Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this page.

Note: This changelog is summarised. Check the detailed changelog for all of the changes.

v1.13.0 - 2021-04-20

• New addon: custom scripts area zoom settings
• New addon: change new sprite default position
• New addon: save blocks as image
• Enhanced loading speed of Scratch Addons settings page
• “Editor dark mode” is now customizable, its previously available modes are now presets
• “Last edit tooltip” is now “shared/edited dates tooltip”, shows full datetimes for shared and last edited
• “Highlight currently executing blocks” addon: better highlighting and running block detection
• “Developer tools” addon: some of its features are now toggleable in the settings page
• “Drag and drop files” addon: support drag and dropping text files into lists and “ask and wait” answer fields
• “Alt+GreenFlag 60FPS player mode” & “mute project player” addons: improve Alt+GreenFlag and Ctrl+GreenFlag detection
• “Website dark mode” addon: make Scratch’s statistics page graphs and embedded projects dark, bug fixes
• Bug fix: crash when opening editor from My Stuff on Firefox
• Bug fix: “studio manager tools” not allowing non-owner managers to leave studios
• Bug fix: “sprite folders” not backpacking sound folders properly
• Bug fix: “variable manager” not loading when reentering the editor

v1.12.1 - 2021-04-01

• Bug fix: follow button unclickable with “profile page banner” enabled
• Bug fix: “2D color picker” not working on Firefox
• Bug fix: issues with “auto-hide block palette” addon
• Bug fix: issues with “profile page statistics” followers over time chart
• Bug fix: “sprite folders” crashing the editor when dragging a folder into an empty backpack

v1.12.0 - 2021-03-28

• New addon: drag and drop files [recommended]
• New addon: custom block shape (with presets to get blocks that look like 2.0)
• New addon: 2D color picker
• New color picker in settings page that allows to set transparency % for some settings
• “Profile page banner” addon: banner is now higher resolution, new “banner blur” setting
• “Sprite folders” addon: now allows saving folders to backpack
• “Variable manager” addon: now allows changing variable names
• New setting on “show full areas” addon: show scroll for forums Scratchblocks
• “Developer tools” addon: fix send to top/bottom buttons showing on all items, instead of just costumes
• “Mute project player” addon: fix Ctrl+GreenFlag not working in MacOS
• “Auto-hide block pallete” addon: fix closing animation sometimes not working

v1.11.2 - 2021-03-17

• “Sprite folders” addon: fix editor crashing when trying to drag and drop a sound within a folder to another sprite.
• “Profile statistics” addon: add missing thousand separator comma to “most loved by country” statistic.

v1.11.1 - 2021-03-14

• Bug fix: scrollbar not working in editor with some editor dark modes
• Bug fix: “variable manager” listing broadcast messages as variables
• Bug fix: “developer tools” not removing vanilla “Clean up Blocks” button
• Bug fix: “addons” popup tab sometimes not listing some addons under “currently running on this tab”
• Bug fix: “onion skinning” and “sprite folders” not working properly together
• Bug fix: “show exact count” and “profile statistics” not working properly together
• “Disable auto-save” addon: allow saving with Ctrl+S and File>Save.
• “Website dark mode” addon: change scrollbar color on hover
• “Mute project player” addon: fix bugs
• “Sprite folders” addon: fix bugs
• “Forum search” addon: migrate to ScratchDB v3 for faster results
• “Thumbnails setter” addon: clarify what its only setting does when enabled
• “Auto-show editor extensions”: remove option to auto-show video sensing, which turns on the camera

v1.11.0 - 2021-03-08

• New addon: folders [beta]
• New addon: variable manager [beta]
• New addon: profile statistics
• New addon: higher character limit in “What I’m Working On”
• New addon: block pallette category icons
• Cloud games addon: add loading indicator
• Infinite scrolling addon: bug fixes
• Bug fix: “more links” treating some links as if they weren’t
• Bug fix: “block switching” only letting users type numbers when converting “change variable by” to “set variable to”

v1.10.0 - 2021-02-22

• New addon: copy link to comment button [recommended]
• New addon: auto-show editor extensions
• Enhanced pause button addon: bug fixes and improvements
• Website and editor dark modes bug fixes
• Bug fix: addons with permission requirements not getting enabled the first time after permissions granted
• Scratch Messaging: fix bug caused by asterisk after Scratch Team usernames
• Record project video: fix bugs when leaving the editor during recording

v1.9.3 - 2021-02-15

Fixes bug that would make the extension crash if browser language set to Spanish.

v1.9.2 - 2021-02-13

• Thumbnails setter addon: warn if the Scratch thumbnail server is down
• Bug fix: “more links” treating some non-links as links
• Bug fix: “curator link” sometimes not working
• Bug fix: popup box for sprite direction partially covered with “display stage on left side” enabled
• Bug fix: extension muted through context menu showing badge on startup

v1.9.1 - 2021-02-09

• New addon: show BBCode [forums]
• New easter egg addon: fix capitalization of Account Settings. You can access easter egg addons by typing the konami code in the settings page.
• Scratch Messaging: now shows who loved and favorited projects
• Scratch Messaging & Scratch Notifier: now support studio promotion messages
• Auto-hide block palette addon: new “category hover” mode
• Record project video: new option to include microphone input
• Mute project player addon: now shows an icon when the project is muted
• Bug fixes in “linebreaks in comments” addon
• Clone counter addon: improve performance

v1.9.0 - 2021-02-08 [YANKED]

Only released on Firefox for a brief moment due to the finding of a bug that would make the extension crash if browser language not set to English.

v1.8.1 - 2021-01-29

• Bug fix: “more links” treating non-links as links
• Bug fix: “Scratch 2.0 → 3.0” showing gray text on page load by default
• Bug fix: “Website dark mode” causing unreadable text on “Forums image uploader”
• Bug fix: “Auto-hide block palette” causing reporter return value bubbles to remain on screen

v1.8.0 - 2021-01-25

• New addon: auto-hide block palette [recommended]
• New addon: disable auto-save
• New addon: linebreaks in comments
• New addon: project screen reader support [beta]
• More links addon: remade, now more performant, out of beta
• Record project video addon: you can now record up to 5 minutes of project video and audio
• Data category tweaks addon: new “move data blocks above variable list” setting
• Removed addon: “fix ‘Load more’ scrolling in search results”, the bug was fixed in newer browser versions
• Bug fix: unreadable search bar input with “website dark mode” enabled and “Scratch 2.0 → 3.0” disabled
• Bug fix: permission prompts not working in Firefox

Addon development changes:

• You can now access the locale code msg() uses through msg.locale

v1.7.1 - 2021-01-11

Fixes bug where “website dark mode” would affect certain elements of the Scratch editor.

v1.7.0 - 2021-01-10

• New “addons” tab in extension popup: easily see what addons are running in the current page, enable addons, and change their settings, directly after clicking the Scratch Addons icon in the top right of your browser!
• Ability to customize the tabs in the extension popup (such as hiding “cloud games” from the popup if disabled).
• New addon: data category tweaks (version 2)
• New addon: mute project player
• New addon: better forum quoter
• Type the konami code in the settings page for a surprise :)
• Scratch 2.0 → 3.0 addon: new color settings
• Sprite and script count addon: new “live block count in editor” setting
• 60FPS player mode addon: custom FPS number setting
• Ability to import and export Scratch Addons settings as a .json file, available inside “more settings” in the settings page.
• Bug fix: double scrollbar in extension popup if browser zoom over 100%
• Bug fix: browsers now display certain non-English characters correctly, such as i/İ in Turkish and ß/SS in German.
• Bug fixes and better performance in editor devtools, colorful context menus, project notes tabs, block switching, dark modes, and more.

Addon development changes:

• Addons can now provide more than 1 warning and notice through the info manifest property.
• Popups aren’t hardcoded anymore, and they must be specified through the popup manifest property. If an addon is disabled, its popup tab is hidden.

v1.6.1 - 2020-12-27

• New addon: hex color picker
• New addon: record project video [beta]
• Studio manager tools addon: new option to add “leave” button to studios section of “my stuff”
• Show my-ocular status addon: new option to show statuses in profiles
• Website dark mode fixes: unreadable modals

v1.6.0 - 2020-12-27 [YANKED]

Only released on Firefox due to a special requirement by the Chrome Web Store related to localization. See v1.6.1.

v1.5.1 - 2020-12-15

• Bug fix: Onion skin addon groups together every vector costume (#1035)
• Bug fix: loading comment section not black with website dark mode enabled

v1.5.0 - 2020-12-13

• New addon: onion skinning
• New addon: profile page banner
• Editor devtools: option to show broadcast senders and receivers
• New setting to avoid overwriting thumbnails in thumbnails setter addon
• New setting to show “load more” in the front page’s “What’s happening” (show full areas addon)
• More blocks supported in block switching addon
• Customizable block colors: affect “colorful context menus” and editor devtools middle click feature.
• Addons now run in iframes, so for example, you can now use pause button and live featured project together.
• Warn users if extension site access was disabled, which breaks Scratch Addons.
• Remove orange outline in “set thumbnail” and “leave studio” buttons
• Add “help translate” button in settings page
• Bug fixes in website dark editor
• Firefox bug fix: addons not working
• Various other bug fixes

v1.4.1 - 2020-12-03

• Fix website dark mode affecting the editor, sometimes making text unreadable
• Fix typos and incorrect uses of title case
• Fix script and sprite count addon working incorrectly
• Fix forum search working incorrectly
• Fix localization bugs

v1.4.0 - 2020-11-29

• Scratch Addons is now localized! We’ll soon be writing how you can help translate Scratch Addons to your language.
• Responsive settings page
• New addon: website dark mode
• New addon: block switching [recommended]
• New addon: sprite and script count
• New addon: messages in editor
• New addon: project notes tabs
• New addon: feature unshared projects
• New addon: confirm actions
• New addon: fix broken SVG uploads
• New addon: customized quotes & code blocks on forums
• New addon: curator link
• New addon: show my-ocular status
• Enhancement: fix performance when dragging blocks in the editor
• Bug fix: exact forum count removing the word “posts” after the post count
• Bug fix: “last edit tooltip” showing incorrect date
• Bug fix: clone count showing negative numbers

