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Libcaca news
Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17
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new 'cacaclock' utility |
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improved FIGlet support |
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improved Python and Ruby bindings |
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numerous improvements and bugfixes |
Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16
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new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering |
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new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting |
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XCode and Visual Studio build improvements |
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Unicode support in the X11 driver |
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triangle texture mapping |
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improved HTML output |
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new troff output |
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improved Ruby and .NET bindings |
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new comprehensive PHP bindings |
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new Java bindings |
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Cocoa driver enhancements |
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support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts |
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documentation updates |
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numerous improvements and bugfixes |
Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15
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many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14
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libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13
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internal FIGlet font support |
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use C99 types in public headers |
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runtime support for output drivers |
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BBcode export support |
Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12
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device-dependent cursor support |
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event API rewrite |
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minor API improvements and extensions |
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img2txt improvements |
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Ruby bindings |
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Massive C# bindings improvements |
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Python sample code |
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Visual Studio build solution |
Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11
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support for 90-degree canvas rotation
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better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal
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the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks
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new rotozoom effect in cacademo
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Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
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preliminary .NET bindings
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many bugfixes and documentation changes
Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10
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fixed compilation of the C++ bindings |
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fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size() |
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implemented |
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minor bugfixes |
Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9
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new debug mode |
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blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates |
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import functions can read streamed data |
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attribute to colorspace transformations |
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added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font |
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many bugfixes and documentation changes |
Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8
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support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes |
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allow to import and export zero-sized canvases |
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fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview |
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fixed buffer overlows in the file importer |
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big documentation updates |
Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7
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allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins |
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support for fullwidth Unicode characters |
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improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate() |
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minor bugfixes and documentation updates |
Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6
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transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter |
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optimised triangle fill routine |
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updated C++ bindings |
Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5
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ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8 |
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Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set |
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various memory leaks were fixed |
Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4
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implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color() |
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handle transparency in the IRC export |
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new cropping and expanding filters |
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full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver |
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portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS |
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all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo |
Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3
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added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications |
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fixed manpage generation |
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minor bugfixes and documentation updates |
Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2
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libcaca functions use errno for error reporting |
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updated C++ bindings |
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minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates |
Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1
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ANSI importer |
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functions use errno for error reporting |
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updated C++ bindings |
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.NET bindings |
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cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor |
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Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses |
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built-in fonts work on Win32 |
Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1
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license switched to WTFPL
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libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend
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Unicode support
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TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
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Floyd-Steinberg dithering
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gamma correction
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export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...
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builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
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various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)
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OpenGL renderer
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kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel
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cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications
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img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
Changes between 0.8 and 0.9
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fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering |
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fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview |
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minor compilation fixes |
Changes between 0.7 and 0.8
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window resizing support |
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native Win32 port |
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autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers |
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cacaplas, a plasma animation example |
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cacamoir, a moire circles animation example |
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MSVC project file |
Changes between 0.6 and 0.7
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many bugfixes in the event handling |
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cacaball, a metaball animation example |
Changes between 0.5 and 0.6
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30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine |
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mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver |
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X11 is now the preferred driver |
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improved documentation |
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minor bugfixes |
Changes between 0.4 and 0.5
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palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug
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minor compilation fix
Changes between 0.3 and 0.4
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preliminary X11 graphics driver |
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support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers |
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honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables |
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more documentation |
Changes between 0.2 and 0.3
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antialiasing support
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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
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alpha channel support in cacaview
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BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present
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cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire
Changes between 0.1 and 0.2
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rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 |
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mouse support for ncurses |
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ncurses is now the preferred backend |
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arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer |
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cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca |
New in 0.1
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initial release |
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slang, ncurses and conio drivers |
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basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives |
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colour bitmap blitting |
Releases
4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 3 times.