Changelog for
xboard-4.9.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm :
* Sun Aug 07 2016 astiegerAATTsuse.com- xboard 4.9.1:
* Fix crash when logging out from ICS
* Defer book faking input move until ping balance
* Fix setting up btm positions with \'edit\'
* Fix bare King adjudication
* Fix check testing in games without King
* Fix disambiguating Pawn moves in Xiangqi
* Fix King leaving Palace in Xiangqi
* Fix compile error Xaw build
* Sun May 22 2016 aloisioAATTgmx.com- Update to 4.9.0 (see https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.9.0/ ) New features in this release:
* Running EPD test suites
* Getting instant help (XB)
* Editing castling rights in a position
* Use mouse wheel to set up position (XB)
* Allow engine to pop up its settings dialog
* Specifying ultra-fast games (XB)
* Installing board themes from packages (XB)
* Using a single-button mouse
* A special directory for start positions
* Allow terminal-less ICS play (XB)
* Sound warnings in analysis mode
* Changing fonts through the GUI (XB)
* Automatic adapting of fonts to board size (XB)
* Instant preview of the board theme (XB)
* Editing theme list or ICS text menu (XB) New variant support:
* New piece types
* Allowing more than 26 piece types
* More flexible piece promotion
* Restricting promotion choice
* New configurable move types
* Inscribing pieces with text
* Setting rules from the command line
* Allow inaccessible squares
* Load Shogi games in .kif format Fixed bugs:
* Fix crash on using Game List Tags dialog when Game List was not up.
* Fix Browse buttons in Tournament Options dialog.
* Fix file-type drop-down in Xaw file-selector dialog.
* Fix crash on pasting garbage FEN.
* Fix crash on loading empty PGN file.
* Fix hanging on non-existent texture file (XB).
* Fix spurious copying instead of moving in Edit Position mode.
* Do not delay showing book changes while editing book.
* Fix spurious clearing of Engine Output panes when PV walking.
* Fix remembering tourney file and (WB) ticking of auto-step boxes in Tournament Options dialog when using Continue Later.
* Ignore Continue Later button in Tournament Options when match in progress.
* Fix closing of Error popup from Tournament Options dialog.
* Prevent popup of Time Control dialog during game in XBoard.
* Improve horizontal sizing of menu bar by better clipping of the menu names.
* Fix date measurement in -addMaster option.
* Wait for engine when switching to Edit Game mode when first engine is thinking.
* Fix defaulting of second engine to first when UCI flag or directory specified (XB).
* Cosmetic
* Print mate scores in #N format also in message field.
* Fix sorting of #N mate scores in Engine Output window (where smaller N is better).
* Show moves as SAN in Edit Book window.
* Display exclusion header in Engine Output window only for engines that support move exclusion.
* Gray-out Machine Match menu when match already scheduled for termination.
* Update user logo when username is changed.
* Prevent old logos from remaining (partially) visible when new one does not exist or has deviant format.
* Use result mentioned in game to reconstruct missing PGN Result tag, rather than considering it \'unfinished\'.
* Fix highlight clearing in Edit Position mode.
* Fix highlighting of last move after rejection of premove.
* Improve pointing of highlight arrow and its erasure.
* Fix thick border around saved diagrams (WB).
* Ignore grabbing / selecting opponent pieces in Analyze mode.
* GTK build
* Provide OK and Cancel buttons in top-level windows (that want them) for GTK build.
* Fix periodic updates during analysis for GTK build.
* Fix highlighting text in Engine Output and Move History windows GTK build.
* Repair flashing of moved piece in GTK build (flaky!).
* Allow default context menu to appear on \'off-target\' right-clicks in GTK build.
* Define mnemonic keys for items on menu bar.
* Remember last browsed folder per file type rather than globally in GTK build.
* OSX App
* Save settings on quitting through menu in OSX App.
* Fix behavior on case-sensitive OS X file systems.
* Fix creation of spurious XBoard instances on OS X.
* ICS and zippy mode
* Fix crashing of Xaw build in ICS-zippy mode when opponent kibitzes and chat window is open.
* Fix spurious undo at start of ICS game in zippy mode immediately after previous game was resigned.
* Fix width of secondary board (for ICS background observe) in the GTK build.
* Logout from ICS after engine failure in zippy mode.
* Prevent bell character from being printed in ICS Console window.
* Variants
* Fix behavior of engine-defined castling moves w.r.t. board holes and King rank.
* Fix e.p. capture of triply-pushed Pawns.
* Fix accepting illegal drops with legality testing off.
* Fix higlight-induced promotions (moves to squares marked purple by the engine).
* Fix sweep-promotion problems (black Pawns in Shogi, up-clicks in from-square, spurious promotion popups).
* Fix spurious promotion suffix on drop moves parsed after a promotion move.
