Is Scratch still getting updated? Is 4.0 planned? I haven't been here for like 2 years so I don't know if anything has changed in that time

Bossrushed wrote:

Is Scratch still getting updated? Is 4.0 planned? I haven't been here for like 2 years so I don't know if anything has changed in that time

Yes!

Changelog wrote:

December 2024

• 16 - “Debug Update” (Bugs)
  • Debugging Help was added to the editor. It shows tips on debugging scripts.
  
  • The Community Guidelines and Ideas pages were updated with a new look. The Ideas page now features an idea generator and videos from the Scratch Team's YouTube channel (image), while the Community Guidelines page was updated to unify with the 3.0 design used on other pages (image).
  • The “Welcome to Scratch” window that appears on new accounts has been updated.
  
  
• 25 - The indexer seems to have started indexing project IDs over 970m.
  

21 - “Project Thumbnail Update”
• A new button to set the thumbnail of a project has been added to the project page.


• The browser requirements listed in the FAQ have been updated to only support the most recent three years of browser versions. (Source)
Unknown Date - Costumes from the backpack are auto-centered now
28 - The footer on Scratch 3.0 pages has been updated.

See more here: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/833078/#reply

There's also a new Face Sensing extension.

And Scratch 4.0 will be expected in 2026 by an ST member and will feature AI.

Wait actually?? is there proof?

Bossrushed wrote:

Wait actually?? is there proof?

You can try the new extension in the editor right now! It's called Face Sensing.

The Debug feature should be in the editor next to the see project page button.

The Project thumbnail button is in the project page next to the full screen button on projects you own.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas

https://scratch.mit.edu/community_guidelines/

https://scratch.mit.edu/starter-projects < New look

And you can try the new membership at https://www.scratchfoundation.org/membership

say [hii]

And 3.0 blocks!

I was talking about the 4.0 plans you were talking about; thanks tho lol

Bossrushed wrote:

I was talking about the 4.0 plans you were talking about; thanks tho lol

The Scratch Team is wanting to release 4.0 in 2026. Paddle2See said it will start development this year. It will feature the Creative Learning Assistant.

Wait do you have a source??

Bossrushed wrote:

Wait do you have a source??

Yes for the CLA. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1201689466/

I do not know a source for Paddle2See saying this but I know he said something like that.

https://cla.scratch.mit.edu < Funny error message!

how was the error thing discovered lol

Bossrushed wrote:

how was the error thing discovered lol

It was found by someone on this topic dedicated to finding obscure Scratch pages.

Rosics wrote:

The Scratch Team is wanting to release 4.0 in 2026. Paddle2See said it will start development this year. It will feature the Creative Learning Assistant.

I think their rough guideline is 2027, not 2026. And, it's already been in development.

The Creative Learning Assistant must be nuked.

I'm disappointed in the scratch team wanting to use AI in platform

I think we should add something to make sprite making easier like no wrist drawing mistakes

I think we should add something to make sprite making easier like no wrist drawing mistakes

idk how you would improve that; it would be really hard considering hands being naturally shaky, and something like predictive stroke would just be annoying imo, so i think it's fine as it is

a option to make perfectly pixelated
here the reason:
as a pixel artist (well for games to another plataform)
i wanted to make PERFECTLY pixelated
before you say that already already exists a block to that, when i mean perfectly, i mean without transparent unknown blocks
when i press to convert to bitmap, it appears some unknown transparent blocks, so it's not perfectly
sadly i have to use aseprite (trial), take a screenshot and remove the background. so please add that to new scratch

maybe we could add a button next to where it says scratch. it will say to start a scratch competition where the scratch team chooses something we have to make a project about and then there's a deadline to finish it who ever has the best one wins.