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       libcaca-news - Libcaca news

Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17

       • new 'cacaclock' utility

       • improved FIGlet support

       • improved Python and Ruby bindings

       • numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16

       • new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering

       • new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting

       • XCode and Visual Studio build improvements

       • Unicode support in the X11 driver

       • triangle texture mapping

       • improved HTML output

       • new troff output

       • improved Ruby and .NET bindings

       • new comprehensive PHP bindings

       • new Java bindings

       • Cocoa driver enhancements

       • support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts

       • documentation updates

       • numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15

       • many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms

Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14

       • libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity

Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13

       • internal FIGlet font support

       • use C99 types in public headers

       • runtime support for output drivers

       • BBcode export support

Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12

       • device-dependent cursor support

       • event API rewrite

       • minor API improvements and extensions

       • img2txt improvements

       • Ruby bindings

       • Massive C# bindings improvements

       • Python sample code

       • Visual Studio build solution

Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11

       • support for 90-degree canvas rotation

       • better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal

       • the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and
         Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks

       • new rotozoom effect in cacademo

       • Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X

       • preliminary .NET bindings

       • many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10

       • fixed compilation of the C++ bindings

       • fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()

       • implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang

       • minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9

       • new debug mode

       • blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates

       • import functions can read streamed data

       • attribute to colorspace transformations

       • added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font

       • many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8

       • support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes

       • allow to import and export zero-sized canvases

       • fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview

       • fixed buffer overlows in the file importer

       • big documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7

       • allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins

       • support for fullwidth Unicode characters

       • improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()

       • minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6

       • transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter

       • optimised triangle fill routine

       • updated C++ bindings

Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5

       • ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8

       • Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set

       • various memory leaks were fixed

Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4

       • implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()

       • handle transparency in the IRC export

       • new cropping and expanding filters

       • full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver

       • portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS

       • all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo

Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3

       • added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications

       • fixed manpage generation

       • minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2

       • libcaca functions use errno for error reporting

       • updated C++ bindings

       • minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1

       • ANSI importer

       • functions use errno for error reporting

       • updated C++ bindings

       • .NET bindings

       • cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor

       • Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses

       • built-in fonts work on Win32

Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1

       • license switched to WTFPL

       • libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca,
         the display and user input frontend

       • Unicode support

       • TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support

       • Floyd-Steinberg dithering

       • gamma correction

       • export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...

       • builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output

       • various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)

       • OpenGL renderer

       • kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel

       • cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications

       • img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility

Changes between 0.8 and 0.9

       • fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering

       • fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers

       • aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview

       • minor compilation fixes

Changes between 0.7 and 0.8

       • window resizing support

       • native Win32 port

       • autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers

       • support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers

       • cacaplas, a plasma animation example

       • cacamoir, a moire circles animation example

       • MSVC project file

Changes between 0.6 and 0.7

       • many bugfixes in the event handling

       • cacaball, a metaball animation example

Changes between 0.5 and 0.6

       • 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine

       • mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver

       • X11 is now the preferred driver

       • improved documentation

       • minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.4 and 0.5

       • palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug

       • minor compilation fix

Changes between 0.3 and 0.4

       • preliminary X11 graphics driver

       • support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers

       • honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables

       • more documentation

Changes between 0.2 and 0.3

       • antialiasing support

       • dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the
         environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables

       • alpha channel support in cacaview

       • BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present

       • cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire

Changes between 0.1 and 0.2

       • rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16

       • mouse support for ncurses

       • ncurses is now the preferred backend

       • arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer

       • cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca

New in 0.1

       • initial release

       • slang, ncurses and conio drivers

       • basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives

       • colour bitmap blitting