What's New in libchewing 0.3.5 (Jul 28, 2013)

• Improve CMake rules
  • Visual Studio build included
• Dictionary improvements
  • Remove duplicated phrases, fix Bopomofo representation
  • tool tweaks
• travis-ci support (https://travis-ci.org/chewing/libchewing)
• drone.io support (https://drone.io/github.com/chewing/libchewing)
• coveralls.io support (https://coveralls.io/r/chewing/libchewing)
• editorconfig support (http://editorconfig.org/)
• Add new chewing_set_logger API
• Prevent unaligned memory access
• Reduce maxChiSymbolLen to 39 to avoid overflow
• Do not store user phrase when its length is 1
• Check chiSymbolBufLen in chewing_handle_Numlock()
• Set isSymbol to 0 in SetChoiceInfo
• Fix 'j', 'k' in select mode cannot handle symbol selecting
• Do not call GetCharNext() when GetCharFirst() fails
• Successful stories:
  . FreeArray utilizes libchewing for selecting phrases of Array
  input method

What's New in libchewing 0.3.4 (Dec 31, 2012)

• Improve the description of libchewing API
  • Simplified examples to illustrate the usage are added
• Revise libchewing API. Check the documentation for details
• Support THL (Taiwan Huayu Luomapinyin) and MPS2 Pinyin keyboard layout
• Reimplementation of unit test framework. No external 'check' package
  is required
• Fix several phrase errors
  • Add exceptional phrase as well
• Improved developer and user guide
• Introduce CMake based build system, which is convenient to MS-Windows
  based environments.
• Add --enable-gcov to enable gcov coverage
• Fix possible strncat() overflow
• Consistent checks for bopomofo sequence internally
• Handle incomplete bopomofo with space key properly
• Internal structure refactoring
• Read hash path from CHEWING_PATH environment variable
• Make libchewing thread-safe
• Fix IM crash by changing default candidate per page to 10
• Fix the detection of ncursesw
• Fix the usage of autotools
• Update and tune symbols
• Fix valgrind warning
• Fix several compilation warnings
• Fix GCC visibility availability for Darwin specific PIC code
• Fix hash table initialization and its memory leakage
• Support building with mingw32 toolchain
• Fix GNU Hurd build
• Fix Microsoft VC build
• Fix Windows 64-bit build
• Fix mingw32/64 + WINE build
• Successful stories:
  . GCIN supports experimental Chewing IM since version 1.6.4
  . HIME supports Chewing IM
  . UCIMF supports Chewing IM
  . Fcitx supports Chewing IM
  . mozc (IM framework maintained by Google) provides Chewing support
  . JMCCE (reworked version) supports libchewing

What's New in libchewing 0.3.3 (Feb 27, 2011)

• Fix memory access violation.
• Improved Python binding.
• Merged with libchewing-data project. (r455)
• Improved random key stroke tester.
• Fix the handling of phonetic symbols in Hsu's keyboard.
• Fix unexpected candidate disorder when doing symbol choice.
• Revised phrase choice from rearward logic.
• Fix cross compilation.
• Improved shell script to merge changes form libchewing-data.
• Successful stories:
  . Google ChromeOS provides built-in Chewing IM support
  . MeeGo platform provides built-in Chewing IM support

What's New in libchewing 0.3.2 (Dec 1, 2008)

• Add gcc visibility support to hide private APIs.
• APIs and Headers refactoring.
• Doxygen-friendly API documentation.
• New binary data manipulation approach to dramatically reduce storage
  usage and loading time via memory mapping. (enabled by default)
• New word segmentation method based on mmseg.
• Improved auto-learn new phrases method.
• Improved test suite and added simple benchmark program.
• Option to indicate the behavior for phrase choice to be rearward
  or not.
• New APIs to enumerate supported keyboard types.
• Repair improper memory access.
• API united in Win32 and UNIX world.
• Initial Python binding support.
• Merged with libchewing-data project. (r342)
• Canonical debugging messages.
• Successful stories:
  . OpenBSD porting
  . ibus-chewing : chewing engine for ibus input method framework.
  . UIM-chewing leveraging libchewing 0.3.x development branch.

