libcaca-news(3caca)

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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