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diff --git a/genqrcode/NEWS b/genqrcode/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aa9aba274d --- /dev/null +++ b/genqrcode/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@ +libqrencode NEWS - Overview of changes +====================================== + +Version x.x.x (2020.xx.xx) +-------------------------- +* Command line tool "qrencode" has been improved: + * The effects of '--type' option's 'ASCII' and 'ASCIIi' have been swapped. + (Thanks to Yannick Schinko) +* Some minor bug fixes. (Thanks to Darsey Litzenberger and Edward E.) +* Some performance improvements. + + +Version 4.1.1 (2020.9.28) +------------------------- +* Some minor bugs in Micro QR Code generation have been fixed. + * The data capacity calculations are now correct. These bugs probably did not + affect the Micro QR Code generation. + + +Version 4.1.0 (2020.8.29) +------------------------- +* Command line tool "qrencode" has been improved: + * New option "--inline" has been added. (Thanks to @jp-bennett) + * New option "--strict-version" has been added. + * UTF8 mode now supports ANSI256 color. (Thanks to András Veres- + Szentkirályi) +* Micro QR Code no longer requires to specify the version number. +* 'make check' allows to run the test programs. (Thanks to Jan Tojnar) +* Some compile time warnings have been fixed. +* Various CMake support improvements. (Thanks to @mgorny and @sdf5) +* Some minor bug fixes. (Thanks to Lonnie Abelbeck and Frédéric Wang) +* Some documentation/manpage improvements. (Thanks to Dan Jacobson) +* Some performance improvements. (Thanks to @4061N and Mika Lindqvist) + +Release Note: +The internal representation of the output code has been slightly changed - +the second bit from LSB side now represents; 1:ECC bit / 0:data bit. +This change is only for debug purposes and does not affect user applications. + + +Version 4.0.2 (2018.6.6) +------------------------ +* Build script fixes. (Thanks to @mgorny) + + +Version 4.0.1 (2018.6.4) +------------------------ +* CMake support improved. +* New test scripts have been added. +* Some compile time warnings have been fixed. + + +Version 4.0.0 (2017.9.21) +------------------------- +* Memory efficiency has been improved. +* QRcode_clearCache() has been deprecated. +* Error correction code generating functions have been improved. +* Command line tool "qrencode" has been improved: + * XPM support. (Thanks to Tobias Klauser) + * PNG32 (direct color mode) support. (Thanks to Greg Hart) + * EPS output now supports foreground and background color. + * New options "-r" and "--svg-path" have been added. + (Thanks to Robert Petersen and @Oblomov) +* CMake support has been added. (optional) (Thanks to @misery) +* Various bug fixes. +* Various performance improvements. + +Release Note: +While the API has not been changed since the previous major release, we +incremented the major version number of libqrencode to 4 because the +implementation of the library has been largely changed. + +This release improves the performance and memory footprints of code generation. + +Now you can build libqrencode with CMake. + +If you build the test programs, please note that the required SDL version has +been changed from 1.2 to 2.0. + + +Version 3.4.4 (2014.7.24) +------------------------- +* Bug fix release. (Thanks to Yoshimichi Inoue) +* New option "--verbose" has been added to the command line tool. + +Release Note: +When only one symbol is generated in structured-append mode, the library had +inserted unnecessary chunk to the symbol and some QR Code readers fail to read +it. Now the library omits the chunk and generate a symbol identical to non- +structured symbol. + + +Version 3.4.3 (2013.8.12) +------------------------- +* New option "--rle" has been added to the command line tool (Thanks to Daniel + Dörrhöfer) +* Bug fixes. (Thanks to Hassan Hajji, Emmanuel Blot, and ßlúèÇhîp) + +Release Note: +This release contains a couple of bug fixes and a new minor feature of the +command line tool. Some minor bugs in the library have been fixed. + +Run Length Encoding (RLE) for SVG output decreases the size of the output file, +but it makes complicated to edit the image by SVG editors. A newly introduced +command line option "--rle" enables RLE. RLE will not be applied if it is not +given. + + +Version 3.4.2 (2013.3.1) +------------------------ +* Bug fix release. (Thanks to chisj, vlad417, Petr and Viona) + +Release Note: +Micro QR Code encoder had a bug that caused incorrect output (issue #25). Now +the bug has been fixed. Memory leak bug (#24) and insufficient string splitting +bug have been fixed. + + +Version 3.4.1 (2012.10.17) +-------------------------- +* Bug