| liblouis 3.25.0 has been released |
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| The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| 3.25.0. The release is available for download at: |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
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| Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It |
| features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports |
| contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages [1]_. |
| It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and is |
| used by screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca and JAWS. A companion project |
| liblouisutdml [2]_ deals with formatting of braille. |
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| Noteworthy changes in this release |
| ================================== |
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| We dedicate this release to the memory of John Boyer, the original |
| author of liblouis. Sadly he passed away recently. We owe him a |
| tremendous amount of gratitude. Without him liblouis would not exist. |
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| A lot of work has gone into this release. We have quite a few security |
| related fixes. Then there are updates to Dutch, Norwegian, Slovenian and |
| Vietnamese. Attila, who never seems to get tired, updated the Hungarian |
| tables and did some general cleanups in the tables. |
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| Also due to some mishap our domain expired and we could not re-acquire |
| it. So we had to change our domain to ``liblouis.io``. |
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| I'd like to thank everybody for helping to bring liblouis forward. |
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| For a detailed list of all the changes refer to the list of closed |
| issues [3]_. |
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| New features |
| ------------ |
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| Bug fixes |
| --------- |
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| - Fixed several buffer overflow errors in ``lou_setDataPath``, |
| ``lou_logFile`` and ``resolveSubtable`` thanks to Marsman1996. |
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| Braille table improvements |
| -------------------------- |
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| - Fix a deprecation warning in Bulgarian 6 dots thanks to Attila |
| Hammer. |
| - Fix two broken space replacement rules for ZERO WIDTH SPACE and WORD |
| JOINER thanks to Attila Hammer and Norbert Markus. |
| - Fixes to Hungarian Braille exceptions and hyphenation thanks to |
| Attila Hammer. This results in a much improved back-translation of |
| capitalized words. |
| - Support for both 8 and 6 dot math symbols in Hungarian thanks to |
| Norbert Markus. |
| - Update Dutch 8-dot computer braille table to the 2022 standard thanks |
| to Leonard de Ruijter and the Dutch Braille Authority. |
| - There are updates to the Norwegian braille standard. Most notably |
| URLs and email addresses are no longer surrounded by braille patterns |
| unless present in the original document. Thanks to Lars Bjørndal. |
| - Add some missing character definitions to Slovenian computer braille, |
| thanks to Jožef Gregorc. |
| - Corrections and additions to Vietnamese thanks to Dang Hoai Phúc. |
| Includes a new computer braille table. |
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| Other changes |
| ------------- |
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| - Change the domain name from liblouis.org to liblouis.io thanks to |
| Christian Egli. |
| - Simplify the Danish test to contain fewer files thanks to Bue |
| Vester-Andersen and Bert Frees. |
| - Add the tests and the examples of the Python bindings to the |
| distribution tarball. Thanks to Rob Beezer for spotting this |
| oversight. |
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| Deprecation notice |
| ------------------ |
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| - The ``lou_setDataPath`` and ``lou_getDataPath`` functions have been |
| deprecated. Please migrate to one of the other ways to set the table |
| search path: |
| |
| - The recommended and most straightforward way to set the search |
| path is to set the ``LOUIS_TABLEPATH`` environment variable. |
| - You can also set a custom table resolver function through |
| ``lou_registerTableResolver``. |
| - If you use the metadata based query API and haven't set the |
| ``LOUIS_TABLEPATH`` environment variable, you can use the |
| ``lou_indexTables`` function to tell Liblouis which files (not |
| directories) to search. |
| - Finally, there is the fallback solution of using absolute file |
| paths. |
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| Backwards incompatible changes |
| ------------------------------ |
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| - None |
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| Invisible changes |
| ----------------- |
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| - None |
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| New, renamed or removed tables |
| ------------------------------ |
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| New |
| ~~~ |
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| - vi-cb8.utb (replaces vi.ctb) |
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| Renamed |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| None |
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| Removed |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| - vi.ctb (replaced by vi-cb8.utb) |
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| Next release |
| ============ |
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| The next release will be published on June 5 2023 so please keep up the |
| excellent work and keep those improvements coming. |
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| Share and Enjoy! |
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| – Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
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| Footnotes |
| ========= |
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| .. [1] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables |
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| .. [2] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml |
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| .. [3] |
| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/35?closed=1 |
