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title: "What's New in 1.13.0"
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date: 2014-04-12 11:00:00
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category: Releases
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permalink: /blog/2014/04/12/
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The latest version adds support for "software manifests", which you can read more about [here](/apps/). Basically, manifests
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are simple XML files that describe a piece of software (an application, an operating system, whatever). They can also
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link to a PCjs machine configuration capable of running the software, along with a "ready-to-run" machine state file.
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Conversely, a PCjs machine XML file can refer back to the manifest, to obtain a list of disk images.
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Here are some [Demos](/apps/pc/) of "ready-to-run" apps on [PCjs](/docs/about/).
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There have been lots of server-side changes recently, including API improvements that make it easy (well, *easier*)
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to dynamically create diskette images from a list of files, or even an entire folder (including all subfolders),
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as long as the total size of all the files will fit on a PCjs-supported diskette image. Support for creating hard disk
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images is still on the "TODO" list (the original **convdisk** PHP script supported hard disk images, but that functionality
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hasn't been ported to the newer **diskdump** Node module yet).
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Almost nothing has changed in the PCjs client-side code (which is where the emulator runs), except for changes to use
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the new **diskdump** API.
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*[@jeffpar](http://twitter.com/jeffpar)*
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*April 12, 2014*
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