hey, emacs, got something for you: -*- fundamental -*-
eboard ChangeLog
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[fics] - applies to fics
[craf] - applies to crafty
[gnuc] - applies to gnu chess
[sjen] - applies to sjeng
[ics] - applies to all networked servers
[eng] - applies to all engines
[all] - applies to all
0.5.1
* [eng] promotion vs. engines was still broken, I hope it's
fixed now.
* [ics] Absence of wget in the $PATH won't make eboard crash
when trying to connect anymore.
* [ics] Channel list retrieval will work with non-timeseal
connections too.
0.5.0
* [all] Fixed a minor misfunction of the input history
in the detached consoles.
* [all] Removed the antialias option since the new scaling
algorithm doesn't need it.
* [fics] Renamed the Seek Graph to Seek Table since it isn't really
what most interfaces call a seek graph.
* [eng] Added engine bookmarks.
* [all] Engine promotion fixed on engines that use uppercase
in promotion notation (like Yace).
* [all] Fixed display of one-line annotations.
* [all] Variants (the ones supported, of course) are correctly
detected in PGN files.
* [all] X11 GC caching (should leak less memory).
* [all] substituted many C char arrays for C++ dynamic strings, and a
a many C streams for C++ streams.
* [all] Fixed yet another segfault situation when dragging
with extruded (3D) piece sets.
* [all] Decent piece scaling algorithm (taken from Gimp 1.0.4)
Pieces look better when magnified.
* [fics] Bughouse support (in the bughouse pane) works.
* [all] Lots of changes in class structures regarding
pieces, boards, bugpane.
* [all] The console snippet/bughouse pane can now be seen
together with observed/examined games, not just
the main board.
* [all] added an option to increase animation framerate
(Smoother animation in the Appeareance pane of the
preferences dialog). Will eat more CPU if turned on.
* [all] removed the script popup and made it a control
next to the input box.
* [all] the icon selection in the shortcut bar setup dialog
had some glitches when buttons were set up for the
first time. Fixed.
* [ics] the bughouse/console pane below the main board will
no longer be hidden/reduced when a new game is started.
* [all] squeezed graphics code (bitblt) again by producing
assembly output and optimizing C++ code accordingly.
Better than this, only coding straight in assembly
(and yes, would get better, gcc is not particularly
wise here)
0.4.3
* [ics] Now channel names (Help, Chat, Tourneys, etc.) will appear
on the channel tabs. The channel list is retrieved by
HTTP from eboard's website. You must have wget installed
else it won't work. Currently only FICS channels are
listed there, feel free to contribute channel lists
from other sites. Cache is stored in /tmp/eboard-chlist-*
and expires after 8 hours (remove the file to force a
reload).
* [ics] Added a button on the channel panes to reove the panes
at will.
* [all] Added a Hide button to the shortcut bar.
* [all] Added a console snippet to the main board (drag up the small
square in the bottom left of the main board)
* [all] Changed the look of the Local Game List dialog to display
games in a tree hierarchy. (ability to double click a
game to display it is disabled for the time being)
* [ics] Added a sound warning to announce that time is running out.
0.4.2
* [fics] As a side effect of the change below, some FICS lines that
included the user name but were not highlighted as personal
(yellow) now will be.
* [fics] Hotfixed the treatment of LectureBot announcements when
channel splitting is on. Notice that the :LectureBot(TD)(67)
lines aren't really channel tells, but xtells pretending to
be channel tells. Now eboard is credulous and will send these
to the ch 67 channel pane. (translation: it is LectureBot's
fault, not mine)
* [all] Added the shortcut bar below the board. If you don't like it,
disable it from the Settings -> Preferences : Appearance
dialog.
* [all] Modified the antialias algorithm again, now it does a regular
gaussian smoothing as a 3x3 convolution in RGB-space instead
of the previous oddball.
* [all] Beeping code now calls SNDCTL_DSP_POST, which should prevent
unwanted noise after the beep with some audio drivers
(especially on AC'97 devices).
* [all] Revamped the Sound pane in the Preferences dialog so that
it becomes able to handle more sound events.
* [ics] Added a sound event to be played when the user is
challenged.
* [all] Changed button disposition in the Games on Client dialog.
* [fics] Now eboard works correctly when the FICS examine variable
is set (automatically start examination when game finishes)
* [all] Minor corrections to network connection opening code
(more accurate reporting of connection failures)
* [ics] Added the bookmarks submenu in the Peer menu.
* [ics] The Connect to Other Server... dialog will no longer take
empty host names (which would lead to startup failure
on previous versions)
0.4.1
* [eng] Fixed bug that made eboard crash after a game against an
engine ended or was interrupted.
(the "game not found: 7777" message on the console)
* [sjen] Fixed bug that prevented crazyhouse playing (incorrect piece
drop processing).
0.4.0
* [all] Added the Help : Getting Started dialog, which will pop up
when the user runs eboard for the first time (no ~/.eboard
directory)
* [fics] Games observed with "follow" now are saved correctly
(untested with wild)
* [eng] En passant captures in crazyhouse/bughouse now correctly
add a pawn to the stock. (fixes bug ticket #493844)
* [all] Double-click selection on the first word of a line in the
console now behaves correctly (previously it would not
select the word's first character)
(fixes bug ticket #495103)
* [all] PGN annotations (between { }) are now shown in the clock
pane of the board (as long as there is enough space)
* [all] eboard will no longer write % comments in its PGN files,
but still understands %eboard when reading them,
for backward compatibility. Many chess programs are
confused by those comments, even though they are legal
PGN. There is a Perl script on the eboard website
that will convert your old PGN files removing the old
%eboard comments and adding the new-style PGN fields,
see the downloads section.
* [eng] Now the user (human player) can correctly promote on
games against engines.
(fixes bug ticket #508092)
* [all] PGN code now can cope with bad move syntax (e.g.
a8Q instead of a8=Q. a8Q is _wrong_, but some
large PGN files around use it)
* [all] To save memory, the movetext section of PGNs is _not_
loaded with the "Load PGN" command (Windows->Games on
Client dialog). It is only loaded when the game is
selected and the "Display" button is hit (and the PGN
file must still exist to load the moves from it)
* [all] Rewrote PGN-reading code from scratch. Should be
simpler to maintain and does not crash on situations
where the old code crashed.
* [eng] Fixed eboard hanging when engine crashed before
outputting a complete text line (e.g., running
GNU chess 4 with "gnuchess -t")
* [all] Added the Help -> Debug Info dialog.
**********************************************
Please report everything in it when you report
any kind of eboard crash.
**********************************************
* [ics] Fixed the mess on the movelist when going back and
forth in an exmined game in FICS.
* [all] Added the --enable-debug configure option to compile
with -ggdb instead of -O6 when desired
* [all] Added Scratch/Edit Board Feature
* [all] Fixed crashing when saving the desktop geometry
(bug observed in FreeBSD only)
* [all] Minor typecasting bug solved, fixes compilation
some incarnation of gcc 2.95.2 somewhere.
0.3.5
* [all] Several little code cleanups suggested by Matt
Zimmerman: error reporting upon fork() failure,
correct closing of pipes when spawning child
processes, no script path fallback to /tmp when
HOME is not set, warning message (on stderr) if
HOME is not set.
* [all] Now scripts can be in any language. That makes
writing autologin scripts easier with tools
like 'expect'.
* [all] Added support for "extruded" piece sets (pieces can
take up a portion of the square right above it, good
for 3D sets. Please notice that such sets are even
slower to render than the regular bitmapped sets)
* [all] Fixed (at last ?) the bug that made eboard segfault
when dragging pieces off the board's limits.
0.3.4
* [fics] Added context menu with operations on games and players
(right-click anywhere in the clock region of a game
while conencted to FICS). Will be be extended to
engines soon.
* [all] Modified "Show Coordinates" format to a more sane one.
* [all] Added text search on the console (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G,
the commands are currently in the Windows menu,
but will be relocated to a new "Edit" menu or
elsewhere soon).
* [all] Added a Dismiss button to the "Run Script" dialog,
since some window managers (Sawfish) will make it
non-trivial to close a modal dialog box from the window
mamager.
* [all] Added menu command to save the contents of the main
console to a file (Windows -> Save Text Buffer).
