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/** \page libcaca-news Libcaca news
\section news0_99_beta20 Changes between 0.99.beta20 and 0.99.beta19
- IPv6 support in cacaserver
- fixed a bug from 2004 that caused PDF documentation generation to fail
- memory allocation functions are now more robust
- numerous fixes for memory leaks and invalid memory accesses:
- CVE-2021-30498
- CVE-2021-30499
- CVE-2021-3410
- CVE-2018-20546
- CVE-2018-20547
- CVE-2018-20545
- CVE-2018-20548
- CVE-2018-20549
\section news0_99_beta19 Changes between 0.99.beta19 and 0.99.beta18
- Windows port improvements
- Ruby 1.9 support
- numerous fixes for memory leaks and invalid memory accesses
\section news0_99_beta18 Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17
- new "cacaclock" utility
- improved FIGlet support
- improved Python and Ruby bindings
- numerous improvements and bugfixes
\section news0_99_beta17 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
\section news0_99_beta16 Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15
- many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
\section news0_99_beta15 Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14
- libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
\section news0_99_beta14 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
\section news0_99_beta13 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
\section news0_99_beta12 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
\section news0_99_beta11 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
\section news0_99_beta10 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
\section news0_99_beta9 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
\section news0_99_beta8 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
\section news0_99_beta7 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
\section news0_99_beta6 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
\section news0_99_beta5 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
\section news0_99_beta4 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
\section news0_99_beta3 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
\section news0_99_beta2 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
\section news0_99_beta1 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
\section news0_9 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
\section news0_8 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
\section news0_7 Changes between 0.6 and 0.7
- many bugfixes in the event handling
- cacaball, a metaball animation example
\section news0_6 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
\section news0_5 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
\section news0_4 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
\section news0_3 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
\section news0_2 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
\section news_0_1 New in 0.1
- initial release
- slang, ncurses and conio drivers
- basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives
- colour bitmap blitting
*/