@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ public void paint(Graphics g) {
 
     g.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 11)); //$NON-NLS-1$
     g.setColor(Color.white);
-    g.drawString(Base.VERSION_NAME, 50, 30);
+    g.drawString(Base.getVersionName(), 50, 30);
   }
 }
@@ -44,11 +44,13 @@
  * files and images, etc) that comes from that.
  */
 public class Base {
-  static public final int REVISION = 218;
+  // Added accessors for 0218 because the UpdateCheck class was not properly 
+  // updating the values, because javac was inlining the static final values.
+  static private final int REVISION = 218;
   /** This might be replaced by main() if there's a lib/version.txt file. */
-  static public String VERSION_NAME = "0218"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+  static private String VERSION_NAME = "0218"; //$NON-NLS-1$
   /** Set true if this a proper release rather than a numbered revision. */
-  static public boolean RELEASE = false;
+//  static private boolean RELEASE = false;
 
   /** True if heavy debugging error/log messages are enabled */
   static public boolean DEBUG = false;
@@ -147,7 +149,7 @@ static private void createAndShowGUI(String[] args) {
         String version = PApplet.loadStrings(versionFile)[0];
         if (!version.equals(VERSION_NAME)) {
           VERSION_NAME = version;
-          RELEASE = true;
+//          RELEASE = true;
         }
       }
     } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -1547,33 +1549,25 @@ public void handleShowUpdates() {
     updateManagerFrame.showFrame(activeEditor);
   }
 
+
   // ...................................................................
 
 
+  static public int getRevision() {
+    return REVISION;
+  }
+  
+
   /**
-   * Get list of platform constants.
+   * Return the version name, something like 1.5 or 2.0b8 or 0213 if it's not
+   * a release version.
    */
-//  static public int[] getPlatforms() {
-//    return platforms;
-//  }
-
+  static public String getVersionName() {
+    return VERSION_NAME;
+  }
 
-//  static public int getPlatform() {
-//    String osname = System.getProperty("os.name");
-//
-//    if (osname.indexOf("Mac") != -1) {
-//      return PConstants.MACOSX;
-//
-//    } else if (osname.indexOf("Windows") != -1) {
-//      return PConstants.WINDOWS;
-//
-//    } else if (osname.equals("Linux")) {  // true for the ibm vm
-//      return PConstants.LINUX;
-//
-//    } else {
-//      return PConstants.OTHER;
-//    }
-//  }
+  
+  //...................................................................
 
 
   static public Platform getPlatform() {
 
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ protected boolean handleOpenInternal(String path) {
    * something like "sketch_070752a - Processing 0126"
    */
   public void updateTitle() {
-    setTitle(sketch.getName() + " | Processing " + Base.VERSION_NAME);
+    setTitle(sketch.getName() + " | Processing " + Base.getVersionName());
 
     if (!sketch.isUntitled()) {
       // set current file for OS X so that cmd-click in title bar works
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ public void updateCheck() throws Exception {
     }
 
     String info = PApplet.urlEncode(id + "\t" +
-                                    PApplet.nf(Base.REVISION, 4) + "\t" +
+                                    PApplet.nf(Base.getRevision(), 4) + "\t" +
                                     System.getProperty("java.version") + "\t" +
                                     System.getProperty("java.vendor") + "\t" +
                                     System.getProperty("os.name") + "\t" +
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ public void updateCheck() throws Exception {
     if (base.activeEditor != null) {
       boolean offerToUpdateContributions = true;
 
-      if (latest > Base.REVISION) {
+      if (latest > Base.getRevision()) {
         System.out.println("You are running Processing revision " +
-                           Base.REVISION + ", the latest is " + latest + ".");
+                           Base.getRevision() + ", the latest is " + latest + ".");
         // Assume the person is busy downloading the latest version
         offerToUpdateContributions = !promptToVisitDownloadPage();
       }
 
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ void complainAndQuit(String lastWords, boolean schoolEmFirst) {
 
   static void printCommandLine(PrintStream out) {
     out.println();
-    out.println("Command line edition for Processing " + Base.VERSION_NAME + " (Java Mode)");
+    out.println("Command line edition for Processing " + Base.getVersionName() + " (Java Mode)");
     out.println();
     out.println("--help               Show this help text. Congratulations.");
     out.println();
 
@@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ protected void addManifest(ZipOutputStream zos) throws IOException {
 
     String contents =
       "Manifest-Version: 1.0\n" +
-      "Created-By: Processing " + Base.VERSION_NAME + "\n" +
+      "Created-By: Processing " + Base.getVersionName() + "\n" +
       "Main-Class: " + sketch.getName() + "\n";  // TODO not package friendly
     zos.write(contents.getBytes());
     zos.closeEntry();
 
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ A Implement textMode(SHAPE) for 3D
 A   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/777
 A PImage.loadPixels() shouldn't be calling out to the renderer
 A   setting image.parent = null for it makes it work again for get().save() case
+A Setting smooth(n) affects disables background in setup()
+A   https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/1452
+
 
 _ data decision stuff
 _   key/valueIterator to get a version that can be removed in a loop
Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@ public void paint(Graphics g) {
52	52
53	53	g.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 11)); //$NON-NLS-1$
54	54	g.setColor(Color.white);
55		- g.drawString(Base.VERSION_NAME, 50, 30);
	55	+ g.drawString(Base.getVersionName(), 50, 30);
56	56	}
57	57	}