This package fixes mark handling so that \firstmark is taken from the
first column if that column has any marks at all. It also keeps two
column floats like figure* in sequence with single column floats like
figure.
This package enables to generate multilingual bibliographies in
cooperation with babel. Two approaches are possible: each citation
may be written in another language, or the whole bibliography can be
typeset in a language chosen by the user. In addition, the package
supports commands to change the typography of the bibliographies.
* TMPL_INCLUDE re-enabled for templates read from the templatedir.
(But not in-wiki templates.)
* Version dependency on liburi-perl to >= 1.36; previous versions
did not support building urls from utf-8 strings. Closes: #579713.
* Ikiwiki can be configured to generate html5 instead of the default xhtml
1.0. The html5 output mode is experimental, not yet fully standards
compliant, and will be subject to rapid change.
* htmlscrubber: Allow html5 semantic tags: section, nav, article, aside
hgroup, header, footer, figure, figcaption, time, mark
* htmlscrubber: Also allow some other html5 tags: canvas, progress, meter,
ruby, rt, rp, details, summary, datalist.
* htmlscrubber: Round out html5 video support with the preload
attribute and the source tag.
* htmlscrubber: Allow the html5 form attributes: placeholder, autofocus,
min, max, step, required, autocomplete, novalidate, pattern, list,
and form. (Also the form* override attributes for input and buttons.)
* htmlscrubber: Allow additional misc html5 attributes: reversed,
spellcheck, and hidden.
* template: Fix typo.
0.1.3
- Add possibility to get Licenses from server
- Add search for contents by username
- Add convenience function to get list of download links and fix some related strings
- Fix qt-only hasCredentials
- Win and Mac compile/link fixes
- Fix crash when multiple apps would use attica simultaneously: do not delete root component of qtplugins
TagLib 1.6.3 (Apr 17, 2010)
===========================
* Fixed definitions of the TAGLIB_WITH_MP4 and TAGLIB_WITH_ASF macros.
* Fixed upgrading of ID3v2.3 genre frame with ID3v1 code 0 (Blues).
* New method `int String::toInt(bool *ok)` which can return whether the
conversion to a number was successfull.
* Fixed parsing of incorrectly written lengths in ID3v2 (affects mainly
compressed frames). (BUG:231075)
TagLib 1.6.2 (Apr 9, 2010)
==========================
* Read Vorbis Comments from the first FLAC metadata block, if there are
multipe ones. (BUG:211089)
* Fixed a memory leak in FileRef's OGA format detection.
* Fixed compilation with the Sun Studio compiler. (BUG:215225)
* Handle WM/TrackNumber attributes with DWORD content in WMA files.
(BUG:218526)
* More strict check if something is a valid MP4 file. (BUG:216819)
* Correctly save MP4 int-pair atoms with flags set to 0.
* Fixed compilation of the test runner on Windows.
* Store ASF attributes larger than 64k in the metadata library object.
* Ignore trailing non-data atoms when parsing MP4 covr atoms.
* Don't upgrade ID3v2.2 frame TDA to TDRC. (BUG:228968)
What's New in Python 2.6.5?
===========================
*Release date: 2010-03-18*
What's New in Python 2.6.5 rc 2?
================================
*Release date: 2010-03-09*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #8089: a OS X framework build with --with-universal-archs=3-way|intel
had no way to select a 32-bit executable.
- Issue #8084: fixes build issues on OSX 10.6 when targetting OSX 10.4.
Library
-------
- Reverting the changes made in r78432. Discussed in the tracker issue #7540.
- Issue #8107: Fixed test_distutils so it doesn't crash when the source
directory cannot be found.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #7670: sqlite3: Fixed crashes when operating on closed connections.
- Issue #8053: logic was inverted on which platforms to run a test on.
caused test_thread to fail on Windows.
What's New in Python 2.6.5 rc 1?
================================
*Release date: 2010-03-01*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
- Issue #7309: Fix unchecked attribute access when converting
UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, and UnicodeTranslateError to
strings.
- Issue #7649: "u'%c' % char" now behaves like "u'%s' % char" and raises a
UnicodeDecodeError if 'char' is a byte string that can't be decoded using
the default encoding.
- Issue #5677: Explicitly forbid write operations on read-only file objects,
and read operations on write-only file objects. On Windows, the system C
library would return a bogus result; on Solaris, it was possible to crash
the interpreter. Patch by Stefan Krah.
- Issue #4978: Passing keyword arguments as unicode strings is now allowed.
- Issue #7819: Check sys.call_tracing() arguments types.
- Issue #7788: Fix an interpreter crash produced by deleting a list
slice with very large step value.
- Issue #7561: Operations on empty bytearrays (such as `int(bytearray())`)
could crash in many places because of the PyByteArray_AS_STRING() macro
returning NULL. The macro now returns a statically allocated empty
string instead.
- Issue #7604: Deleting an unset slotted attribute did not raise an
AttributeError.
- Issue #7413: Passing '\0' as the separator to datetime.datetime.isoformat()
used to drop the time part of the result.
- Issue #6108: unicode(exception) and str(exception) should return the same
message when only __str__ (and not __unicode__) is overridden in the
subclass.
- Issue #7491: Metaclass's __cmp__ method was ignored.
- Add Py3k warnings for parameter names in parenthesis.
- Issue #7362: Give a proper error message for def f((x)=3): pass.
- Issue #7085: Fix crash when importing some extensions in a thread
on MacOSX 10.6.
- Issue #7070: Fix round bug for large odd integer arguments.
- Issue #7078: Set struct.__doc__ from _struct.__doc__.
- Issue #1722344: threading._shutdown() is now called in Py_Finalize(), which
fixes the problem of some exceptions being thrown at shutdown when the
interpreter is killed. Patch by Adam Olsen.
- Issue #7084: Fix a (very unlikely) crash when printing a list from one
thread, and mutating it from another one. Patch by Scott Dial.
- Issue #1747858: Fix lchown & fchown to work with large uid's and gid's on
64-bit platforms.
Library
-------
- Issue #7250: Fix info leak of os.environ across multi-run uses of
wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler.
- Issue #1729305: Fix doctest to handle encode error with "backslashreplace".
- Issue #691291: codecs.open() should not convert end of lines on reading and
writing.
- Issue #7975: correct regression in dict methods supported by bsddb.dbshelve.
- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
with the cycle garbage collector.
- Issue #6243: curses.getkey() can segfault when used with ungetch.
Fix by Trundle and Jerry Chen.
- Issue #7597: curses.use_env() can now be called before initscr().
Noted by Kan-Ru Chen.
- Issue #7970: email.Generator.flatten now correctly flattens message/rfc822
messages parsed by email.Parser.HeaderParser.
- Issue #3426: ``os.path.abspath`` now returns unicode when its arg is unicode.
- Issue #7835: shelve should no longer produce mysterious warnings during
interpreter shutdown.
- Issue #4772: Raise a ValueError when an unknown Bluetooth protocol is
specified, rather than fall through to AF_PACKET (in the `socket` module).
Also, raise ValueError rather than TypeError when an unknown TIPC address
type is specified. Patch by Brian Curtin.
- Issue #6939: Fix file I/O objects in the `io` module to keep the original
file position when calling `truncate()`. It would previously change the
file position to the given argument, which goes against the tradition of
ftruncate() and other truncation APIs. Patch by Pascal Chambon.
- Issue #7773: Fix an UnboundLocalError in platform.linux_distribution() when
the release file is empty.
- Issue #7748: Since unicode values are supported for some metadata options
in Distutils, the DistributionMetadata get_* methods will now return an utf-8
encoded string for them. This ensure that the upload and register commands
send the right values to PyPI without any error.
- Issue #1670765: Prevent email.generator.Generator from re-wrapping
headers in multipart/signed MIME parts, which fixes one of the sources of
invalid modifications to such parts by Generator.
- Issue #7701: Fix crash in binascii.b2a_uu() in debug mode when given a
1-byte argument. Patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #3299: Fix possible crash in te _sre module when given bad
argument values in debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.
- Issue #5827: Make sure that normpath preserves unicode. Initial patch
by Matt Giuca.
- Issue #5372: Drop the reuse of .o files in Distutils' ccompiler (since
ing the .c
file). Initial patch by Collin Winter.
- Issue #7617: Make sure distutils.unixccompiler.UnixCCompiler recognizes
gcc when it has a fully qualified configuration prefix. Initial patch
by Arfrever.
- Issue #7071: byte-compilation in Distue.
- Issue #7092: Remove py3k warning when importing cPickle. 2to3 handles
renaming of `cPickle` to `pickle`. The warning was annoying since there's
no alternative to cPickle if you care about performance. Patch by Florent
Xicluna.
- Issue #745tch by
Victor Stinner.
- Issue #6511: ZipFile now raises BadZipfile (instead of an IOError) when
opening an empty or very small file.
- Issue #7552: Removed line feed in the base64 Authorization header in
the Distutils upload command to avoid an ers on long passwords. Initial patch by JP St. Pierre.
- Issue #7231: urllib2 cannot handle https with proxy requiring auth. Patch by
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.
- Issue #7348: StringIO.StringIO.readline(-1) now acts as if it got no argument
like other file objects.
- Issue #5949: fixed IMAP4_SSL hang when the IMAP server response is
missing proper end-of-line termination.
- Fix variations of extending deques: d.extend(d) d.extendleft(d) d+=d
- Issue #1923: Fixed the removal of meaningful spaces when PKG-INFO is
generated in Distutils. Patch by Stephen Emslie.
- Issue #4120: Drop reference to CRT from manifest when building extensions
with msvc9compiler.
- Issue #7410: deepcopy of itertools.count() erroneously reset the count.
- Issue #7403: logging: Fixed possible race condition in lock creation.
- Issue #7341: Close the internal file object in the TarFile constructor in
case of an error.
- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
local connections.
- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
`thread.start_new_thread()`.
- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
which are part of a reference cycle.
- Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int`
arguments.
- Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
- Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on
LP64 platforms (most 64-bit Linux, bsd, unix systems).
- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
OSes such as Solaris.
- Issue #7244: itertools.izip_longest() no longer ignores exceptions
raised during the formation of an output tuple.
- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
- Issue #7082: When falling back to the MIME 'name' parameter, the
correct place to look for it is the Content-Type header.
- Issue #7099: Decimal.is_normal now returns True for numbers with exponent
larger than emax.
- Issue #7205: Fix a possible deadlock when using a BZ2File object from
several threads at once.
- Issue #7048: Force Decimal.logb to round its result when that result
is too large to fit in the current precision.
- Issue #1488943: difflib.Differ() doesn't always add hints for tab characters
- Issue #5037: Proxy the __unicode__ special method to __unicode__ instead of
__str__.
- Issue #7481: When a threading.Thread failed to start it would leave the
instance stuck in initial state and present in threading.enumerate().
- Issue #1068268: The subprocess module now handles EINTR in internal
os.waitpid and os.read system calls where appropriate.
Extension Modules
-----------------
- Issue #7808: Fix reference leaks in _bsddb and related tests.
- Stop providing crtassem.h symbols when compiling with Visual Studio 2010, as
msvcr100.dll is not a platform assembly anymore.
- Issue #6877: Make it possible to link the readline extension to libedit
on OSX.
- Expat: Fix DoS via XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences
(CVE_2009_3560).
- Issue #7242: On Solaris 9 and earlier calling os.fork() from within a
thread could raise an incorrect RuntimeError about not holding the import
lock. The import lock is now reinitialized after fork.
- Issue #7999: os.setreuid() and os.setregid() would refuse to accept a -1
parameter on some platforms such as OS X.
Build
-----
- Issue #3920, #7903: Define _BSD_SOURCE on OpenBSD 4.4 through 4.9.
- Issue #7661: Allow ctypes to be built from a non-ASCII directory path.
Patch by Florent Xicluna.
- Issue #7589: Only build the nis module when the correct header files are
found.
- Switch to OpenSSL 0.9.8l on Windows.
- Issue #6603: Change READ_TIMESTAMP macro in ceval.c so that it
compiles correctly under gcc on x86-64. This fixes a reported
problem with the --with-tsc build on x86-64.
- Ensure that it possible to build extensions for the default
binary distribution on OSX 10.6 even when the user does not
have the 10.4u SDK installed.
- Issue #7541: when using ``python-config`` with a framework install the
compiler might use the wrong library.
Documentation
-------------
- Updating `Using Python` documentation to include description of CPython's
-J, -U and -X options.
- Update python manual page (options -B, -O0, -s, environment variables
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, PYTHONNOUSERSITE).
Tests
-----
- issue #7728: test_timeout was changed to use test_support.bind_port
instead of a hard coded port.
- Issue #7498: test_multiprocessing now uses test_support.find_unused_port
instead of a hardcoded port number in test_rapid_restart.
- Issue #7431: use TESTFN in test_linecache instead of trying to create a
file in the Lib/test directory, which might be read-only for the
user running the tests.
- Issue #7324: add a sanity check to regrtest argument parsing to
catch the case of an option with no handler.
- Issue #7295: Do not use a hardcoded file name in test_tarfile.
- Issue #7270: Add some dedicated unit tests for multi-thread synchronization
primitives such as Lock, RLock, Condition, Event and Semaphore.
- Issue #7055: test___all__ now greedily detects all modules which have an
__all__ attribute, rather than using a hardcoded and incomplete list.
0.9.9
-----
New features:
- C++ struct declarations, 'new' operator, and del for C++ delete.
- As well as the 'not None' modifier for extension type arguments, there
is now 'or None' to explicitly allow passing None. It is planned to make
'not None' the default in a future version. For now, a warning is issued
(once per Pyrex run) if you do not specify one or the other.
- Extension types may have a 'nogc' option to suppress GC support.
Modifications:
- Exceptions caught by an except clause are no longer put into the thread
state and cannot be retrieved using sys.exc_info(). To access the caught
exception, it must be bound to a name in the except clause. A third name
can be supplied to capture the traceback.
- PyString_InternFromString is now exposed under the name 'cintern' because
it is not a complete substitute for 'intern' (it can't handle strings
containing null bytes). [John Arbash Meinel]
- Disabled size check for cimported types because it was generating too
many false positives in the field.
- Added __fastcall calling convention. Also no longer assuming that an
unspecified calling convention is the same as __cdecl.
- Operations between signed and unsigned ints of the same size now have
an unsigned result.
- Py_ssize_t now ranked between long and long long.
- Declaration of __new__ in an extension type is now an error, in
preparation for introducing new semantics.
- Added size_t type, and made sizeof() return it.
Bug fixes:
- When casting the result of a function call to a Python type, the
function could be called twice. [David Martinez]
- __Pyx_GetException was not taking account of the fact that the traceback
could be NULL.
- sizeof(module.typename) did not work. [Daniele Pianu]
--- 4.0.6 2010/04/29
Fix yaz-config for static mode and the use of SSL (gnutls).
--- 4.0.5 2010/04/29
Forward decl timeval struct in mutex.h and gettimeofday.h.
yaz-config: fix 'static' mode linking.
--- 4.0.4 2010/04/28
Add functions yaz_cond_{create,destroy,wait,signal,broadcast}. These
are wrappers for pthreads or Windows. For Windows these are put in
a separate DLL: yaz_cond4.
libyaz.la (whole source) is compiled with thread. If thread support
is enabled enabled, all source of YAZ is compiled with treading support.
This allows core utilities such as yaz_log to use thread facilities.
Previously (YAZ 3 and YAZ 4 releases), only libyaz_server.la was using
thread utilities. This commit moves mutex utilities (mutex.c) from
libyaz_server.la to libyaz.la.
yaz-json-parse displays leading text until error.
This update has been a long time in coming, and was spurred by some
recent eBay changes that broke drag'n'drop and searches. Other eBay
changes broke high-bidder recognition, and determining
whether a listing was an auction or a fixed price listing. This
should fix all of those, as well as several UI issues, especially
for Mac OS X Tiger users.
A great feature in the new version is thumbnail mode, which is
essentially a view of your listing that includes the thumbnail on
the same line as your auction information. It's been cleaned up
and made to look very nice. You can configure your columns to add
the Thumbnail column using the small '*' above the scroll bar on
the right, or under the Tab customization menu.
An overview of the features fixed for the new version are:
* Bugs fixed
o Fix the blank-screen (but auctions are there, and only
visible when selected) on Mac OS X Tiger
o The newest forms of bad HTML found on eBay listings
shouldn't break the parser anymore
o Don't mistake auctions for fixed price listings
o Recognize eBay's new URL format.
o Fix drag-and-drop on Linux (patch by Eric)
o Don't initiate sniping until the eBay time has been
loaded from the server
o If the pre-snipe had already fired (2 minutes before
the actual snipe), and you changed the snipe amount, it
would instantly place a bid for the amount you entered
as a snipe. This is fixed.
* Small features and improvements
o Don't present a dialog message when cancelling a
multisnipe; events like that should just quietly obey.
o Reduce the number of unimportant exceptions that show
in the log file
o Provide the ability to easily submit error logs
o Improve the integration with My JBidwatcher
o Improve high bidder recognition substantially
o Simplify tab save/restore handling, and apply a tab
ordering fix (patch from Andreas Stempfhuber).
o Added a patch from mickle_ak which should improve
corporate proxy support.
* Features
o Initial support for Gixen integration via My JBidwatcher
+ This isn't complete, but it's getting close
o Deep improvements to the Thumbnail view and taking the
Mac UI improvements and applying them everywhere, including
(I believe) a working implementation on Windows and Linux!
2010/04/28
+ several improvements to configure script:
+ modify CF_CURSES_TERM_H to handle cases such as cygwin where
packager has installed curses.h and term.h in different
directories, e.g., to wedge in a termcap library.
+ modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding special case for OpenSolaris
+ modify CF_MAKE_TAGS to add check for exctags and exetags, prefer to
ctags and etags to work around pkgsrc (NetBSD) renaming.
+ correct CF_FIND_LINKAGE, setting cache variable for library_file in
the special case where no directory search is made.
+ improve CF_GCC_VERSION, suppress stderr for c89 alias of gcc.
+ improve CF_GCC_WARNINGS, moving -W and -Wall into the list to
check, since c89 alias for gcc complains about these options.
+ modify CF_HEADER_PATH, to not search for variations of everything
in the current include-path
+ use "mkdir -p", remove mkdirs.sh
+ use CF_CURSES_HEADER to fill in possible subdirectory used for
ncurses header filename.
+ modify CF_XOPEN_CURSES to work around current ncurse header loss of
predefinition of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ add "--disable-rpath-hack" option, along with scripting to add
rpath option to libraries found in unusual places.
+ modify pause widget to autosize like gauge, and to omit the area for
buttons when none are displayed.
+ fix an infinite loop in dlg_button_layout() if there are no buttons
to display (Debian #579390).
+ add makefile rules for generating html, etc., documentation from
nroff.
> patches by Samuel Mart
+ reset errors in tailbox before reading new character.
+ modify dlg_draw_scrollbar(), omitting hiding percentages in boxes
when no arrows or scrollbar are needed.
+ correct value of row for scrollbars in formbox.
+ update es.po from
http://translationproject.org/latest/dialog/
2.2.6 (2010-03-02)
==================
Bugs fixed
----------
* Fixed several Python 3 regressions by building with Cython 0.11.3.
2.2.5 (2010-02-28)
==================
Features added
--------------
* Support for running XSLT extension elements on the input root node
(e.g. in a template matching on "/").
Bugs fixed
----------
* Crash in XPath evaluation when reading smart strings from a document
other than the original context document.
