[BRLTTY] 4.1 has been released.

Tomas Valusek tvalusek at seznam.cz
Sat Oct 10 00:49:50 EDT 2009


Hello,

thanks for announcement. It seems that Windows port of BRLTTY 4.1 is not 
ready yet ...

Tomas Valusek

Dave Mielke napsal(a):
> Based on an post today, it appears that, since I didn't write one of those 
> official-looking release announcements, at least some didn't realize that 4.1 
> was indeed released yesterday. So, just to make it official, 4.1 was indeed 
> released yesterday (Thursday, October 8). It's not that I remained totally 
> silent regardign this issue, but, rather, that I made the declaration as part 
> of a response to another post. In case anyone missed it, these are the changes 
> which are in 4.1:
> 
> General Changes:
>    BRL_CMD_WINUP can go above the top row of the screen.
>    Protect against NULL being given to snprintf() for a string.
>    Change the "braille display offline/online" logs to DEBUG (from NOTICE).
>    Fixes to status field initialization during a preferences file upgrade.
>    Default status field selection should take into account 66-cell displays.
>    Remove usbResetEndpoint().
>    Resolve gcc-4.4 warnings.
>    Resolve 64-bit warnings.
>    C compilers needn't deallocate variable-size arrays until function return.
>    Updates to the English Grade 2 contraction table.
>    Updates to the German contraction table.
>    Change ctbtest to expect input encoded in UTF-8.
>    liblouis tables use y for 5-digit and z for 8-digit characters.
> Baum Braille Driver Changes:
>    Fix the support for display key #6 in PB2 mode.
> EuroBraille Braille Driver Changes:
>    Re-add some bindings forgotten during the driver rewrite for 3.10.
>    Rework the bindings a bit for greater consistency and easier learning.
>    Add new bindings to support as many commands as possible.
> Papenmeier Braille Driver Changes:
>    Interpret the EL66S Easy Access Bar correctly.
> TSI Braille Driver Changes:
>    Increase the write delay a bit.
> Linux Screen Driver Changes:
>    Give KD_FONT_OP_GET maximum (rather than reasonably high) font dimensions.
> Java Bindings Changes:
>    Define the DOTn constants as bytes (rather than as chars).
>    JNI fixes for Sun-based JVMs.
>    Load the JNI part automatically at startup.
> Lisp Bindings Changes:
>    Reference version 0.5.3 of BrlAPI.
> Python Bindings Changes:
>    Pyrex doesn't automatically convert C's NULL to Python's None.
>    Translate BrlAPI exceptions into Python exceptions.
> BrlAPI Changes:
>    Remove all mention of key sets.
>    Handle unbound key ranges.
>    Fix an issue with TCP/IP socket connection on Windows.
>    Handle the possibility of a different braille device after resuming.
> Windows Changes:
>    Fix a compile problem.
>    The screen driver should refer to "consoles" rather than to "terminals".
> Documentation Updates:
>    Update the French manual from 3.10 to 4.1.
>    Document that the EuroBraille Esys is supported.
>    Update the supported FreedomScientific model lists.
>    Clarify that --with-*-table sets the fallback (not the default) table.
>    Change log fixes.
>    Update the TSI braille driver's README.
>    Add README.Bluetooth.
>    The README for how to use a Seika with the TSI driver is no longer needed.
>    E-mail address change for Nicolas Pitre.
>    E-mail address change for Jean-Philippe Mengual.
> Build Changes:
>    The API socket directory should be created under the install root.
>    Add the --disable-stripping configure option.
>    Remove the --disable-preferences-menu configure option.
>    Remove the --disable-table-selection configure option.
>    Fedora no longer creates "/usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs/dllbrlapi_stubs.*".
> 


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