Release Notes for 704

Hey everyone, 704 is out the door.

134 years ago, on this day in 1892, Canadian-American PE teacher James Naismith published the original rules for basketball, or as he called it, “basket ball.” As Wikipedia notes:

The objective of the game was to throw the basketball into the fruit baskets nailed to the lower railing of the gym balcony. Every time a point was scored, the game was halted so the janitor could bring out a ladder and retrieve the ball. After a while, the bottoms of the fruit baskets were removed.

More than anything, I’m desperate to know how long “a while” was.

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pe teachers always making you do the most random stuff :wilted_flower: for generations

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my PE teacher making me play ancient Sumerian tickle tag at 2:00am on a cold monday morning (hes playing corny 2014 music)

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why is the generic function parameters thing pending while on release 702 it’s live

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The release notes have a very strange, inaccurate way of determining if something is live or not.

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Can someone explain Enum.MaterialVariant.Alpha will work? Will it allow for Meshes with Textures that contain transparency (negating the need for SurfaceAppeareance if all you want is transparency)?

If that’s the case, it would help my use-case a lot since I’d be getting around the heavy compression SurfaceAppeareances has on textures.

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huge for typechecking but i wish something was done about resamplemode not being avaliable on textures, surface appearances or decals already :wilted_flower:

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is this what i think it is

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elite ball knowledge

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Yes, it shipped this morning :slight_smile:

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Does this apply to my start menu pins, too?

I have no idea, I suspect if those weren’t already working this won’t fix it either.

What I mean is that whenever Roblox or Studio updates, the icons get unpinned from my start menu (latest Windows 11 if that helps in any way) and I have to pin them again. Does this update fix that?

My response is still the same–this fix precisely targeted the taskbar and the taskbar only.

According to a member of the Luau team, the feature flag for the feature was split in two seperate feature flags which triggered the system to think its live

Didn’t the studio draggers get a major update only a year ago?

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I see. Hope there’s a fix for the start menu soon

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To this day, there still ain’t no rules on the books saying a dog can’t play basketball.

Also oooh, alpha modes for material variants? Is this a step towards material compositing?

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This is a new round of changes we’re prototyping, not something you’ll see for a while yet.

And the Dragger QoL Beta was more like 3 years ago at this point, it’s actually been a while.

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Still no specific rounded corners for UICorner instance… sigh…
PLEASE BRO IT CANT BE THAT HARD