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XIPHOS RELEASE NOTES
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Release 3.1.2
24 Dec 2009

Merry Christmas from the Xiphos development team.

This version of Xiphos is the final intermediate release prior to the
larger features planned for the forthcoming 3.2.  This release
contains several interesting new features and enhancements, and (as
always) a number of bugfixes.

New features

 1. We have implemented a Xiphos-internal interface language selector,
    via Preferences -> General -> Options.  This makes unnecessary
    most previous uses of difficult-to-understand environment
    variables to control the desired language choice.  Choosing a new
    language requires a restart of Xiphos.

 2. Bookmarks are exportable.  Select XML, HTML, or plaintext.  For
    the latter two, select whether to include the text referenced.

 3. The StudyPad and personal commentary editor has gained a Link
    dialog, by which to arrange for verse reference linkage.

 4. Xiphos' main window navigation can be sampled and driven via
    external programs such as Bibledit, notably in support of Bible
    translators' work.  (For developers, this uses the dbus feature.
    A test program to exercise this feature can be found in
    src/examples/ipc_client.py.)

 5. The Module Manager has a first-time-user introductory dialog,
    to offer brief explanation of its several parts.  All users, even
    long-time users, will get it exactly once.

 6. CrossWire's module repository is forced as "current" after use of
    the Load Standard button, which updates Xiphos' sense of which
    repositories are officially recognized by CrossWire.

 7. Universal synchronization has been implemented between the main
    window and all detached windows, including embedded parallel tab.
    Navigating in any synchronized window makes all synchronized
    windows follow.

 8. The verse number color selector has been resurrected, erroneously
    removed in the early days of GnomeSword 2.2(!).  (Why did we do
    that?  Nobody remembers.)

 9. New interface translations: Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Chinese.
    (The last of these has been mechanically generated and is very,
    very rough at this time -- it will need human attention to gain
    acceptable quality.)

10. New icons for module lists; RtoL icons for use in Hebrew and Farsi.

Enhancements to existing behavior

 1. The Help->Chat interface has been improved by offering a default
    IRC nickname based on the user's login name.

 2. Huge improvements have been made to startup, search, and module
    manager setup times, due to internal refactoring of the usage of
    the Sword library.

 3. Icons have been added to all dialogs which lacked them.

 4. Hebrew searches have been improved.

 5. The verse annotation feature localizes verse references.

 6. The main window title follows currently-open modules better.

 7. Sidebar search has had improvements and fixes.

 8. Internal improvements for poorly-marked-up module content,
    including crash avoidance.  Some module content is really
    dangerously bad.

 9. Improved passage export and printing.

10. Much work has been done for Windows with regard to our better
    display engine, but it is still not complete, and not present in
    today's Windows build for public distribution.  To be done in 3.2.

11. Devotionals have been removed from Lookup Selection lists on the
    right-click context menu.

12. All locale-selection logic has been completely reworked.

13. Cosmetic improvements have been made to Module Manager's and main
    window's menus.

14. The Enter key is recognized for completion in bookmarks and user
    annotations.

15. Module archival in Module Manager no longer requires external
    program support.

16. Many dependencies on GNOME libraries have been removed.  We are
    intending to completely de-GNOME Xiphos, in favor of reliance on
    GTK support alone.

Problems resolved

 1. An error in use of FTP repository registration was fixed.

 2. When doing searches, both sidebar and advanced, the "purplify"
    word-match facility has been rewritten from the ground up, and
    correctly identifies your search keywords.

 3. Tab names do not show the commentary when the general book is
    displayed instead.

 4. A focus-and-select bug was fixed, when deleting one interface tab.

 5. Corrections were made to text justification handling for RtoL
    (right-to-left) languages (Hebrew, Farsi).

 6. Minor adjustments to display have been made due to subtle
    differences in text markup variety (ThML -vs- OSIS).

 7. A crash induced by dictionary usage with none installed was fixed.

Improvements and helps for developers

    - Function prototypes are enforced.
    - The debug build of Xiphos includes substantial null pointer
      detection in the use of certain common string functions.
    - The ImageMagick dependency is gone, replaced with GTK functions.
    - --enable-silent-rules leads to far less chatty output during
      build.  Get noisy output temporarily with "V=1 make".
    - File, URL, and Help invocations are now very general and use
      uniform underlying library support.
    - XPCOM_GLUE dependency errors have been fixed.
    - Timers have been implemented to show SWMgr creation delays.
    - Many, many updates to the build system and the Windows installer.

Bug reports addressed since 3.1.1:
2908987  crash detected in xiphos-3.1.1-1.fc12
2896427  Isa 49:6 in HunKar text
2893828  Malachi 4:6 in Aleppo text
2878951  KJV Stongs lexicon stops at 5624 (ophelimos)
2873367  Advanced Search results: Hotkey(s) to display Preview
2873362  Hotkey for activating simple searches not working
2872186  missing verses
2862814  Crash when compiled against xulrunner 1.9.1.3
2858494  Bible Window Does Not Automatically Display Selected Verse
2852779  delete source button enlarge sources list in twice
2849730  Lucene Text Fields search not working
2849693  Parallel view tab does not honour link tabs setting
2848320  Preview: Symboles for Footnotes
2844863  Lucene Search: Not finding all results
2841441  per verse annotation - localized reference

New feature requests pending:
2907492  Interlinear commentary
2902403  How to install for other than listed OS
2901374  Need for Serbian translation
2893826  Versification in the Psalms
2890364  Don't need to see strongs numbers, morphology
2873364  Highlight also upper case words
2873363  Shortcut/hotkey for simple/sidebar searches
2836740  Additional versification systems

Feature requests closed:
2871373  Increase number of texts in parallel view
2840134  Hide Verse Numbers in Copy/Export
2824127  Sidebar search: Regular expression?
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Release 3.1.1
09 Aug 2009

Today's release is for intermediate bugfixes and small features.  We
are still working toward several major features' completion for 3.2,
but slow summer schedules have left us needing to present these
smaller issues to the public.

 1. The Help->Chat interface had to change, because policy equilibrium
    broke down between Freenode, where our #xiphos channel exists, and
    the folks who run mibbit, the previous browser chat interface.
    Now we use Freenode's own.

