GNU wdiff NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*-
Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* Version 1.2.2 - April 2014, by Martin von Gagern
* Updated Vietnamese, Swedish, Estonian, Chinese (traditional),
Brazilian Portuguese and Russian translations.
* Updated gnulib.
* Used more recent autotools: autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.14.1.
* Version 1.2.1 - March 2013, by Martin von Gagern
* Added Esperanto translation.
* Updated Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, Galician, Italian, Dutch,
Polish, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
translations.
* Updated gnulib.
* Recreated build system using recent versions of autotools.
This will avoid security issues in "make distcheck" target.
(CVE-2012-3386)
* Version 1.2.0 - May 2012, by Martin von Gagern
* Unofficial beta release for translators only.
* Includes the proper fix for man page formatting.
(Debian bug #669340)
* Version 1.1.1 - May 2012, by Martin von Gagern
* Added Serbian translation.
* Updated Danish and Vietnamese translations.
* Work around a bug in the formatting of the man page.
(Debian bug #669340)
* Version 1.1.0 - November 2011, by Martin von Gagern
* Updated Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian,
Swedish and Ukrainian translations.
* Fix several issue with the use of screen in the test suite.
* Allow WDIFF_PAGER to override PAGER environment variable.
* Do not autodetect less, so we don't auto-enable less-mode.
This should improve things for UTF8 text. (Savannah bug #34224)
Less-mode is considered deprecated, as it isn't fit for multi-byte
encodings. Nevertheless it can still be enabled on the command line.
* Version 1.0.2 - September 2011, by Martin von Gagern
* Unofficial beta release
* Introduces use of ngettext to allow correct handling of plural forms
* Version 1.0.1 - September 2011, by Martin von Gagern
* Updated Polish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish and
Czech translations
* Version 1.0.0 - September 2011, by Martin von Gagern
* Changed major version to 1 to reflect maturity of the package
* Updated Dutch, French, Danish and Slovenian translations
* Added Ukrainian translation
* Improved error reporting in case a child process has problems
* Added tests to the test suite
* Updated gnulib
* Version 0.6.5 - December 2010, by Martin von Gagern
* Never initialize or deinitialize terminals, as we do no cursor movement
* Deprecated --no-init-term (-K) command line option
* Avoid relative path in man pages
* Updated gnulib, might be particularly important for uClibc users
* Version 0.6.4 - November 2010, by Martin von Gagern
* Updated Catalan translations
* Updated gnulib
* Version 0.6.3 - June 2010, by Martin von Gagern
* Updated Italian and Swedish translations
* Updated gnulib
* Version 0.6.2 - May 2010, by Martin von Gagern
* Fix shell syntax in configure script
* Updated gnulib and gettext, the latter to 0.18
* Updated Dutch translation
* Fixed a number of portability issues reported by maint.mk syntax checks
* Version 0.6.1 - April 2010, by Martin von Gagern
* Introduce --with-default-pager=PAGER configure switch.
* Fix missing newline in info dir entry list.
* Version 0.6.0 - March 2010, by Martin von Gagern
First official release in a long time. Everything since 0.5 was inofficial.
* `wdiff -d' to read input from single unified diff, perhaps stdin.
* Updated texinfo documentation taking experimental switch into account.
* Experimental programs (mdiff & friends) and a configure switch
--enable-experimental to control them.
* Recent imports from gnulib, use of recent autotools.
* Improved autodetection of termcap library like ncurses.
* Reformatted translations, still a number of fuzzy translations.
* Changed from CVS to bzr for source code version control.
* Various bug fixes. See ChangeLog for a more exhaustive list.
* Known bugs: this NEWS file here was outdated in the release tarball.
* Version 0.5.4 - June 2007, by Denver Gingerich
Integrated following changes from 0.5g (Francois Pinard, November 1998):
* Messages from programs may be output in many natural languages.
* Short `man' pages get installed for `mdiff', `unidiff' and `wdiff'.
* The original man page for `wdiff' gets withdrawn, for legalistic reasons.
* New `unify' converts context diffs to unidiffs or vice-versa.
* New `mdiff' finds identical line clusters in one or more files.
* A new `-K' option inhibits termcap initialization and termination.
* Version 0.5.3 - June 2007, by Denver Gingerich
No user-visible changes; see ChangeLog for details
* Version 0.5 - November 1994, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Option --ignore-case (-i) will fold case while comparing.
* Filename "-", used once, means that file comes from standard input.
* A few bugs, not all, have disappeared.
* Version 0.04 - December 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Add -a for automatic pager call, disallow this by default.
* Add -l for less-like overstriking.
* Add -n to forbid wrapping of differences.
* New cbars script for producing change bars.
* man page for wdiff 0.04. Contributed and supported by contributor.
* Version 0.03 - August 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Provide more useful exit codes.
* Increase portability.
* Version 0.02 - August 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Avoid calling pager if PAGER is in environment, but empty.
* Correct disposition problems, and avoid useless overstrikes.
* Add -s for statistics.
* Version 0.01 - August 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Rename old -1234 into -wxyz for selecting strings.
* Add new -123 resembling comm, delete -d.
* Automatically pipe through `more' or `less' when writing to terminal.
* Version 0.00 - August 1992, by Franc,ois Pinard
* Initial release.
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