* [all] Added common C++ code for file dialogs, instead of
scattered GTK+ C code (smaller code, possibly smaller
binaries, possibly faster compilation)
* [ics] Yet another issue of password-showing on detached
consoles was fixed. (typing in the username, opening
a detached console then typing the password on that
console wouldn't masquerade it. Now it's fixed.)
0.3.3
* [ics] Now ratings, seek id and time control columns are sorted
correctly (numerically) on the seek graph.
* [eng] Crashes and weird behavior when engine is not found
were fixed.
* [all] Better fallback fonts, should work even if only the
100 dpi package is installed, and better message if
that still fails. If you still have problems loading
eboard due to lack of fonts, mail me the output of
your 'xlsfonts' command.
* [ics] The input boxes of detached consoles now go to
password mode upon ICS login, as they should.
* [all] Fonts with embedded spaces in their names are now accepted.
* [all] Fixed crashes when dragging pieces way out of the
board.
* [all] Added desktop state saving (Windows -> Save Desktop Geometry)
0.3.2pl1
* [all] Last-minute bugfix on eboard-extras loading.
0.3.2
* [all] Selecting a bitmapped theme while in Vector mode will
switch to bitmapped mode with the selected theme.
(this was causing confusion to some users)
* [all] Added customization of console colors (please note that
after you change foreground colors, new text will come
out in the new colors but the current (old) content of the
buffer will remain in the previous setting.
* [all] Multi-line strings pasted in the input box will
have the line breaks stripped.
* [fics] Added the Refresh button to the seek graph.
* [fics] The seek graph is now sorted on the variant
column, clicking on the column titles
changes sort column, clicking on currently-selected
column flips sort direction.
* [all] The opponent-moved sound will be only played
after the piece animation ends, if animation
and sound-on-move are turned on.
* [all] theme configuration files called DATADIR/themeconf.*
will now be loaded too (this is to keep theme
packaging easy).
* [all] DATADIR is now used to determine the location of datafiles.
(this should only make a difference if the --datadir option is
passed to configure)
* [all] eboard-config now uses the configure datadir and bindir variables
to determine paths (this allows these variables to be modified
without breaking things)
0.3.1
* [all] PGN reading should be much faster now.
* [all] PGN files with comments inside { } should now be
read correctly. PGN files with black move numbers like
14... should be read correctly too. IMPORTANT: if you
have a PGN file that can't be read or is read incorrectly
by eboard _please_ email me it so I can fix eboard to
read it.
* [all] Added a button in the detached console to spawn more
consoles.
* [all] Better behavior of Page Up and Page Down keys in the
detached console.
* [all] Fixed bug in dragging (old position was drawn if you were
holding a piece while waiting for the opponent to move).
But remember: piece holding and animation don't mix.
* [all] Added 'Show Coordinates' option.
* [fics] Clocks won't tick when observing examined games.
0.3.0
* [ics] Added output filtering for detached console.
* [ics] Added input box to detached console window.
* [ics] Added option to control automatic discarding of
observed games.
* [ics] Added option to control whether new games are brought
to front upon observation or examination.
* [all] Keyboard focus will always remain in the inputbox.
* [all] Fixed legality checking and move reproduction code for
double pawn pushes with a doubled pawn in 3rd or 6th
rank.
* [all] The Sound Event dialog will list sound themes.
(but the controls are only created if at least one
file is found in the eboard_themes.conf files)
* [all] Sound files can be listed as themes, syntax described
in Documentation/Themes.txt, eboard-addtheme is already
compliant.
* [all] Several fixes to eboard-addtheme script.
* [all] The game/board navigation buttons will be disabled
whenever they have no use (text panes, boards without
games)
* [all] Cosmetic changes to the preferences dialog.
* [fics] 'say' lines will be recognized as personal tells
even if after a game.
* [fics] When examining a game the exmining pane will be
brought to front.
* [all] Modified eboard_themes.conf search path semantics.
(all files in the search path are merged, instead of
loading just the first found)
* [all] Fixed bug related to unexpected use of the 'discard board'
button.
* [all] Added button to flip the board to the main window button
bar.
* [all] Fix for segfaults that happened when closing eboard.
* [all] Modified theme loading to allow having separated pieces
and squares.
