= Download Sophie 2.0 =

Sophie 2.0 is released under the [http://www.osedu.org/licenses/ECL-2.0 Educational Community License, Version 2.0].

Sophie 2.0 requires Java 5 or its equivalent.  

== The current release is Sophie 2.0 beta 3 ==

== Release notes ==

 * [wiki:ITERATION_12/Release/UserDocumentation/01_PreReleaseSophie/01_InstallationInstructions Installation instructions]

=== New features and fixes ===
 * Support for large resources (including embedding)
 * Page Structure Palette improvements
 * Some video performance optimizations
 * Significant text chaining performance optimizations
 * Significant RTF import performance optimizations
 * Improvements on Z-order behaviour
 * Link actions can open external urls
 * Drag And Drop improvements
 * File open / save improvements (including more meaningful file extensions)
 * Minor timeline fixes
 * Media seeking.
 * Online submit from Bug Report Form.
 * Text wrap mode.
 * Tool-tip improvements.
 * Better audio input / output.

=== Known issues ===
 * Web sites using Flash don't work in browser frames and may make Sophie unresponsive.
 * Sophie's performance is better on computers when running in Java 6 than it is in Java 5; if your computer has both, make sure that you're using Java 6.
 * There are issues with some movie files.
 * Autochaining creates new pages but doesn't yet respect layouts.
 * Parts of the timeline interface still work incorrectly.
 * There are some issues with layout redrawing which affect performance.
 * Not all resources can be exported in their original formats yet.
 * Possible audio issues with linux32

== Downloads ==

=== ZIP of Sophie 2 beta 3 for all platforms ===
==== Sophie 2 Author ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-author-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-author-beta3.zip ]
==== Sophie 2 Reader ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-reader-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-reader-beta3.zip ]
==== Sophie 2 Server ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-server-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-server-beta3.zip ]
==== Sophie 2 Platform ====
(This contains the Author, Reader, and Server components in one directory.)

 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-platform-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-platform-beta3.zip ]

=== Installers of Sophie 2 beta 2 for Windows and Linux ===
==== Sophie 2 Author ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-author-installer-beta3.jar sophie-2.0-author-installer-beta3.jar ]
==== Sophie 2 Reader ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-reader-installer-beta3.jar sophie-2.0-reader-installer-beta3.jar ]
==== Sophie 2 Server ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-server-installer-beta3.jar sophie-2.0-server-installer-beta3.jar ]

=== Mac OS Sophie 2 beta 2 packages ===
==== Sophie 2 Author ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-author-mac-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-author-mac-beta3.zip ]

==== Sophie 2 Reader ====
 * [http://sophie2.org/beta3/sophie-2.0-reader-mac-beta3.zip sophie-2.0-reader-mac-beta3.zip ]

=== Daily builds ===

These builds are the latest daily builds, in both ZIP and GZIP format. Use caution with these; the features present in these builds may not match that which is described in the [http://www.sophie2.org/users/help/UserDocumentation.html documentation] and have not been as tested as thoroughly as the regular release. 

 * [http://sophie2.org/daily_builds/]

=== Build server ===
 * Available at [http://sophie2.org:8080/]

=== Source code ===
 * Source code can be checked out anonymously from Subversion: [svn://sophie2.org/sophie2/tags/release-15-sophie2-beta3].

== User documentation ==
 * [http://www.sophie2.org/users/help/UserDocumentation.html Documentation for Sophie 2.0]

=== Sample books ===
 * More demo books can be found [wiki:ITERATION_12/Release/UserDocumentation/DemoBooks here].

=== Previous releases ===
 * [wiki:Download/Beta-2 Sophie 2.0 beta 2]
 * [wiki:Download/Beta-1 Sophie 2.0 beta 1]
 * [wiki:Download/TestRelease-4 Sophie 2.0 Test release 4]
 * [wiki:Download/TestRelease-3 Sophie 2.0 Test release 3]
 * [wiki:Download/TestRelease-2 Sophie 2.0 Test release 2]
 * [wiki:Download/TestRelease-1 Sophie 2.0 Test release 1]
 * [wiki:Download/Alpha-4 Sophie 2.0 alpha 4]
 * [wiki:Download/Alpha-3 Sophie 2.0 alpha 3]
 * [wiki:Download/Alpha-2 Sophie 2.0 alpha 2]
 * [wiki:Download/Alpha-1 Sophie 2.0 alpha 1]
 * [wiki:Download/Pre-alpha-5 Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 5]
 * [wiki:Download/Pre-alpha_4 Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 4]
 * [wiki:Download/Pre-alpha_3 Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 3]
 * [wiki:Download/Pre-alpha_2 Sophie 2.0 pre-alpha 2]