[BRLTTY] Is a new release coming soon?

[Willie Walker]

Hi Dave:

Many thanks!  The most important fix to me is the one regarding the one 
associated with variable-sized arrays.  This is an important one because 
it keeps BrlTTY from crashing every 10 minutes or so on OpenSolaris. 
I'm not sure I see that one mentioned in your list.  The specific commit 
for it is as follows:

r4726 | dave | 2009-08-19 22:44:03 -0400 (Wed, 19 Aug 2009) | 2 lines

Some compilers don't deallocate variable-size arrays until the function 
returns. (st,dm)

Thanks again!

Will

Dave Mielke wrote:
> [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.
>