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Release 12.11
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The GCompris development team is happy to propose you a new version of
GCompris named 12.11. This release includes 13 new activities, probably
more than any release of GCompris so far.

We now have 136 activities in GCompris!

Here is a summary of the changes:

Beth Hadley:
      Beth developed 7 new activities during her Google Summer of
      Code 2012:

      - explore_farm_animals: Learn about farm animals, what sounds
        they make, and interesting facts.
	http://gcompris.net/en-explore_farm_animals

      - explore_world_animals: Learn about world animals, interesting
        facts and their location on a map.
	http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_animals

      - explore_world_music: Learn about the music of the world.
        http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_music

      - note_names: Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble
        clef, with the help of sounds and colors
	 http://gcompris.net/en-note_names

      - piano_composition: An activity to learn how the piano keyboard
        works, how notes are written on a musical staff and explore
        music composition by loading and saving your work.
	http://gcompris.net/en-piano_composition

      - play_piano: Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard!
        http://gcompris.net/en-play_piano

      - play_rhythm: Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms.
        http://gcompris.net/en-play_rhythm

Bruno Coudoin:
      geography: removed sublevels, reworked and fixed many maps

      removed the libgnet dependency.

      core, bug fix, in case an actvity is removed from GCompris, the
      wrong activity was removed from the database.
      core, bug fix, broken lang selector for catalan

      python api documentation updated.

      sudoku, level 5 was broken

      chess, on linux we can build the internal gnuchess

      scalesboard, little graphic improvement

      fifteen activity, improved background

      sudoku, graphical improvement with a new background from
      openclipart.

      SDL Audio backend (used on Windows). Added support for the
      play and interrupt mode, sounds will be more responsive now.

Clément Coudoin:
      geography, new asia map level.

Peter Albrecht:
      New activity named mining: Use the mousewheel to approach the
      rockwall an look for gold nuggets.
      http://gcompris.net/en-mining

      Maze activities: added sport shoes to Tux to indicating the
      "run_fast"-mode

Matilda Bernard:
      Matilda developed 5 new activities during her Google Summer of
      Code 2012:

      - color_mix: To understand color mixing.
        http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix

      - color_mix_light: Understanding mixing of colors of light.
        http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix_light

      - intro_gravity: Introduction to the concept of gravity
        http://gcompris.net/en-intro_gravity

      - land_safe: Understanding acceleration due to gravity.
        http://gcompris.net/en-land_safe

      - place_your_satellite: Understanding effect of mass and
        distance on orbital velocity.
	http://gcompris.net/en-place_your_satellite

Jozef Riha:
      Added Slovak voive set

Philip Morris and Julia Wycherley:
       Updated English voices

And thanks a lot to our translators:

Alexandre Franke: French translation
Andrej Žnidaršič: Updated Slovenian translation
Aurimas Černius: Updated Lithuanian translation
Chris Leonard: Updated Russian translation
Christian Kirbach: Updated German translation by Peter Albrecht
Daniel Mustieles: Updated Spanish translation
Dominik Granada: Updated Polish translation
Fran Diéguez: Updated Galician translations
Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
Gabor Kelemen: Updated Hungarian translation
Gonçalo Cordeiro: Updated Galician translations
Marek Černocký: Updated Czech translation
Martin Srebotnjak: Updated Slovenian translation
Matej Urbančič: Updated Slovenian translation
Michal Kaukič: Updated slovak translation
Piotr Drąg: Updated Polish translation
Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli: Updated Telugu Translation
Tirumurti Vasudevan: Updated Tamil translation
Yannis Kaskamanidis: Updated Greek translation
Yuri Myasoedov: Updated Russian translation
Мирослав Николић: Updated Serbian translation