston.

What's new in 4.0

• The user interface is based on Qt, so XaoS has a modern look and feel.
• Works on macOS Catalina, which broke older versions.
• Animation rendering has been fixed.
• Menu entries are now standardized.
• TrueType text rendering so fonts look nicer and non-Latin alphabets are supported.
• Russian translation.
• Lots of bug fixes.
• Zooming is possible also with the mouse wheel.
• Mouse cursor has been changed to cross.
• Lots of source code cleanup and refactoring. It may not be obvious to end users but this will allow us to make better features and more frequent releases in the future.

Known bugs

• Sometimes zooming stops working. As a workaround a double-click can reset the mouse state.

3.7

I have tagged the point right before we started transitioning fully to Qt as 3.7, in case anyone is interested in the code for historical reasons. There were quite a few bug fixes at this point since 3.6 was released.

By popular demand here are Windows 32-bit binaries.

3.6

• Mac OS X 32-bit binaries; doesn't work on Catalina
• Windows binaries don't exist for 3.6

3.5

• Mac OS X binaries
• Windows binaries

3.4

XaoS 3.4 binaries for Mac and Windows.

3.3

XaoS 3.3 binary for Mac OS X.

3.2.2

XaoS 3.2.2 binary for MacOS X.

3.2

XaoS 3.2 binaries for Windows.