[BRLTTY] brltty 5.1 has been released.

[mattias]

what about android?
Dave Mielke skrev 2014-03-27 10:48:
> brltty-5.1 has been released. As usual, it contains a number of new features.
> More Importantly, though, it also contains some important fixes for problems in
> the recent major rewrite which were only discovered after 5.0 was released. The
> most significant of these fixes resolves a couple of serious problems with the
> FreedomScientific driver. Anyone using a Freedom Scientific braille device on
> any platform, therefore, should upgrade to 5.1 as soon as possible.
>
> A couple of months ago we moved the source repository from svn (Subversion) to
> git. Now we're introducing yet another change. Brltty's web site is now at:
>
>     http://brltty.com
>
> The mailing list hasn't been moved to brltty.com yet. That change is being
> planned, though.
>
> Here's a summary of the changes in release 5.1 of brltty:
>
> General Changes:
>     An alert (2 beeps every 30 seconds) is now played when the screen is frozen.
>     Saving the preferences file now adds comments showing the possible values
>     (and the default value) for each property.
>     USB device identifiers now support the genericDevices= (yes, no) parameter.
> Command Changes:
>     Unicode braille dots input is now supported:
>        The BRLUCDOTS toggle command has been added.
>        The "Braille Input Mode" preference has been added to "Input Options".
>     Skip Blank Windows now works like Skip Identical Lines:
>        FWINLT/FWINRT are unchanged:
>           If SBW is off then don't skip blank windows.
>           If SBW is on then honour Skip Blank Windows Mode.
>        FWINLTSKIP/FWINRTSKIP now work as follows:
>           If SBW is off then honour Skip Blank Windows Mode.
>           If SBW is on then don't skip blank windows.
> The FreedomScientific Braille Driver:
>     Various problems with detecting a connection error have been resolved.
>     A problem causing a braille display freeze has been resolved.
> The Papenmeier Braille Driver:
>     The following bindings have been added for models with 22 status cells:
>        Binding        Command
>        Status20       BRLUCDOTS
>        Dot7+Status20  BRLUCDOTS+off
>        Dot8+Status20  BRLUCDOTS+on
> The Application Programming Interface (BrlAPI):
>     The version has been increased to 0.6.2 (from 0.6.1).
>     The retainDots= parameter has been removed.
>     The PASSDOTS command is no longer implicitly accepted by default.
>     Explicitly accepting PASSDOTS bypasses the conversion to PASSCHAR.
> Environment Variables:
>     BRLTTY_NO_API (yes, no) is now supported.
> The Configuration File (brltty.conf):
>     no-api (yes, no) can now be specified.
>     The following directives have been added:
>        include <file>
>        ifSet <property> [<statement>]
>        ifNotSet <property> [<statement>]
>        assign <variable> <value>
>        ifVar <variable> [<statement>]
>        ifNotVar <variable> [<statement>]
>        else
>        endIf
>     The special syntax \{variable} is now supported.
> Text Tables:
>     The Hebrew text table (he) has been modernized.
> Contraction Tables:
>     The US English Grade 2 (en-us-g2) contraction table has been updated.
> Key Tables:
>     The following binding changes have been made to the "keypad" key table:
>        Binding           Old      New
>        KP0+KPMinus       SIXDOTS  SIXDOTS+off
>        KP0+KPPlus        -        SIXDOTS+on
>        KPPeriod+KPMinus  FREEZE   BRLUCDOTS+off
>        KPPeriod+KPPlus   -        BRLUCDOTS+on
>        KPMinus+KP3       -        FREEZE
>     The <statement> operand of the ifKey directive is now optional.
>     The following directives have been added:
>        ifNotKey <key> [<statement>]
>        ifVar <variable> [<statement>]
>        ifNotVar <variable> [<statement>]
>        else
>        endIf
> Data File Customization:
>     The XDG configuration file paradigm is now supported.
>     A local version of any data file can be placed in "/etc/xdg/brltty/".
>     The XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variables are supported.
>     See "README.Customize" for full details.
> Build Changes:
>     The source has been moved from an svn repository to a git repository at:
>        "https://github.com/brltty/brltty.git".
>     The URL of the web site has been changed to "http://brltty.com".
>     Many of the core headers are now installed (in "/usr/include/brltty/").
>     The brltty-devel rpm is now created.
>     The --with-api-socket-path= configure option has been added.
>