* Support recent versions of html5lib by not requiring its
``XHTMLParser`` in ``htmlparser.py`` anymore.
* Manually instantiating the custom element classes in
``lxml.objectify`` could crash.
* Invalid XML text characters were not rejected by the API when they
appeared in unicode strings directly after non-ASCII characters.
* lxml.html.open_http_urllib() did not work in Python 3.
* The functions ``strip_tags()`` and ``strip_elements()`` in
``lxml.etree`` did not remove all occurrences of a tag in all cases.
* Crash in XSLT extension elements when the XSLT context node is not
an element.
D-Bus Python Bindings 0.83.1 (2010-02-18)
=========================================
Fixes:
* fd.o #21172: avoid some deprecation warnings in Python 2.6
* fd.o #15013: add dbus.lowlevel.MESSAGE_TYPE_SIGNAL etc., for those who care
about message types at a low level
* When removing signal matches, clean up internal state, avoiding a memory
leak in long-lived Python processes that connect to signals from arbitrarily
many object paths (fd.o #17551, thanks to Marco Pesenti Gritti)
* When setting the sender of a message, allow it to be org.freedesktop.DBus
so you can implement a D-Bus daemon in pure Python (patch from Huang Peng)
Version 2.6 released, 9/2009. [Includes libplot 4.4, interface age=2.]
ode: File ode/specfun.c now heavily rewritten to remove all non-GNU
copyrights. For details, see the file ./COMPAT.
libplot: Several bugfixes to the SVG and PS drivers. (Thanks to Diomidis
Spinellis, James Anderson, and others, for pointing out that
several apps that import SVG or PS were choking on libplot's
output. Some still choke on its SVG output, but that's no longer
libplot's fault; see ./COMPAT.)
libplot: The SVG driver now no longer assumes that the application that
imports or displays SVG can do _any_ justification of text strings
(not even horizontal justification, e.g., position a string in a
right-justified way, with its right edge at a given point). Many
SVG viewers still get this wrong.
libplot: Fig plotters now slightly increase the width of drawn lines,
in .fig output, to agree with the interpretation of `line width'
in recent releases of xfig. (Thanks to Wolfgang Glunz and
Bart De Schutter for pointing out the need for this.) This
affects executables built with libplot, such as `graph -Tfig'.
graph,plot,tek2plot,plotfont,pic2plot,hersheydemo: The output of the
`--help' option now cautions that if a `-T' or `--output-format'
command-line option is not included, the output will by default
be in the `metafile' format, which is probably not what the user
expects or wants (by default, it is in binary).
hersheydemo: New executable, generating a single demo page that serves
as an advertisement for the Hershey vector fonts. (It replaces
the file doc/h-demo.c.) Invoke it by doing, e.g.,
`hersheydemo -Tsvg > demo.svg' , or `hersheydemo -Tps | lpr' .
It supports the usual libplot options such as --bg-color,
--pen-color, and --page-size. Also --bitmap-size, if a bitmap
output format is requested; but note that the Hershey fonts, not
being anti-aliased, do not look their best in low-resolution
(i.e., small-size) bitmap output.
Version 2.5.1 released, 7/2008. [Includes libplot 4.3, interface age=2.]
package: license for the package (and for libplot) upgraded to GNU GPL v3.
libplot: SVG output format slightly tweaked, to ensure compatability with
SVG 1.1 syntax, as tested for by validator.w3.org.
Note: a few SVG editing tools, such as inkscape, currently fail
to agree with libplot's SVG semantics, in positioning text.
That appears to be their fault (they do not comply with the
handling of reflected text, as specified in the SVG 1.1 standard).
libplot: Fixed a bug in bounding box computatations when triangular
line-joins are used.
executables: Changed nearly all warning and error messages to complete
sentences, to smooth the upcoming transition to gettext.
Version 2.5 released, 12/2005. [Includes libplot 4.2, interface age=2.]
package: bug reporting address has changed to bug-plotutils@gnu.org.
libplot: support for rotated and sheared (i.e., "anamorphically
transformed") X Window System fonts has been completely rewritten.
