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Release Gobby 0.4.94

2011-03-27 Armin Burgmeier <armin@…>

  • === Released 0.4.94 ===
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1Gobby
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3
4Version 0.4.94:
5  * Show cursors and selections of remote users in the own viewport and
6    scrollbar
7  * Add a "Disconnect from Server" option to the context menu
8  * When double-clicking a user in the user list jump to its current cursor
9    position
10  * Allow gobby to be built against GTK+ 3
11  * Fixed a bug which prevented "Save All" from working
12
13Version 0.4.93:
14  * Added IRC-like chat
15  * Added functionality to export a document to HTML (#245)
16  * Sort browser entries
17  * Allow selecting multiple files when opening files
18  * Allow resetting user colors in a document (Bug #211)
19  * Added a Connect to Server option to the File menu
20  * Undo words instead of individual characters
21  * When starting Gobby twice then send commands to an existing Gobby (if any)
22    unless the -n command line option is given.
23  * Added an option to highlight spaces and tabs
24
25Version 0.4.92:
26  * Support running Gobby on Windows 2000.
27  * Added Icons for HCLP and HCLPI icon themes (Bug #413, Patrick Wade).
28  * Make sure terminating newline characters are saved correctly
29  * Added /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt as default trust file, if
30    available.
31  * Don't mess up saving documents whose first line is empty.
32  * Write config files in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of $HOME (Bug #437,
33    Cristian Klein).
34  * Display colored pencil icons in a document's tab for each user that made
35    a change since the document has been viewed the last time (Bug #66,
36    Mattis Manzel).
37
38Version 0.4.91:
39  * Keep track of a document's modified state between Undo/Redo operations
40  * Scroll to Cursor after Cut or Paste
41  * Added HCLPI icon of the Gobby Logo (Thanks to Thomas Glatt)
42  * Added an Autosave Option in the preferences
43  * Remember previous host names in "Direct Connection" entry
44  * Added an "Open Location" dialog to open arbitrary URIs
45  * Added a tooltip when hovering text, showing the author of that text
46
47Version 0.4.90:
48  * Use libinfinity instead of libobby as backend
49  * Allow connection to multiple servers
50  * Redesigned UI to better match normal text editors, and to be more
51    HIG-compliant
52  * Added Undo support (via libinfinity)
53  * Require GtkSourceView 2.x
54  * Some features of the previous versions, especially self-hosting, are not
55    implemented in 0.4.90. This will be added in a later version.
56
57Version 0.4.6:
58  * Require gtksourceview 1.8 to enable indent-on-tab
59  * Require obby 0.4.5 to support IPv6 autodiscovery
60  * Several utility windows close on escape
61  * Compilation fixes for gtksourceview 2.0
62  * New (partial) translations:
63    - Brazilian Portuguese
64    - Polish
65    - Korean
66
67Version 0.4.5:
68 * Important bugfixes:
69   - fixed the save routine for files not encoded in UTF-8
70   - allow Gobby to run inside paths containing non-ASCII characters
71
72Version 0.4.4:
73 * Fixed two crashes: one on Windows Vista related to the chat widget,
74   and one triggered on rejoins with multiple documents opened in the
75   editor
76 * GtkSourceView's C API is called directly
77 * The document list is now sorted alphabetically
78 * New translations:
79   - Italian
80   - Russian
81
82Version 0.4.3:
83 * Find and Goto dialogs are now focused when invoked
84 * Zeroconf failures are now only printed on the console, no dialog is invoked
85 * Preference option added to subscribe automatically to all documents
86   in a session
87 * Doubleclicks on documents in the user list now opens them if they are
88   not already opened
89 * Window highlights itself only if the chat widget is open
90 * Toolbar style "text besides icon" is now supported
91 * Tab bar is only shown if more than one document is opened
92
93Version 0.4.2:
94 * Gobby now opens absolute file names passed via command line
95 * View is now kept when remote operations affect the current position,
96   through appropriate scrolling
97 * Documents could be subscribed by double-clicking on them in the list
98 * Local files are not flagged as modified anymore
99 * Urgency hint is now configurable
100 * Windows compilation fixes
101
102Version 0.4.1:
103 * Release with no further important changes.
104
105Version 0.4.0:
106 * Session encryption through GNUTLS
107 * Reduced CPU usage and memory footprint through the removal of one
108   supplemental document copy
109 * Usability enhancements:
110   - New button to close the chat window
111   - Font types and sizes could now be set for the text editor from within Gobby
112   - Documents could now be switched using Ctrl-Alt-Page-Down and
113     Ctrl-Alt-Page-Up
114   - Subscribe button is deactivated after it has been hit once for a
115     document
116   - Documents with the same name are suffixed with a number
117   - Dialogs to host and join sessions are respawned if the attempt failed
118   - Application highlights itself on new chat messages
119   - Documents could be opened in an existing Gobby session by passing
120     their filename as a command-line argument to the application
121   - Sessions could be joined by passing the host and port via command-line
122     options
123   - User-modified colour palettes are now saved in the configuration
124
125Version 0.3.0:
126 * This release depends on net6 1.2.0 and obby 0.3.0, it is *not* backwards-
127   compatible protocol-wise to the 0.2.x series.
128 * No more pending changes due to the new merging algorithm
129 * Cursor is left-gravity now, which relieves some problems with newlines
130 * Joins are now threaded and thus abortable
131 * Connection status is displayed in the status bar
132 * Lines in the chat log are now wrapped to the display width
133 * Session serialisation and restore
134 * Name and colour could be changed directly when they are already in use
135 * User and document list are now separate windows, their position and state
136   is preserved by default
137 * Close document now just unsubscribes from the document
138 * Scrollable document folder
139 * Search and replace
140 * New translations:
141   - Swedish (complete)
142   - Catalan (partial)
143   - Chinese (partial)
144   - Spanish (almost complete)
145
146Version 0.2.2:
147 * Gobby no longer crashes when a document is closed after quitting a
148   session, spotted and fixed by Kanru Chen.
149 * Some new file extensions are mapped to their corresponding MIME type
150 * Files saved are no longer converted to the charset settings of the
151   current locale
152 * Line endings of loaded files are now unified to result only in UNIX ones
153 * Added Spanish translation, thanks to Mario Palomo
154
155Version 0.2.1:
156 * This bugfix release features a recompile of the Windows version against
157   more hardware-independent libraries.
158
159Version 0.2.0:
160 * This version is *not* backwards-compatible to 0.1.0 due to heavy
161   changes within obby. It depends on obby 0.2.0 and net6 1.1.0.
162 * New features (in no particular order):
163   - Document subscriptions
164   - Global session passwords
165   - Basic user authentication to protect the nickname
166   - Preferences pane
167   - Zeroconf support
168   - Colour presets
169   - Colour changes from within the session
170   - Auto indentation
171   - Drag'n'drop of documents into the session
172   - Create document works without a delay
173   - Better Win32 network handling
174 * Changes in the build system:
175   - It is now required to provide `gtksourceview-1.0', the depedency is no
176     more optional.
177   - Gobby now links against `gthread-2.0' which is included in `glibmm-2.4'.
178
179Version 0.1.1:
180 * Bugfix release: Include contrib/gobby.desktop to fix the non-working build
181   when configured ``--with-gnome''.
182
183Version 0.1.0:
184
185 * Initial release.
186
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