News and announcements
wdiff 1.2.2 released
Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2014-04-14
I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.2.2.
Over a year after ist predecessor, this release updates the build system. One may hope that this will help building wdiff on more recent architectures.
The translations for Vietnamese, Swedish, Estonian, Chinese (traditional), Brazilian Portuguese and Russian were updated as well. Thanks again to our translators!
There were no modifications to the core code of the application.
wdiff 1.2.1 released
Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2013-03-09
I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.2.1.
We now have translations for Esperanto. There were also updates for many others: Czech, German, Spanish, Finnish, Galician, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Updates to translations became neccessary due to a recent bug fix, but many of these updates contained a number of improvements besides that required change.
This release uses more recent versions of autotools and gnulib. The former avoids a security vulnerability in some dist* targets, and both might help portability of this package.
In case you wonder about the version number: the 1.2.0 release was a beta intended only for translators.
There were no modifications to the core code of the application.
wdiff 1.1.2 released
Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2012-05-30
Today I'm announcing the release of wdiff 1.1.2. This new release so shortly after the 1.1.1 release aims to fix a build-time issue due to the removal of the gets function from the C language in the C11 standard. Praveen Kumar reported that this currently prevents bundling for Fedora. The fix is a backport of a single gnulib changeset.
As the fix only changes compile-time behaviour and the version number, there is no urgend need for packagers to update to 1.1.2 if they were able to build 1.1.1 all right. Unless their users complain about the outdated version number, that is.
wdiff 1.1.1 released
Written for wdiff by Martin von Gagern on 2012-05-22
I'm happy to announce the release of wdiff 1.1.1.
This release works around an error in the formatting of the man page. The proper fix will be in 1.2.x, but as that requires a change to translatable strings, this release here will apply a patch instead.
There are some updates to translations as well: Danish and Vietnamese have been updated, and a Serbian translation newly added.
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.