Addon development changes:

• Because of localization, any English strings used in addon JavaScript must be put in addon-l10n/en/addon-name.json. Then, you can get these strings from the msg function that is passed to the default function of your module.
• Source URL was added to theme CSS (#849)
• Addition of %addon-self-dir% placeholder in theme CSS
• Settings of type "key" for hotkeys, not yet used by any addon.

v1.3.3 - 2020-11-24

Minor extension structure change after Mozilla Add-ons review (moves libraries used by addons, previously loaded from CDNs, to the “libraries” folder). No noticeable changes for users.

v1.3.2 - 2020-11-24

Fixes a security issue in the “More links” addon. Click here for more information.

v1.3.1 - 2020-11-09

The “live featured project” addon was accidentally enabled by default. This update fixes that.

v1.3.0 - 2020-11-08

• Project performance problems fixed - performance warnings removed (#431)
• “Highlight currently executing blocks” does not hurt performance/lag anymore (#336)
• New SVG icons instead of emojis in the extension popup and Scratch Notifier notifications (#617)
• Settings page: new “more settings” button and theme switch in the top right
• New addon: thumbnail setter (enabled by default for all users)
• New addon: resizable comment input (enabled by default for all users)
• Old addons now enabled for all users: 60FPS player mode (alt+click green flag), studio manager tools, full areas
• New addon: pause button (beta)
• New addon: live featured project
• New setting on Scratch Notifier addon: sound notification
• Full areas: new “load more” button on “What I’ve been doing”
• Fix remix tree button not working
• Fix inaccurate number of projects in a studio (show exact count addon)
• Fix wrong row titles in show exact count addon
• Dark mode fixes (#656, #658)

Addon development changes:

• addon.tab.traps API traps removed to fix performance issues (except Scratch VM object). In the future, we’ll discuss how future addons should implement traps
• Ability to use icons within setting names
• Ability to mark a theme userstyle as non-updatable with /* sa-autoupdate-theme-ignore */
• Fix console.log sometimes not working (bug caused by Scratch, not Scratch Addons, see #662)

v1.2.1 - 2020-10-27

• New popup styling, matching the Scratch Addons settings page
• Light theme option for the Scratch Addons popup and settings page
• New addon: customizable block colors
• New addon: studio manager tools
• New addon: infinite scrolling
• New addon: clone counter
• New addon: mouse position
• New addon: remix tree button on project pages
• New addon: show exact count
• Removed addon: data category tweaks, because it caused irreversible bugs to projects (#396)
• Removed addon: load more scrolling fix, because the issue was fixed by the Scratch Team (#506)
• Ability to reset all addon settings
• Mute for... option when right clicking the extension icon
• Fix bug: links to cloud games not working (#500)

Addon development changes:

• Ability to use addon.tab.waitForElement(selector, { markAsSeen: true }) to avoid having to manually add class names to elements to mark them as seen (#470)
• New urlChange event on addon.tab
• notice property in the manifest
• Setting presets (#563)

v1.2.0 - 2020-10-27 [YANKED]

Only released on Firefox due to an issue with perfomance warnings not showing. See v1.2.1.

v1.1.1 - 2020-10-11

• Bug fixes
• New theme: Scratch 2.0 → Scratch 3.0
• New addon: forums search
• New addon: search profile
• New addon: 60FPS player mode
• New addon: better emojis
• New addon: cloud games
• New theme: display stage on left side
• Automatically update themes (no refresh needed)
• Fix slow project performance if no feature with a “hurts performance” warning is enabled

Addon development changes:

• New manifest fields: "traps", "warning"
• "runAtComplete": false can now happen even if there’s no <body> element yet. The default value is still true, and those userscripts are run when the window load event triggers
• Userstyles are now injected very rapidly to avoid flickering
• Theme userstyles are now always injected after non-theme userstyles
• Addon settings can now be of type "color"
• Access to "string", "select", "positive_integer" and "color" settings via CSS variables

Open source project related changes:

• Links to “credits” and “review” pages on settings page.

v1.1.0 - 2020-10-10 [YANKED]

Not released due to a permissions issue. See v1.1.1.

v1.0.0 - 2020-09-24

Initial release.