From b323e4fe0a8e4794405179ae21265c0c485ecfb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Herrmann Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:01:44 +0100 Subject: 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 --- NEWS | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3fb05a4..5ba64e9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,35 @@ = 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 -- cgit v1.2.3