Notable changes:
* Version 3.2 Patch 0 - 2020-01-03
- IMPROVEMENT: Add support for events spanning multiple days (with AT
and DURATION). Add trigeventstart() and trigeventduration()
introspection functions; see "MULTI-DAY EVENTS" in the man page.
- IMPROVEMENT: Add introspection functions trigback(), trigdelta(),
trigduration(), trigfrom(), trigpriority(), trigrep(),
trigscanfrom(), trigtimedelta(), trigtimerep(), and triguntil(). See
man page for details; thanks to Tim Chase for the suggestion.
- CHANGE: Modify addition so that previously-illegal combinations
TIME + TIME, TIME + DATETIME and DATETIME + TIME are now allowed.
Also allow DATETIME - TIME. If t1 and t2 are expressions of type TIME
and dt is an expression of type DATETIME, then the following are now
equivalent (before, the expressions on the left-hand side would fail
with a "Type mismatch" error.)
t1 + t2 == t1 + coerce("INT", t2)
dt + t2 == dt + coerce("INT", t2)
t1 + dt == coerce("INT", t1) + dt
dt - t2 == dt - coerce("INT", t2)
- BUG FIX: Specifying a DURATION without an AT clause results in an error.
Before, it would be accepted but not do anything useful.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind: Fix startup failure of TkRemind if options are at
default. :(
* Version 3.1 Patch 17 - 2019-11-15
- SYNTACTIC SUGAR: Make "SCANFROM -n" the same as "SCANFROM [today() - n]"
- BUG FIX: Fix failure when specifying a Jahrzeit in Adar. Fix
courtesy of Dov Feldstern
* Version 3.1 Patch 16 - 2018-11-09
- IMPROVEMENT: Add patch from Stephen Morgan to calculate astronomical and
nautical twilight in addition to civil twilight.
- IMPROVEMENT: Remind accepts DATETIME constants in ISO-8601 format and can
optionally be configured to output them that way too.
* Version 3.1 Patch 15 - 2015-07-27
- BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller
- BUG FIX: Fix a typo in this file: was 2014 instead of 2015.
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject an AT followed by more than one time.
- BUG FIX: Make parser reject epeated delta or *repeat values.
* Version 3.1 Patch 14 - 2015-04-24
- NEW FEATURE: Putting the line __EOF__ in a .rem file causes Remind
to treat it as end-of-file.
- IMPROVEMENT: Use better PNG images for moons in the HTML display
- CHANGE: Author name updated from "David" to "Dianne"
- BUG FIX: The "-n" command-line option should really run in "ADVANCE_MODE"
rather than "CAL_MODE" internally; otherwise, the substitution sequences
may be misinterpreted.
- BUG FIX: A typo in clearing out MD5 sum context has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: Typo in Spanish translation was fixed.
Problems found with mismatching existing digests for:
distfiles/asclock-classic-1.0.tar.gz
distfiles/asclock-gtk-2.1.10beta.tar.gz
distfiles/asclock-xlib-2.0.11.tar.gz
distfiles/emiclock-2.0.2.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
a) refer 'perl' in their Makefile, or
b) have a directory name of p5-*, or
c) have any dependency on any p5-* package
Like last time, where this caused no complaints.
* Version 3.1 Patch 12 - 2012-01-23
- NEW FEATURE: Many substitution sequences "%x" have an alternate mode
denoted by "%*x". This alternate mode leaves out prepositions. For
example, in English "%i" might yield "on 01-25" while "%*i" yields only
"01-25".
- BUG FIX: The "dusk" and "dawn" calculations were completely wrong. They
have been fixed. Also, sunrise/sunset calculations have been tweaked,
so the results may be off by a minute or two compared to previous versions
of Remind.
* Version 3.1 Patch 11 - 2011-12-16
- BUG FIX: For some inexplicable reason, dawn was considered to happen when
the sun was 14 degrees below the horizon instead of the standard 6
degrees for Civil Dawn. This has been fixed.
- BUG FIXES: Clarified the man pages and fixed some typos.
- BUG FIX: Add THROUGH to the remind.vim syntax highlighting file.
- ENHANCEMENT (?): Allow SPECIAL COLOR to be spelled SPECIAL COLOUR.
- BUG FIX: Apply minor Debian cleanups reported by Kurt B. Kaiser.
* Version 3.1 Patch 10 - 2010-11-01
- NOTE: This is the 20th anniversary of Remind's first public release.
- ENHANCEMENT: Add the THROUGH keyword. You can omit blocks of dates with:
OMIT start THROUGH end
and the syntax REM start THROUGH end is equivalent to REM start *1 UNTIL end
- ENHANCEMENT: Add support for multibyte characters (eg, UTF-8) in calendar
output. Note that UTF-8 strings are still not supported in PostScript
output.
- ENHANCEMENT: Add support for UTF-8 line-drawing characters in calendar
output.
- ENHANCEMENT: You can have multiple TAG clauses in a REM statement.
- BUG FIX: Avoid spawning long-running background processes in "make test".
- BUG FIX: Don't declare variables in the middle of statements (old C
compilers choke.)
pkgsrc changes:
* Don't heap punishment on Apple and Microsoft users.
close PR#43791.
Changes to pkgsrc
* use INSTALL_SCRIPT from configure (patch-ab).
* update tclsh name, current its version in pkgsrc is 8.4.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.1 Patch 9 - 2010-06-20
- MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: New "purge mode" to delete expired reminders. See
the PURGE MODE section of the remind man page.
- ENHANCEMENT: Support DURATION in TkRemind. Thanks to Marek Marczykowski.
- BUG FIX: Don't change the order of PS and PSFILE reminders. Bug found
by John McGowan.
- BUG FIX: "REM 1990-01-01 SATISFY 1" would yield a spurious parse error
in earlier versions of Remind.
- BUG FIX: Yom HaShoah is moved to Thursday if it would normally fall on
a Friday. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens for pointing this out.
* Version 3.1 Patch 8 - 2010-03-09
- ENHANCEMENT: Include some useful scripts in contrib/
- ENHANCEMENT: Add the $T, $Td, $Tm, $Tw, $Ty, $U, $Ud, $Um, $Uw, $Uy
special variables to make reminder files less wordy. See man page
for details.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: Set an icon photo window manager resource on TkRemind.
- POLICY CHANGE: Discourage use of Remind on MS Windows or Apple Mac OS X.
- BUG FIX: Ignore msgprefix() and msgsuffix() on RUN-type reminders.
- BUG FIX: Adjust Remind and Rem2PS so that SHADE specials don't obliterate
earlier MOON specials.
- BUG FIX: Fix bug in SCHED calculations if Remind is started in the middle
of a SCHED interval.
Wherever you could write "day Mon year", the parser now accepts
"YYYY-MM-DD". A new slide() built-in function eases creation of
some complicated reminders.
* Version 3.1 Patch 6 - 2008-11-16
- MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: A new OMITFUNC clause gives you additional
control and flexibility over "omitted days" calculations. This is
useful when holidays influence the timing of events several days
later. See "COMPUTED LOCAL OMITS" in the man page.
- ENHANCEMENT: The new evaltrig() built-in function lets you evaluate triggers
from within an expression.
- ENHANCEMENT: The new weekno() built-in function returns the ISO 8601
week number of a date.
- ENHANCEMENT: The "WEEK" special lets you annotate calendar output with the
week number. The TkRemind, rem2ps and rem2html back-ends support WEEK.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: You can control whether timed reminders come before or
after non-timed reminders with the "-g" flag.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind did not work correctly if ~/.reminders was a directory.
- BUG FIX: TkRemind incorrectly invoked Remind with the "-a" flag when
showing today's reminders.
- BUG FIX: In certain cases, a trigger containing a day, month and
weekday would fail if it needed to cross a year boundary. This has
been fixed.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.1 Patch 5 - 2008-04-15
- MAJOR ENHANCEMENT: If you supply a directory name on the command line
or for an INCLUDE command, then Remind reads all *.rem file in that
directory (in the order returned by "glob")
- ENHANCEMENT: The plain-text calendar ("-c") can draw lines using VT-100
line-drawing characters if invoked as "-cl"
- ENHANCEMENT: The plain-text calendar can approximate SPECIAL COLOR reminders
using VT-100 color escape sequences if invoked as "-cc". (You can combine
the colors and line-drawing characters with -clc or -ccl.)