 2. Per-verse user annotations ("inline marking").  Along with the
    personal commentary plus journals and prayer lists, we now offer a
    smaller, more immediate form of personalized markup.  In dead-tree
    Bibles, many people use a yellow highlighter to mark verses,
    writing marginal notes to themselves.  Xiphos now offers this as
    "Annotate Verse" on the right-click context menu.  Ask to
    annotate, and a dialog for the current verse opens, offering a
    text box in which to type a note to oneself.  Finish by clicking
    "Mark."  Remove an annotation by selecting "Unmark" instead.  When
    an annotation is visible in the current chapter, it is displayed
    in reverse emphasis colorization (default, navy blue on yellow)
    and the beginning of the verse gains a marker *u, after the
    fashion of footnote *n and cross-reference *x.  Mouse-hover on
    this new marker and the previewer shows your personal annotation.
    When marking, delete the module name in the dialog to make the
    annotation apply to any Bible module.

 3. There is a new geography interface through BibleMap.org:
    Mouse-select any place name, right-click, select Lookup Selection
    -> Browse in BibleMap.org.  Your browser will open a new window to
    obtain a Google Maps-driven display of that place.

 4. Module manager now can do automatic repository discovery from the
    "known repositories" list maintained at CrossWire.  At the moment,
    the 4 entries there duplicate the 4 hard-coded names previously
    known to Xiphos, though the official names change somewhat.  In
    the module manager, on the Sources page, there is now a button
    labeled Load Standard, which updates your list of sources from the
    official content.  It does not remove any, but it will replace any
    that have exactly the same name with their updated information.
    It will be necessary to remove any old-name versions manually,
    because Xiphos cannot detect that they are duplicates.

 5. An ancient module manager bug was fixed, where closing the mod.mgr
    via the title bar "X" decoration would leave the mod.mgr unable to
    re-open until after a restart.

 6. An equally ancient difficulty with the general book window (that
    alternates with commentary) not being filled when first viewed was
    finally fixed.

 7. A workaround is in place regarding a failure of the logic for
    removing a module list from Advanced Search.  Also, other logic
    for creation of module lists and range lists has been updated.

 8. The verse navbar now has normal relief on book/chapter/verse.

 9. A failure to redisplay properly after loading a tab set is fixed.

10. Freakish European keyboard Ctrl +/- should now work.

11. Some fixes were applied to journal/prayerlist editing.

12. If the sidebar is detached, it now gets a title bar name.

13. Bugfixes to the logic which preserves tab names as they are added
    or deleted.

14. New Slovak translation.

15. Strong's markup is now handled in pre-verse headers.

16. Ctrl-F4 will delete a tab.

17. Some general resource management fixes have been made: Window size
    causing trouble with 2-verse context; lack of any genbooks making
    Xiphos unable to remember on what  Bible verse it should start;
    redisplay faults in several circumstances.

Bug reports addressed since 3.1:
2831484  Lacks support for deuterocanon
2828434  Xiphos Forget Where it Was
2827567  Selected verse does not show in window
2826433  Advanced Attribute/Footnote search: Preview?
2825256  Different Logo
2819999  Advanced Searches: Creat new custom range: not working
2818966  Search: using ?: no or wrong results
2818957  Search: using +: no results or crash
2817351  Module Manager problems
2816143  Show/Hide Sidebar <-> width of Commentary pane
2815612  Cross reference in seperate window change module of main one
2815605  Cross references in seperate Bible text: Back to what?
2813865  Deleting middle tab makes problem for first one
2801620  Xiphos shows too many linebreaks
2801566  Preview stops working if exiting with minimal window height
2801550  Tabs document not parsed successfully?
2801515  Adding a child to the root of journal causes problems
2800991  Reference choice by Sidebar/Module not working
2800932  Open session: not showing text in biblical texts
2799900  Show Previewer in Sidebar: Footnotes not shown
2797795  View Daily Devotion not working
2797792  Manual: Menubar: History
2797741  Manual/Sidebar/shortcuts
2797731  Classification of resources
2797262  Change of base font size
2796406  unexpected shutdowns
2796241  Install on Ubuntu 8.04
2795781  Studypad/Intended paragraph: Justification not working
2795743  Tab name mixed up
2795741  segfaults under Arch Linux

New feature requests pending:
2832230  No option for local install on fresh install
2824127  Sidebar search: Regular expression?
2817333  Module: Install/Update: Hotkeys
2815637  Cross referencs in seperate windows: book,commentaries?
2814482  Keep seperate windows at restart
2813891  Switching off Commentary: name kept for Tab
2813476  Interface localization
2813475  Selectable number of columns in parallel view layout
2805266  Parallel View: Allow to display less Biblical texts
2800947  Sessions: more settings to be remembered
2799867  Increase reducing of window sizes
2798728  How to localized the interface of XI?
2798255  Manual: View Daily Devotion
2797805  View: Hide (attached) sidebar
2797801  Manual: Explain Link Tabs
2797789  Open pane for activated resource
2797780  Manual: Synchronize resources in seperate windows
2797739  Manual/Sidebar/Modules:Rightclick description
2796313  Help: 3.8.Keyboard Shortcuts: order by tasks
2795762  Reference bar: Choosing a book name
2792003  Saved sets of parallelism
2792001  Sessions Menu

Feature requests closed:
2818965  Search: using ?: no or wrong results
2817369  Parallel View: Display more than one verse
2817366  Parallel View: vertical tiled Biblical texts
2801630  Showing the Sourceforge/Xiphos webpage at restart
2805809  Cross references link to modules in panes/seperate window
2800180  in-line marking capability
2797304  Hotkey for right click
2797292  Range of font sizes
2795770  hotkey to close tab
2795768  Hotkeys for the choice of a bible reference
2795758  Detached sidebar: Name
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Release 3.1
17 May 2009

This is a release to introduce two important features in Windows
(improved feature parity with Linux) plus numerous small features and
bugfixes for all platforms.

 1. The Windows build now supports ReadAloud (text-to-speech) and
    transliteration of non-Latin character sets. It is also now 
    packaged with the latest SWORD release, 1.6.0, and includes the
    utilities for creating and working with modules.

 2. The module manager is no longer modal, that is, the module manager
    does not monopolize the application's attention: You can begin
    downloading or indexing modules, and then go back to work in the
    main window.