fix release. + +Release Note: +Mutual exclusion did not work correctly since 3.3.1. If your application uses +libqrencode in multithreaded environment, it is strongly recommended to update +it. + + +Version 3.4.0 (2012.10.15) +-------------------------- +* SVG, UTF8, and ANSIUTF8 output supports have been added to the command line + tool. (Thanks to Dan Storm, David Dahl, and Lennart Poettering) +* Colored QR Code support. +* Bug fixes. (Thanks to Terry Burton, Fred Steinhaeuser, and Yann Droneaud) + +Release Note: +Three new output format, SVG, UTF8, and ANSIUTF8 have been added to the command +line tool. UTF8 and ANSIUTF8 are another text art mode, using Unicode block +elements for high-resolution text output. Long-awaited colored QR code has been +introduced. Try "--foreground" and "--background" options to set the colors. +Currently PNG and SVG supports colored output. + + +Version 3.3.1 (2012.4.18) +------------------------- +* Bugs in command line tool, manual, configure script, and libtool files have + been fixed. (Thanks to Yutaka Niibe and Rob Ryan) + + +Version 3.3.0 (2012.4.1) +------------------------- +* EPS, ANSI, and ASCII text output supports have been added. + (Thanks to Zapster, Colin, and Ralf) +* QRcode_APIVersion() and QRcode_APIVersionString() have been added. + +Release Note: +Three new output format, EPS, ANSI, and ASCII text, have been added to the +command line tool. ANSI and ASCII mode ignore "-size" option. Give "-t ASCIIi" +to get an ASCII-mode symbol in inverted color. + +QRcode_APIVersion() is requested by Matthew Baker for better support of Python +ctypes binding. Check them out at https://code.google.com/p/libqrencode-ctypes/ + + +Version 3.2.1 (2012.4.1) +------------------------ +* Bugs in configure script and libtool file has been fixed. (Thanks to Yutaka + Niibe) + + +Version 3.2.0 (2011.11.26) +-------------------------- +* "--dpi" (or "-d") option has been added to qrencode. This option set DPI + information in an output PNG image. (Thanks to David Dahl) +* New option "--enable-thread-safety" has been added to the configure script + that makes the library thread-safe. It is enabled by default. +* QRcode_encodeData(), QRcode_encodeDataMQR, QRcode_encodeDataStructured() have + been added for binary data encoding including '\0'. +* Typo and bug fixes. +* Experimental Micro QR Code support has been added. +* "--micro" (or "-M") option for Micro QR Code has been added to qrencode. + (experimental) + +Release Note: +Binary data including '\0' is now supported. To encode a binary data, give "-8" +option to qrencode, and let qrencode obtain data via standard input like +"qrencode -8 -o output.png < binary". "--dpi" and "-d" are also added to embed +DPI information to PNG file. + +A bug in the mask pattern evaluation routine has been fixed. In some cases, +libqrencode may generate a different symbol from the one that was generated by +the prior libqrencode because of this bug fix, but the embedded data are not +affected. The symbols generated by the old libqrencode are valid. + +Experimental support of Micro QR Code encoder has been added. Some functions +(QRcode_*MQR()) have been added to the library. The command line tool generates +Micro QR Code when "--micro" or "-M" is given. + + +Version 3.1.1 (2010.2.3) +------------------------ +* A bug in the library has been fixed. + +Release Note: +Libqrecode had generated incorrect QR Code in some cases. Symbols larger than +version 5 (error correction level Q and H) were affected. In many cases this +bug did not cause serious damage thanks to the error correction mechanism, but +we highly recommend you to encode symbols again using this release. + + +Version 3.1.0 (2009.6.6) +------------------------ +* Various code cleanups and performance improves. +* Strict internal error checks have been added. +* "--without-tests" has become default setting. Specify "--with-tests" to + compile test programs. +* Some memory leak bugs have been fixed. + +Release Note: +This release focuses on the code cleanup and performance improve. Encoding time +has been improved, drastically in large symbols. Basically this update only +changes its internal code. The API is not changed, no need to recompile user +applications that includes only qrencode.h. If your application refers the +internal data representation (not recommended), see ChangeLog for further +information. + + +Version 3.0.3 (2008.6.1) +------------------------ +* Portability enhancement. (Thanks to Gavan Fantom) +* The command line tool "qrencode" now accepts long options. See the man page + for the detailed instruction. + +Release Note: +This release improves the portability of our command line tool "qrencode". +The library is not changed so that any applications using libqrencode are not +affected. + +From this release, qrencode accepts "long" options, such as "--help". See the +manpage for the detailed instructions. + +Qrencode now uses getopt_long() instead of getopt_long_only() which is not +available in some operating systems. If the getopt_long() is not provided or +the implementation of it is not compatible with GNU's one, please try +qrencode-3.0.3-gnulib, that contains the source code of the getopt_long(). +Gnulib version is a test release. If you feel happy with it, please let us know +and the future releases will include gnulib. + + +Version 3.0.2 (2008.5.18) +------------------------- +* Some compile-time warnings/errors with g++ have been fixed. + (Thanks to wangsai) +* The bit order of "Version information" has been corrected. + Symbols greater than version 6 were affected. (Thanks to Paul Janssesn) +* The "--without-tests" option has been added to the configure script. + + +Version 3.0.1 (2008.5.9) +------------------------ +* A bug fix for non-POSIX platform. (Thanks to Paul Janssens) +* The RPM spec file now packages the man page correctly. + + +Version 3.0.0 (2008.4.30) +------------------------- +* The interface of QRencode_encodeInput() has been changed. User applications + using it must be modified. +* Structured append support has been added. (patches from Yusuke Mihara) +* The "-S" option for structured append has been added to qrencode and + view_qrcode. +* Some functions now set errno to indicate errors. +* Some bug fixes. + +Release Note: +Now libqrencode supports "structured-append" of symbols. A large data set can +be split into multiple QR code symbols. The basic usage of structured-append +is not so different from the single symbol encoding: just call +QRcode_encodeStringStructured() or QRcode_encodeString8bitStructured() and +they return a list of symbols. Instead of giving a string, you can encode +an explicitly typed data. See the manual generated by Doxygen for the detailed +usage. + +Many thanks to Yusuke Mihara, who contributed a patch to add support of +structured-append to version 1.0.2. + +API changes: + +* Incompatible API changes: + - QRencode_encodeInput +* New types: + - QRinput_Struct + - QRcode_List +* New functions: + - QRinput_new2 + - QRinput_Struct_new + - QRinput_Struct_setParity + - QRinput_Struct_appendInput + - QRinput_Struct_free + - QRinput_Struct_insertStructuredAppendHeaders + - QRinput_splitQRinputToStruct + - QRcode_encodeStructuredInput + - QRcode_encodeStringStructured + - QRcode_encodeString8bitStructured + - QRcode_List_size + - QRcode_List_free +* Declarations moved to qrencode.h: + - QRinput_getErrorCorrectionLevel + - QRinput_setErrorCorrectionLevel + - QRinput_getVersion + - QRinput_setVersion + + +Version 2.0.0 (2008.1.24) +------------------------- +* "-i" option to ignore case distinctions has been added to qrencode and + view_qrcode. +* "-c" option (case-sensitive mode) of qrencode is now enabled by default and + has been improved. See details in Release Note section. +* "-8" option has been added to qrencode to encode whole data in 8-bit mode. +* tests/view_qrcode now accepts various options like qrencode. +* Man page has been added. +* Code cleanup. +* The mask evaluation bug has been fixed. (Philippe Delcroix) + +* API changes + - QRcode_encodeString() now receives case-sensitive flag. + - QRcode_encodeStringCase() has been removed. + - QRcode_encodeString8bit() has been added. + +Release Note: +Previously libqrencode encodes lower-case alphabet characters in Alphabet- +Numeric mode (upper-case alphabet and numeric) by default. According to the +specification of QR code, however, it is clearly claimed that Alphabet-Numeric +mode provides only upper-case alphabet (+ numeric and some symbol) characters. +Since this version, libqrencode distinguishes lower-case and upper-case of +alphabet characters by default. Because of that, "-c" option of qrencode +is now deprecated, and "-i" option has been added. By giving "-i", qrencode +converts lower-case characters to upper-case if possible, then encode a QR code +symbol. Please read qrencode.h for the details about API changes if you are +going to use this library. + +Many thanks to NANKI Haruo for his suggestions. + + +Version 1.0.2 (2007.03.24) +-------------------------- +* A small bug fix. (Thanks to NANKI Haruo) +* 'extern "C"' barrier has been added to qrencode.h. + + +Version 1.0.1 (2006.12.27) +-------------------------- +* Added "force 8-bit encoding mode". +* Configure script finds libpng's header correctly. + + +Version 1.0.0 (2006.12.12) +-------------------------- +* The first public release. |