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= KMSCON Release News =
CHANGES WITH 3: (development release)
* VTE support has been improved greatly. vt220 should be supported fully
except for multi-line characters.
* glib dependency removed. Hashtables and unicode support is now
implemented in kmscon.
* Configfiles are now supported. /etc/kmscon.conf and ~/.kmscon.conf are
read by kmscon on startup. They can include the same options as the
command line options of kmscon. However, command-line options have
precedence.
* Multiple video objects are now supported per seat. That is, if you
have more than one graphics card per seat, all of them will be used by
kmscon. Multiple displays were supported from the beginning.
* Modularized input backend. The XKB backend is fully optional and can
be activated/deactivated during runtime. The Dumb backend has been
renamed to "plain".
* The eloop library is fully documented and should be API stable from
now on.
* The font renderer subsystem has been rewritten and replaced with a new
subsystem which can load different font-renderers during runtime.
Several backends including static 8x16 backend has been added. It is
possible to compile kmscon without freetype2/pango dependencies now.
* 2D blitting to framebuffers has been improved greatly. More devices
are supported now and blending is available, too. The 3D devices have
been updated to support these blitting operations via OpenGL. This may
be slow on older devices, though.
* New text renderer subsystem has been added. It can load multiple
different text-renderers during runtime. The default renderer (bblit)
uses 2D blitting operations to render text. However, the gltex
renderer is also available (optionally) which renders with OpenGL
textures. This can improve performance greatly on modern devices.
* Gcc optimizations are now enabled by default to improve rendering
performance.
CHANGES WITH 2: (development release)
* Build scripts were improved and simplified. They also allow much more
control about the build process now. The source was split into several
different libraries.
* Added llog.h helper for logging in libraries.
* Eloop was moved into separate library and supports more more
use-cases now. It can be used as a standalone project.
* Terminal emulator (vte.c) was improved a lot and can run vim now.
* Console layer was rewritten and is now much faster and much more
standards compliant.
* Uterm monitor was added. The monitor uses udev and systemd-logind to
watch the system for new seats and devices. This allows us to run on
multiple seats simultaneously and being hotplug-capable.
* Uterm vt layer was added. This simply wraps the older VT layer so we
can switch to different VT systems on-the-fly.
* New uterm video backends: The fbdev backend is now fully functional
kmscon can run on any fbdev device now. Furthermore, the dumb backend
was added which is simply an unaccelerated DRM backend that should
work even without EGL, GL, gbm, etc.
* New 2D rendering API. In case OpenGL is not available, we now allow
blitting images into the framebuffer. This is used for fbdev and dumb
video devices.
* Font renderer now depends on pango. This is is needed only until I get
the time to rewrite the freetype backend. But for now we depend on
pango so have full font support.
* lots of small fixes
CHANGES WITH 1: (development release)
* First kmscon release. For testing purposes only. Includes a rendering
pipeline and a very rundimentary terminal emulator.
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