= KMSCON Release News =
+CHANGES WITH 8:
+ * Several build-tools changes. Please adjust your build-scripts
+ accoringly:
+ - xz instead of bz2 tarballs
+ - tarballs moved to: www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases
+ - linking with ld.gold now supported
+ - libtsm was extracted into a separate library, available at:
+ www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
+ - Several dependencies are mandatory now. See README.
+ - --prefix=/usr is no longer the default. You need to pass it
+ yourself!
+
+ * Removed wlterm. A GTK+ variant of wlterm is now available at:
+ www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm
+
+ * Removed uvtd and uvt. They were unused.
+
+ * Removed cdev-sessions
+
+ * Removed freetype2 font-backend
+
+ * Removed cairo text renderer
+
+ * eloop and uterm are now linked statically
+
+ * Dynamic font resizing is now supported. Use ctrl+'+' and ctrl+'-' as
+ default shortcuts to resize your font on-the-fly.
+
+ * Lots of bug-fixes!
+
+CHANGES WITH 7:
+ * TSM, font and text subsystems have been extended to support
+ multi-width fonts (via wcwidth(3)). This allows using CJK characters
+ if your font provides the requested glyphs.
+
+ * COLORTERM is now set to "kmscon" to allow applications to detect
+ whether they run in kmscon.
+
+ * /bin/login is now called with -p by default to reset the environment.
+ This prevents kmscon from passing weird environment variables to the
+ clients but still allows to start KMSCON with a customized
+ environment.
+ The new --reset-env variable controls this behavior (default: on).
+
+ * Add kmsconvt@.service systemd template. This replaces the
+ kmscon@.service template and can now fully replace autovt@.service
+ which is provided by systemd-logind.
+
+ * The DRM3D backend now uses gbm-surfaces and now longer depends on the
+ custom EGL extensions. Everything is now handled inside of mesa so we
+ are safe if the extensions are changed in the future.
+
+ * Modularize kmscon. Most of the dependencies can now be loaded during
+ runtime and are no longer mandatory. This allows package-managers to
+ provide the kmscon binary as default package and all the backends in a
+ separate package to avoid huge dependencies.
+ Please note that this modularization still needs to be applied to
+ uterm so you shouldn't split the package yet, but instead wait for the
+ next release.
+
+ * Freetype2 backend is now deprecated. Use the built-in 8x16 backend,
+ the unifont backend or the fully-featured pango backend.
+
+ * bblit renderer is now built-in. You cannot deselect it, anymore.
+
+ * libuterm reads boot_vga values now via udev. libpciaccess is no longer
+ needed and was removed entirely.
+
+ * uterm video backends are now split into different modules. They still
+ need to be selected during compile-time, though. The next kmscon
+ release will finish this uterm split.
+ The dumb-video backend was renamed to drm2d. The drm-video backend was
+ renamed to drm3d.
+
+ * libeloop now supports ONESHOT idle sources
+
+ * Experimental cairo+pixman renderers. These should not be used in any
+ production systems! They are only provided for performance-testing and
+ to show how cairo/pixman modules can be included.
+
+ * unifont font backend is now enabled by default. The build was heavily
+ improved to avoid long compilation times.
+
+ * Symbol-versioning was added to all libraries. Library interfaces are
+ still not considered stable so don't package them separately! Feel
+ free to link them statically.
+
+ * An experimental unfinished version of the UVT library has been added.
+ Use it only for testing purposes. The next kmscon release will include
+ documentation and more.
+ UVT implements virtual terminals in user-space. It will soon replace
+ the cdev-sessions in kmscon.
+
+ * Lots of bug-fixes!
+
CHANGES WITH 6:
* Allow arbitrary paths with --vt (kmscon)
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