# October 2021 OPENRNDR news

**URL:** <https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/october-2021-openrndr-news/280>\
**Category:** OPENRNDR\
**Created:** [October 6, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/october-2021-openrndr-news/280 "2021-10-06T10:55:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/october-2021-openrndr-news/280/1 "2021-10-06T10:55:03Z")

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Hi! Even if this forum is not always super busy it doesn’t mean things aren’t moving in the OPENRNDR world 🙂 Most of the activity happens in Slack and GitHub so I thought it might be good to leave a more public update here. Here it goes:

## OPENRDR 0.4

The main branch of [GitHub - openrndr/openrndr: OPENRNDR. A Kotlin/JVM library for creative coding, real-time and interactive graphics](https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr) is now on version 0.4 and the biggest change is probably that we can now target web browsers.

To give it a try clone [GitHub - openrndr/openrndr-js-template: OPENRNDR + Kotlin/JS template](https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr-js-template) .

Not everything has been ported yet to JavaScript but it’s already very capable. For example see this interactive piece by @edwin running in the browser:  
[![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/openrndr/original/1X/c63242d330964f9ac7068ec616bfdc39c011f1df.jpeg)](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVt2VsP3qXZe5FbpJfjyCkEMG2S3GxRydFYbLC6giNU5W/)

## New website

It contains a new showcase video. Check it out at [http://openrndr.org/](http://openrndr.org/).

## Contributing

For those who want to help make OPENRNDR even better, here’s how:

> <https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>

If you need an extra reason to finally contribute: OPENRNDR and ORX are both participating in [https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/](https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) 🙂

## Wiki

It now has two new articles. The first one might help with **debugging** your programs:

> **[Debugging](https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr/wiki/Debugging)**
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> OPENRNDR. A Kotlin/JVM library for creative coding, real-time and interactive graphics - openrndr/openrndr

And the second can help you **build** OPENRNDR on your machine, maybe to customize it or to contribute improvements:

> **[Create new page · openrndr/openrndr Wiki](https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr/wiki/Building-OPENRNDR)**
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> OPENRNDR. A Kotlin/JVM library for creative coding, real-time and interactive graphics - Create new page · openrndr/openrndr Wiki

## Participate

Finally, I encourage you to share your questions, ideas and creations in this forum! Many of us would be happy to see them 🙂