[BRLTTY] Is a new release coming soon?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Willie Walker on 2009/09/23 at 14:16 -0400]

>October 12 would align well with one of the development releases we have 
>for OpenSolaris.  

Okay, we'll aim for October 12. Here are the changes I plan to include. I'd 
appreciate it if everyone would check to see if I've missed something 
important. Is this enough to call it 4.1 or should it be 4.0.1? Am I including 
too much, in which case what should be removed?

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).
   Preferences file conversion shouldn't result in text cells being used for the generic status field type.
   Default status fields selection should take into account displays based on a 66-character line.
   Remove usbResetEndpoint().
   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 five-digit characters and z for eight-digit characters.
Baum Braille Driver Changes:
   Fix the support for display key #6 in PB2 mode.
Papenmeier Braille Driver Changes:
   Interpret the EL66S Easy Access Bar correctly.
Linux Screen Driver Changes:
   Give KD_FONT_OP_GET maximum font dimension values rather than assuming hopefully large enough values.
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 4.0.
   Document that the EuroBraille Esys is supported.
   Update the supported FreedomScientific model lists.
   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.
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.
   Resolve gcc-4.4 warnings.
   Resolve 64-bit warnings.
   Some compilers don't deallocate variable-size arrays until function return.

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