XBoard/Winboard 4.4.1 released

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Author: Arun
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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