 3. New interface translations: Norwegian and Welsh.  We should have
    an Afrikaans translation in time for 3.2.

 4. New prayerlists/journals offer sensible default names, and their
    editor support is much improved, including offering to save on
    close/quit.

 5. RtoL languages' (right-to-left, such as Farsi and Hebrew)
    scrollbars go on the correct side.

 6. Bookmark support:
    Search results may be saved as bookmarks or sets of bookmarks.
    Bookmarks containing multiple verses work.
    Single-verse bookmarks auto-navigate directly when clicked.
    Multi-verse bookmarks engage the verse list, where individual
    selections can be made.

 7. Automatic lemma lookup in inverted Greek dictionary for ancient
    texts.  This has marginal utility pending improvements to Sword's
    dictionary support due to inconsistent key sort.

 8. 'j' and 'k' have been added for keyboard-driven verse selection.

 9. Module options are consistent between main and separate windows.

10. Images' display has been fixed so as to use correct size when
    first displayed.

11. The module manager provides tooltips that show the "about" content
    on mouse-hover during module list selection.

12. The passage copier/exporter is much improved, and similar to other
    applications' function.

13. In gtkhtml3 build, Advanced Search has gained a previewer scrollbar.

14. A great many fixes and minor improvements to many subsystems:
    - module archiving.
    - locale handling.
    - font size management.
    - spacing and highlight alignment.
    - mouse hover alignment selection on Strong's and morphology.
    - parallel Bible selection preservation.
    - splash icons, direction and highlight timing.
    - numerous code refactoring, cleanup, and efficiency improvements.
    - history management corrections.
    - "shift to lock previewer" fixes.
    - initial support for linked verses in Bibles.
    - fixed initial font issue in gtkhtml previewer
    - made the tab close buttons display correctly
    - added module labels that remain visible in parallel tab/dialog

Plans for the release after this revolve around final feature parity
between Linux and Windows (especially the better display engine,
providing many features such as blocked Strong's and morphology
display) and full integration of Sword's new alternate versification
capability with how Xiphos manages book/chapter/verse information.

Bug reports addressed since 3.0.1:
2792569  Restaring Ubuntu with Xiphos open gives error messages
2790711  first run - tabs not parsed successfully
2790487  Closing Xiphos looses unsaved changes in editor
2789990  Tabs: Chosen and showns bible references not the same
2789986  ISV MAT 1:19 crossref at 'secretly' not linked
2789959  navbar chapter up changes book (-2) in addition to chapter
2789879  "View Context" changes parallel view
2789217  crash - indexing modules in /usr/share/sword
2788398  Dropdown chapter number fails above 128
2786599  win32 - book names not localized
2785952  right-click->about on empty pane causes crash
2784883  archiving issues
2784533  Performance seems slow in XP
2783271  Parallel View tab moves to bottom of window
2781508  Commentary file->open module doesn't work properly
2781318  gtkhtml build-advanced search results does not have scrollba
2779126  Personal Commentary module crash
2764410  Segfault in commentary view window
2762625  module manager - maintenance
2737136  Headings problem in detached bible window
2707964  Chinese Version
2704666  gtkhtml build "Hold shift to lock previewer" does not work
2704659  Parallel view always shows variants
2704655  History glitches
2704651  genbook tab, show Bible doesn't show navbar
2599921  Copy fails in detached windows

New feature requests pending:
2791621  Biblical resource in seperate window: synchronize from/with?
2791414  Parallel View tab should behave like a real tab
2790489  Add Bible References to Study Pad
2789881  Default CSS file
2781509  Export->Copy HTML doesn't work properly
2717893  Prayerlist/Daily Journal Enhancements

Feature requests closed:
2793036  e-Sword bibles support [not being done at this time]
2792002  Better keyboard support
2789998  Choice of module options in tabs/seperate windows
2789973  Resizing seperate windows
2744739  When closing Xiphos could remember last place
2705145  Allow moving to previous/next verse by 'j' and 'k' keys
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Release 3.0.1
19 Feb 2009

A necessary bugfix release.

Immediately upon release of 3.0.0, a serious incompatibility with
Windows (NTFS) filesystem was found: Users whose names include
characters beyond the lower 128 characters of ASCII caused trouble
in pathnames due to not having accommodated a particular encoding
required by the filesystem.  This encoding is now handled.

Beyond this, a number of other matters were addressed:

 1. Added transliteration support from non-Latin character sets.
    This is not enabled in the Windows build due to incomplete ICU
    support.

 2. Fixed a crash-inducing bug in detached ("free-floating") Bible
    and commentary windows, from context menu synchronization.  This
    was redundant with the sync button in upper left, so the menu
    item was removed, and a glitch in the sync button's use was fixed.

 3. Sidebar module list entries can be expanded by clicking anywhere
    on the row.

 4. Only when not using tabbed browsing, a crash on history usage was
    stopped, though a full fix for tab-less history access is pending.

 5. Minor changes to accommodate forthcoming Fedora 11.

 6. A PDF version of the manual is included.

 7. Windows installer will set new fonts correctly; bold & italic
    fonts are included; uninstaller runs much faster.

 8. Fixed a disappearing-button problem in the module manager, as well
    as several instances of faulty mutex usage.

Bug reports addressed since 3.0.0:
2593915  Crash on menuitem in detached bible window
2545562  Not all Strong occurences found

New feature requests pending:
2582195  Launch a specific session in a terminal

Feature requests closed:
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Release 3.0
08 Feb 2009

Xiphos begins life, as the former GnomeSword.

We have changed our name to Xiphos because GnomeSword was deemed too
obscure, especially considering our anticipated new user base.  Xiphos
("ξίφος") is one of several Greek words for "sword".  Pronunciation of
the name Xiphos can be learned from a sample audio file you will find
in share/doc/xiphos; approximately, "ksee-fos."

This release represents a huge new chapter in our program's life.

Per-platform notes for this release.

 1. Linux:
    a. In the most recent Fedora and Ubuntu releases, the invocation of
       the editor (personal commentary, prayer list/journal) will induce
       several harmless warning messages to occur.

