Release 0.4.8 (1.20.50.22)

[minecraftchloe]

Read the previous release notes here

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Summary

Hello! Happy Preview day 😊 This week we have a few exciting API updates, as well as a refactor on existing functionality to leverage the work our amazing partners on the API/scripting team did with camera! Let us know what you think!

As a reminder of Editor API support:

• Editor Extensions overview article and API reference documentation on learn.microsoft.com
• Starter Kit: Contains the compiler tools and various libraries required to get started making Editor Extensions
• Samples created by our team to jump-start your own Extension creations

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Updates this week

• Added API class SettingsManager which will contain settings categories as properties.
• Added property settings: SettingsManager to ExtensionContext API.
• Added API class GraphicsSettings with get, getAll, set and setAll functions to manage graphics settings properties.
• Added API enum GraphicsSettingsProperty and type GraphicsSettingsPropertyTypeMap for available graphics settings properties.
• Updated Grapple “Quick Teleport” functionality to use Camera API. Grapple to fast teleport to a target block using “G.” Grapple to frame up a Selection using “F.” Let us know what you think! The experience feels a lot smoother, and if you haven’t yet played with the new /camera command and presets, definitely check it out!

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Next

We follow semantic versioning and will be in v0.4.X for a bit. Moving forward there will be 2 concurrent workflows the team will be engaged with:

1. Iterating on the Editor API: Source from our internal punch-lists and playtests, requirements as we add more features to the core Editor experience, and of course...your feedback!
2. Evolving existing and adding new features to the core editing experience.

The next update is v0.5: Edit/Test Lite. Release 0.4.5 was our first iteration towards that! We’ll have some smaller features within the context of v0.5, but the major focus is the Edit/Test flow.

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Additionally, if you're new to the Editor GitHub this week, we encourage you to join the Bedrock Add-Ons Discord #Editor channel!

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Feedback

Please keep sending any and all feedback you have. Now that we are transitioning out of summer vacations and into the fall/winter season, development is going to start picking up on our side!

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Thank you for being here! You're the best! ❤️