We are excited to announce today the release of LiveCode 9.6.0 stable. This release comes with more than 120 changes since the last stable release (9.5.1) including the following features and bug fixes…

LiveCode 9 contains so many new features that it’s almost impossible to cover them all in detail in a single blog post. So I’m not going to try. There have been several other blog posts along the way detailing specific features, which will be linked in the course of this blog – see these for more information.

Instead, I present the inside story of LiveCode 9.0, as it happened. The story has two main threads. The first is the ability to access to libraries and platform APIs written in other languages, aka the community-funded ‘Infinite LiveCode’  project. While the initial implementation of LiveCode Builder included simple C library support, we have extended this to support accessing more complex C libraries, Objective-C and Java. We have also refined the native layer support – there is more to come on this front in the 9 series, particularly for Windows and Linux. So we owe a huge thank you all who contributed, financially and/or otherwise, to achieve this goal.