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GNUmed 1.1 released

Written for GNUmed by shilbert on 2012-01-20

GNUmed 1.1 has been released in October 2011. GNUmed is now stable. We hope to add more features rapidly.

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wdiff 1.1.0 released

Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2011-11-15

I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.1.0.

Translations can now make use of plural forms. While this means a drastic improvement for some languages, it may also mean that some languages for which no such plural forms are available yet might be lacking user visible message strings, not only error messages, but also for e.g. statistics. You might want to check the translation status if your users have problems with English.

Other changes center around the use of pagers. We no longer auto-detect whether the output pager is less. If it is, it will now receive its arguments from the environment, not the command line. As we now pass console control sequences to less, instead of some simulated overstriking, it should be better at handling multibyte encodings like UTF-8. This hopefully fixes Savannah bug #34224. The old "--less-mode" is still available if explicitely selected.

The test suite used to test pagers had some portability problems, causing the tests (particularly the one using screen) to fail. This should be fixed now. If you encounter any errors, please contact the developers or file a bug report on Savannah.

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wdiff 1.0.1 released

Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2011-09-15

I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.0.1. The only change in this release is an update to the message translation files included.

Thanks to the noble work of our translators at the translation project, there are already seven languages for which translations are complete, only ten days after wdiff 1.0.0 was released. Seven more languages are mostly translated, but lack translations for the most recent error messages added in the last release.

For another 15 languages, wdiff does install only a rather rudimentary set of translations. But even for those languages, a large number of "fuzzy" translations are available, which should only require minor checks and adjustments to cover a large percentage of the translatable messages. If you are interested in helping translations, please coordinate your work with the translation project.

You can get the latest release of wdiff from
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wdiff/ or a GNU mirror of your choice.
You can also have a look at the current state of translations at http://translationproject.org/domain/wdiff.html

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wdiff 1.0.0 released

Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2011-09-05

I'm happy to announce the next release of wdiff. This release is numbered 1.0.0 in order to reflect the fact that the code has been around for a long time and is therefore considered quite mature. So consider this change not so much as a radical program improvement of some kind, but rather a fix to the fact that some people tend to associate a major version number of zero as an indication of immature software. Although the NEWS entry for this release is a bit longer than for some past releases, in terms of features and bug fixes it might as well have been called 0.6.6.

So what has changed? As user noticeable changes we have updated translations for Updated Dutch, French, Danish and Slovenian as well as a completely new translation file for Ukrainian thanks to Yuri Chornoivan. The code will now give more useful results in case the diff program either cannot be executed or fails for some reason.

Build time improvements include an update of our gnulib imports as well as an extension of the test suite. On the source code level, ther ewas some cleaning up, slightly improved portability with respect to file descriptor duplication, and a unification of coding style accomplished through indent.

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