- ENHANCEMENT: The "-t" option can take a numeric argument n. In this case,
all reminders are assumed to have a delta of +n. (Without the argument,
an infinite delta is assumed, as before.) If a numeric argument is given,
the new system variable $DeltaOffset is set to the argument.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: The "-i" command-line option can be used to define
a function as well as set a variable.
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: String constants can have embedded quotes "Like \"this"
- MINOR ENHANCEMENT: tkremind works better on small screens like that of
the Eee-PC.
- BUG FIX: Minor fix to HTML output courtesy of Ian! Allen.
- BUG FIX: Parse error in calendar mode was fixed.
* Version 3.1 Patch 4 - 2008-02-03
- ENHANCMENT: tkremind respects the "-b1" option and operates in 24-hour
clock mode if the option is supplied.
- ENHANCEMENT: tkremind has been tweaked to look better with Tcl/Tk 8.5.
- CLEANUP: Version is kept only in configure.in instead of two different
places.
- CLEANUP: Added "const" qualifier to many places in the code that previously
lacked it.
- BUG FIX: A rare parsing error involving interaction between SATISFY and
SKIP has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: rem2html would output a horribly-wrong calendar for a 28-day
February starting on Sunday (such as February 2009.) This has been fixed.
- BUG FIX: The "-ivar=value" command-line option failed if Remind re-execed
itself because we overwrote argv[]. This has been fixed.
* Version 3.1 Patch 3 - 2007-10-15
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- rem2html now uses CSS for a much better-looking calendar.
NOTE: rem2html was completely rewritten and some of the command-line
options have changed!
- If a reminder has a DURATION clause, then the starting and ending times
are output in calendar mode.
+ BUG FIXES
- DST rules in "defs.rem" were updated to reflect new US/Canadian DST rules.
- If a REM command cannot compute a trigger date, the SATISFY expression
is not evaluated. This helps avoid spurious error messages in some
reminders.
* Version 3.1 Patch 2 - 2007-09-12
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- build.tk tries to set defaults for location, paper size, etc from an
existing "remind" installation if it detects one.
- In queue mode, wake up once a minute and recalibrate sleep time.
This should make Remind work better on laptops that suspend or
hibernate. Note that "remind -q" does *not* handle date-rollover
well; it simply exits if it notices date rollover. "remind -z0"
(as used by tkremind) handles date rollover properly; it rereads the
reminder file and rebuilds the queue if it notices date rollover.
- tkremind: Added some key bindings to make navigation easier.
- tkremind: Made calendar boxes use space more efficiently.
- remind: The functionality of "rem" is now built into remind. If you
invoke remind as "rem", then it uses a default filename. The installer
sets up "rem" as a symbolic link to "remind".
+ CHANGE
- "remind -p" no longer sorts SPECIAL reminders before non-SPECIAL.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
- "remind -p" no longer suppresses any AT-time associated with SPECIAL
reminders.
*** THIS MAY AFFECT BACKENDS ***
Backends supplied by Roaring Penguin (rem2ps, rem2html and tkremind)
are known to work properly.
+ BUG FIXES
- examples/defs.rem: A few corrections to Jewish holidays courtesy of
Art Werschulz.
- src/Makefile.in: Added install-nostripped target.
- SPECIAL COLOR now works more like MSG, including proper support for AT and
for the %" %" escape sequence.
- SPECIAL COLOR is queued correctly if it has an AT clause.
- Using the psshade() or psmoon() functions emits a warning on stderr. You
should use SPECIAL SHADE or SPECIAL MOON instead.
* Version 3.1 Patch 1 - 2007-08-23
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the "nonomitted" function that solves a number of
moving-reminder-in-response-to-holiday problems. The real-world
problems solved are the "moving-garbage-day" problem and the
"six-day-school-cycle" problem.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- A few minor performance improvements in response to profiling runs.
+ BUG FIXES
- Prevent compilation failure with gcc 2.95.
- Fix trailing "s" bug with -k option. This was fixed in Debian's release,
but the Debian maintainer never bothered to let me know.
- Removed obsolete scripts: kall, rem, remind-all.sh, remind-all.csh
- Made "-n" output always use "/" as date separator for consistency with
"-p" and "-s".
- Moon PNG images are transparent. Output of moon phases in rem2html
improved slightly.
- Various man-page fixes.
* Version 3.1 Patch 0 - 2007-07-14
+ MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the FROM clause. This lets you write reminders like:
REM Mon FROM 16 July 2007 UNTIL 13 Aug 2007 MSG Some Mondays...
- Remind now has a new datatype: A DATETIME object represents a date AND
a time (to the nearest minute). DATETIME constants are written
as '2007-09-01@14:33'. Various operators and functions have been
modified to do sensible things with DATETIMEs and several new DATETIME
functions have been added.
- The SPECIAL COLOR reminder type has been hacked to behave more like
a MSG type. It sorts properly and is emitted as a normal reminder
in non-calendar mode. Simlarly, SPECIAL HTML sorts with -g as well.
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- TkRemind can e-mail you reminders if you don't dismiss the popup window
after one minute. This is useful if you need to leave your workstation
but want reminders to "follow" you via e-mail.
- A new "-y" option to Remind generates tags for all reminders that lack
a TAG clause. This may be useful for conversion tools that want each
reminder to have a unique identifier.
- A new "tzconvert" function lets you convert datetimes between different
time zones. It's only as good as your C library, so test thoroughly
please! Based on a patch from Stefan Wehr.
- TkRemind sorts reminders by invoking Remind with the '-g' option.
- The time and date separator characters can be changed at runtime by
setting $TimeSep and $DateSep respectively.
- The simple calendar ('-s') option can be immediately followed by an 'a'.
This causes Remind to output reminders with deltas before the actual
trigger date. Based loosely on an idea from Frank Terbeck.
+ MINOR CHANGES
- Default date separator is now '-' instead of '/'
- trigdate() and trigtime() behave differently - they return the integer 0
if the last reminder could not be computed or did not have an AT clause
(respectively).
- Maximum length of variable names has been increased from 12 to 16 characters.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed a potential memory leak in queue.c
- Fixed compile error on Mac OS X.
- Fixed behaviour of "-sa" option so deltas correctly obey omitted days
and the scheduling function (if one is used).
- rem2ps would produce invalid PostScript in some rare cases
(eg, for February 2007). This has been fixed.
CHANGES TO REMIND
* Version 3.0 Patch 24
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Permit the DURATION of a reminder to be as high as you like. Previously,
DURATIONs could be at most 23:59. Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
- The "-n" flag can be usefully combined with "-s", "-p" and "-l" now.
Fix courtesy of Paul Pelzl.
+ BUG FIXES
- The "-k" command escapes all characters except those known to be
safe, rather than attempting to escape only characters thought to be
unsafe.
- Removed the crufty code that supported non-ANSI C compilers.
- Removed all support for non-UNIX/non-Linux systems.
- Fixed a bug in the tokenizer that could make Remind segfault. Fix courtesy
of Stan Tobias.
* Version 3.0 Patch 23
+ MINOR ENHANCEMENTS
- Added the COLOR special for putting colored reminders in the calendar.
Supported by the HTML, Tcl/Tk and PostScript back-ends.
- Many minor tweaks to tkremind.
- Added ability to specify paper size in inches or centimetres to rem2ps.
- Added the "-l" option to Remind. This outputs additional information
for back-end programs that use the "-p" output format. Currently
used only by the "tkremind" back-end.
- Fixed dates for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut if 5 Iyar falls on a
Saturday. (Hebrew calendar fix.)
- Added support for the Icelandic language, courtesy of Björn Davíðsson.
+ BUG FIXES
- Fixed parser error for unterminated date constant: '2005/01/01
- Added option to have TkRemind display all of today's reminders in a text
box on startup. This option is on by default.
- Makefile in "www" directory allows you to add ".cgi" suffix to CGI scripts.
- Added option to completely delete a reminder from the reminder file in
the timed reminder popup dialog.
- Clarified build instructions.
- Fixed packing order in TkRemind so resizing window doesn't make control
buttons disappear.
- Fixed serious bug in which background queued reminders were ignored and
Remind simply exited. Doh! Sorry about that.
