Update release announcement
diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
index 6c030d9..5a1c0c1 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-liblouis 3.15.0 has been released
+liblouis 3.16.0 has been released
The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release
-3.15.0. The release is available for download at:
+3.16.0. The release is available for download at:
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases
@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@
Noteworthy changes in this release
==================================
-This release contains updates to the Afrikaans, Malayalam, Malay,
-Israeli, classical English and Portuguese tables. It also contains a new
-table for Coptic thanks to first-time contributor Ibraam Nasif. Behind
-the scenes there have been major changes to the cross-compilation
-tool-chain that will finally allow us to ship pre-built windows binaries
-that contain ``lou_checkyaml.exe``.
+This release is mostly the work of Bert Frees. He has put in a lot of
+work and pushed some major improvements with regards to how emphasis is
+handled (and how this is documented). He fixed a crash when reading URLs
+using computer braille. He also worked with many contributors to get
+their improvements in. So we have better support for UEB, Dutch, Urdu,
+Malayalam, Arabic, Bashkir, Uzbek, Russian computer braille and for
+EBAE. I'd like to thank everybody for helping to bring liblouis forward.
For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed
issues [3]_.
@@ -31,73 +32,82 @@
New features
------------
-None
+- A new opcode ``noemphchars`` was added. This gives you more control
+ over the placement and scope of various emphasis indicators. Thanks
+ to Bert Frees.
Bug fixes
---------
-None
+- Fix an endless loop when using ``compbrlAtCursor`` thanks to Bert
+ Frees
Braille table improvements
--------------------------
-- New computer braille table for the Coptic language thanks to Ibraam
- Nasif
-- Improvements to Afrikaans thanks to Christo de Klerk
+- Improvements to US EBAE conformance with BANA emphasis guidelines
+ thanks to Benetech.org
+- Fixed a problem with apostrophe in Malayalam thanks to Jake Kyle
+- Improvements to contraction use in UEB thanks to James Bowden. In
+ particular the checkmark (U+2713) is added, the emdash (U+2014) is
+ fixed, the right single quote used as apostrophe between letters is
+ fixed and finally some more accented letters have been added.
+- Improvements to Urdu Braille and Malayalam thanks to Jake Kyle
+- Add characters for Bashkir and Uzbek languages to the Russian
+ computer braille table. Thanks to Andrey Yakuboy.
+- New table for Bashkir uncontracted braille thanks to Rustam
+ Churagulov and Gabidullin Yunir.
+- Updated ``<`` and ``>`` symbols in the Arabic tables thanks to
+ Ikrami Ahmad.
+- Improvements to Dutch thanks to Bert Frees.
- - Fixed correct handling of the ʼn character (0x149)
- - Prevent contraction of
+ - Every word part in a capitalized compound word counts in the
+ length of a passage.
+ - ``begcapsphrase`` is allowed to start in a word preceded by
+ punctuation.
- - "self" in "selfoon", "selfone",
- - "ui" in words and names like "quisling",
- "quidproquo", "quiëtis",
- "Quinten", "Quintus",
- - "er" in words like "konstituering".
+- Improved translation of ligatures in UEB thanks to Bert Frees.
+- Multiple improvements to the Russian literary braille thanks to
+ Andrey Yakuboy and Bert Frees:
-- Improved table for Malayalam grade 1 thanks to Jake Kyle.
-
- - Fixed rules for Candrakkala character at the end of a word.
- - Fixed rules for letters ര മ ങ in certain contexts.
- - Improved back-translation.
-
-- Improvements to grade 2 Malay braille thanks to Herbert Koh.
-- Improvements to Israeli 6-dot thanks to BAUM Engineering.
-
- - Fixed number sign for Arabic digits.
- - Fixed Hebrew letters with dagesh.
-
-- Added bullets to the classical English tables, thanks to Bue
- Vester-Andersen
-- Improved Portuguese grade 1 thanks to Bue Vester-Andersen.
-
- - Fixed forward translation of &, <, >, \`, ¶ and '.
- - Improved back-translation. The table is now tagged as going both
- forward and backward.
- - Added missing square root sign.
+ - Many new symbols (punctuation, bullets, math symbols, etc) have
+ been added.
+ - Punctuation after digits and fractions is now marked with dot 6 to
+ exclude ambiguities.
+ - Bugs, such as passing dot 7 in braille Unicode characters, have
+ been fixed.
+ - Added the new table with indicating of Cyrillic capital letters.
+ This recommended for braille display users.
+ - Removed ``ru-ru-g1.utb`` which was used in many screen-readers as
+ the only Russian literary braille table. Now it's necessary to use
+ ``ru-litbrl.ctb`` and ``ru-litbrl-detailed.utb``.
+ - Other minor rules according to actual Russian braille rules.
Other changes
-------------
-None
+- Support for Python 2 has been removed. The python bindings now only
+ support Python 3. The deprecation notice was announced in Release
+ 3.13 and the removal is finally done now.
+- Improvements to the placement of emphasis and capital indicators.
+- The documentation for the emphasis opcodes has been further improved
+ thanks to Bert Frees.
Deprecation notice
------------------
-None
+- None
Backwards incompatible changes
------------------------------
-None
+- ``emphmodechars`` can and must now be set per emphasis class.
Invisible changes
-----------------
-- Major rework of the cross-compilation tool-chain. There are now
- Docker images that should allow for local builds of binaries for 32
- and 64 bit. These include the libyaml library so the binaries contain
- ``lou_checkyaml.exe``. This will allow table creators to test their
- changes locally under windows.
+- The emphasis and capitalization handling code has seen major
+ streamlining, simplification and tidying thanks to Bert Frees.
New, renamed or removed tables
------------------------------
@@ -105,7 +115,9 @@
New
~~~
-- cop-eg-comp8.utb
+- ba.utb
+- ru-litbrl-detailed.utb
+- en-us-emphasis.uti
Renamed
~~~~~~~
@@ -115,13 +127,13 @@
Removed
~~~~~~~
-None
+- ru-ru-g1.utb
Next release
============
-The next release will be published on November 30 2020 so please keep up
-the excellent work and keep those improvements coming.
+The next release will be published on March 8 2021 so please keep up the
+excellent work and keep those improvements coming.
Share and Enjoy!
@@ -137,4 +149,4 @@
https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml
.. [3]
- https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/25?closed=1
+ https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/26?closed=1
