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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
Version 0.99.beta18 Tue Jun 19 2012 libcaca-news(3caca)
