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

v1.0.2—what's platinum, i guess

• Fixed incorrect path for notcurses-demo data files

v1.0.1—what's golden

• Video support massively improved (#159, #215)
• demo summary table massively improved (#256, #258)
• Don't segfault in fbterm (#252)
• Use installed prefix when looking for demo data (#208)
• Restore instruction banner to notcurses-input (#263)
• Fix SIGWINCH handling in notcurses-demo and others (#262)
• API improvements I'd thought I'd already made (#257)

v1.0.0—track team, crack fiend, dying to geek

First GA release. 1.0.0 milestone.

Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
—James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

New features

• Output API additions: everything now has an _aligned() form and a _yx() form
• New ncplane_aligned() to create a plane aligned relative to another
• New notcurses_at_yx() to reflect upon the last rendered frame
• _yx()-type functions accept -1 to mean "current position on this axis"
• Mouse input events
• New notcurses_mice_enable() and notcurses_mice_disable()
• New notcurses_refresh() for repainting a damaged screen
• witherworms demo replaces widecolor demo
• transparency for ncvisuals
• Building without FFmpeg is now supported via DISABLE_FFMPEG
• CELL_ALPHA_BLEND is now implemented
• Man pages added for all functions using pandoc
• HUD and stats added to notcurses-demo
• ncvisual can now create its own (optimally-sized) ncplane
  • ncvisual_stream now takes a callback+curry and supports resizing
• ncvisual now tracks PTS (presentation timestamps) for much more accurate video sync
• notcurses can now be built without FFmpeg.
  • All ncvisual functions will return error
  • notcurses-view will not be built
  • ncvisual unit tests will not be built
  • notcurses_init() will print a warning on startup about the missing functionality
• notcurses-view supports resizing
• new chunli demo

Performance improvements

• O(1) damage map
• ncvisuals can be partially rendered

Bug fixes

• Linear interpolation fixed for long lines
• box demo: transparent background fixed
• style state properly maintained across renders, fixes notcurses-input underlining
• Failure to start on st ("simple terminal") fixed
• view demo: cruft removed
• grid demo: fix color calculation, clip properly
• Unit tests using decimal separator now work in all locales
• witherworms demo: fix disappearing wide characters
• Fix disappearing topmost planereel
• Inhibit libswscale from crapping onto stderr
• Switch to char32_t from wchar_t to work on all architectures
• Higher planes properly obliterate lower wide glyphs they intersect
• Memory leak in ncvisual_render() path fixed
• All valgrind complaints for the demo have been fixed

v0.9.9—what you know about purple drank?

Release candidate for 1.0.0.

v0.9.3

v0.9.3

v0.9.2

v0.9.2

v0.9.0—You dig in! You dig out! You get out!

29 issues closed, 138 commits. Last major pre-GA release.

• @grendello 's patch to recognize COLORTERM, for better or wose
• Line-based zdepth-aware damage map increased FPS by an average of ~50% (#83)
• Quantize colors for 256-index palettes (#4)
• Implicit ncplane creation by ncvisuals (#128)
• Much API improvement wrt orthogonality, addition of _xy wrappers to all outputs
• Add panelreel documentation to README.md
• Support sgr-style attributes (bold, underline, italic, etc.) (#73)
• Move special keys to Unicode PSUA-B, input's now ready to play (#121, #134)
• Uniblock demo: fade in blocks rather than scrolling them horizontally
• Widechomper demo: add a little aleph friend who eats wide characters
• Box demo: add targeting grid to test complex alignment
• View demo: eliminate copyright infringement, replace with new video
• Intro: add perimeter box to show off linear interpolations
• Outro: vastly improved, show off transparency + bgfade
• New "Luigi" demo: sprites, motherfucker! Luigi goes to Heat Man Zone from Mega Man 2
• Fix fade out for background colors (#111)
• Add output API for wchar_t, for those unfortunate souls using them (#120)
• Wide glyph-aware alignment output helpers (#102)
• Demo can now run to completion without user intervention (#135)
• Add notcurses_refresh() for remedying external screen corruption (#150)
• Added very basic man pages

v0.4.0—TRAP MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/milestone/6?closed=1

• Updated README.md to match all current declarations (#21). Clean up Cell API (#97)
• Fixed unexpected background on hlines/vlines (#115)
• Implemented terminfo-based special key discovery, fixing keypad among others (#78 )
• Demo improvements all over (#72 #66 )
• Render sensibly in the face of resizes (#105)
• Add necessary locking (#82)
• Remove obsolete assert()s

This is pretty much a usable release. We're rapidly approaching GA.

v0.3.0—a riot is the voice of the unheard

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/milestone/5?closed=1

• Transparent planes (#10)
• Video support (#61 )
• Double SWScale vertical resolution with halfblocks (#88)
• Palette fades in and out (#40)
• SIGWINCH -> NCKEY_RESIZE input event (#79)

wake up, drink water, smoke blunts, clean and oil my kalashnikov!