--- name: "libcaca-news" section: "3caca" platform: "linux" package: "libcaca-dev" version: "0.99.beta19-2" release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/libcaca-news" --- # libcaca-news(3caca) Libcaca news ## NAME libcaca-news - Libcaca news ## Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17 - • new 'cacaclock' utility - • improved FIGlet support - • improved Python and Ruby bindings - • numerous improvements and bugfixes ## Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16 - • new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering - • new \ 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 ## Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15 - • many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms ## Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14 - • libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## Changes between 0.6 and 0.7 - • many bugfixes in the event handling - • cacaball, a metaball animation example ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## New in 0.1 - • initial release - • slang, ncurses and conio drivers - • basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives - • colour bitmap blitting