0.2.5
* [all] More fallback fonts if default fonts aren't
present.
* [all] Added eboard-config and eboard-addtheme scripts
for future theme packs.
* [all] Fixed a bug that would prevent any sub-process (timeseal,
scripts, engines) from communicating correctly in some
systems. (Detected, fixed and tested in FreeBSD 4.2;
Linux's select() syscall is wise enough and was not
fooled by this bug)
* [ics] Added support for the 'sposition' command (and
theoretically any other commands that make use of
the -3 code for isolated positions in style 12)
* [fics] Board windows will be removed despite of server
response (useful for removing sticky game windows
after a disconnection or server crash)
* [all] Games will have the WhiteElo and BlackElo
fields saved if possible.
* [all] Added support for C++ libraries that enforce the
std:: namespace for STL (GCC 3.0)
* [all] Fixed the 'ghost piece' problem when dragging
pieces with bitmapped piece sets.
* [all] Added double buffering for piece dragging to
reduce flicker.
* [fics] Fixed FICS support when ptime=1 on the server
(but since eboard supresses the prompts, why would
you have it set anyway ?)
* [all] Introduced a delay between the button press event
and the start of dragging animation , to prevent the
dragging flicker when you're just clicking the piece.
* [ics] Fixed crashes due to reuse of game ids.
* [all] Minor include file fixes for FreeBSD
0.2.4
* [fics] FEN saving fix for observed games.
* [eng] Fixed FEN position field when saving games played with
engines.
* [all] Fixed awful bug in FEN position generation.
0.2.3
* [all] Sound-handling process will be spawned with exec,
to prevent it from inheriting X file handlers from a
mere fork.
* [all] Memory leak fixed when disposing board panes.
* [all] Added key bindings for backward and forwards
(Ctrl Left, Ctrl Right)
* [all] Wild games will be saved with a FEN tag to
indicate starting position. And FEN tags on
PGN files will be accepted as starting
positions.
* [all] Bug fixed in chess moving code.
(1. e4 c5 2. d4 c4 3. b4 cxb3 against an engine
would segfault due to an infinite loop)
* [all] En passant legality detection added.
0.2.2
* [fics] Fixed the showing of provisional ratings on the
seek graph (all ratings with RD > 80.0 were being
shown as ++++)
* [all] It's now possible to drop pieces in bug/crazyhouse
by dragging the piece from the stock to the board.
* [all] Added option to show crazy/bughouse stock graphically.
* [all] Added a count field for beep events.
* [all] Reworked the sound routines so that it won't require
launching a new process for every beep (but it will
still launch a new process for every WAV played).
* [ics] Channel tells can now be split to one window per channel
(must be configured via Preferences dialog)
* [fics] Better prompt removal
* [fics] Lines that contain the prompt on the middle
(e.g. 'help iv_defprompt') will now be
shown correctly instead of cut.
* [ics] Finally tracked down and really solved the
script freezing bug.
* [all] Implemented animation of piece dragging.
* [fics] Fixed freezes related to bad parsing of ill-located
FICS prompts.
0.2.1
* [ics] Fixed race condition in script I/O that would freeze
the whole application.
* [fics] Added dynamic seek graph, and options related to it.
* [fics] Fixed move permissions when examining a game.
* [all] Fixed interpreation of games with moves
O-O+ and O-O-O+ (which caused previous versions
to segfault with WHAT YOU SAY!!! message)
0.2.0pl1
* [all] Fixed a bug introduced in 0.2.0 where connections
to FICS without timeseal would fail.
0.2.0
* [all] Page Up/Down work on detached console even if the main
console isn't shown in the main window.
* [all] Added font selection for console windows.
* [all] Added error message to stderr to help people
debug problems running timeseal and chess
engines.
* [fics] Fixed parsing of Examination status strings
(variant is detected correctly when examining a
game)
* [fics] Support for Losers variant on FICS added.
* [all] Changed Material calculation for Suicide,Losers and
Giveaway variants (every piece is worth 1 material
point in these variants)
* [eng] Added toggle for thinking on opponent's time
(xboard protocol hard/easy commands)
* [ics] Minor change to premove on *ICS: you'll be able to
schedule the premove even before FICS acknowledges
the current move.
