# Happy New Year & Happy New py5 Release!

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/happy-new-year-happy-new-py5-release/45527>\
**Category:** py5\
**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/happy-new-year-happy-new-py5-release/45527 "2025-01-02T13:18:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![villares](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/villares/32/3166_2.png) [@villares](https://discourse.processing.org/u/villares)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/happy-new-year-happy-new-py5-release/45527/1 "2025-01-02T13:18:04Z")

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> ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/villares/sketch-a-day/main/2025/sketch_2025_01_01/sketch_2025_01_01.gif)  
> Code using `py5`, `shapely` and `scipy` at:  
> [GitHub - villares/sketch-a-day: One visual idea a day](https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day)

Read about the latest py5 release at:

> **[Releases · py5coding/py5generator](https://github.com/py5coding/py5generator/releases)**
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> Meta-programming project that creates the py5 library code. - py5coding/py5generator

TL:DR; for the December 31st release:

- You can now [intercept the ESC key](http://dev.py5coding.org/reference/sketch_intercept_escape.html) and your sketch won’t close, so you can use the ESC key event for something else;
- Improvements on the default renderer for Windows and OSX users, including the fix that makes sketch windows no longer open behind other windows;

You might want to check the great [Live Coding feature](https://py5coding.org/content/live_coding.html) recently added on a previous release! 🙂