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Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]1liblouis 3.15.0 has been released
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]2
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]3The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]43.15.0. The release is available for download at:
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]5
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]6https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]7
8Introduction
Christian Egli554b70f2014-09-01 13:47:30 +0200[diff] [blame]9============
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]10
11Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It
Christian Egli183d9e72011-05-09 07:38:36 +0000[diff] [blame]12features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]13contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages [1]_.
14It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and is
15used by screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca and JAWS. A companion project
16liblouisutdml [2]_ deals with formatting of braille.
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]17
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]18Noteworthy changes in this release
19==================================
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]20
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]21This release contains updates to the Afrikaans, Malayalam, Malay,
22Israeli, classical English and Portuguese tables. It also contains a new
23table for Coptic thanks to first-time contributor Ibraam Nasif. Behind
24the scenes there have been major changes to the cross-compilation
25tool-chain that will finally allow us to ship pre-built windows binaries
26that contain ``lou_checkyaml.exe``.
Christian Egli343b1ae2016-07-14 17:40:54 +0200[diff] [blame]27
Christian Egli8923b3a2018-06-04 18:18:47 +0200[diff] [blame]28For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]29issues [3]_.
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31New features
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Christian Egli1f0ae092017-09-04 17:23:22 +0200[diff] [blame]33
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]34None
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame]35
36Bug fixes
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Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame]38
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]39None
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame]40
Christian Eglib4b192b2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100[diff] [blame]41Braille table improvements
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]43
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]44- New computer braille table for the Coptic language thanks to Ibraam
45 Nasif
46- Improvements to Afrikaans thanks to Christo de Klerk
Christian Egli8eef81b2019-12-02 17:41:35 +0100[diff] [blame]47
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]48 - Fixed correct handling of the ʼn character (0x149)
49 - Prevent contraction of
Christian Egli8eef81b2019-12-02 17:41:35 +0100[diff] [blame]50
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]51 - "self" in "selfoon", "selfone",
52 - "ui" in words and names like "quisling",
53 "quidproquo", "quiëtis",
54 "Quinten", "Quintus",
55 - "er" in words like "konstituering".
Christian Egli8eef81b2019-12-02 17:41:35 +0100[diff] [blame]56
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]57- Improved table for Malayalam grade 1 thanks to Jake Kyle.
58
59 - Fixed rules for Candrakkala character at the end of a word.
60 - Fixed rules for letters ര മ ങ in certain contexts.
Christian Egli9ecf97a2020-06-02 17:12:06 +0200[diff] [blame]61 - Improved back-translation.
Christian Egli8eef81b2019-12-02 17:41:35 +0100[diff] [blame]62
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]63- Improvements to grade 2 Malay braille thanks to Herbert Koh.
64- Improvements to Israeli 6-dot thanks to BAUM Engineering.
Christian Egli9068d082020-03-02 17:07:19 +0100[diff] [blame]65
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]66 - Fixed number sign for Arabic digits.
67 - Fixed Hebrew letters with dagesh.
Christian Egli9068d082020-03-02 17:07:19 +0100[diff] [blame]68
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]69- Added bullets to the classical English tables, thanks to Bue
70 Vester-Andersen
71- Improved Portuguese grade 1 thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen.
72
73 - Fixed forward translation of &, <, >, \`, and '.
74 - Improved back-translation. The table is now tagged as going both
75 forward and backward.
76 - Added missing square root sign.
Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]77
78Other changes
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]80
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]81None
Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]82
83Deprecation notice
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]85
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]86None
Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]87
88Backwards incompatible changes
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]90
Christian Egli9ecf97a2020-06-02 17:12:06 +0200[diff] [blame]91None
Christian Eglif56443c2019-06-03 16:22:28 +0200[diff] [blame]92
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]93Invisible changes
94-----------------
95
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]96- Major rework of the cross-compilation tool-chain. There are now
97 Docker images that should allow for local builds of binaries for 32
98 and 64 bit. These include the libyaml library so the binaries contain
99 ``lou_checkyaml.exe``. This will allow table creators to test their
100 changes locally under windows.
101
Christian Eglid1998f22017-06-06 14:46:08 +0200[diff] [blame]102New, renamed or removed tables
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Christian Eglid1998f22017-06-06 14:46:08 +0200[diff] [blame]104
105New
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]107
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]108- cop-eg-comp8.utb
Christian Eglid1998f22017-06-06 14:46:08 +0200[diff] [blame]109
110Renamed
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Christian Egli695316a2017-12-04 16:51:01 +0100[diff] [blame]112
Christian Egli8eef81b2019-12-02 17:41:35 +0100[diff] [blame]113None
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115Removed
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Christian Egli0dee1fc2018-03-05 17:09:58 +0100[diff] [blame]117
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]118None
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame]119
Christian Eglib4b192b2015-03-02 10:54:30 +0100[diff] [blame]120Next release
121============
Christian Egli2d6ae7e2014-12-01 14:37:01 +0100[diff] [blame]122
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]123The next release will be published on November 30 2020 so please keep up
Christian Egli9ecf97a2020-06-02 17:12:06 +0200[diff] [blame]124the excellent work and keep those improvements coming.
Christian Egli15c482e2009-01-27 16:23:57 +0000[diff] [blame]125
126Share and Enjoy!
127
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]128– Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers
Christian Egli971d4e82009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]129
130Footnotes
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Christian Egli971d4e82009-01-30 10:09:52 +0000[diff] [blame]132
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]133.. [1]
134 https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables
Christian Egli8c46e1b2018-12-03 16:47:51 +0100[diff] [blame]135
Christian Egli67ab8e92019-09-02 13:29:53 +0200[diff] [blame]136.. [2]
137 https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml
138
139.. [3]
Christian Eglif41b38d2020-08-31 14:38:42 +0200[diff] [blame^]140 https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/25?closed=1