[eboard-users] Announcement: eboard 0.9.5

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Hi,

eboard 0.9.5 has been released and is available for download from the
usual places:

http://eboard.sf.net

ftp://ftp.seul.org/pub/chess/eboard

Despite the long time since the last release (july), changes to eboard
code were accumulating on my computer without being released. My plan is
to work fixing all known bugs and issues and release a 1.0.0 version
still this year. Next year I'll move to GTK+ 2.x and consider
incorporating the feature requests I've been declining until now (seek
dialog, formula helper, etc.)

The changelog since 0.9.0 (yes, I skipped some version numbers this time)
follows below, but basically I dropped the stock GNU autoconf/automake and
gettext, and am using now my own configure script system and language
support libraries. As a result, the source tarball is 200K smaller. Bugs
may have been introduced in this change, but it made the development work
become much lighter.

I have also changed the piece sets that come with the default eboard
installation. RedHat 7+ RPMs should appear on the ftp site in the next few
days. Have fun, and if you find bugs, make sure to post them at the
project page or email me about them.

.........................................................................
Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo - Computer Science MSc Student at Unicamp
be...@se... - Campinas - SP - Brazil - Earth
GPG/PGP mail welcome - GPG/PGP Key: EF8EE808 (keyserver pgp.mit.edu)

Changelog since 0.9.0:

0.9.5:
  * [all]  Completely changed the compilation process and
           internationalization support, no longer depending
           on GNU autoconf/automake or gettext.

  * [ics]  Quite revamped the code that colorizes and parses
           ICS output, I hope nothing is broken.

  * [ics]  Non-move updates to observed games (setting the clock,
           player names, ratings in a relay, for example) will
           not play the "Move Made" sound.
           (closes bug ticket #786179).

  * [fics] Fixed detection of ratings in game relays, where
           player names can contain underscores, like GM_Anand.
           (closes bug ticket #786177)

  * [all]  The sound event dialog would incorrectly show "Beep"
           when the event was configured to run an external
           program, fixed. (closes bug ticket #785847)

  * [ics]  Fixed a bug that would make eboard crash when the
           connection was closed bu the ICS server on some
           special rare occasions. (closes bug ticket #775154)

  * [ics]  Fixed a translation bug in the FICS protocol that would
           translate the command 'games' sent to get rating
           information.

  * [ics]  Fixed a bug that would cause eboard to crash when an
           observed game ended with a movement and move animation
           was on.

  * [all]  Fixed the vectorized piece set, which was full of bugs.
           (would crash on board resizes, appear with gray bars and
            other oddities)