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Changes between 0.99.beta18 and 0.99.beta17
       o new 'cacaclock' utility

       o improved FIGlet support

       o improved Python and Ruby bindings

       o numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta17 and 0.99.beta16
       o new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering

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

       o XCode and Visual Studio build improvements

       o Unicode support in the X11 driver

       o triangle texture mapping

       o improved HTML output

       o new troff output

       o improved Ruby and .NET bindings

       o new comprehensive PHP bindings

       o new Java bindings

       o Cocoa driver enhancements

       o support for ANSI colour in FIGlet and TOIlet fonts

       o documentation updates

       o numerous improvements and bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta16 and 0.99.beta15
       o many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms

Changes between 0.99.beta15 and 0.99.beta14
       o libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity

Changes between 0.99.beta14 and 0.99.beta13
       o internal FIGlet font support

       o use C99 types in public headers

       o runtime support for output drivers

       o BBcode export support

Changes between 0.99.beta13 and 0.99.beta12
       o device-dependent cursor support

       o event API rewrite

       o minor API improvements and extensions

       o img2txt improvements

       o Ruby bindings

       o Massive C# bindings improvements

       o Python sample code

       o Visual Studio build solution

Changes between 0.99.beta12 and 0.99.beta11
       o support for 90-degree canvas rotation

       o better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal

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

       o new rotozoom effect in cacademo

       o Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X

       o preliminary .NET bindings

       o many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta11 and 0.99.beta10
       o fixed compilation of the C++ bindings

       o fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()

       o implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang

       o minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.99.beta10 and 0.99.beta9
       o new debug mode

       o blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates

       o import functions can read streamed data

       o attribute to colorspace transformations

       o added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font

       o many bugfixes and documentation changes

Changes between 0.99.beta9 and 0.99.beta8
       o support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes

       o allow to import and export zero-sized canvases

       o fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview

       o fixed buffer overlows in the file importer

       o big documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta8 and 0.99.beta7
       o allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins

       o support for fullwidth Unicode characters

       o improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()

       o minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta7 and 0.99.beta6
       o transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter

       o optimised triangle fill routine

       o updated C++ bindings

Changes between 0.99.beta6 and 0.99.beta5
       o ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8

       o Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set

       o various memory leaks were fixed

Changes between 0.99.beta5 and 0.99.beta4
       o implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()

       o handle transparency in the IRC export

       o new cropping and expanding filters

       o full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver

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

       o all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo

Changes between 0.99.beta4 and 0.99.beta3
       o added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications

       o fixed manpage generation

       o minor bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta3 and 0.99.beta2
       o libcaca functions use errno for error reporting

       o updated C++ bindings

       o minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates

Changes between 0.99.beta2 and 0.99.beta1
       o ANSI importer

       o functions use errno for error reporting

       o updated C++ bindings

       o .NET bindings

       o cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor

       o Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses

       o built-in fonts work on Win32

Changes between 0.9 and 0.99.beta1
       o license switched to WTFPL

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

       o Unicode support

       o TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support

       o Floyd-Steinberg dithering

       o gamma correction

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

       o builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output

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

       o OpenGL renderer

       o kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel

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

       o img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility

Changes between 0.8 and 0.9
       o fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering

       o fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers

       o aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview

       o minor compilation fixes

Changes between 0.7 and 0.8
       o window resizing support

       o native Win32 port

       o autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers

       o support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers

       o cacaplas, a plasma animation example

       o cacamoir, a moire circles animation example

       o MSVC project file

Changes between 0.6 and 0.7
       o many bugfixes in the event handling

       o cacaball, a metaball animation example

Changes between 0.5 and 0.6
       o 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine

       o mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver

       o X11 is now the preferred driver

       o improved documentation

       o minor bugfixes

Changes between 0.4 and 0.5
       o palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug

       o minor compilation fix

Changes between 0.3 and 0.4
       o preliminary X11 graphics driver

       o support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers

       o honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables

       o more documentation

Changes between 0.2 and 0.3
       o antialiasing support

       o 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

       o alpha channel support in cacaview

       o BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present

       o cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire

Changes between 0.1 and 0.2
       o rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16

       o mouse support for ncurses

       o ncurses is now the preferred backend

       o arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer

       o cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca

New in 0.1
       o initial release

       o slang, ncurses and conio drivers

       o basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives

       o colour bitmap blitting

Version 0.99.beta18						  Fri Apr 6 2012					       libcaca-news(3caca)