Hello Sprouters,

Sprout v1.5.10 is released today!

• Google forms component is back online
• Google forms component now support's Google's new Scale (1-n) and required form fields
• Fixed a typo in the Asset uploader button's Alt. text pop up
• Fixed a bug with resizing the Pages Panel
• Other Miscellaneous bug fixes

Hello Sprouters,

We released Sprout v1.5.9 today! We added a couple of new features and fixed a few bugs.

New Features

• New tabbed layout for Pages Panel
• The Properties Panel is resizable when needed

Bug Fixes

• New/open window and projects tab shows up blank when the account has lots of large projects
• Progress Bar value may not update when using the up/down dials
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes

Hello Sprouters,

Sprout v1.5.7 was released today! We've added two great new features and thanks to everyone's awesome feedback and bug reports, we squashed many bugs.

New Features

• Pownce - Send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Create a network of friends and share stuff.
• Record Seesmic replies - Record your seesmic replies right in your sprouts!

Bug fixes

• Seesmic videos may not auto-play when placed on 2nd or greater page
• Browser may freeze when you uncheck "Next/Back" button then preview using Pownce and Twitter components
• Assets tray's paging may not work in IE 7
• RSS news feed component isn't auto-refreshing every 15 minutes
• Google Forms with short field titles aren't spanning 100% width
• Added a hand cursor to the Google Forms submit button
• Animation duration and delay properties aren't "set" unless you press [enter] or focus on another field
• Objects may disappear after navigation from/to other pages
• Images or other elements move to the wrong position in "large projects" after saving or logging out/in
• "Enable share bar checkbox" on publish page (Pro accounts only) doesn't retain it's value after checking/unchecking
• Tools panel's icons' help balloons may not appear when mousing over them
• Slideshow component stops transitioning if it fails to retrieve an image asset
• Undoing an image element action may reset the image's position to the center of canvas
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Hello Sprout World,

More bug fixes and improvements were released today. Please keep up the great feedack and keep the bug reports coming :)

• Added additional compatibility with iCalendar events, particularly repeating events
• Performance enhancements for Twitter component
• Fixed a bug where the Audio Component may have stopped loading after a few seconds
• Fixed a bug where Google form component doesn't properly display radio button, check box, etc. options for "other" (user inputed option)
• Fixed a bug Titter @user links may not have opened a new browser page to that user's twitter.com page.
• Fixed a bug where Guest Users couldn't filter project templates in the New/Open pop-up.
• Fixed a bug where pressing ctrl+v to paste text into a property panel input box pastes the text and pastes objects from the clipboard in IE
• Fixed a bug where right-click cut then ctrl+v to paste doesn't work
• Changed the Progress Bar's minimum refresh rate to 5 minutes
• Fixed a bug where the custom events report graph may not have rendered properly
• Improved formatting of the Progress Bar component's Label
• Fixed a bug when uploading images with the .jpe extension
• Other Miscellaneous bug fixes

Hello Sprout Community,

We released Sprout v1.5.5 last night to fix a few bugs and improve a few things like tabbing between fields in the Google Forms Component

• Fixed a bug where an error occured with some RSS Feed URLs containing query string params
• Improved the layout of the Google forms component
• Fixed a bug where Google Adsense Skyscraper canvas width was 20 instead of 120
• Changed the HTML embed code's quality setting to "best" (from "high") to improve rendering of some graphics.
• Fixed a bug where the Fade in animation flickered once when first loading before the fade effect started
• "http://" can be left out of Component properties that ask for an external URLs
• Google Forms component now supports tab and shift+tab to switch focus between form fields
• Fixed a bug where "x"ing out a thumbnail menu thumb isn't registered in the history panel and can't be undone
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes

Hello Sprouters,

Yesterday we released Sprout v1.5.4. Mainly to fix a Google forms bug, but we also fixed a few other minor bugs and add a new feature or two:

• Fixed a bug where Google forms' labels disappeared because Google changed their XHTML
• Limited animations to one of each animation type for each object. i.e. you can't have two "Slide in" animations on the same object.
• Help & Tutorials is now a very stylish and visible button
• Help & Tutorials Panel is not available for guest users
• Tabbing between fields in google forms is now suppordted
• Changing First and Last name in settings immediately refreshes name in header
• Miscellaneous UI and bug fixes

Hello Sprouters,

v1.5.3 was released today. No new features, just some bug fixes. Please continue the great feedback and let us know if any of these aren't fixed or if you run into any new bugs.

