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Add information about all changes since kmscon-2. Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
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= KMSCON Release News =
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CHANGES WITH 3: (development release)
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* VTE support has been improved greatly. vt220 should be supported fully
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except for multi-line characters.
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* glib dependency removed. Hashtables and unicode support is now
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implemented in kmscon.
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* Configfiles are now supported. /etc/kmscon.conf and ~/.kmscon.conf are
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read by kmscon on startup. They can include the same options as the
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command line options of kmscon. However, command-line options have
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precedence.
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* Multiple video objects are now supported per seat. That is, if you
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have more than one graphics card per seat, all of them will be used by
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kmscon. Multiple displays were supported from the beginning.
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* Modularized input backend. The XKB backend is fully optional and can
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be activated/deactivated during runtime. The Dumb backend has been
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renamed to "plain".
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* The eloop library is fully documented and should be API stable from
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now on.
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* The font renderer subsystem has been rewritten and replaced with a new
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subsystem which can load different font-renderers during runtime.
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Several backends including static 8x16 backend has been added. It is
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possible to compile kmscon without freetype2/pango dependencies now.
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* 2D blitting to framebuffers has been improved greatly. More devices
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are supported now and blending is available, too. The 3D devices have
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been updated to support these blitting operations via OpenGL. This may
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be slow on older devices, though.
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* New text renderer subsystem has been added. It can load multiple
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different text-renderers during runtime. The default renderer (bblit)
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uses 2D blitting operations to render text. However, the gltex
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renderer is also available (optionally) which renders with OpenGL
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textures. This can improve performance greatly on modern devices.
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* Gcc optimizations are now enabled by default to improve rendering
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performance.
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CHANGES WITH 2: (development release)
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* Build scripts were improved and simplified. They also allow much more
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control about the build process now. The source was split into several
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different libraries.
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* Added llog.h helper for logging in libraries.
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* Eloop was moved into separate library and supports more more
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use-cases now. It can be used as a standalone project.
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* Terminal emulator (vte.c) was improved a lot and can run vim now.
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* Console layer was rewritten and is now much faster and much more
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standards compliant.
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* Uterm monitor was added. The monitor uses udev and systemd-logind to
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watch the system for new seats and devices. This allows us to run on
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multiple seats simultaneously and being hotplug-capable.
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* Uterm vt layer was added. This simply wraps the older VT layer so we
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can switch to different VT systems on-the-fly.
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* New uterm video backends: The fbdev backend is now fully functional
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kmscon can run on any fbdev device now. Furthermore, the dumb backend
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was added which is simply an unaccelerated DRM backend that should
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work even without EGL, GL, gbm, etc.
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* New 2D rendering API. In case OpenGL is not available, we now allow
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blitting images into the framebuffer. This is used for fbdev and dumb
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video devices.
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* Font renderer now depends on pango. This is is needed only until I get
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the time to rewrite the freetype backend. But for now we depend on
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pango so have full font support.
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* lots of small fixes
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CHANGES WITH 1: (development release)
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* First kmscon release. For testing purposes only. Includes a rendering
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pipeline and a very rundimentary terminal emulator.
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