 2. Windows:
    a. Xiphos runs under Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7-beta.
    b. A few additional fonts are included with the installer (FreeSerif
       and LinuxLibertine) and they are correctly installed, but they may
       not immediately become available on installation completion.  We
       do not yet understand why.  At worst, a reboot is needed.
    c. The module list "treeview" sometimes becomes unnavigable by mouse
       clicks.  This seems to be a Windows-specific flaw in the port of
       the GTK library which drives the treeview.  If it occurs, it will
       be evident as soon as Xiphos starts; simply restart it.
    d. The font used in the previewer should reflect the intended font of
       the module whose content is being previewed there.  If Xiphos
       starts up with the previewer embedded in the sidebar, then such
       font choices are not properly respected.
    e. Print preview does not work, though printing does.

Major new features, operational improvements, and bugfixes:

 1. Windows port.  It is very nearly complete; only a couple features
    are missing.  Most notably, they are the MozEmbed display engine
    and the "read aloud" facility using Festival text-to-speech.  We
    anticipate both of these features becoming available in a later
    3.x release but there was simply not enough time to get everything
    done for this release.

 2. A fabulous new look, with the support of professional graphics
    designers having done a facelift of our graphics, both in the
    program and on the website.

 3. Configure with --enable-paratab to obtain the detached parallel
    window as another tab and to put the previewer into the sidebar.
    See the View menu.

 4. Standard module repository setup for first-time users.

 5. Image resize enabled by default.

 6. Commentary-by-chapter display, as a commentary module option,
    rather than just per-verse commentary.

 7. Consistent dialog usages: Y/N questions and file browsers.

 8. Module manager: Remembers previous settings.  New remote source is
    set as current.  Tooltips over icons in module manager lists.
    Visual improvements by showing repository in use and separating
    full module lists from limited update/uninstalled lists.  Now
    functions correctly with both shared and personal storage areas.

 9. Compatibility with forthcoming Sword engine updates for dynamic
    versification ("dv11n").  Future modules will support e.g.
    deuterocanonical books in Catholic Bibles.

10. More uniform module option support in parallel window.

11. Dictionary links auto-display in the previewer, after the
    fashion of Strong's and morphology references.

12. Better Help menu selections: Online chat support, bug reporting,
    mailing list pointers.

13. Better search term highlighting in both sidebar and dialog search.

14. Double-click navigation of search results entries.

15. Improved/fixed search abort.  Assume "AND" semantic for sidebar
    multiple word search.

16. Countless internal cleanups, efficiency improvements, and
    bugfixes, the need for many of which was exposed by the Windows
    port effort.

17. Additions to the manual, especially for instruction on original
    language research and how to get help.

18. Better integration of image support with ImageMagick libraries.

19. Respect for configuration-specified font choices (Font= and
    Fontsize= in module configuration files).

20. Improvements to build-time configuration support.

21. Fixed fast search ("lucene") index creation.
    NOTE: The implication of this bugfix is that any existing
    index is in error.  You should re-create all module indexes.

Bug reports addressed since 2.4.1:
2264199  Long custom Module lists make search gui too wide
2264209  Scrolling to next/previous chapter no longer works
2264276  Words with preceding punctuation dict lookup fails
2267026  Attribute search fails if preceding '0' is in search
2309713  Building with gecko fails on Debian
2334366  Building fails with xulrunner-1.9
2384287  Uninstalling current Bible module causes crashes.
2385811  Gnomesword crashes on attempted studypad sync
2390811  Search fails when Gnomesword builds indexes
2412580  Indexing Gnomesword-created modules fails
2413029  Printing User Created Modules ignores markup
2416023  Local Source Reports Incorrect Installation Status
2423941  Printing, then navigating genbook causes crash
2423950  Module Manager doesn't refresh after local installation
2430285  gtkhtml parallel view issues
2471807  gtkhtml previewer font
2471811  Bookmarks do not work for user-created modules
2471830  First Run, First Tab Navigation issue
2474005  Genbooks do not allow navigation from address bar
2486766  Mozembed Parallel View doesn't respect cross-reference
2486769  Parallel view right-click->copy does nothing
2532349  mozembed doesn't respect default dictionary
2539788  [PATCH] Update FSF address

New feature requests pending:
2533238  Copy verse functionality (like e-sword)

Feature requests closed:
2409256  Ability to scroll to the next chapter
2407301  Double Click Search Results to Display Verse
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Release 2.4.1
05 Nov 2008

Ongoing requested feature enhancements in stable 2.4.

 1. GnomeSword now takes control of sword:// URLs without asking any
    question, iff there was previously no handler for them.  (In a
    debug build, the question is still asked, but with better phrasing.)

 2. Intermediate module paths for prayer lists are properly constructed.

 3. GnomeSword can be built under Solaris (--enable-gtkhtml3 only).

 4. Ctrl-F "find" capability: Without a Bible pane, it operates in
    comm/book pane; without that, it operates in dictionary pane.

 5. Advanced Search provides search term highlight in result preview.
    Also, the Find button toggles to Stop during a search.

 6. New icons, courtesy of Simon Meers.

 7. Module configuration default font specifications.  If a configuration
    contains "Font=Some Font Name" or "Fontsize=+2", GnomeSword will
    respect that as a default.  The user can change it of course, but any
    time the user resorts to default font name or +0 size, module
    configuration takes over.

 8. Companion modules: If a Bible or commentary has configuration file
    element Companion=OtherModule, then GnomeSword will offer to open
    that module as well when opening the first module.

 9. F1-F4 provide help, preferences, advanced search, and module manager.

Bug reports addressed since 2.4.0:
2163853  Scrolling Issues
2186692  GnomeSword cannot create module's path

New feature requests pending:
2190241  keys should work normally

Feature requests closed:
2121811  DRC and Vulgate are not Correct
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Release 2.4.0 -stable-
20 Sep 2008

Moving past the "development" 2.3 line to "stable" 2.4 with these updates
in the post-2.3.6 shakedown:

 1. Journal/prayer list support is enabled by default.

 2. Selecting choices for Strong's modules is now complete, and Preferences
    comboboxes have gained an instructive "--Select--" first entry.

 3. New translations, Swedish and Hebrew.

 4. Sort capability in mod.mgr has been disabled (contextually pointless).

 5. Module deletions are reflected immediately in list on completion.

 6. An error in tab labeling has been fixed.

 7. Phrasing in several areas was improved for translation ease and clarity.

 8. Ctrl-plus/minus change the base font size.

 9. Naming change: "Pinned" tabs => "linked" tabs.

10. '_' is accepted in module naming (journals/prayer lists/pers.comm).