* Fix sending of spurious \'lift\' command to engine on deselecting a piece.
* Fix parsing of SAN moves for pieces with redefined moves when legality testing is off.
* Fix pasting FENs that start with an inaccessible square.
* The GUI book code can now handle up to 48 (unpromoted) piece types, and boards up to 256 squares.
* Allow promotion choice in variant ASEAN (to support the corresponding rule change).
* Fix bare-king adjudication correction for Atomic, where a bare King beats an exploded one.
* Fix pasting of moves immediately after starting from position file.
* Reset old piece redefinitions when loading new game.
* Fix setting of piece virginity from reading PGN.
* Fix variant switching triggered by engine load.- Updated xboard.keyring from pgp.mit.edu
* Mon Nov 03 2014 arunAATTgmx.de- xboard 4.8.0: (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.8.0/ )
* New features in this release
* Resuming saved unfinished games
* Setting up positions more easily
* Bitbase adjudication
* Showing tablebase hits
* A new ICS window
* Recalling board themes (XBoard)
* Playing moves by clicking them
* Fonts in the XBoard GTK build
* Using the mousewheel (XBoard)
* Displaying a blunder graph
* Slicing up a PGN database
* Auto-install of engines
* New variant support
* ASEAN Chess
* Chu Shogi
* Mighty Lion
* Highlighting squares on engine command
* Let the engine finish a user move
* Non-standard variant names
* Fischer castling in any variant
* Knowing the moves of unknown pieces
* Fixed bugs
* Fix crash on using some Browse buttons in dialogs of the GTK build.
* Fix buffer overflow in PGN parser, when all lines end in comments.
* Fix crash on specifying non-existent board texture.
* Prevent crash on double-click in XB Game List Tags dialog.
* Fix the auto-display comment control in the General Options dialog of WinBoard, which was ignored.
* Fix adjusting clocks by clicking them in Xaw build.
* Fix zooming of Evaluation Graph XB with mousewheel, which was not working at all.
* Fix sticky-windows feature WB for Windows 8, where it did not work at all.
* WinBoard\'s seek graph is now sized to also cover any board rim.
* Key bindings XB for non menu items are no longer ignored.
* Set castling rights correctly after loading of game file from command line.
* Allow castling and e.p. moves to be edited into opening book (and prevent their disappearance from it).
* The sorting of engine output was made more robust against engines that send thinking output on fail lows.
* Fix node-count display, which was clipped to 32 bits.
* Suppress board-size oscillations in GTK build.
* Fixed detection of screen size in GTK. (This is a mixed blessing, as now it picks the largest possible window size, and in GTK interactive down-sizing is not possible.)
* Fix mode highlighting after refusal of Two Machines mode because 2nd engine did not support variant.
* Blow up textures that are too small.
* Ignore invalid color specs in stead of treating them as black (important because Cairo does not understand old xpm color names).
* Prevent XB and WB from becoming unresponsive during lengthy tasks such as book building.
* Fix slowdown of WB during loading of huge PGN files due to Game-List window update.
* Limit width of menu bar for small board sizes in GTK build.
* Improve the code to kill rogue engines in XB.
* Drawing of pieces outside the board (in maximaized windows), which left lots of debris, is now suppressed.
* Make WB window sizing handle multiple screens.
* 50-move counter is no longer reset on Chess960 castlings.
* Fix legality testing of A-side castling in FRC (which was allowed with Rook on a- and blocker on b-file).
* Fixed piece ID of Falcon in Falcon Chess, which was written as \'.\' and could not be selected on promotion.
* Fix cross-edge e.p. captures in Cylinder Chess (which was not recognized as e.p.).
* Fix animation of Seirawan Chess castling + gating at Rook square, which made Rook disappear.
* Fix adjudication of stalemates in variant Giveaway.
* Display of the variant tag in the Game List now works.
* Reset move entry (clearing target-square markers) on \'clear board\' in Edit Position mode.
* The Game List is automatically updated when you alter the tag selection for the game lines.
* Indicate current variant in New Variant dialog of the GTK build (by printing it in boldface on the button).
* Known Problems
* GTK: in a tiling window manager the size of the board seems to be calculated incorrectly. A temporary fix for this is to use a fixed size by using the \"-size
\" and \"-fixedSize true\" options on the command line.
