CoBlocks v1.0.0

CoBlocks v1.0.0 — Previously LiveScratch

LiveScratch is now CoBlocks! This release brings a refreshed identity, collaboration invite links, live cursors, Firefox support, and major improvements to authentication, notifications, and project recovery.

New features

• Collaboration invite links: Invite others to your CoBlocks projects, including unshared projects. Copy, replace, or revoke links from the project controls.
• Live collaborator cursors: See collaborators’ mouse movements when working in the same sprite’s blocks editor, with positions aligned to the workspace.
• Activity notifications: Get notified when collaborators join, leave, or send messages. Click message notifications to open chat.
• Firefox support: The same extension package now supports Chrome, Brave, Edge, and Firefox.
• Update announcements: See a release preview on Scratch after updating, with links to the latest GitHub release notes.

LiveScratch → CoBlocks

• New CoBlocks name, logo, extension icons, and branding.
• Updated sign-in pages, editor controls, chat, backpack, and profile badges.
• Refreshed popup and project page styling, with light and dark themes.
• Restored the profile badge’s hover rotation.

Authentication and security

• Backend-issued login tokens valid for 30 days.
• One active session per account: Signing in elsewhere logs out the previous session.
• CoBlocks sign-in must match the current Scratch account.
• Invalid credentials are cleared so users can sign in again.
• Fixed several sign-in handoff issues, including startup races, interrupted responses, and repeated callbacks incorrectly reporting an expired login.
• Strengthened backend authentication, project access checks, and input validation.
• Updated dependencies and addressed security issues.

Collaboration and notifications

• Fixed invite handling across Scratch’s project creation redirects.
• Improved online collaborator cards, role colors, and faster hover tooltips.
• Online cards adapt to larger groups by reducing names and avatar sizes before wrapping.
• Added notification ping sounds, truncated previews, and corrected unread badge placement.
• Opening chat clears its unread notifications; messages received while chat is open do not increase the unread count.
• Notification toasts support swipe-right dismissal, entrance and exit animations, and automatic dismissal after 1.6 seconds.

Reliability and interface improvements

• Improved local project recovery and backend storage resilience.
• Improved handling of authentication failures and lost connections.
• Refined error dialogs, spacing, editor buttons, and popup layout.
• Settings, theme controls, and footer links remain accessible during popup errors.
• Consolidated popup styles and simplified extension and backend code.

Installation

• Chrome, Brave, and Edge: Load the extracted extension folder through Load unpacked.
• Firefox 140+: Load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Permanent installation requires a Mozilla-signed package.

Full changelog: v0.2.2...v1.0.0

LiveScratch v0.2.2

What's Changed

• Bump qs, body-parser and express in /backend by @dependabot[bot] in #17
• Bump js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in /backend by @dependabot[bot] in #16
• Bump systeminformation from 5.23.13 to 5.30.6 in /backend by @dependabot[bot] in #15
• Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 in /backend by @dependabot[bot] in #14
• Quick fix: Editor injector - Share button selector updated

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #17

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

LiveScratch v0.2.1

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

• Bug fix: Editor doesn't load because userscript can't find vm and redux store after new scratch update.
• Bug fix: Popup takes time to load, especially in brave due to external image links.
• New chat design supporting emojis and ability to fix it into the editor.

v0.1.1

v0.1.1

v0.1.0

BETA release