11. Search results are clearable in advanced search.

12. Mouse activity is ignored during long-running mod.mgr actions.

13. An ancient mem.alloc glitch in genbook modnames was fixed.

14. The passage exporter is enabled by default; --enable-exporter is no
    longer needed.

15. The Help menu contains a reference to Translation, to solicit others'
    help in making GnomeSword more accessible to more language groups.

16. Navbar load glitch when switching between 1- and 2-testament Bibles
    has been fixed.

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.6:
2036800  Prayer list/journal name only accepts English
2040344  module manager needs to lock left panel
2040347  adv.search can't clear results
2069455  module deletion not reflected in list
2069476  sorting by module name contains categories
2079930  Strongs Hebrew/Greek numbers don't lookup
2084401  Problem compiling with xul-1.9/firefox 3 on Debian/Gentoo
2105812  main navbar wrongly loaded when switching

New feature requests pending:
2053524  Port to Maemo OS2008 (Internet Tablet)

Feature requests closed:
2056615  Option to hide verse numbers
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Release 2.3.6
02 Aug 2008

 1. In the module manager, along with the usual per-module-type
    categorization of modules, the mod.mgr also produces a parallel
    per-availability categorization, for updated and uninstalled
    modules.  This makes it easier to find new stuff, rather than having
    to crawl through all the per-type listings.

 2. The module manager alphabetizes the available language selections.
    Also, locale-specific language names are in all module lists.
    (Note for Cygwin: The Cygwin pango library is buggy, tripping over
    some valid UTF-8...by aborting.  *sigh*  For this reason, it has been
    necessary to cripple Cygwin's use of locale-specific language names.)

 3. General books' bookmarks are generated using the key text rather
    than an arcane internal numeric module offset.

 4. Devotionals open to today's MM.DD key, rather than attempting
    (and always failing) to open on the current dictionary key.

 5. An Advanced Search bug has been fixed, which caused failure when a
    custom list contained a deleted module.

 6. Genbook navbar tooltips have been made a bit more understandable.

 7. Main verse navigation has keyboard shorcuts on variations of N/P.

 8. The personal commentary editor can be invoked with Alt-Z.

 9. Locked modules' cipher keys are stored correctly.

10. Image, Map, and Daily Devotional modules no longer appear in more
    than one module list.

11. Prayer lists have expanded to include a general journal concept; a
    few crash bugs have been fixed, and templates for journals & topical
    outlines are available.  These user-editable modules seem now to be
    suitable for general user-driven module creation in genbook format.

12. The Advanced Search dialog's Find button also stops a search.

13. Almost 8000 language abbrev names are known, for module list purposes.

14. Comboboxes in Preferences now limit dictionary subcategories correctly
    (i.e. HebrewDef, GreekDef, Daily Devotionals).

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.5:
1973928  key entry not saved in .conf
1994431  seg fault when incorrect source
2033166  Same selection in more combo boxes

New feature requests pending:
2009652  studypad should be able to save as plain text

Feature requests closed:
1991842  Some suggestions for personal commentary
2009885  Cancel a search
________________________

Release 2.3.5
02 Jul 2008

Mostly an urgent bugfix release.

1. GnomeSword can now link with the gtkhtml-3.23.2 API, so as no
   longer to require the Bonobo editor (but still backward-compatible
   to those systems needing it).

2. A couple small glitches noticed immediately post-2.3.4 have been fixed.

3. A serious search bug, in which a change in Sword's behavior was not
   being correctly handled in GnomeSword, has been fixed.

4. A failure to build in some environments (esp. Ubuntu) has been fixed.

5. Display of n:0 editorial content is stopped when headings are disabled.

6. An infloop bug was fixed, induced by Adv.Search being open when an
   xref is clicked.

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.4:
1973933  per-module font size not respected in parallel view tab
1977884  GS_StringMgr crash on attribute search
1991836  Segmentation fault
1995108  Segmentation Fault While Searching
1999299  GodsWord ver 1.2 module appears corrupt
2008263  Searching Segfault

New feature requests pending:
1991842  Some suggestions for personal commentary
1994953  Fine tune display settings

Feature requests closed:
1994956  Previewer settings
________________________

Release 2.3.4
26 May 2008

1. Primary/secondary reading selections, used mostly in Greek Bibles to
   identify variant readings found in ancient MSS, is functional for the
   first time.

2. Prayer list support is enabled in the Preferences dialog.  Several
   varieties of prayer list are then available by right-clicking the
   new element in the modules list.

3. Per-module font face choices are respected in detached parallel view
   (mozembed build only; gtkhtml3 can't cope with multiple faces).

4. Module manager remembers last settings.

5. A passage exporter facility is now available on the right-click menu,
   if GnomeSword is configured with --enable-exporter.

6. GnomeSword can now be built against the xulrunner display engine,
   as a replacement for MozEmbed.  However, xulrunner has been shown to
   be fundamentally broken at this time, and we do not recommend it.

GnomeSword now requires Sword 1.5.11.

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.3:
1747281  2.3: can't drag-n-drop from adv.search [unresolvable]
1863160  efficiency: full module cache usage
1872525  PATCH: Fix build errors with gcc-4.3
1894262  application crashes since kernel upgrade
1906644  Personal Commentary Quotes
1906647  Showing Commentary Pane
1906651  New Document
1910081  Strong's Greek will not Look-up
1915596  text in preview window clears if mouse enters bible view
1923337  det.parallel needs to respect module font names
1928119  Build failures with gcc 4.3
1928469  Compiling gnomesword with latest xulrunner

New feature requests pending:
1894899  communication between gnomesword and bibledit
1923328  Parsing/definition on word mouseover
1941126  Scrolling between chapters

Feature requests closed:
1194044  prayer list
1923319  Greek/Hebrew fonts in Parallel View
1947593  chapters in parallel view.
________________________

Release 2.3.3
20 Jan 2008

1. Module manager supports display of InstallSize qualifiers from
   *.conf, when provided by the repository's modules.  This allows users
   to make informed decisions about whether to spend link time or disc
   space for modules.

