1 What's new in at-spi-1.21.1:
3 * Bugfixes: #490205, #490202, #489273.
4 * Add Willie Walker and Eitan Isaacson to maintainers.
6 What's new in at-spi-1.20.0:
8 * Bugfixes: #462412, #467612, #474796, #467366, #472301.
10 What's new in at-spi-1.19.5:
12 * Bugfixes: #446277, #450897, #433802.
14 What's new in at-spi-1.19.3:
16 * We add pyatspi into at-spi. pyatspi is an unified python binding.
17 * Bugfixes: #439057, #439436.
19 What's new in at-spi-1.19.1:
21 * Bugfixes: #430938, #427836, #428007, #405774, #407600, #329454.
23 What's new in at-spi-1.18.0:
25 * Release 1.18.0 for GNOME 2.18.0.
27 What's new in at-spi-1.17.2:
31 What's new in at-spi-1.17.1:
33 * Bugfixes: #404584, #401299, #375319. Fixes some build warnings.
35 What's new in at-spi-1.17.0:
37 * Bugfixes: #404592, #400709.
39 What's new in at-spi-1.7.16:
41 * Bugfixes: #329454, #393010.
43 What's new in at-spi-1.7.15:
45 * Bugfixes: #372988, #381670, #387960, #364839.
47 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
49 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
50 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
51 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
54 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
56 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
58 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
59 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
62 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
64 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
68 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
70 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
72 * Aggregate Document interface.
74 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
76 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
78 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
80 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
82 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
83 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
85 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
86 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
88 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
90 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
92 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
95 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
98 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
100 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
103 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
104 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
106 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
108 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
109 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
113 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
114 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
115 be automated in a future version).
120 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
122 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
123 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
124 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
126 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
128 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
129 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
130 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
131 for complex docs and forms.)
132 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
133 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
134 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
135 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
138 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
139 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
140 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
141 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
142 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
143 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
145 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
147 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
148 instance for an object.
149 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
151 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
152 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
155 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
156 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
157 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
159 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
161 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
162 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
164 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
166 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
168 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
170 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
172 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
174 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
176 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
180 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
182 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
184 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
186 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
188 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
192 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
194 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
196 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
197 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
200 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
202 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
204 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
208 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
210 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
211 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
213 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
214 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
215 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
216 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
218 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
219 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
221 * New languages in configure.in:
227 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
229 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
231 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
232 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
236 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
238 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
239 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
240 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
241 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
242 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
243 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
245 * fixed make distcheck.
247 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
248 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
251 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
252 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
254 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
256 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
258 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
261 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
262 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
263 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
264 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
265 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
267 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
271 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
273 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
274 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
278 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
280 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
281 if at-spi registry failed.
283 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
287 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
288 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
291 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
295 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
297 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
298 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
299 on noncritical refcount issues.
301 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
303 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
304 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
306 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
307 Solaris when running sample programs).
310 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
312 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
314 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
315 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
317 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
318 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
320 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
322 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
323 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
324 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
325 the public-domain code borrowed here.
330 fa (Roozber Pournader),
332 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
335 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
337 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
338 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
339 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
341 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
343 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
345 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
347 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
348 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
349 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
351 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
353 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
354 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
356 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
357 #125834, #111429, #121974.
359 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
361 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
363 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
364 "object:active-descendant-changed".
366 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
368 * Improved code that rejects
369 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
372 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
374 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
377 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
379 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
381 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
384 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
387 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
389 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
390 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
392 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
395 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
396 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
398 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
399 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
400 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
401 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
402 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
403 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
404 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
405 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
406 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
407 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
408 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
409 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
410 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
412 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
414 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
416 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
419 * added cspi_peek_ev()
421 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
422 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
424 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
427 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
429 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
431 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
433 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
437 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
439 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
440 108666, 104730, 111793.
444 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
446 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
448 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
449 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
451 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
453 * compiler warning fixes.
455 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
457 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
458 efficient screen review [100944].
460 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
462 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
463 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
465 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
467 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
469 * New methods in cspi:
470 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
471 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
472 the emission handler.
474 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
476 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
477 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
478 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
481 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
484 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
486 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
488 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
491 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
493 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
494 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
496 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
498 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
500 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
501 consume device events, such as mouse events.
503 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
505 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
507 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
508 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
510 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
512 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
514 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
515 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
516 * performance improvement for event listeners.
518 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
522 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
524 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
525 * added boolean return for
526 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
527 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
528 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
529 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
530 listener/synthesis test.
531 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
532 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
534 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
536 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
539 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
540 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
542 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
543 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
544 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
545 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
546 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
549 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
551 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
552 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
553 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
554 * added new test program for our key listener API.
555 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
556 magnifier and mag_control client.
557 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
559 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
560 * Improvements to documentation.
564 * Added missing seek_type param in
565 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
566 previously documented but not in signature;
567 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
569 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
570 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
571 implementation. [76201]
573 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
574 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
577 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
578 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
586 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
589 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
591 need getBaseAttributes ()
592 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
594 table: getVisibleRange
596 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells