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libcaca documentation
new dirty rectangle framework for accelerated rendering
new <conio.h> compatible header for old DOS software porting
XCode and Visual Studio build improvements
improved HTML output
improved Ruby and .NET bindings
new comprehensive PHP bindings
Cocoa driver enhancements
documentation updates
minor improvements and bugfixes
many build fixes, especially for nonstandard platforms
libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity
internal FIGlet font support
use C99 types in public headers
runtime support for output drivers
BBcode export support
device-dependent cursor support
event API rewrite
minor API improvements and extensions
img2txt improvements
Ruby bindings
Massive C# bindings improvements
Python sample code
Visual Studio build solution
support for 90-degree canvas rotation
better behaviour when trying to output Unicode on an ASCII terminal
the built-in font now supports the Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms and Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode blocks
new rotozoom effect in cacademo
Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X
preliminary .NET bindings
many bugfixes and documentation changes
fixed compilation of the C++ bindings
fixed bugs in cucul_import_memory(), cucul_set_canvas_size()
implemented caca_set_display_title() for ncurses and S-Lang
minor bugfixes
new debug mode
blitting canvases now makes use of the canvas' handle coordinates
import functions can read streamed data
attribute to colorspace transformations
added katakana and hiragana glyphs to the built-in font
many bugfixes and documentation changes
support for blink, bold, italics and underline attributes
allow to import and export zero-sized canvases
fixed Imlib2 support in cacaview
fixed buffer overlows in the file importer
big documentation updates
allow to build the X11 and GL drivers as separate plugins
support for fullwidth Unicode characters
improved cucul_flip() and cucul_rotate()
minor bugfixes and documentation updates
transparency support in the UTF-8 importer and exporter
optimised triangle fill routine
updated C++ bindings
ANSI importer now handles transparency and UTF-8
Unicode support was broken for about 10% of the set
various memory leaks were fixed
implemented cucul_getchar() and cucul_get_color()
handle transparency in the IRC export
new cropping and expanding filters
full Unicode support in the OpenGL driver
portability fixes for 64-bit architectures, Win32 and MS-DOS
all demos except cacafire were merged into cacademo
added a compatibility layer for pre-1.x libcaca applications
fixed manpage generation
minor bugfixes and documentation updates
libcaca functions use errno for error reporting
updated C++ bindings
minor improvements, bugfixes and documentation updates
ANSI importer
functions use errno for error reporting
updated C++ bindings
.NET bindings
cacadraw, an ANSI viewer that will evolve into an editor
Unicode input and output support for SLang and ncurses
built-in fonts work on Win32
license switched to WTFPL
libcaca was split into libcucul, a standalone text manipulation backend, and libcaca, the display and user input frontend
Unicode support
TrueColor (more than 16 colours) support
Floyd-Steinberg dithering
gamma correction
export functions for HTML, IRC, ANSI, SVG, PostScript, TGA...
builtin fonts for device-independent bitmap output
various text transformation routines (rotation, horizontal flip...)
OpenGL renderer
kernel mode to build libcaca programs into a bootable x86 kernel
cacaserver, a telnet server that can be hooked to libcaca applications
img2irc, an image to IRC conversion utility
fix for a buffer overflow in the line rendering
fixed resizing in the ncurses and slang drivers
aspect ratio and finer zoom support in cacaview
minor compilation fixes
window resizing support
native Win32 port
autorepeat emulation in the ncurses and slang drivers
support for more keycodes in the ncurses and slang drivers
cacaplas, a plasma animation example
cacamoir, a moire circles animation example
MSVC project file
many bugfixes in the event handling
cacaball, a metaball animation example
30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine
mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver
X11 is now the preferred driver
improved documentation
minor bugfixes
palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair shortage bug
minor compilation fix
preliminary X11 graphics driver
support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers
honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables
more documentation
antialiasing support
dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables
alpha channel support in cacaview
BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present
cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire
rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16
mouse support for ncurses
ncurses is now the preferred backend
arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer
cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca
initial release
slang, ncurses and conio drivers
basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives
colour bitmap blitting