2. Improved algorithm for displaying complex lemma content so as not
   to display overlapping words.

3. Non-"latinate arabic" numerals are supported for LC_ALL=fa to go with
   general Farsi translation.  This is inherently incomplete, because
   location bars still must display regular digits.  However, verse numbers
   in text, navbar spinners, and most other contexts are displayed
   accordingly.

4. Updated special-case NASB lexicon names (soon, very soon, we hope) and
   adjust/fix/neuter weird embedded `!' in their refs.

5. Module manager now supports "local" install, that is, if you have
   a directory of modules to install in appropriate format.  Commonly
   expected for use with e.g. distribution cdroms.  This has never
   been tested/working before now.

6. Image content can now be disabled on demand from the right-click menu.
   This option does not become available until the first time that
   GnomeSword notices that there have been images in the content.

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.2:
1870036  mod.mgr cannot do local installs
1864007  NASB's lexicon refs need adjustment
1860365  lemma display hack is very poor

New feature requests pending:
<none>

Feature requests closed:
1869036  need farsi numerals
1860685  mod.mgr should support InstallSize in *.conf
________________________

Release 2.3.2
26 Dec 2007

This is an intermediate bugfix release, to correct a small number of
varyingly important or long-standing issues.

1. Drag-n-drop from adv.search almost works again: Keys containing `/'
   or whitespace were not being processed correctly, and the gecko
   subsystem was simply not accepting the request.  However, there is
   still a problem in MozEmbed where, once a gecko element (any of the
   main subwindows) has had focus, drag-n-drop cannot complete and the
   program, and possibly the desktop, are hung -- there is a gtk signal
   connection problem yet to be understood fully.  (This problem is
   MozEmbed-specific and does not occur in gtkhtml at all.)

2. Core dumps in adv.search induced by offset handling in lexdicts
   and genbooks were eliminated.

3. Image resizing is not disabled just because one image failed.
   Complaints on image resize failure are made just once per page.

4. Fit gconf setup dialog strings into a smaller text box.

Bug reports addressed since 2.3.1:
1857805  Bug report when starting gnomesword2
1855521  Build failure with xulrunner-1.9-beta2
1830932  strcasestr() is nonstandard, more than just cygwin
1830919  test before adding g++ options to flags
1828280  Text not translated
1824138  no lexdict => crash or log complaints
1808047  Czech translation -- grammatical error
1802257  highlighting will be case sensitive even if the search isn't
1781816  2.3 gtkhtml3 integration bugs
1747281  2.3: can't drag-n-drop from adv.search

New feature requests pending:
<none>

Feature requests closed:
<none>
________________________

Release 2.3.1
14 Oct 2007

This is a test and evaluation release.

Today's 2.3 is a test release of the replacement and re-integration of
the old gtkhtml3 display engine with the new MozEmbed display engine.
Thus, version 2.2 is officially defunct, an evolutionary dead end.  As
such, the 2.3 series of releases, which we hope to be mercifully short
until stability can be again declared when released as 2.4, represents
a major functional change from 2.2, mostly internally, but nonetheless
with quite a number of user-visible changes.

See the manual, especially section 3.9, "Version Differences in
GnomeSword's Display," for details on what is different between
gtkhtml3 and MozEmbed.  MozEmbed provides a fundamentally prettier and
friendlier interface.  Note that not all platforms have adequate, or
any, MozEmbed support, e.g. Fedora Core 5 has some MozEmbed support,
but it is too out of date and buggy for GnomeSword's use; Windows with
Cygwin lacks MozEmbed entirely.  On such platforms, configure with
--enable-gtkhtml.  (On Cygwin, --enable-cygwin is necessary, and
includes configuration of gtkhtml3.)

GnomeSword requires underlying Sword support at version 1.5.10 or later.

Behavioral matters:

 1. The splash screen is enabled by default, especially for benefit of
    first-time users.

 2. Subwindow visibility state (Bible, commentary/genbook, previewer,
    dictionary, all selected from the View menu) is now maintained on a
    per-tab basis, rather than simply as global state.  Existing tabs
    files are auto-updated when they are first used, with current
    global state applied to all tabs, and then the tabs file is re-saved.

 3. Doublespace text and blocked Strong's+morph (only with MozEmbed).

 4. Book and chapter headings in Bibles, stored in modules as
    pseudoverses in 0:0 (per book) and n:0 (per chapter), are presented
    when headings are enabled.

 5. A new navbar has been implemented that looks generally better.
    That said, it appears not to look so good on Cygwin, with older GTK
    support; consider configuring with --enable-old_navbar there.

 6. Indices needed for fast "lucene" searches can now be built from
    the module manager.  An icon indicates the presence of a
    ready-for-use index.  Also, the module manager's appearance has been
    generally re-arranged to be a bit more functional and intuitive: The
    "remove" panel is now a general "maintenance" panel, and the
    "configure" and "sources" panels have been swapped.

 7. A base font size has been implemented; see Preferences.  All
    module font size choices are relative to this base.

 8. Daily Devotionals now get their own subtree in module lists in the
    sidebar and module manager.

 9. In line with newly-defined module configuration keywords and
    qualifiers, there are now also Maps and Images subtrees.

10. Additional keyboard shortcuts: Alt-B bookmark dialog, Alt-P detach
    parallel dialog window.

11. Locale names have been updated to accommodate more recent versions
    of existing modules (e.g. Farsi, Haitian Creole, Burmese, others).

12. "About" boxes for modules handle UTF-8 properly.

13. Duplicate install sources are now refused.

14. A module cache bug regarding mis-cached headers has been fixed.

15. A font error in highlighted verses was fixed.

16. "About GnomeSword" is a bit more informative and useful, showing
    GnomeSword's web site as well as the display engine with which
    GnomeSword was built (gtkhtml3 -vs- MozEmbed).

17. Both old style multi-word search and optimized ("lucene") search
    are available in advanced search.  Sidebar search is optimized,
    with a tooltip to assist on need for +First +Second for multi-word.

18. Many translation updates, plus new translations (e.g. Portuguese).

Known, unresolved flaws in this unstable test release:
1781816  gtkhtml3 integration bugs
	 (various problems specific to gtkhtml3 builds, involving
	  failure to follow mouse clicks in certain circumstances)
1747281  can't drag-n-drop from adv.search
	 (in either gtkhtml3 or MozEmbed, d&d has stopped working)

Bug reports addressed since 2.2.3:
1800106  Crash when searching
1783315  Footnotes in verse 0 not shown
1783300  locale names are out of date
1781886  upcased greek in most cases in cygwin
1769405  Can't open
1767851  A Search with bounds in the Side pane locks GS (sword-svn)
1764758  strongs on -> numbers verbalized
1752812  Not in Menu
1749534  failed footnote access in josephus
1747273  can't search over "current results"
1744444  blocked strongs fails NASB Eph 5:31
1744418  bad display of grk result in adv.search
1744400  edit->find...doesn't
1743789  transient note/xref is not transient
1743785  loss of per-module font in <table>
1743304  keyboard shortcuts are not working
1731993  splash should be enabled by default
1729936  unused configure flags should go away
1724254  Opening Necronomicon module crashes GnomeSword
1723580  opening study pad crashes gnomesword2
1723478  opening studypad causes gs to crash
1723159  Debian/GNU 4.0 - Gnomesword crashes on startup
1709398  Building under FreeBSD
1708829  crash on opening note editor
1706475  no genbooks + genbook navbar => crash
1703697  GnomeSword crashes on startup
1695949  Gnomesword crashes on startup: segfault in backend

New feature requests pending:
1782923  bookmarks

Feature requests closed:
1748022  daily devs should get their own mod.list
1738882  save subpanel view state on per-tab basis
1737648  Allow unlimited modules in the parallel view
1733421  need a base font size for all of GS
1726806  greek and hebrew
1711360  Lucene Indexing
1703135  Display Verse 0, Chapter 0:0 in Bible Texts
1691050  new king james version
1646037  very simple api for scrolling
1633426  update strong's/morph markup readability
1620313  Couple of bugs with module manager operation
1618837  global install of modules
________________________

Release 2.2.3
24 Mar 2007

1. A module cache has been implemented as a significant performance
   improvement.  As Bible text is visited, everything seen goes into
   an in-memory cache, so that subsequent navigation of the same text
   does not need to re-visit Sword.  If display options change
   (footnotes xrefs headings Strong's morph), the cache is invalidated
   and Sword is queried again to re-populate the display-ready cache.

   Display performance acid test:
     KJV Ps 119 (176 verses), all mod.opts enabled; spin verse selector.
     End-to-end (v1 -> v176) navigation time on 1.8GHz computer:
     GS 2.2.2, 441sec; GS 2.2.3, 102sec => 78% reduction.

2. Personal commentary archival, renaming, and verse dump are implemented
   (feat.req #1633407).  Archival is available via the module manager
   (any module may be archived); rename + dump are on the pers.comm
   popup menu.  [For Cygwin, regrets, NTFS prevents rename of files
   currently open, so module rename is not available there; but archive
   + dump are fine.]

3. Main window image content can be clicked to invoke an external image
   viewer (feat.req #1631815).  Support for this feature requires an
   enhancement to Sword itself beyond its 1.5.9 release (i.e. built from
   SVN at change level >= -r2035), but of course it builds/runs fine
   without this feature's availability using today's Sword 1.5.9.  Some
   day (soon?), Troy will release a new 1.5.something, or perhaps 1.6,
   which will contain this.

4. Finnish translation now available.

5. Sidebar verse lists are always savable (bug #1674149).

6. Improving i18n support now supports more non-ASCII searches
   (bug #1673598).

7. Mouse-selected Bible/commentary/genbook text can be read aloud using
   a popup menu selection, regardless of whether scripture reading is
   enabled on View -> Read Aloud.

Bug reports addressed since 2.2.2:
1687602  Module Manager crashes on FC6
1681135  Module manager crashes Gnomesword on startup
1674149  unable to save verse lists
1673598  cannot search personal for non-ascii chars
1667954  Missing modules in advanced-search window

New feature requests pending:
<none>

Feature requests closed:
1633407  personal commentary needs
1631815  open single-image window on click
________________________

Release 2.2.2 (maintenance)
23 Feb 2007

Behavioral matters:

1. The module manager now provides both short module name plus long
   module description on the right, and there is also a refresh icon
   between mismatched old & new version stamps of installed modules
   (bug #1666761).  GnomeSword now works around a Sword lib install
   manager bug when updating installed modules by deleting the old
   version before attempting to retrieve the new version (bug #1666748).
2. Several MM glitches related to unfindable or unusable newly-defined
   install sources have been fixed (bug #1666763, #1666759).
3. Some of the planned Advanced Search work has been done (feat.req
   #1615402).  E.g. you can select the Attributes radio button, then
   use the Attribute tab to define which attribute is in question.
   The Strong's syntax needed is now just H### or G###.
4. Many changes for improving i18n handling have been done.  (We need
   translators.)
5. The 2x2 set of buttons at the bottom of the sidebar have been moved
   to the top, where they sit near the rest of the mouse controls
   (bug #1666764).
6. GnomeSword can now build under MS-Windows in the Cygwin environment
   (feat.req #1124274), and gives every appearance of being fully
   functional there.  Doing so requires a bash script and two library tar
   files.  See ftp://ftp.kleinpaste.org/pub/sword/util/cygwin/

Bug reports addressed since 2.2.1:
1666764  sidebar buttons belong at top
1666763  MM loses track of newly-defined sources
1666761  MM: descriptions + refresh indicator
1666759  rem.source w/o bible text -> can't load
1666758  null genbook key -> crash
1666756  lack of icons in splash -> crash
1666755  strcasestr() is nonstandard
1666754  wrong morph for OT
1666751  GS infloops det.parallel on Rev22
1666748  need workaround for installmgr bug
1651736  Updated german Translation
1651514  Crasher bugs related to directories(?)
1651375  changing tabbed-view preference requires restart
1651077  osis-based commentary's xrefs don't work
1648806  Cannot add local module source directory
1647579  switching from local to remote causes crash
1646579  sidebar search, no bounds => crash
1645989  newly-defined install source unavailable

New feature requests pending:
1646037  very simple api for scrolling

Feature requests closed:
1642837  fullscreen support
1615402  advanced search needs help
1124274  GnomeSword for Windows
________________________

Release 2.2.1 (maintenance)
27 Jan 2007

Behavioral matters:

