[BRLTTY] Release 6.0 soon.

[John Covici]

I don't think there is one, this is why  I was asking.

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:06:57 -0500,
Jason White wrote:
> 
> 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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