* Wed Oct 08 2014 andreas.stiegerAATTgmx.de- xboard 4.7.3:
* Fix buffer overflow in parser on long PGN with scores
* Allow castling and e.p. capture moves to survive when editing opening book
* Fix node-count overflow in engine output
* Better sorting of fail-low lines in engine output
* Fix Chess960 a-side castling legality check
* Fix position search in Chess960
* Fix adjudication of Giveaway stalemates
* Adapt WinBoard window positioning to work with multiple screens
* Cure some weirdness in XBoard when dragging pieces outside the board
* Some dialog layout improvements to facilitate internationalization
* Fix crash on using some dialog Browse buttons in GTK version
* Connect manual menu item work in GTK version- clean spec file- use verbatim upstream tarball- add source URLs- verify source signature- fix SLE build
* Sat Nov 23 2013 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to 4.7.2-- Version 4.7.2 (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.2/ ) bugfix release for 4.7.1
* Make PGN parser immune to unprotected time stamps
* Fix book creation
* Fix GUI book after setup position
* Allow drops / promotions/ deferrals to be edited into book
* Allow entry of negative numbers in spin control (WB)
* Fix grabbing of selected piece
* Fix initial board sizing WB
* Fix -zippyVariants option-- Version 4.7.1 (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.1/ ) bugfix release for 4.7.0
* updated translations
* fixed texinfo 5.0 problems
* Work-around for Xt selection bug
* Add -backupSettingsFile option
* Make skipping of unknown option smarter
* Let popping up of WinBoard chatbox for channel open it
* Fix vertical sizing of GTK board
* Fix buffer overflow in feature parsing
* Accept setup command for non-standard board size
* Fix fatal error on unsupported board size
* Fix GTK box popup
* Let XBoard -autoBox option also affect move type-in
* Fix spurious popup after batch-mode Analyze Game
* Fix saving of analyzed game
* Provide compatibility with Alien Edition setup command
* Fix quoting of book name in tourney file
* Fix disappearence of pieces that were moved illegally
* Fix horrible bug in reading scores from PGN
* Print score of final position in Analyze Game
* Fix GTK SetInsertPos
* Fix scrolling of Chat Box
* Make Chat Box window obey -topLevel option
* Fix Xaw file browser
* Update zippy.README
* Sun Feb 24 2013 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to 4.7.0 (see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.7.0/ )
* Code refactoring of XBoard
* The old X11 front-end has been largely rewritten, so that all windows are now created by a single generic routine
* XBoard now uses the Cairo library for all drawing
* Pixmaps and bitmaps no longer supported; XBoard now uses PNG and SVG images instead.
* An alternative (as yet experimental) front-end using GTK has been added
* Interactive Analysis
* Excluding moves from analysis by playing them
* Excluded-moves header in Engine Output window
* Analyzing with two engines simultaneously
* Annotating an entire muti-game file
* Analysing positions by Monte-Carlo play
* Other New Functionality
* Displaying player logos (XB)
* Player logo on ICS can be based on player handle
* Chat boxes for XBoard
* Narrowing down of position searches
* Copying pieces when editing a position
* Starting WinBoard through drag & drop
* Recalling fully configured engines and ICS
* Creating an opening book from a game file
* Pausing a game
* Automatically observing partner games with dual-board
* Interface Improvements
* Recognizes file type of lone argument by extension
* Default startup settings configurable per mode
* Separate menu items for loading 1st and 2nd engine
* Engines can be selected from listboxes
* Grouping of engines in the installed-engines list
* Stay in Analyze or Game Start mode after engine loading
* \'Continue Later\' button in WB tournament dialog
* A new --help option (XB)
* A second board window for observing ICS games (XB)
* Smoother graphics and a resizable board (XB)
* A rejuvenated file browser (XB Xaw)
* Scrolling listboxes with mouse wheel (XB Xaw)
* Tabbing through dialog etry fields (XB Xaw)
* Adapt width of auxilliary windows on board resize (WB)
* External piece bitmaps (WB)
* Border around the board (WB)
* Saving settings as themes (WB)
* Bug fixes
* Grayout of Analysis menu item in zippy mode
* Crash on flagging in -st mode
* Keep track of virginity in variant seirawan FENs
* Immunity to capitalized promo pieces
* Avoid board sizes with unavailabile variant pieces
* Work-around for FICS violation of SAN
* Check validity of tourney participants
* Loop-Chess promotions with legality testing on
* Fix -fSAN option in Analyze File mode
* Scrolling of Engine Output after PV walk (XB)
* Start browsing in currently-selected folder (WB)
* Allow entry of fractional timeIncrement (WB)
* Resolve conflict between -mps and -inc options
* Size of mini-Shogi promotion zone
* Adjudication of stalemate and perpetuals in Shogi
* Rep-draw detection in drop games
* Insufficient-material draws in Knightmate
* Replacing of engine in non-last game position
* Sweep selection of promo-piece in click-click move
* Don\'t save aborted games in tourney PGN
* Remember ponder, book and other settings in tourney file
* Do not erase PGN tags on engine loading
* Solved feature problems with engine loading in match mode
* Re-send option settings to -xreuse engine
* Allow use of \'shadow\' promotion pieces in any variant
* WinBoard did not always start in its installation folder
* Initialization of \'Twice\' checkbox in Tournament dialog (WB)
* Clearing of marker dots after mode or settings change
* some smaller bugfixes
* Sun May 06 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- patch not needed after removing autoreconf
* Sun May 06 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- test if patch is needed
* Sun May 06 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- fix more build errors: update buildrequires, fix wrong filename in %install, remove autoreconf call
* Sat May 05 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- fixed issues with spec file reported by RedDwarf:
* changed jobs to _smp_flags
* removed Required(post)/Required(postun) that were not needed
* removed calls to xdg-icon-resource and installed them directly in %install
* Wed Apr 18 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to 4.6.2 bugfix relase for 4.6.1
* Suppress clear-board message after pasting FEN
* Fix faking of castling rights after editing position with holdings
* Fix second-engine variant test
* Tue Apr 17 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- added dependency on autoconf
* Tue Apr 17 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- removed duplicated suse_update_desktop_file
* Tue Apr 17 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- patched gettext version, so that autoreconf (autopoint) doesn\'t complain
* Tue Apr 17 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- fixed spec file
* Tue Apr 17 2012 arunAATTgmx.de- updated spec file- updated to version 4.6.1 changes from 4.6.1 to 4.6.0: bugfix release for 4.6.0
* Fix memory corruption bug on second-engine loading (through menu or in tournament), which could destroy -firstInitString
* Fix bug loading a new engine through the menu (not loading it with the full game, but just upto the current move)
* Prefix engine command with \"./\" when a pathname is split up during install, so the engine actually runs (XB)
* Fix fall-back to -ncp mode when engine does not start (cutting short the feature timeout)
* Fix bug in position search for FRC castlings (where a King could \'fall off\' the board)
* Add a message to inform the user how to clear the board, in sweep-select edit-position mode
* Fix a bug that could stop the clock when the board window was dragged (XB)
* Fix switching off highlighting during game (so last highlights do not remain for the rest of the game)
* Allow user to enter the name of a non-existing file when browsing for a save file (WB)
* Make sure rarely used engine-related options (such as -firstNPS) are also correctly loaded during session
* Correctly handle parsing of Crazyhouse promotions with legality-testing off
* Fix click-click detour under-promotions, which were not working for non-captures
* Don\'t strip path from engine command if directory is explicitly given in Load Engine dialog
* Consistently make auxiliary windows top level-shells or not, with new -topLevel option (XB)
* No longer fatal if second engine does not support current variant (just refuse Two Machines mode)
* Scroll XBoard game list to keep selected item in view (XB)
* Suppress spurious error popup when starting observing of bughouse games
* Fix vertical axis ticks in eval graph with drop games
* Put title on same line as menu bar only for -size 72 and larger (with -titleInWindow, XB)
* Properly open and close debug file when switching debug mode through key binding Ctrl-D (XB) changes for 4.6.0: (for a more detailed list with screenshots see http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new/4.6.0/ )
* Engine vs. Engine
* Loading and installing engines through the menu
* Running tournaments with more than two partipants
* Stopping a match between two engines
* Replacing a tourney participant
* Playing openings in color-reversed pairs
* Perpetual chasing in Xiangqi
* Interface Improvements
* Auto-Queen, and still under-promote?
* Piece fonts and figurine fonts
* Displaying PVs as SAN
* Small scores in the Eval Graph
* How close is the 50-move draw?
* Sign of the engine scores
* Loading frequently used engines
* Collapsing groups of engines
* Interactive Analysis
* Playing moves from the PV
* Rapidly changing the number of PVs
* Setting the other side to move in analysis
* Annotating a game with an engine
* Other New Functionality
* Searching a position in a PGN file
* Editing the opening book
* Recording game sequence number in PGN
* Each tourney game its own debug file
* XBoard -> WinBoard Convergence
* Exporting the game list (XB)
* A move type-in box (XB)
* New-style Move History window (XB)
* Associating XBoard with file types
* Many Windows behave as one (XB)
* Sun Oct 02 2011 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to version 4.5.3- For a summary of changes visit: http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new.html
* Sat Apr 30 2011 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to version 4.5.2- For a summary of changes visit: http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new.html- changes in packaging: includes sounds and bitmaps files
* Mon Feb 21 2011 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to version 4.5.1- changed to Xaw instead of Xaw3d (due to a bug in the Xaw3d version)- updated license information in .spec file to GPL 3.0- .desktop file is now included, removed the patch- For changes in the program visit: http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/whats_new.html
* Thu Aug 19 2010 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to version 4.4.4
* Sun Apr 04 2010 arunAATTgmx.de- updated to version 4.4.3
* Fri Feb 05 2010 arunAATTgmx.de- updated link to homepage in spec file
* Fri Dec 11 2009 sbrabecAATTsuse.cz- Updated to version 4.4.2.