1. Genbooks now use a navbar in both dialog and Book View pane.
2. High-contrast highlight of current verse is available.
   (Edit->Prefs->Fonts->Colors, plus either View->Highlight Current Verse
    or Edit->Prefs->General->Misc->Highlight current verse.)
3. Unused verse number color preference was removed, as planned
   (feat.req #1620641).
4. Footnote content search works again, but it's a hack, it still uses
   an atrocious syntax, and we still need to do the planned rework in
   Advanced Search (feat.req #1615402).
5. Disabling both right-side panes completely disables right-side display
   (bug #1624753, feat.req #1624757).
6. GnomeSword enables GConf-based URL handling (feat.req #1613239).
7. There is code in place to do double-space text as soon as GTKMOZEMBED
   returns (feat.req #1193235).  #ifdef DOUBLESPACE keeps the View item
   out of visibility for the moment.  Improved Strong's/morph markup
   (feat.req #1633426) will follow soon.  Both depend on CSS.
8. Some new keyboard shortcuts have appeared (feat.req #1633397).  Alt-G
   focuses on the Genbook navbar, and thereafter arrow keys do what you
   expect.  Alt-C brings up the commentary.  Ctrl-L focuses the main
   verse navbar text.

Important usage note:

A genbook key handling bug exists in the Sword libs, in SVN after
their 1.5.9 release.  If you build Sword from SVN and you find that
you are unable to navigate to certain portions of some genbooks
(Finney, Heretics, Institutes), a workaround is this, for each module:
    cd ~/.sword/modules/genbook/rawgenbook/finney
    mod2imp Finney > finney.imp
    imp2gbs finney.imp
    rm finney.imp
That is, simple re-importation will make the module consistent with
itself in this regard.

Bug reports addressed since 2.2:
1643716  non UTF-8 chars with libsword built without icu
1643623  pers.comm. editor loses <tokens> on re-edit
1642835  TTS unavailable: Connection refused
1642603  loading a tab set leaves GS confused
1640907  long verse history -> pulldown-select fails
1639131  genbook footnotes are inaccessible
1635205  commentary dict lookup crashes GS
1634794  adv.search hates booknames w/spaces
1633109  gtk warnings from personal commentary
1632443  comm. fails to track beneath genbook
1631814  right-click -> Edit -> Find crashes
1631629  bible dialog uses wrong verse style
1629380  comm.dialog xref selection refers to wrong book
1628714  dialog commentaries select revelation?
1626605  Daily Devotion Does Not Display
1624753  "Show/Hide Sidebar" has a Weird Effect on the Right Sidebar
1623020  gnomesword tts
1622892  dict/lex cannot change xref setting

New feature requests pending:
1633426  update strong's/morph markup readability
1633407  personal commentary needs
1631815  open single-image window on click

Feature requests closed:
1642837  fullscreen support
1633397  shortcut: focus text cursor to verse bar
1624757  Add View Option to Toggle the Right Sidebar
1620641  "Verse numbers" font color is ignored
1613239  improve command line use of "sword://"
1193235  Allow text to be displayed double space
         (but inactive, pending return of GTKMOZEMBED)
 901894  Drop book list for search limit
________________________

Release 2.2
25 Dec 2006

Known deficiencies:

1. Footnote body search was very recently broken by other needed work
   in Advanced Search.  Other "attribute" searches (esp. Strong's
   refs) work, but not footnote body search.  This will be addressed
   early in the next development cycle: Advanced Search is due for
   another round of revamping, largely to simplify and enhance the
   operation of attribute searches.  See feature request #1615402.

2. The alternate HTML renderer code under the "mozembed" #ifdef is
   not functional at this time, and we do not know if such capability
   will return in a future release.  This means that the configure
   options --with-firefox and --with-seamonkey do not function.

3. The verse number font color preference is ignored; this will go
   away entirely soon, as verse numbers are links to themselves, for
   re-aligning verse navigation to the verse in question, which in
   turn tracks the commentary to the same verse.  See feature request
   #1620641.

4. The module manager offers installation directory options of
   ~/.sword as well as the system Sword directory, typically
   /usr/share/sword, iff that directory is writable by the user.
   Future work will involve efforts at a superuser password query
   to obtain temporary access to the system directory, but in the
   current release, "chown -R you.yourgroup" is necessary, prior to
   running GnomeSword.  See feature request #1618837.

Bug reports addressed since 2.1.10:
1620542  Crashes on "View Context"
1618998  Displays frame then hangs
1618829  first use: no global modules found by gnomesword
1618324  "philipper" in german version points to philemon
1617225  gnomesword crashes, when clicking on combobox...
1613439  Sidebar setting does not survive program restart

Feature requests pending:
1620641  "Verse numbers" font color is ignored
1620313  Couple of bugs with module manager operation
1618837  global install of modules
1615402  advanced search needs help
1613239  improve command line use of "sword://"
1194044  prayer list
1193235  Allow text to be displayed double space
1124274  GnomeSword for Windows
 901894  Drop book list for search limit
Requests 1613239 and above are post-2.1.10 release.  Older requests
represent capabilities for which the needed underlying support does
not exist or which represent an extremely complicated re-working of
GnomeSword from its current state.
________________________

Release 2.1.10
09 Dec 2006

Recent bug reports addressed:
1605640  Change Font does nothing
1605638  Printing does not work
1602532  Uninstallable with Ubuntu Edgy Eft
1602059  Images in Personal Commentary don't show if path has spaces
1601897  search too broad on strongs
1601744  title of module in titlebar not displaying for GetLut1545
1596747  Crash on "search", no content displayed
1594151  previewer-anchored footnotes needed
1582986  Crashed
1576964  GnomeSword fails to build with libsword6-dev
1575275  meta chars in new bookmark folders
1551501  Fix build with -Wl,--as-needed
1536274  clickable links to external sources don't work
1535370  feature request: track verse change across all open tabs
1535122  2.1.7 has typos in commentary_dialog.c
1521926  2.1.7 seems unaware of large portions of commentaries
1507371  2.1.7 forgets which commentary is in use
1505753  2.1.7 mishandles crossrefs in headers

This list is incomplete, as these notes did not exist to track such
reports until recently, but represents the major reports fixed since
the middle of the 2.1 development cycle at a time when many very old
bug reports were finally addressed.
________________________