* [eng] Added checkmate detection (will place # instead of +
in notation)
* [all] Internal improvements to pattern matching
classes.
* [fics] Added colorization to shouts, cshouts, whispers,
kibitzes, channel tells, notifications...
* [fics] Fixed wild variant detection and game creation.
* [all] Fixed a bug in legality checking (some castlings were
being inhibited by flawed en passant code, which
assumed a pawn on fifth row could take to a square
in 8th row)
0.1.10
* [fics] Fixed treatment of adjourned games (ignores duplicated
"Creating" string, gets the move list for the moves
that occurred prior to adjournment)
* [fics] Castling permissions are taken from FICS data.
* [all] Added icons to most of the windows.
* [all] Fixed clearing of excess space when resizing board
in vector-pieces mode.
* [all] Added keybindings to detached console window
(same as the ones already existent on the
main window)
* [all] Fix to piece selection semantics, the rule
implemented in 0.1.9 is made void for
premove, to allow premove queueing of
recaptures.
* [all] Fixed castling checking for suicide (castling
never allowed), losers and giveaway (castling
allowed).
0.1.9
* [all] Fixed one more bug in move interpretation: SAN
notation was been ignored for pawn pushes that
resulted in a check (e.g. "g5+").
* [all] Better vectorized piece set (reduced from 611 to
376 vertices, fixed manually the polygons)
* [all] Minor change to piece selection semantics:
if a square with a piece is selected and you
select a a square with another piece of the
same color, selection is transferred instead
of trying to move from the first to the
second square.
* [all] Added castling legality checking
* [fics] Fixed the use of non-initialized color (appeared as
dark green to me :-) for some FICS strings such as
when starting the observation of a game.
* [fics] Added colorization for mamer (the FICS tourney bot)
messages.
* [all] Remodelled Client-side game list window, with more
columns.
* [all] Fixed updating of crazyhouse stock when navigating
thru the game.
* [all] A scheme has been implemented to correctly detect
variants, time controls and ratedness (these last
two for ICS only) in PGN files (but only
on games saved with eboard 0.1.9 or later)
A hack was added to detect crazyhouse games saved with
previous versions of eboard or other programs as such.
(a drop move must exist)
* [all] Inhibited saving PGN games without moves (e.g., when
a game is aborted on FICS before a move is made)
* [all] More optimizations on bitmap piece drawing
0.1.8
* [all] Supressed animation of own move on FICS (which was
annoying)
* [all] Added autosave (auto-append games to a PGN file when
games end)
* [all] Added option to check legality before sending moves.
(Use it if you play against GNU Chess 5!)
* [eng] The myname string given by the engine now will be used as
opponent name.
* [all] PGN: better PGN read/write: will skip escape sequences,
and will always fill the mandatory STR (seven tag roster)
(but PGN support is not yet complete)
* [eng] fixed notation translation error (you won't see things like
22. bxc8=Q+=Q anymore)
* [all] many fixes, optimizations and improvements in
piece animation code.
* [all] added vectorized piece drawing option (much faster
rendering of board, meant for lightning games and/or
slower computers)
* [all] added F3,F4 and F7 key bindings (to move across
panes)
* [all] faster board updates.
0.1.7
* [all] minor bugs fixed in move checking code and legality
checking code.
* [all] speed and size optimizations on pattern matching
code.
* [all] attached PGN information to games, and added
dialog to edit PGN headers.
* [all] fixed enbling state of the "Discard" button
on the Games on Client window.
* [all] added capability to save PGN games
* [all] added capability to read PGN games
(Windows -> Games on Client)
* [all] added sound notification for opponent moves,
private tells and draw offers.
* [fics] disabled closing the ad and server game windows
during refreshes (which would cause segfaults)
* [fics] Fixed bug in Ad Window when only 1 game ad was
available.
0.1.6
* [fics] Style 12 strings won't be mistakenly taken as
game ad lines.
* [all] Added document about theme construction.
* [all] Changed directory lookup priority to allow
local (`pwd`, ~/.eboard, ~/share/eboard) to
override system-default values.
* [fics] Fixed segfaults when discarding observed
games.
