1 What's new in at-spi-1.19.5:
3 * Bugfixes: #446277, #450897, #433802.
5 What's new in at-spi-1.19.3:
7 * We add pyatspi into at-spi. pyatspi is an unified python binding.
8 * Bugfixes: #439057, #439436.
10 What's new in at-spi-1.19.1:
12 * Bugfixes: #430938, #427836, #428007, #405774, #407600, #329454.
14 What's new in at-spi-1.18.0:
16 * Release 1.18.0 for GNOME 2.18.0.
18 What's new in at-spi-1.17.2:
22 What's new in at-spi-1.17.1:
24 * Bugfixes: #404584, #401299, #375319. Fixes some build warnings.
26 What's new in at-spi-1.17.0:
28 * Bugfixes: #404592, #400709.
30 What's new in at-spi-1.7.16:
32 * Bugfixes: #329454, #393010.
34 What's new in at-spi-1.7.15:
36 * Bugfixes: #372988, #381670, #387960, #364839.
38 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
40 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
41 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
42 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
45 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
47 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
49 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
50 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
53 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
55 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
59 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
61 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
63 * Aggregate Document interface.
65 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
67 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
69 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
71 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
73 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
74 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
76 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
77 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
79 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
81 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
83 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
86 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
89 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
91 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
94 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
95 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
97 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
99 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
100 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
104 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
105 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
106 be automated in a future version).
111 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
113 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
114 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
115 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
117 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
119 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
120 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
121 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
122 for complex docs and forms.)
123 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
124 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
125 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
126 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
129 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
130 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
131 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
132 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
133 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
134 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
136 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
138 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
139 instance for an object.
140 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
142 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
143 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
146 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
147 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
148 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
150 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
152 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
153 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
155 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
157 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
159 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
161 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
163 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
165 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
167 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
171 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
173 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
175 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
177 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
179 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
183 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
185 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
187 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
188 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
191 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
193 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
195 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
199 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
201 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
202 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
204 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
205 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
206 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
207 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
209 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
210 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
212 * New languages in configure.in:
218 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
220 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
222 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
223 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
227 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
229 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
230 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
231 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
232 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
233 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
234 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
236 * fixed make distcheck.
238 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
239 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
242 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
243 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
245 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
247 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
249 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
252 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
253 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
254 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
255 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
256 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
258 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
262 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
264 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
265 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
269 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
271 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
272 if at-spi registry failed.
274 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
278 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
279 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
282 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
286 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
288 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
289 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
290 on noncritical refcount issues.
292 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
294 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
295 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
297 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
298 Solaris when running sample programs).
301 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
303 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
305 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
306 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
308 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
309 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
311 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
313 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
314 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
315 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
316 the public-domain code borrowed here.
321 fa (Roozber Pournader),
323 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
326 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
328 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
329 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
330 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
332 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
334 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
336 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
338 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
339 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
340 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
342 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
344 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
345 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
347 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
348 #125834, #111429, #121974.
350 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
352 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
354 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
355 "object:active-descendant-changed".
357 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
359 * Improved code that rejects
360 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
363 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
365 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
368 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
370 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
372 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
375 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
378 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
380 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
381 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
383 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
386 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
387 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
389 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
390 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
391 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
392 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
393 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
394 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
395 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
396 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
397 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
398 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
399 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
400 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
401 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
403 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
405 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
407 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
410 * added cspi_peek_ev()
412 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
413 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
415 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
418 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
420 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
422 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
424 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
428 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
430 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
431 108666, 104730, 111793.
435 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
437 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
439 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
440 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
442 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
444 * compiler warning fixes.
446 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
448 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
449 efficient screen review [100944].
451 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
453 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
454 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
456 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
458 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
460 * New methods in cspi:
461 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
462 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
463 the emission handler.
465 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
467 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
468 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
469 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
472 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
475 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
477 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
479 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
482 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
484 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
485 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
487 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
489 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
491 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
492 consume device events, such as mouse events.
494 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
496 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
498 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
499 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
501 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
503 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
505 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
506 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
507 * performance improvement for event listeners.
509 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
513 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
515 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
516 * added boolean return for
517 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
518 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
519 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
520 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
521 listener/synthesis test.
522 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
523 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
525 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
527 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
530 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
531 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
533 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
534 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
535 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
536 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
537 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
540 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
542 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
543 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
544 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
545 * added new test program for our key listener API.
546 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
547 magnifier and mag_control client.
548 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
550 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
551 * Improvements to documentation.
555 * Added missing seek_type param in
556 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
557 previously documented but not in signature;
558 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
560 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
561 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
562 implementation. [76201]
564 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
565 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
568 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
569 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
577 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
580 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
582 need getBaseAttributes ()
583 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
585 table: getVisibleRange
587 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells