1 What's new in at-spi-1.19.3:
3 * We add pyatspi into at-spi. pyatspi is an unified python binding.
4 * Bugfixes: #439057, #439436.
6 What's new in at-spi-1.19.1:
8 * Bugfixes: #430938, #427836, #428007, #405774, #407600, #329454.
10 What's new in at-spi-1.18.0:
12 * Release 1.18.0 for GNOME 2.18.0.
14 What's new in at-spi-1.17.2:
18 What's new in at-spi-1.17.1:
20 * Bugfixes: #404584, #401299, #375319. Fixes some build warnings.
22 What's new in at-spi-1.17.0:
24 * Bugfixes: #404592, #400709.
26 What's new in at-spi-1.7.16:
28 * Bugfixes: #329454, #393010.
30 What's new in at-spi-1.7.15:
32 * Bugfixes: #372988, #381670, #387960, #364839.
34 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
36 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
37 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
38 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
41 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
43 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
45 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
46 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
49 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
51 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
55 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
57 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
59 * Aggregate Document interface.
61 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
63 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
65 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
67 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
69 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
70 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
72 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
73 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
75 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
77 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
79 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
82 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
85 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
87 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
90 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
91 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
93 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
95 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
96 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
100 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
101 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
102 be automated in a future version).
107 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
109 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
110 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
111 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
113 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
115 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
116 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
117 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
118 for complex docs and forms.)
119 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
120 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
121 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
122 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
125 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
126 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
127 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
128 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
129 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
130 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
132 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
134 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
135 instance for an object.
136 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
138 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
139 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
142 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
143 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
144 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
146 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
148 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
149 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
151 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
153 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
155 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
157 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
159 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
161 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
163 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
167 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
169 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
171 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
173 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
175 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
179 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
181 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
183 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
184 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
187 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
189 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
191 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
195 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
197 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
198 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
200 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
201 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
202 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
203 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
205 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
206 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
208 * New languages in configure.in:
214 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
216 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
218 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
219 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
223 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
225 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
226 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
227 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
228 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
229 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
230 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
232 * fixed make distcheck.
234 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
235 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
238 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
239 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
241 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
243 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
245 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
248 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
249 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
250 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
251 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
252 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
254 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
258 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
260 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
261 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
265 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
267 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
268 if at-spi registry failed.
270 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
274 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
275 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
278 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
282 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
284 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
285 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
286 on noncritical refcount issues.
288 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
290 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
291 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
293 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
294 Solaris when running sample programs).
297 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
299 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
301 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
302 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
304 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
305 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
307 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
309 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
310 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
311 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
312 the public-domain code borrowed here.
317 fa (Roozber Pournader),
319 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
322 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
324 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
325 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
326 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
328 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
330 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
332 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
334 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
335 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
336 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
338 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
340 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
341 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
343 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
344 #125834, #111429, #121974.
346 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
348 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
350 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
351 "object:active-descendant-changed".
353 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
355 * Improved code that rejects
356 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
359 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
361 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
364 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
366 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
368 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
371 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
374 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
376 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
377 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
379 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
382 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
383 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
385 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
386 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
387 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
388 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
389 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
390 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
391 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
392 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
393 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
394 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
395 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
396 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
397 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
399 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
401 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
403 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
406 * added cspi_peek_ev()
408 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
409 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
411 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
414 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
416 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
418 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
420 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
424 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
426 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
427 108666, 104730, 111793.
431 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
433 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
435 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
436 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
438 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
440 * compiler warning fixes.
442 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
444 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
445 efficient screen review [100944].
447 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
449 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
450 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
452 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
454 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
456 * New methods in cspi:
457 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
458 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
459 the emission handler.
461 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
463 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
464 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
465 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
468 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
471 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
473 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
475 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
478 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
480 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
481 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
483 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
485 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
487 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
488 consume device events, such as mouse events.
490 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
492 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
494 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
495 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
497 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
499 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
501 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
502 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
503 * performance improvement for event listeners.
505 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
509 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
511 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
512 * added boolean return for
513 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
514 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
515 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
516 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
517 listener/synthesis test.
518 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
519 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
521 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
523 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
526 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
527 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
529 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
530 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
531 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
532 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
533 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
536 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
538 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
539 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
540 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
541 * added new test program for our key listener API.
542 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
543 magnifier and mag_control client.
544 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
546 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
547 * Improvements to documentation.
551 * Added missing seek_type param in
552 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
553 previously documented but not in signature;
554 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
556 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
557 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
558 implementation. [76201]
560 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
561 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
564 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
565 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
573 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
576 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
578 need getBaseAttributes ()
579 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
581 table: getVisibleRange
583 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells