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Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16

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new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering

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

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XCode and Visual Studio build improvements

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Unicode support in the X11 driver

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triangle texture mapping

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improved HTML output

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new troff output

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improved Ruby and .NET bindings

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new comprehensive PHP bindings

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new Java bindings

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Cocoa driver enhancements

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support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts

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documentation updates

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numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15

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many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms

Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14

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libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity

Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13

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internal FIGlet font support

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use C99 types in public headers

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runtime support for output drivers

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BBcode export support

Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12

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device-dependent cursor support

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event API rewrite

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minor API improvements and extensions

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img2txt improvements

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Ruby bindings

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Massive C# bindings improvements

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Python sample code

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Visual Studio build solution

Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11

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support for 90-degree canvas rotation

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better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal

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

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new rotozoom effect in cacademo

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Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X

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preliminary .NET bindings

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many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10

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fixed compilation of the C++ bindings

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fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()

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implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang

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minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9

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new debug mode

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blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates

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import functions can read streamed data

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attribute to colorspace transformations

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added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font

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many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8

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support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes

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allow to import and export zero-sized canvases

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fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview

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fixed buffer overlows in the file importer

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big documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7

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allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins

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support for fullwidth Unicode characters

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improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()

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minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6

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transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter

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optimised triangle fill routine

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updated C++ bindings

Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5

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ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8

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Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set

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various memory leaks were fixed

Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4

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implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()

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handle transparency in the IRC export

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new cropping and expanding filters

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full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver

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

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all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo

Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3

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

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fixed manpage generation

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minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2

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libcaca functions use errno for error reporting

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updated C++ bindings

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minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1

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ANSI importer

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functions use errno for error reporting

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updated C++ bindings

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cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor

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Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses

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built-in fonts work on Win32

Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1

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license switched to WTFPL

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

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Unicode support

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TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support

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Floyd-Steinberg dithering

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gamma correction

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

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builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output

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

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OpenGL renderer

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kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel

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

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img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility

Changes between 0.8 and 0.9

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fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering

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fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers

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aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview

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minor compilation fixes

Changes between 0.7 and 0.8

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window resizing support

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native Win32 port

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autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers

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support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers

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cacaplas, a plasma animation example

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cacamoir, a moire circles animation example

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MSVC project file

Changes between 0.6 and 0.7

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many bugfixes in the event handling

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cacaball, a metaball animation example

Changes between 0.5 and 0.6

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30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine

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mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver

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X11 is now the preferred driver

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improved documentation

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minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.4 and 0.5

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

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minor compilation fix

Changes between 0.3 and 0.4

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preliminary X11 graphics driver

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support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers

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honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables

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more documentation

Changes between 0.2 and 0.3

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antialiasing support

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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

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alpha channel support in cacaview

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BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present

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cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire

Changes between 0.1 and 0.2

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rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16

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mouse support for ncurses

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ncurses is now the preferred backend

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arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer

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cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca

New in 0.1

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initial release

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slang, ncurses and conio drivers

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basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives

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colour bitmap blitting