[BRLTTY] brltty-5.3 has been released.
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Tue Dec 15 01:28:00 EST 2015
Version 5.3 of BRLTTY has been released. You can get it by doing the following:
Go to: http://brltty.com/
Click on: Download
Click on: Current Release
Here's a summary of the major things that have happened to BRLTTY since 5.2:
General fixes:
The missing key event (stuck key) problem has been resolved.
The braille display is now initialized when the -q (--quiet) option is used.
Playing alert tunes has been moved to a dedicated thread.
PCM (sound card) tone generation is now way more efficient.
Program-relative paths are no longer used for relative paths specified via
command line options or configuration file directives.
Explicit paths for tables no longer consider the tables directory path.
The -U (--updatable-directory) option has been added (it used to be
hard-coded to /var/lib/brltty/).
Braille driver parameters may be specified via the fourth boot parameter
(use + to separate them).
The speech FIFO on Linux has been moved to the writable directory (see -W -
the default is /var/run/brltty/).
The Console Bell Alert preference has been added - when enabled, and with
the tune device set to PCM, the console bell can be heard even if the PC
speaker either doesn't exist or isn't supported.
New and changed commands:
The toLeft modifier can be applied to any vertical motion command.
The AltGr (Right Alt) and GUI (Windows) keys are supported.
The PRPGRPH (go to previous paragraph) command navigates to the first line
of the current paragraph (or, if already on it, to the first line of the
previous paragraph) rather than to the last line of the previous
paragraph.
The space bar is a real space (rather than a braille character with no dots)
when the keyboard is in Unicode braille input mode.
Disabling the braille keyboard now disables all braille input commands.
New commands that always skip forward/backward to a nonblank braille window:
NXNBWIN, PRNBWIN
Sticky modifier command improvements:
Cycle through next,on,off (rather than just on,off) - next means just for
the next typed character, and times out after five seconds.
New commands to start/stop the braille,speech,screen drivers:
BRL_START, BRL_STOP, SPK_START, SPK_STOP, SCR_START, SCR_STOP
New commands for attaching to a specific (not necessarily current) console:
SELECT, SELECT_NEXT, SELECT_PREV
Albatross braille driver changes:
Detection of no pending input has been improved.
Recognizing a failed autodetection probe has been improved.
Alva braille driver changes:
Establishing a Bluetooth connection is now supported for more models.
Baum braille driver changes:
The standard braille keyboard chords are supported.
The Refreshabraille has an improved key table.
The Conny has an improved key table.
The 12-cell Vario/BrailleConnect now uses the Conny key table.
The protocols= parameter has been renamed to protocol= and accepts a
specific protocol name (default, escape, hid1, hid2, ht, pb).
Support for the following models has been added:
VarioUltra, Pronto!, Brailliant2, SuperVario2, HID Refreshabraille 18
BrailleMemo braille driver changes:
Model autodetection has been improved.
FreedomScientific braille driver changes:
The key tables for newer models use the newer key names:
The wheels are called Nav keys.
The GDF keys are called Selector keys.
HandyTech braille driver changes:
Touch-based navigation has been implemented for the following models:
Modular Evolution, Active Braille, Active Star
HIMS braille driver changes:
Function keys can be emulated by pressing space with a routing key.
The Braille Sense U2 is recognized.
The Braille Edge scroll keys are now mapped correctly.
HumanWare braille driver changes:
Bindings for adding Alt, Control, or both to a function key have been added.
MDV braille driver changes:
The bindings are now defined within key tables.
Support for the following models has been added:
Lilli Blu, MB248, MB408+
Papenmeier braille driver changes:
The status key bindings have been standardized across the various models.
Minor changes to the front key bindings (for models with 13).
XT keyboard support has been fixed.
XWindow braille driver changes:
Support for the Unicode braille characters has been added.
AtSpi2 screen driver changes:
The widget with focus on startup is determined correctly.
The currently focused widget is cached for efficiency.
The screen size is implicitly increased based on the cursor's location.
The release= (yes, no) parameter has been added.
Linux screen driver changes:
VGA foreground and background colours are now reported correctly.
A font change now triggers a braille display update.
The VT= (number) parameter has been added - 0 means the current console.
Systemd is no longer blocked from starting a login session on an unused tty.
Screen screen driver changes:
ASCII control characters can now be entered.
BrlAPI changes:
The version is now 0.6.4 (it was 0.6.3).
Cursor blinking finally works again.
The braille display is refreshed whenever it comes back online if the client
has focus.
Language profile support fixes:
The language profile can now be changed when there's no braille device.
The braille device and keyboard key table help texts are regenerated
according to the new localization when the language profile is changed.
Text table changes:
The en_CA (English Canada) text table has been updated.
The fr-vs (VisioBraille) text table has been updated.
The alias directive has been added.
Support for the variable and conditional directives has been added.
The -u (--undefined) option has been added to brltty-ttb - it reports
the characters in the current screen font that aren't yet defined in the
text table.
brltty-ttb can write C preprocessor format (cpp) tables.
Contraction table changes:
The Unicode braille characters are now handled internally.
The en-us-g2 (grade 2 US English) contraction table has been updated.
The zh-tw (Taiwan Chinese) contraction table has been updated.
Key table changes:
Major chords key subtable changes:
Tab is now Space+Dots45 (it was Space+Dots2356).
Backspace is now just Dot7, and Enter is now just Dot8.
Add Space to get just dot 7 or just dot 8.
Unchorded bindings have been added for navigating the preferences menu:
Dot1: go to the previous item
Dot4: go to the next item
Dot2: go to the first item
Dot5: go to the last item
Dot3: select the previous setting for the current item
Dot6: select the next setting for the current item
Dot7: go back one level
Dot8: exit the menu
Minor changes to the keypad keyboard table.
The assignDefault directive has been added.
The -r (--reStructuredText) option has been added to brltty-ktb - it causes
the help text to be formatted as reStructuredText.
The help text has been improved:
Related bindings have been organized into functional groups.
Each of these groups has a descriptive header.
Variants of the same binding are listed together.
The bindings for Help and Learn are intentionally listed at the top.
Java bindings fixes:
The JDK hierarchy is located even when symbolic links point to it.
The subdirectory containing machine-dependent JNI definitions is included.
Android updates:
F9 goes to the Global Actions (Power Off) dialog (Lollipop and later).
F10 is the Menu key.
The braille display stays in the active window (new problem as of Lollipop).
The order in which screen elements are rendered is more intuitive.
Czech translations have been added.
Finnish translations have been added.
Windows updates:
Support for the Unicode braille characters has been added.
brltty-tune (formerly tunetest) changes:
The tune syntax has been completely changed.
Tunes can be read from files.
Build changes:
The autoconf dependency has been updated to 2.64 (from 2.53).
The ktbtest command has been renamed to brltty-ktb.
The tunetest command has been renamed to brltty-tune.
The brltty-atb, brltty-ktb, and brltty-tune commands are installed.
Key table help text is rendered in HTML (as well as in plain text).
Systemd service ready notification (via type=notify) is supported.
mkwin command updates:
The -C (Cygwin root directory) option has been added.
A safe, relative path to the configure script can now be used.
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