• Twitter component now supports @user links and external URLs
• Negative values are no longer accepted for x/y coordinates in the properties panel
• Updates to Report click tracking
• Fixed disappearing mouse pointer in Safari inside of Add Assets pop up window
• Removed animation capabilities from Master Pages
• Typing "V" (SHIFT+v) into the properties panel forms causes previously copied/cut objects to be pasted.
• Fixed bug prohibiting Google form component from submitting multiple choice and checkboxes
• Doubleclicking the stage when pan tool (hand) is enabled will now recenter the canvas.
• Fixed bug where Slide-in effects with delay may show the element in the wrong (final) position during the delay.
• Fixed bug where Docked Panels may re-dock to nearest window edge when dragging.
• Fixed bug where Help Panel sometimes can't be undocked.
• Fixed bug where "Disabled eye dropper" icon may remain as the mouse pointer even after closing the color picker panel.
• Miscellaneous UI and bug fixes

After several weeks of hard work and a big sprint we are proud to announce the public release of Sprout Builder Version 1.5 today. We were lucky to get coverage from Techcrunch and Mashable this morning.. thanks guys! There are many new features that Austin will post in a Changelog, but here's a teaser:

The 1.5 release will increase the ease of use and robustness of the Sprout platform and will include the following new features:

• Undo/Redo/History: Sprout now keeps track of your last 20 actions per page in your Sprout! No more fears of moving your objects a few pixels by accident!
• Google Forms Component: Survey your users and receive feedback directly into your Google Spreadsheets
• Twitter Component: Display your Tweets directly in your Sprout!
• Ribbit Component: Make phone calls from your Sprout!
• Seesmic Video Component: Show off your Seesmic vlogs
• Help Panel: Get help, tutorials, and watch HOTWO videos while you are building your sprout.
• Animation effects: Want your videos to 'fly in from the left'? We're adding several new animation effects that you can apply your sprout's elements
• Post Sprouts to Facebook's mini-feed, events, and groups: Use the Public Sprout (seed) Page's URL to post "Facebook Shared Links"

Hello Sprouters,

We just released minor version - v1.1.1. We've squashed some bugs and even though this is a minor release, we've added some big features:

1. Save warning when navigating away from the page... Now we won't lose our work when clicking on links while editing, previewing, or even refreshing the page
2. Added the Poll Daddy component... Poll your friends about their favorite movie star. Or create a Hot or Not sprout
3. Yahoo Map now supports zoom, pan, satellite and hybrid views

Squashed Bugs:

• Hide the RSS News component in preview/published mode if no feed URL specified
• Pages panel gets stuck to the mouse pointer when moving the panel then "mousing-up" over a page thumbnail
• Components may not display correct font.
• Resizing a component that lies under a Thumbnail Menu component may disable, "X" out the thumbnail if the mouse pointer touches the thumbnail during the resize
• RSS news feed component should show an error message if loading the feed URL fails
• Share bar's share button should pop up a link to the Public Sprout page if the sprout is too small for the Gigya auto-post panel
• Clicking next track in Jukebox starts playback but play button is not activated
• Large element borders prevent mouse element rotation
• Other bug fixes

Hey Everybody

I'm happy to announce the release of Sprout v1.0.1...we've added a few new features and, thanks to all of your great feedback, were able to track down and squash a lot of bugs. These updates will automatically appear the next time you login - if you're currently logged in, save your open project and shift+reload to pull down the updates.

This is our first major release since launching a few weeks ago, and we've got a LOT more exciting changes on the way. We really appreciate the feedback you've all provided so far, and I hope you'll see that reflected in the way Sprout "grows" from here on out. I encourage you to keep the feature requests and bug reports coming, and keep your eyes on the Blog and Forums for more exciting announcements.

Also, for every major release, we'll be posting our changelog on the website so that you can keep track of what we've been up to. For this release I'll paste the changlog below.

Thanks!
j

New Features:

• Support for common non-english languages - use "Helvectia (Int'l)" font
• Publish pop up includes a link to save Google Gadget XML
• Selected elements can be deselected with the shift key + click

Squashed Bugs:

• RSS News Component may pull in the wrong feed
• Yahoo Maps Component's zoom levels 14 and higher don't work - Limited zoom levels to maximum of 14
• WinXP / IE 7 Clicking empty space to the left of the Manager Tray Tabs doesn't close opened trays
• When trying to highlight text, the entire text element moves
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