# SoftBank Robotics documentation What's new in NAOqi 2.8?

# Release Notes - 2.4.1

## Pepper‘s abilities

### Pepper tracks people with smoother movements

The head movements for finding and tracking people have been reworked. They now are smoother and jolt-less.

### Pepper‘s leg animations are now supported during move

The former limitations during a Move command, are now removed, this means Pepper may move hip and knee joints, for example to dance while moving forward.

## Interacting with Pepper

### Sleep mode: easier to identify

While asleep, Aldebaran robot status LEDs stay smoothly on, with a purple color.

For further details, see: Putting NAO to sleep or Putting Pepper to sleep.

### New notification for Charging station

A new notification 810 informs you when Pepper failed to leave his Charging station.

For further details, see: Battery - notifications.

## Configuration tools improved

### Settings menu clarified

Day to day settings are directly accessible on myrobot_pep page, while less used settings are now displayed on advanced_settings_pep page.

## Developing Applications - new guides

### Your robot is alive!

Developing quality applications for a living robot must take the robot’s life into consideration, and the following guides will help you to do so:

- Programming for a living robot,
- State machine management,
- Autonomous Abilities,
- Extractors management.

### Application samples and tutorials

Use these samples to discover how to create Applications:

- Sample 1: a first dance application,
- Sample 2: a first interactive application,
- Sample 3: a first story application,
- Sample 4: a first solitary application.

And also these tutorials for more experimented developers:

- Creating an Application from scratch,
- Creating a new application outside Choregraphe using the qi Framework.

### Robot Application Standards

Before publishing your Application on the Aldebaran Store, take a few minutes to read and understand the following requirements. Make sure your application is compliant with all of them before publishing it on the Aldebaran Store.

For further details, see: Robot Application Standards.

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