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v1.2.0—check the résumé, my record's impeccable

At this point, core functionality seems largely complete. I still intend to add perfect palette generation and fallback from UTF-8 when running in an ASCII environment, but the API ought have pretty much reached stability (famous last words). This version ought be entering Debian [fingers crossed!] thanks to much assistance from @edmonds.

I have begun work on a coherent manual for notcurses. While not yet even a complete first draft, it is being periodically pushed to https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf.

Changes since 1.1.0

• Massive changes to Debian packaging and Python packaging to get them pretty much working. #294 #326
• Preparation of a DFSG-compatible release. This requires removing several multimedia files and one source file (src/demo/jungle.c) from the source tarball, and making changes to notcurses-demo to know when it was built in DFSG mode, and not try to run demos making use of DFSG-nonfree media. #316
• Added C++ wrappers courtesy of @grendello #212, #318
• Implemented CELL_ALPHA_HIGHCONTRAST and added a demo #181
• Build and install a static library #330
• Added ncplane_polyfill() and ncplane_gradient_*() #340
• Added selector widget #166 #302 #309
• Added menu widget #179 #336 #332
• Fixed notcurses-view crash on exit #299 and cruft when resized #314
• Decode and print subtitles, when available #95
• (Almost) all public identifiers now have a 'not' or 'nc' prefix #324
• Add Direct Mode including ncdirect_style_*(), ncdirect_*_default(), and ncdirect_clear() #321 #77
• Add menu to notcurses-demo #338
• Improve notcurses-demo HUD appearance
• Add *_offer_input() for widgets #333
• Implement downsampling suitable for use in 8-color environments #254
• Return status of keyboard modifiers in ncinput #228
• Fix monochromatic bug in fbterm #288
• Added ncplane_blit_*() for directly blitting BGRx or RGBA #311
• Minimized fatal signal handlers #313
• Updated man pages and added several new ones #289
• Fixed FreeBSD build #304
• Updated box demo to use linear interpolation and sweeps
• Improved notcurses-demo summary output
• Added restart capability to notcurses-demo

v1.1.8—twist it 'round yo' head

• Debian packaging details #326

v1.1.7—spin it like a helicopter

• Get python+debian packaging sorted out once and (Allah willing) for all #326
  • install notcurses-tester, add a man page for it
• New functions ncmenu_offer_input() and ncselector_offer_input() #333
• Update poc/menu, poc/selector, and notcurses-demo to use *_offer_input()
• New highcontrast text demo highcon
• Remove dumb ncmenu special casing
• CELL_ALPHA_HIGHCONTRAST implemented #181
• Build and install static lib #330
• Modify unit tests to only make use of DFSG multimedia
• notcurses-demo: add menu
• notcurses-demo: add -i argument to continue after failures
• Explicitly depend on all linked libraries
• ncplane_putegc_yx(): set sbytes on error path

v1.1.5—mom's spaghetti

• Fix up Debian python packaging to work without a preexisting notcurses install, finally
• Process for DFSG-compatible releases (#316). There will now be a dfsg tarball for each release, with non-free media removed. Debian packages will be built with the DFSG_BUILD config option, pulling references to these now-nonfunctional demos out of the source. Thanks to @edmonds for the assistance here.
• This release will be submitted to Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950492
• Updated rendering algorithm description in README #289
• New widget ncmenu #179
• Add ncdirect_dim_x() and ncdirect_dim_y()

v1.1.4—the troops will be very happy to see that

• RGBA/BGRx blitter support
• mbtowc converted to mbrtowc everywhere
• demo: better coloring of summary table
• selector UI widget
• fix FreeBSD build

v1.1.1—black mamba

https://youtu.be/JZGEzREaYRA

• Direct mode #77
• @grendello 's C++ wrappers #212 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk)
• quantize_rgb8() for Linux console #4

v1.1.0—all the hustlers they love it just to see one of us make it

The 1.1.0 release closes 28 issues, along with many issues that were never recorded.

Bugfixes

• We now decode all videos that reference ffmpeg wrappers (e.g. mpv) can decode, so far as I can tell. Before, we successfully decoded very few. #215
• Correct presentation timings for videos. They were pretty much never accurate in 1.0.0. #159
• Don't FPE fading in an empty plane #269
• Properly handle a higher plane bisecting a wide glyph #260
• Eliminate nasty cruft around transparent ncvisuals #276
• Restore original palette on exit #285
• Interrupt blocking getc with NCKEY_RESIZE #262
• Fix segfault on startup in fbterm #252
• Fix segfault when ncplane_putstr() is invoked off-plane
• Fix average byte/time calculations in demo summary table
• Instruction banner restored in notcurses-input #263

Perf, sweet perf

• Painter's Algorithm was implemented, necessary for handling large numbers of planes #255. Thousands of planes are now perfectly usable. Before, we choked up with a few dozen.
• term_esc_rgb() was noticed dominating perf profiles. Hand-optimization boosted FPS anywhere from 10% to 500% across demos. #277

Enhancements

• man pages added for all functionality. html versions are also available.
• notcurses-demo summary table improved a great deal
• Implemented indexed-palette color when desired and supported #230
• New demos jungle and fallin'.
  • jungle uses artwork of pixel legend Mark Ferrari with permission to demonstrate palette cycling, a very low-bandwidth animation technique #253
  • fallin' uses reflection to have the screen "fall apart" #267
• ncvisual_stream() now accepts a duration scaling parameter
• all fade functions now take a curry #284
• plane pulsing added to the fading suite #163
• notcurses-video now accepts -s to specify scaling type
• notcurses-video now properly handles resize events
• all demos and example code had notcurses_cursor_move_yx() etc. removed in favor of atomic move+update calls. demos in general were cleaned up a good deal.
• Python wrappers seem to be working now? I'd love to get testers here #149