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@title{News in 3.8}
A summary of news in SC 3.8@section{categories}
News
@section{related}
Guides/News-3_7, Guides/News-3_6, Guides/News-3_5, Guides/Debugging-tips
3.8 is light on new features and heavy on small bugfixes. See CHANGELOG.md for more details.
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SuperCollider IDE
@section{LIST}
## The middle mouse button now closes tabs.
## A new menu entry, Language > Quarks, launches Quarks.gui.
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@section{SECTION}
SuperCollider Language
@section{LIST}
## New methods: link::Classes/Function#-plotAudio::, link::Classes/Bus#-plotAudio::.
## It is now easier to insert custom views, in particular subclasses of link::Classes/SCViewHolder::, into layouts.
## New methods: link::Classes/TreeView#-addChild::, link::Classes/TreeView#-insertChild::, and link::Classes/TreeView#-childAt::, alias methods provided for symmetry with TreeViewItem.
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@section{SECTION}
SuperCollider Server
@section{LIST}
## A new command-line option for scsynth, -B, allows binding to a specific address.
## link::Classes/VOsc:: supports an audio-rate phasein argument.
## link::Classes/TGrains:: supports numChannels set to 1.
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API changes
@section{LIST}
## The number of default audio buses has been increased from 128 to 1024.
## link::Classes/TGrains::, link::Classes/GrainBuf::, link::Classes/GrainSin::, link::Classes/GrainFM::, and link::Classes/GrainIn:: now have unified panning behavior when numChannels is 2 and the pan exceeds the range [-1, 1].
## Several old methods have been deprecated from link::Classes/PathName::: *fromOS9, foldersWithoutCVS, isCVS, foldersWithoutSVN, isSVN, filesDoNoCVS, filesDoNoSVN, streamTreeNoCVS.
## The argument "startframe" has been renamed to "startFrame" and "aSoundFile" to "soundFile" in the following methods of link::Classes/SoundFileView::: loadFile, setData, readFile, read, readFileWithTask, readWithTask.
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Known Issues
While much has improved and many bugs from 3.7 have been fixed, there are still many known issues. For a complete list see: link::https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/::
Please do not hesitate to add new issues you find to the LINK::https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues##issue tracker:: or mention them on the LINK::http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/ea-studios/research/supercollider/mailinglist.aspx##mailing @section{list}