[BRLTTY] Release 6.0 soon.

[Jason White]

What's the next LTS kernel following 4.19? That's probably your best option.

On 2/3/19 6:25 PM, John Covici wrote:
> Hi.  I need to stay on a kernel with long term support, right now I
> have 4.14.90 -- anything you can do to  make this work -- 4.19 is not
> an lts kernel as far as I know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 12:23:01 -0500,
> Dave Mielke wrote:
>> Finally, after two major delays, brltty-6.0 is just about ready. The crrrent
>> plan is to release it in a couple of weeks, i.e. February 18 or shortly
>> thereafter. Please, everyone who can, do test the latest development code as
>> best you can so that we can do our best to ensure that 6.0 will be as problem
>> free as possible.
>>
>> The big feature in brltty-6.0 is its ability to read Unicode characters from a
>> Linux text screen. This new capability also requires the use of a Linux 4.19
>> (or later) kernel. The constraint of only being able to read at most 512 unique
>> characters at a time has finally been eliminated. The 256 Unicode braille cell
>> (pattern) characters are now correctly rendered without having to do any fancy
>> font fiddling and without having to sacrifice 256 otherwise useful character
>> definitions. We can finally read several languages without having to switch
>> fonts. This new capability should also resolve a lot of problems for those who
>> read languages like Mandarin and Cantonese which require many, many characters.
>>
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