What's New in libchewing 0.3.1 (Oct 1, 2008)

• New keyboard layout DACHEN_CP26.
• Add key '`' to open symbol table.
• Erase candidate and reset its length when 'Esc' key is handled.
• Closes candidate window when user pressed 'Up' key.
• Doing select at the end of edit buffer works on the
  last phrase (interval).
• Improved reminding message text.
• Sync with libchewingdata project.
• A new HanYu-PinYin mapping table
• More robust behavior when IM crashes.
• Allow '#' comment and blank line in tsi.src.
• Fix chewing switch between Full/Half mode and cursor moves one space in
  gedit.
• Fix when list available phrases to choice, user's own phrases are
  not included.
• Release PgUp/PgDn key event to running applications.
• Fix portability issues on FreeBSD.
• Fix incorrect initialization.
• Fix pinyin key order, put "shun" before "shuo".
• Fix various potenital boffer overflow bugs.
• Fix various memory leaks.
• chewing_set_PinYinMethod to support multiple PinYin methods.
• chewing_handle_CtrlOption was removed.
• New structure SymbolEntry.
• Rename selectAreaLen to candPerPage.
• Added bEasySymbolInput.

What's New in libchewing 0.3.0 (May 15, 2006)

• This is a new development branch differing a lot from
  0.2.x series, and breaks API/ABI for new features.
• UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode
  environment.
• Porting layer for POSIX/Unix-like and Win32 to reduce the
  redundant porting process.
• New API design for better consistency.
• Merge the efforts from libchewing-data subproject, which
  means various phrases have been reviewed and corrected.
• Zuin fixes and symbol improvements.
• Support key 'j' / 'k' for paging in selection mode.
• Fix some internal memory management bugs and leaks.
• Improved internal test suite.
• New binary-form of user hash data to speed up loading and
  solve hash data corruption.
• Better calculating of internal tree and phone constants.
• Revised tsi.src for richer phrases and avoiding crashes.
• Merge phone and phrase from CNS11643.
• Reduce the amount for the expose for internal symbols.
• Improved Han-Yu PinYin to use table-lookup implementation.
• Experimental frequency-evaluation. (re-compute chewing
  lifetime)
• Implement the choice mechanism for pair symbols.
• Improved Tab handling to allow the switching over different
  frequency orders of candidated phrases.
• New auxiliary module for simpler API uses.
• Experimental memory-mapping based binary data handling to
  speed up data loading.
• Successful stories:
  . Sun Solaris 10 U2 and 11 will provide built-in Chewing
  IM support.
  . OXIM input method suite from OpenDesktop/OSSI provides
  Chewing support as its default input method.
  . New Win32-Chewing subproject to provide efficient input
  method solution on Microsoft Windows platforms.

What's New in libchewing 0.2.7 (Aug 8, 2005)

• Fix the keyboard type state changing bug.
• Add new function to specify the space as the selection
  key.
• Improved debug messages.
• Provide cutomized user-defined PinYin table support.
• Add termination mechanism.
• Successful stories:
  . Chewing has its Win32 porting (MS-IME) via OVIME (the
  Win32 port of OpenVanilla Input Method Framework).

What's New in libchewing 0.2.6 (Feb 28, 2005)

• Experimental feature -- HanYu PinYing Keyboard layout.
• Proper $HOME env handling.
• SegFault workaround after libtabe's tsi.src merge.
• Add the facility to input symbols.
• Successful stories:
  . Chewing becomes one of the built-in input methods in Sun
  Java Desktop System (JDS).

What's New in libchewing 0.2.5 (Dec 28, 2004)

• Merge SpaceChewing's frequency tweaking from zonble.
• Minor fixes for building process and zuin core.
• Successful stories:
  . IIIMF-chewing
  . SCIM-chewing
  . OpenVanilla Input Method Framework for MacOS X

What's New in libchewing 0.2.4

• Merge from SpaceChewing:
  . Dvorak Hsu keyboard layout.
  . Hanin style support.
• Directly use tsi.src from libtabe.
  . No longer maintain separate tsi.src.
• Fix the word selection bug.
• Fix phonetic index in Hsu keyboard, and do fuzzy "g e"
  to "j e" convertion.
• Provide pkg-config and RPM spec.
• Allow users to specify forward/backward phrase addition.
• Initial Win32 support.