Core X fonts are still used, but it is no longer assumed that the
X display has the ability to rasterize rotated and sheared glyphs.
(Recent releases of XFree86 are broken in this regard.) Instead,
unrotated glyphs are retrieved from the server, and rotated or
transformed within libplot. See new module libplot/x_afftext.c.
graph: plotting of rotated y-axis labels by the `-Y' option, when `-T X' is
specified (so that output is to an X Window System display) should
now work, even when recent broken releases of XFree86 are used.
This is due to the above change to libplot.
libplot: URW versions of the standard 35 Adobe fonts (Helvetica,
Times-Roman etc.) are now checked for under their own names on any
X Window System display, as well as under the Adobe names. This
fixes a problem with recent SuSE GNU/Linux distributions, of
`graph -T X' being unable to use even the default Helvetica font.
libplot: SVG output is now conformant SVG 1.1, and should not be rejected
by the Firefox browser.
libplot: vertical positioning of text strings by the SVG driver is
improved; libplot now does vertical positioning itself, since
many SVG renderers, e.g. Firefox 1.5, can't do it properly.
libplot: the ROTATION parameter, which is the angle in degrees at which the
viewport in the output (device) frame should be rotated, can now
take values other than 0, 90, 180, and 270.
graph,plot,tek2plot,plotfont,pic2plot: the --rotation option no longer
requires that the specified angle be 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
Some quite postmodern effects can now be obtained.
libplot: modifiers such as "xsize=6in", "yoffset=8cm" appended to the
PAGESIZE parameter by the user, to do fine positioning of the
viewport on the output page, are no longer sometimes ignored.
graph,plot,tek2plot,plotfont,pic2plot: modifiers such as "xsize=6in",
"yoffset=8cm" appended to the argument of the --page-size option,
by the user, to do fine positioning of the viewport on the output
page, are no longer sometimes ignored.
libplotter,pic2plot: problems with compilation by recent C++ compilers now
fixed: unsigned char* is cast to char* as needed, deprecated C++
headers have had their names modernized, etc. Support for `bool'
in the C++ compiler is now assumed (this could be trivially backed
out of, if needed).
installation: entire package can now be compiled by a C++ compiler if
desired; request this by doing e.g. `CC=g++ ./configure'.
installation: support for pre-ANSI C compilers, such the SunOS 4.1.3 one,
now largely dropped. Non-working `const' is still checked for,
but compiler support for prototypes and void is now assumed.
Removal of preprocessor macros that supported pre-ANSI C, from
many source files, considerably improved maintainability.
installation: updated GNU autotools now used (autoconf-2.59, libtool-1.5.6,
and the older automake-1.4-p6 for safety's sake). Also, recent
flex/bison have been used to prepare the scanner and parser supplied
with the ode source (flex-2.5.31 and bison-1.875d).
graph: new short `-Q' option, which is equivalent to the long option
`--toggle-rotate-y-axis-label'.
graph,plot,tek2plot,plotfont,pic2plot: `--display-type' long option, the
name of which confused some users, has been changed to
`--output-format'. The old option is still supported but is now
deprecated. The short option `-T' continues to work.
libplot: problems with PS output triggering an error in some versions of
ghostscript (and hence ghostview, gv), due to changes in the way
ghostscript handles FontBBox, now fixed. Thanks, Brian Gough (and
also Alex Cherepanov, who found the fix to idraw's PS prologue).
libplot: most external symbols not meant to be publicly accessible now have
names beginning with the prefix "_pl_", to reduce the possibility
of namespace collisions. This will be completed in a later release.
executables: output of "--help" has been altered to agree with current GNU
coding standards.
package: copyright and license notices added to nearly all source files.
Release 1.6 (2010-04-09)
========================
- darwin: xnu doesn't support poll on ttys on the master side
- Fix descriptor leak on memory error path
- Support xcb_discard_reply
- Open the X11 socket with close-on-exec flag
- Fix authentication on hpux and Hurd