* [fics] Examination support added. (The move list is
ot retrieved correctly yet, though)
* [all] Changed font querying method, won't lock if
font dialog is called while connected.
* [fics] Added option to show the rating next to the
player's name.
* [ics] Added scroll back limitation, made autofics.pl
usage optional (via Preferences dialog)
* [all] Added toggle for piece antialiasing.
* [all] Added plain color toggle for board squares.
* [ics] Generic ics prompt parsing (*ics% instead of fics%),
for portability across servers.
* [eng] Compilation fix for const typecasting + GCC >=2.95
0.1.5
* [fics] Whenever a connection to FICS is made eboard will
try to run a script named autofics.pl to login
automatically.
* [all] added scripting support. scripts go under ~/.eboard/scripts ,
must be written in Perl and must follow some convetions.
More info in the Documentation/Scripts.txt file.
* [all] added preferences dialog, with options to change tab position
and fonts.
* [eng] added maximum search depth field.
* [eng] the clock will retain the time of the previous move until
the opponent moves.
* [eng] position objects now keep track which pieces are result
of promotion. Only useful when playing crazyhouse against local
engines.
* [sjen] added support for Sjeng, a nice multi-variant
GPL'd engine.
* [fics] fixed detection of observed game removal when the
protocol line was prefixed by a fics prompt.
* [all] now correctly discards local (client-side) game panes.
* [all] (notation-only) translation coordinate -> SAN notation
now correctly adds promotion suffix (e.g., =Q) and
check sign (+). Many improvements in move notation code.
* [eng] kills the engine process after the game is finished.
* [gnuc] added support for GNU Chess 4.x (which has some
idyosyncrasies about the xboard protocol)
* [eng] added generic xboard protocol (v2) support, runs
crafty, GNU Chess 5.x and should run others too.
Support is not full. If you know of any Free Software
engine that comply with the protocol but fail to work
with eboard, contact me and I'll try to fix that.
0.1.4
* [ics] added the game ad window (interface to FICS 'sough' command)
* [all] added man page (section 6, eboard)
* [all] fixed search path (when using unusual prefixes,
prefix/share/eboard will be searched too)
* [all] fixed autoconf script to detect GTK+ correctly when
the FreeBSD port of GTK+ is installed.
* [all] added help menu (with help for keybindings) and moved
"about..." from the Peer to Help menu.
* [all] added key shortcuts (F5,F6,F8,PgUp,PgDn).
* [ics] added a history for the most recent hosts used, in the
Connect to other server... dialog
* [all] implemented moving (and premoving too) by drag-and-drop.
* [all] implemented premove (ability to queue the next move before
the opponent plays). Warning: move correctness checking is
barely implemented. It may send an illegal move to
the server (specifically, it won't check whether
castling is allowed)
0.1.3
* [all] added the Local Game List window, which holds the
list of games stored locally, which in the future
will allow loading and saving PGN files.
* [all] added the Detached console command to allow ICS/Engine output
on a separate window in addition to the Console notebook
pane.
* [all] fixed segfaulting when disconnected by user request
thru the Peers menu.
* [craf] locked square selection when it's crafty's turn.
* [all] now it paints square selection _over_ last move
highlight
* [fics] fixed some bugs on list insertion of chess boards, list
removal of notebook pages and game object updates that would
cause unstable behavior when observing several games
at once or when discarding game pages from the notebook.
* [ics] added game list dialog (interface to the 'games' command
on FICS)
* [all] better debugging facilities (-log and -debug
write to ~/LOG.eboard and DEBUG.eboard, SIGUSR1
will dump internal tables to stderr)
0.1.2
* [ics] better handling of data after a connection
is closed (it waits for data on the pipe
before closing it, you'll see the FICS
farewell ASCII art, for example).
* [fics] added crazyhouse support. (right-click square to
drop a piece). bughouse works, but you must
observe your partner's game manually (bughouse
is untested)
* [all] fixed animation code -- still a wee bit flashy,
but won't do the annoying cross-desktop trick.
* [fics] fixed game variant detection (it would always think
your game was regular chess, now it checks correctly)
* [eng] corrected wrong end-game status after engine
disconnection.
* [fics] fixed segfaulting when opening the move list for
the game being played by the user.
0.1.1
* first public release