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authorDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>2013-10-29 11:01:44 +0100
committerDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>2013-10-29 11:01:44 +0100
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docs: adjust NEWS file for kmscon-8
Mostly build-tool changes and code removal. Everything else bug fixes, fixes, fixes, ... Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
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= KMSCON Release News =
+CHANGES WITH 8:
+ * Several build-tools changes. Please adjust your build-scripts
+ accoringly:
+ - xz instead of bz2 tarballs
+ - tarballs moved to: www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases
+ - linking with ld.gold now supported
+ - libtsm was extracted into a separate library, available at:
+ www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
+ - Several dependencies are mandatory now. See README.
+ - --prefix=/usr is no longer the default. You need to pass it
+ yourself!
+
+ * Removed wlterm. A GTK+ variant of wlterm is now available at:
+ www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm
+
+ * Removed uvtd and uvt. They were unused.
+
+ * Removed cdev-sessions
+
+ * Removed freetype2 font-backend
+
+ * Removed cairo text renderer
+
+ * eloop and uterm are now linked statically
+
+ * Dynamic font resizing is now supported. Use ctrl+'+' and ctrl+'-' as
+ default shortcuts to resize your font on-the-fly.
+
+ * Lots of bug-fixes!
+
CHANGES WITH 7:
* TSM, font and text subsystems have been extended to support
multi-width fonts (via wcwidth(3)). This allows using CJK characters