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Changes between 0.9.beta16 and 0.99.beta15

• many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms

Changes between 0.9.beta15 and 0.99.beta14

• libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity

Changes between 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.beta7 and 0.99.beta6

• transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter • optimised triangle fill routine • updated C++ bindings

Changes between 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.beta3 and 0.99.beta2

• libcaca functions use errno for error reporting • updated C++ bindings • minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.9.beta2 and 0.99.beta1

• ANSI importer • functions use errno for error reporting • updated C++ 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