1 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
3 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
5 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
8 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
9 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
10 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
11 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
12 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
14 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
18 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
20 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
21 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
25 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
27 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
28 if at-spi registry failed.
30 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
34 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
35 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
38 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
42 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
44 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
45 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
46 on noncritical refcount issues.
48 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
50 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
51 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
53 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
54 Solaris when running sample programs).
57 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
59 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
61 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
62 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
64 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
65 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
67 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
69 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
70 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
71 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
72 the public-domain code borrowed here.
77 fa (Roozber Pournader),
82 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
84 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
85 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
86 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
88 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
90 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
92 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
94 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
95 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
96 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
98 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
100 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
101 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
103 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
104 #125834, #111429, #121974.
106 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
108 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
110 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
111 "object:active-descendant-changed".
113 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
115 * Improved code that rejects
116 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
119 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
121 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
124 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
126 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
128 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
131 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
134 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
136 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
137 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
139 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
142 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
143 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
145 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
146 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
147 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
148 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
149 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
150 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
151 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
152 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
153 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
154 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
155 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
156 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
157 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
159 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
161 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
163 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
166 * added cspi_peek_ev()
168 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
169 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
171 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
174 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
176 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
178 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
180 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
184 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
186 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
187 108666, 104730, 111793.
191 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
193 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
195 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
196 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
198 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
200 * compiler warning fixes.
202 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
204 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
205 efficient screen review [100944].
207 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
209 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
210 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
212 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
214 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
216 * New methods in cspi:
217 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
218 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
219 the emission handler.
221 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
223 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
224 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
225 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
228 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
231 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
233 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
235 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
238 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
240 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
241 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
243 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
245 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
247 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
248 consume device events, such as mouse events.
250 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
252 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
254 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
255 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
257 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
259 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
261 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
262 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
263 * performance improvement for event listeners.
265 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
269 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
271 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
272 * added boolean return for
273 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
274 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
275 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
276 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
277 listener/synthesis test.
278 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
279 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
281 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
283 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
286 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
287 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
289 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
290 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
291 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
292 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
293 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
296 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
298 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
299 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
300 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
301 * added new test program for our key listener API.
302 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
303 magnifier and mag_control client.
304 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
306 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
307 * Improvements to documentation.
311 * Added missing seek_type param in
312 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
313 previously documented but not in signature;
314 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
316 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
317 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
318 implementation. [76201]
320 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
321 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
324 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
325 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
333 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
336 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
338 need getBaseAttributes ()
339 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
341 table: getVisibleRange
343 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells