1 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
3 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
5 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
6 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
10 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
12 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
13 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
14 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
15 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
16 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
17 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
19 * fixed make distcheck.
21 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
22 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
25 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
26 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
28 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
30 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
32 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
35 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
36 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
37 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
38 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
39 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
41 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
45 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
47 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
48 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
52 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
54 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
55 if at-spi registry failed.
57 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
61 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
62 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
65 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
69 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
71 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
72 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
73 on noncritical refcount issues.
75 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
77 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
78 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
80 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
81 Solaris when running sample programs).
84 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
86 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
88 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
89 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
91 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
92 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
94 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
96 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
97 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
98 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
99 the public-domain code borrowed here.
104 fa (Roozber Pournader),
106 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
109 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
111 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
112 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
113 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
115 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
117 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
119 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
121 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
122 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
123 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
125 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
127 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
128 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
130 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
131 #125834, #111429, #121974.
133 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
135 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
137 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
138 "object:active-descendant-changed".
140 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
142 * Improved code that rejects
143 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
146 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
148 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
151 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
153 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
155 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
158 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
161 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
163 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
164 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
166 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
169 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
170 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
172 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
173 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
174 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
175 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
176 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
177 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
178 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
179 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
180 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
181 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
182 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
183 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
184 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
186 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
188 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
190 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
193 * added cspi_peek_ev()
195 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
196 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
198 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
201 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
203 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
205 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
207 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
211 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
213 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
214 108666, 104730, 111793.
218 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
220 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
222 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
223 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
225 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
227 * compiler warning fixes.
229 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
231 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
232 efficient screen review [100944].
234 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
236 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
237 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
239 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
241 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
243 * New methods in cspi:
244 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
245 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
246 the emission handler.
248 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
250 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
251 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
252 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
255 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
258 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
260 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
262 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
265 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
267 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
268 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
270 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
272 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
274 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
275 consume device events, such as mouse events.
277 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
279 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
281 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
282 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
284 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
286 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
288 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
289 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
290 * performance improvement for event listeners.
292 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
296 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
298 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
299 * added boolean return for
300 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
301 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
302 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
303 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
304 listener/synthesis test.
305 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
306 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
308 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
310 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
313 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
314 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
316 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
317 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
318 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
319 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
320 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
323 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
325 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
326 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
327 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
328 * added new test program for our key listener API.
329 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
330 magnifier and mag_control client.
331 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
333 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
334 * Improvements to documentation.
338 * Added missing seek_type param in
339 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
340 previously documented but not in signature;
341 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
343 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
344 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
345 implementation. [76201]
347 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
348 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
351 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
352 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
360 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
363 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
365 need getBaseAttributes ()
366 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
368 table: getVisibleRange
370 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells