1.7.0 Release

[Qianqianye]

Topic

Hi all, we’d like to release p5.js 1.7.0 in July. Are there any specific issues we should resolve or any pull requests need to get merged before then?

Below are some issues we can focus our efforts on before the 1.7.0 release:

• Clean-up logging in build scripts #5114
• accidental call to print() with no arguments crashes browser #2765
• print("content") outside of setup/draw invokes print dialog. possible to catch with FES? #4272
• Supporting existing canvas elements for createGraphic #4564

Please let us know if we should label some other issues to the 1.7.0 Milestone. Thank you!

CC @limzykenneth @davepagurek @outofambit @raclim @aferriss @almchung @nickmcintyre @wuyudi @inaridarkfox4231

[davepagurek]

This one is a bug only on the main branch currently, so we might want to try to fix it before releasing to avoid a regression (although it means some errors are just less helpful, so we could also decide it's not critical): #6172

One other thought: once we have fixes in for everything here, do you think it's worth it to make a beta release? This is mostly motivated by the fact that I found a bug (#6200) by trying to make a sketch off of a main branch build as opposed to the more focused testing I'd normally do on a custom build. If we make an easier way to test the changes, so you don't have to build and upload p5, maybe we can catch a few more things?

[inaridarkfox4231]

I would like to implement a vector slerp function and a function that performs camera interpolation. I don't know if I'll make it in time...

slerp is a function that does a spherical linear interpolation of two vectors.
3D slerp test

2023-06-18.11-11-34.mp4

You can use the camera interpolation function to smoothly return a camera moved by orbitControl to its initial state, for example.
orbitControl_reset

2023-06-18.11-11-03.mp4

[nickmcintyre]

The timeline for this release coincides with the first phase of Reference edits for SoD. 2D shapes are complete (#6218) and color is halfway done (#6223):

• 2D Shapes
• [] Color
• [] Foundation
• [] Math
• [] Image
• [] Events
• [] Typography

I'm happy to create the remaining issues and tie them to 1.7.0.

[limzykenneth]

• Clean-up logging in build scripts #5114 should be resolved before 1.7.0 because of documentation format bug.

[davepagurek]

I'm going to be away for two weeks starting Friday so I'll leave some updates here if other progress is made:

• I've got one performance improvement PR in review here Improve performance of line rendering #6230 that should be good to go that I'm hoping to get in, but it's not essential that it gets in before release.
• For the past week my work has been using p5 with a build off of main, which found two new bugs. Fixes for both of those have been merged in now and we haven't noticed anything new just yet. We don't cover all of p5's features though (mostly just WebGL).

[Qianqianye]

We are planning to do the 1.7.0 release at the week of July 10 and the next release within 1-2 months (in August or September).

Wondering if there're any PRs from this year's GSoC p5.js contributors that should get merged for 1.7.0 release?

• Support Shader-Based Filters in p5.js: @wong-justin, mentors @aferriss @aceslowman
• A Typographic Revamp for p5.js: @munusshih, mentors @kyeah @aahdee @limzykenneth
• Friendly Error System(FES) and Documentation: @Ayush23Dash, mentors @almchung @nbriz
• Improving p5.js WebGL/3d functionality: @AryanKoundal, mentors @davepagurek @TanviKumar
• Updating p5js.org Site Documentation and Accessibility: @katlich112358, mentors @calebfoss @paulaxisabel

[Ayush23Dash]

We are planning to do the 1.7.0 release at the week of July 10 and the next release within 1-2 months (in August or September).

Wondering if there're any PRs from this year's GSoC p5.js contributors that should should get merged for 1.7.0 release?

• Support Shader-Based Filters in p5.js: @wong-justin, mentors @aferriss @aceslowman
• A Typographic Revamp for p5.js: @munusshih, mentors @kyeah @aahdee @limzykenneth
• Friendly Error System(FES) and Documentation: @Ayush23Dash, mentors @almchung @nbriz
• Improving p5.js WebGL/3d functionality: @AryanKoundal, mentors @davepagurek @TanviKumar
• Updating p5js.org Site Documentation and Accessibility: @katlich112358, mentors @calebfoss @paulaxisabel

Hi,
I believe before the end of August :

• Few i18n PRs
• 2-3 PRs for solving FES issues
• A PR or two for decoupling FES(depends on the discussion with my mentors(to be held in today's meet))

Would be added

[davepagurek]

The image-based lighting project isn't aiming to have code in for this release (maybe the next one though!)

[almchung]

@Qianqianye, I'm sorry if this is already taken care of or is a redundant answer. FES got this bug fix by @Ayush23Dash that has been merged that can be included in the 1.7.0 release:
#6221 FE message reference link bug fix

[katlich112358]

We are planning to do the 1.7.0 release at the week of July 10 and the next release within 1-2 months (in August or September).

Wondering if there're any PRs from this year's GSoC p5.js contributors that should get merged for 1.7.0 release?

• Support Shader-Based Filters in p5.js: @wong-justin, mentors @aferriss @aceslowman
• A Typographic Revamp for p5.js: @munusshih, mentors @kyeah @aahdee @limzykenneth
• Friendly Error System(FES) and Documentation: @Ayush23Dash, mentors @almchung @nbriz
• Improving p5.js WebGL/3d functionality: @AryanKoundal, mentors @davepagurek @TanviKumar
• Updating p5js.org Site Documentation and Accessibility: @katlich112358, mentors @calebfoss @paulaxisabel

I'm planning on having my first round of a11y-fixing PRs sent in by late next week. My contributions can wait until the next version update, just in case there's any blips or revisions needed.

[aceslowman]

@wong-justin @aferriss

After talking with @wong-justin (Shader-Based Filters project), we don't believe that the contributions will quite be ready for 1.7.0, but would like to work towards the goal of the next release.

[Qianqianye]

Thank you all! v1.7.0 is just released. We will plan the next release in one month or two.