/* $Id$ */ /** \page news News \section news0_99_beta5 Changes between 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 0.9.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 moiré 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 */