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Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17

new ’cacaclock’ utility

improved FIGlet support

improved Python and Ruby bindings

numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16

new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering

new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting

XCode and Visual Studio build improvements

Unicode support in the X11 driver

triangle texture mapping

improved HTML output

new troff output

improved Ruby and .NET bindings

new comprehensive PHP bindings

new Java bindings

Cocoa driver enhancements

support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts

documentation updates

numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15

many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms

Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14

libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity

Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13

internal FIGlet font support

use C99 types in public headers

runtime support for output drivers

BBcode export support

Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12

device-dependent cursor support

event API rewrite

minor API improvements and extensions

img2txt improvements

Ruby bindings

Massive C# bindings improvements

Python sample code

Visual Studio build solution

Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11

support for 90-degree canvas rotation

better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal

the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks

new rotozoom effect in cacademo

Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X

preliminary .NET bindings

many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10

fixed compilation of the C++ bindings

fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()

implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang

minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9

new debug mode

blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas’ handle coordinates

import functions can read streamed data

attribute to colorspace transformations

added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font

many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8

support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes

allow to import and export zero-sized canvases

fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview

fixed buffer overlows in the file importer

big documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7

allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins

support for fullwidth Unicode characters

improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()

minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6

transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter

optimised triangle fill routine

updated C++ bindings

Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5

ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8

Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set

various memory leaks were fixed

Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4

implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()

handle transparency in the IRC export

new cropping and expanding filters

full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver

portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS

all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo

Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3

added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications

fixed manpage generation

minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2

libcaca functions use errno for error reporting

updated C++ bindings

minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1

ANSI importer

functions use errno for error reporting

updated C++ bindings

.NET bindings

cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor

Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses

built-in fonts work on Win32

Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1

license switched to WTFPL

libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend

Unicode support

TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support

Floyd-Steinberg dithering

gamma correction

export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...

builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output

various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)

OpenGL renderer

kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel

cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications

img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility

Changes between 0.8 and 0.9

fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering

fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers

aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview

minor compilation fixes

Changes between 0.7 and 0.8

window resizing support

native Win32 port

autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers

support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers

cacaplas, a plasma animation example

cacamoir, a moire circles animation example

MSVC project file

Changes between 0.6 and 0.7

many bugfixes in the event handling

cacaball, a metaball animation example

Changes between 0.5 and 0.6

30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine

mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver

X11 is now the preferred driver

improved documentation

minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.4 and 0.5

palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug

minor compilation fix

Changes between 0.3 and 0.4

preliminary X11 graphics driver

support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers

honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables

more documentation

Changes between 0.2 and 0.3

antialiasing support

dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables

alpha channel support in cacaview

BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present

cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire

Changes between 0.1 and 0.2

rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16

mouse support for ncurses

ncurses is now the preferred backend

arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer

cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca

New in 0.1

initial release

slang, ncurses and conio drivers

basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives

colour bitmap blitting

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