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GNU XaoS Changelog

What's new in GNU XaoS 3.5

Jul 20, 2009
  • New Portuguese translation courtesy of Lucio Henrique de Arujo and Zelia Maria Horta Garcia
  • Fixed crash bug when using -render command line option with user formulas (Mateusz Malczak)
  • Removed support for unmaintained platforms (DOS, BeOS, Plan 9, etc.)
  • Updated documentation to reflect infrastructure changes (Discussion and issue tracking have moved to Google Groups and Google Code)
  • Additional fractal examples by J.B. Langston

New in GNU XaoS 3.4 (Jun 5, 2008)

  • Cross-platform changes
  • New Italian translation courtesy of Sergio Zanchetta
  • Updated catalog and i18n for German by Andreas Madritsch
  • Bug fix to prevent garbled characters when using non-English languages
  • on modern systems using UTF-8
  • Bug fix to prevent XaoS from crashing after using the Render Animation
  • functionality
  • Bug fix to prevent incorrect colors on smooth coloring modes with
  • certain video modes
  • Mac-specific changes
  • This is a huge release for Mac users. The Mac user interface has been
  • completely rewritten in Cocoa and improved in a number of ways:
  • Standard Aqua dialog boxes instead of the strange-looking Unixy things
  • in previous versions. Fields in dialog boxes now support cut and paste
  • as you would expect.
  • Pop-up menus are now displayed using standard Aqua menus
  • Menu bar in full-screen mode is now the standard Mac OS X menu bar. It
  • automatically slides into view when you move your mouse to the top of
  • the screen and slides out when you move away from it.
  • XaoS now has a standard Aqua about dialog box, which displays links to
  • license and credits in help file.
  • Help is now displayed via Mac OS X's standard help viewer. Tutorials
  • can still be launched via links in the help viewer.
  • Support for opening xpf (Saved Position) and xaf (Saved Animation)
  • files directly from Finder via drag and drop and by double-clicking.
  • XaoS now includes its own document icon for these files as well.
  • Support for basic AppleScriptability via the standard script
  • dictionary. Includes things like opening files and manipulating the
  • window, but no XaoS-specific functionality.
  • Support for panning the fractal with the mouse scroll wheel or
  • trackpad two-finger gestures.
  • In addition to the user interface improvements, XaoS for Mac has the
  • following improvements:
  • Now uses greater precision (long double) for calculations to enable
  • much deeper zooms.
  • In addition to English, XaoS for Mac OS X now supports the following
  • languages: Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, and
  • Spanish.
  • Integration with Stone Design's Videator (http://stone.com/Videator/).
  • XaoS can now send live a live video stream to Videator, which can then
  • do post-processing using Mac OS X's core video technology. This is
  • great for VJing (live video performance art). See
  • http://stone.com/Videator/VJ.html for more details.
  • Edge Detection and Pseudo 3D filters now work correctly. Fixed a
  • bug that previously caused them to render the image completely black.
  • Experimental GTK Port
  • An experimental GTK user interface has been added in the src/ui/ui-drv/gtk
  • directory. Eventually we hope to replace the old X11 interface with this
  • one so that XaoS will blend in seamlessly with the GNOME environment.
  • Right now, this port is incomplete and it should be considered an alpha-
  • quality preview. As such, the GTK port will not be compiled by default.
  • You must explicitly enable it using the following configure switch:
  • --with-gtk-driver=yes
  • In addition, we recommend you disable all other drivers when using the GTK
  • driver using the following configure switches:
  • --with-x11-driver=no
  • --with-dga-driver=no
  • --with-ggi-driver=no
  • --with-aa-driver=no
  • Please do not report bugs against the GTK driver. We know that it is very
  • buggy and we are working to rapidly improve it. If you want to help with the
  • GTK driver's development, please contact the xaos-devel mailing list first,
  • since it is likely that your patches could conflict with the rapid development
  • that is taking place on this driver.

New in GNU XaoS 3.3 (Mar 18, 2008)

  • The big new feature in this release is user-defined formulas. XaoS can now plot any fractal formula that you can come up with.