The problem was that this functionality was quite hidden, and many users never discovered it. It had a right-click functionality, that let you access the world object’s context menu to invoke instance methods on the world object itself. The name of the world used to serve as a placeholder to represent the world object itself. Sharp-eyed users may notice one small change: the world name, that used to be shown above the world in the main window, is not there anymore. “Where’s the new stuff?”, I hear you ask. The Greenfoot main window looks pretty much as it used to look before. (Yes, we are now supported by the good folks at Oracle, instead of Sun Microsystems, after Sun was swallowed up by Oracle.)īut after that, it all might look rather underwhelming at first.

The first thing users will notice after upgrading is a new splash screen. New features are available in the editor, for processing and recording sound, for editing images, debugging your programs, and more. Here, I will summarise the most interesting changes (at least those that users can directly see – there are many internal improvements to performance and stability that I won’t discuss here).