1 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
3 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
4 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
5 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
8 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
10 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
12 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
13 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
16 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
18 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
22 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
24 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
26 * Aggregate Document interface.
28 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
30 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
32 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
34 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
36 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
37 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
39 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
40 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
42 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
44 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
46 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
49 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
52 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
54 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
57 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
58 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
60 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
62 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
63 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
67 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
68 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
69 be automated in a future version).
74 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
76 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
77 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
78 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
80 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
82 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
83 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
84 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
85 for complex docs and forms.)
86 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
87 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
88 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
89 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
92 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
93 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
94 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
95 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
96 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
97 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
99 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
101 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
102 instance for an object.
103 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
105 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
106 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
109 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
110 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
111 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
113 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
115 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
116 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
118 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
120 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
122 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
124 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
126 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
128 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
130 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
134 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
136 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
138 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
140 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
142 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
146 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
148 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
150 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
151 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
154 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
156 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
158 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
162 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
164 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
165 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
167 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
168 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
169 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
170 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
172 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
173 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
175 * New languages in configure.in:
181 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
183 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
185 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
186 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
190 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
192 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
193 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
194 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
195 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
196 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
197 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
199 * fixed make distcheck.
201 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
202 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
205 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
206 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
208 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
210 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
212 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
215 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
216 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
217 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
218 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
219 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
221 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
225 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
227 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
228 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
232 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
234 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
235 if at-spi registry failed.
237 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
241 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
242 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
245 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
249 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
251 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
252 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
253 on noncritical refcount issues.
255 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
257 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
258 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
260 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
261 Solaris when running sample programs).
264 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
266 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
268 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
269 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
271 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
272 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
274 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
276 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
277 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
278 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
279 the public-domain code borrowed here.
284 fa (Roozber Pournader),
286 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
289 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
291 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
292 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
293 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
295 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
297 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
299 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
301 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
302 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
303 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
305 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
307 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
308 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
310 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
311 #125834, #111429, #121974.
313 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
315 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
317 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
318 "object:active-descendant-changed".
320 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
322 * Improved code that rejects
323 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
326 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
328 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
331 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
333 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
335 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
338 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
341 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
343 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
344 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
346 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
349 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
350 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
352 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
353 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
354 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
355 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
356 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
357 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
358 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
359 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
360 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
361 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
362 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
363 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
364 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
366 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
368 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
370 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
373 * added cspi_peek_ev()
375 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
376 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
378 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
381 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
383 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
385 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
387 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
391 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
393 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
394 108666, 104730, 111793.
398 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
400 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
402 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
403 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
405 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
407 * compiler warning fixes.
409 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
411 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
412 efficient screen review [100944].
414 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
416 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
417 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
419 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
421 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
423 * New methods in cspi:
424 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
425 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
426 the emission handler.
428 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
430 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
431 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
432 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
435 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
438 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
440 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
442 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
445 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
447 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
448 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
450 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
452 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
454 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
455 consume device events, such as mouse events.
457 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
459 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
461 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
462 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
464 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
466 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
468 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
469 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
470 * performance improvement for event listeners.
472 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
476 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
478 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
479 * added boolean return for
480 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
481 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
482 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
483 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
484 listener/synthesis test.
485 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
486 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
488 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
490 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
493 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
494 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
496 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
497 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
498 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
499 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
500 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
503 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
505 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
506 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
507 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
508 * added new test program for our key listener API.
509 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
510 magnifier and mag_control client.
511 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
513 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
514 * Improvements to documentation.
518 * Added missing seek_type param in
519 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
520 previously documented but not in signature;
521 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
523 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
524 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
525 implementation. [76201]
527 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
528 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
531 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
532 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
540 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
543 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
545 need getBaseAttributes ()
546 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
548 table: getVisibleRange
550 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells