1 What's new in at-spi-1.19.1:
3 * Bugfixes: #430938, #427836, #428007, #405774, #407600, #329454.
5 What's new in at-spi-1.18.0:
7 * Release 1.18.0 for GNOME 2.18.0.
9 What's new in at-spi-1.17.2:
13 What's new in at-spi-1.17.1:
15 * Bugfixes: #404584, #401299, #375319. Fixes some build warnings.
17 What's new in at-spi-1.17.0:
19 * Bugfixes: #404592, #400709.
21 What's new in at-spi-1.7.16:
23 * Bugfixes: #329454, #393010.
25 What's new in at-spi-1.7.15:
27 * Bugfixes: #372988, #381670, #387960, #364839.
29 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
31 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
32 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
33 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
36 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
38 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
40 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
41 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
44 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
46 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
50 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
52 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
54 * Aggregate Document interface.
56 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
58 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
60 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
62 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
64 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
65 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
67 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
68 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
70 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
72 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
74 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
77 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
80 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
82 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
85 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
86 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
88 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
90 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
91 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
95 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
96 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
97 be automated in a future version).
102 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
104 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
105 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
106 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
108 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
110 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
111 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
112 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
113 for complex docs and forms.)
114 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
115 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
116 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
117 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
120 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
121 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
122 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
123 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
124 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
125 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
127 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
129 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
130 instance for an object.
131 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
133 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
134 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
137 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
138 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
139 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
141 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
143 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
144 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
146 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
148 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
150 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
152 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
154 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
156 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
158 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
162 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
164 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
166 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
168 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
170 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
174 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
176 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
178 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
179 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
182 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
184 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
186 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
190 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
192 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
193 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
195 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
196 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
197 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
198 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
200 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
201 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
203 * New languages in configure.in:
209 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
211 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
213 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
214 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
218 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
220 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
221 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
222 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
223 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
224 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
225 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
227 * fixed make distcheck.
229 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
230 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
233 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
234 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
236 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
238 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
240 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
243 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
244 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
245 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
246 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
247 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
249 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
253 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
255 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
256 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
260 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
262 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
263 if at-spi registry failed.
265 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
269 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
270 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
273 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
277 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
279 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
280 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
281 on noncritical refcount issues.
283 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
285 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
286 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
288 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
289 Solaris when running sample programs).
292 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
294 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
296 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
297 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
299 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
300 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
302 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
304 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
305 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
306 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
307 the public-domain code borrowed here.
312 fa (Roozber Pournader),
314 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
317 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
319 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
320 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
321 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
323 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
325 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
327 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
329 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
330 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
331 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
333 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
335 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
336 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
338 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
339 #125834, #111429, #121974.
341 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
343 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
345 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
346 "object:active-descendant-changed".
348 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
350 * Improved code that rejects
351 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
354 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
356 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
359 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
361 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
363 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
366 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
369 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
371 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
372 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
374 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
377 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
378 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
380 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
381 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
382 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
383 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
384 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
385 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
386 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
387 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
388 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
389 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
390 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
391 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
392 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
394 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
396 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
398 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
401 * added cspi_peek_ev()
403 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
404 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
406 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
409 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
411 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
413 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
415 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
419 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
421 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
422 108666, 104730, 111793.
426 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
428 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
430 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
431 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
433 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
435 * compiler warning fixes.
437 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
439 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
440 efficient screen review [100944].
442 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
444 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
445 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
447 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
449 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
451 * New methods in cspi:
452 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
453 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
454 the emission handler.
456 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
458 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
459 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
460 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
463 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
466 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
468 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
470 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
473 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
475 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
476 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
478 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
480 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
482 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
483 consume device events, such as mouse events.
485 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
487 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
489 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
490 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
492 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
494 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
496 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
497 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
498 * performance improvement for event listeners.
500 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
504 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
506 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
507 * added boolean return for
508 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
509 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
510 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
511 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
512 listener/synthesis test.
513 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
514 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
516 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
518 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
521 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
522 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
524 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
525 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
526 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
527 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
528 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
531 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
533 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
534 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
535 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
536 * added new test program for our key listener API.
537 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
538 magnifier and mag_control client.
539 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
541 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
542 * Improvements to documentation.
546 * Added missing seek_type param in
547 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
548 previously documented but not in signature;
549 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
551 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
552 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
553 implementation. [76201]
555 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
556 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
559 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
560 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
568 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
571 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
573 need getBaseAttributes ()
574 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
576 table: getVisibleRange
578 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells