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Article #414XBoard/Winboard 4.4.1 released
From: Arun
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:08
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:08
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This release includes several new features and lots of bugfixes. You can get the source code for XBoard/Winboard at: http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/ Windows binaries will be available at: http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19 Thanks for all the bug-reports we got, if you find some new bugs, please report them in the bug tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/ or by email to bug-xboard (AT) gnu.org. Here is the relevant section from the NEWS file: * added chat windows to keep track of multiple conversations (WinBoard only) * allow the result comment as a display item in the game list * added a "Mute All Sounds" item in the WinBoard Options menu * new -forceIllegalMoves option * new -keepAlive option (for ICS play) * ported -autoDisplayComment and -autoDisplayTags to xboard, controling popups * replaces analysispopup with engineoutputpopup in xboard * allow copy/paste position and game to use clipboard (xboard) * updated several bitmaps (xboard) * Made the beep sounds for JAWS board navigation configurable through command-line options * added the result comment to the game-list tags when the game list is exported to the clipboard * updated RTF docs * fixed premove problem * fixed engine did not start playing when out of GUI book on second move with white * fix bug using opening books (file were not closed) * fixed crash when opening Engine #1 Settings when there were no text-edit options in the dialog * fixed loading of games from command lines, fixes cmail bug * fix joining lines split by ICS and resizing terminal window when using ICS (new option -keepLineBreaksICS, -wrapContinuationSequence, - useInternalWrap) * fixed -autoDisplayComment * fixed wrong default value for engineDebugOutput in xboard * swapped 'tell' and 'message' parsing order for correct colorization. * fixed parse bug for pgn files * fix for edit-position "moves" being sent by XBoard to the engine * bugfix for protocol extensions: egtbpath -> egtpath * fix bug in parser * further bugfixes: #8847, #10990, #27427, #27642, #27666, #27667, #27668, #27715, #27751, #27760, #27772, #27799, #27826 and several small ones * use "make distcheck" to generate tar-balls * prepared a system to internationalize winboard menus * improved mouse handler * rewrote wevalgraph for better frontend/backend separation * code cleanup Arun Persaud
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