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  19         <h3>Version 0.95.6 released</h3>
  20           <p> Window Maker 0.95.6 was released on August 30th 2014.</p>
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  22         <ul>
  23         <li>
  24          <p> Window Maker can now load WebP images and support ImageMagick library to support even more
  25              formats like SVG, BMP, TGA, ... (David Maciejak)
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  29         <li>
  30         <p> Add mini-window <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c6c7652e240f3bc49fb23939bc49eb042aff85ad"> apercu </a>, a small preview of
  31             window contents (David Maciejak)
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  34         <li>
  35         <p> Support for up to 9-buttons mouse added (David Maciejak)
  36         </li>
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  38         <li>
  39         <p> Many configuration options added to WPrefs.app (Doug Torrance)
  40         </li>
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  42         <li>
  43         <p> Add wmiv, an image viewer application (David Maciejak)
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  46         <li>
  47         <p>  Bug fixes and code cleanups by various people.</p<
  48         </li>
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  53         <h3>Version 0.95.5 released</h3>
  54           <p> Window Maker 0.95.5 was released on August 29th 2013.</p>
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  56         <ul>
  57         <li>
  58          <p>Window Maker can now maximize windows to the top/bottom halves of
  59         the screen as well as to the corners (top left, top right etc). The keyboard shortcuts to do that can be configured via WPrefs (Renan Traba).
  60         </p>
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  63         <li>
  64         <p> Support for <a href="http://www.dechelotte.com/en/wmaker.php"> drawers</a> in the dock has been added (Daniel Dechelotte).</p>
  65         </li>
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  67         <li>
  68         <p> Keyboard shortcuts to move windows between workspaces (Iain Patterson).</p>
  69         </li>
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  71         <li>
  72         <p> Window border colours and width are now configurable (Iain Patterson).</p>
  73         </li>
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  75         <li>
  76         <p> The menu is now able to parse command-generated <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c21ae6b580889d247408123a5c624abf6d784232"> proplist style menus</a>.
  77         WPrefs support for this has been added too (Andreas Bierfert).</p>
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  80         <li>
  81         <p> Plus a few other new features and a lot of bug fixes and code cleanups by various people.</p<
  82         </li>
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  85         </ul>
  86
  87         <h3>Version 0.95.4 released</h3>
  88           <p> Window Maker 0.95.4 was released on January 3rd 2013. There was a major code cleanup related to icons, some changes
  89               in WPrefs, the addition of a new "Center" placement strategy, support for _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS, the removal of CPP
  90               dependency to process menu files and small fixes and improvements all around.</p>
  91
  92         <h3>Version 0.95.3 released</h3>
  93           <p> Window Maker 0.95.3 was released on May 16th 2012. This release fixes a regression
  94           which would cause more than one instance of an application to start (under some circunstances) when using menu
  95           shortcuts. The window maximization procedures now have a more intuitive behavior with respect to remembering
  96           the old geometry and going back to it. Furthermore, there are some other small fixes and cleanups.</p>
  97
  98           <h3>Version 0.95.2 released</h3>
  99           <p> Window Maker 0.95.2 was released on February 14th 2012, and it contains just a few
 100           commits on top of 0.95.1. They were necessary to fix a few issues like 'make dist' not compiling.
 101           Furthermore a few more code cleanups slipped in.</p>
 102
 103
 104           <h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
 105
 106           <p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
 107
 108           <p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2005, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
 109           also a few new features.</p>
 110
 111           <h3>New features and highlights</h3>
 112
 113           <p>The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to the new features in this release.
 114           For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the only complete source of information.</p>
 115
 116           <ul>
 117             <li>
 118               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half / Right
 119               Half Maximize</a>.</p>
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 121
 122             <li>
 123               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus: tiled
 124               maximization</a>. Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others.</p>
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 127             <li>
 128               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse-resizing
 129               functionality</a>. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel (CTRL+Wheel).</p>
 130             </li>
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 132             <li>
 133               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History and TAB
 134               completion in dialogs</a>. To use this new functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant
 135               entry. It will look like this <code>(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code>. Or use
 136               <code>wmgenmenu</code> to generate a new menu.</p>
 137             </li>
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 139             <li>
 140               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
 141               effect</a>.</p>
 142             </li>
 143
 144             <li>
 145               <p>New applications (<a href=
 146               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu</a> and wmmenugen)
 147               to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your $PATH. Translations to
 148               German, <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish and
 149               French</a> of menus generated by wmgenmenu.</p>
 150             </li>
 151
 152             <li>
 153               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
 154               of configuration changes</a>. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
 155               "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
 156               automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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 159             <li>
 160               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
 161               recognition.</a></p>
 162             </li>
 163
 164             <li>
 165               <p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
 166               control whether or not Window Maker should do <a href=
 167               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
 168               switching</a> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace.</p>
 169             </li>
 170
 171             <li>
 172               <p>(For developers). The <a href=
 173               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition</a> of a debian/
 174               folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git sources.</p>
 175             </li>
 176
 177             <li>
 178               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
 179               shortcut to uncover/cover the dock</a>.</p>
 180             </li>
 181
 182             <li>
 183               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X-style
 184               window cycling</a>.</p>
 185             </li>
 186
 187             <li>
 188               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
 189               support</a> (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you want to
 190               test it).</p>
 191             </li>
 192           </ul>
 193
 194           <h3>Bug fixes</h3>
 195
 196           <p>Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this release. A <strong>very</strong>
 197           incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will be updated (including links to the commits) in the future.
 198           But the message now is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
 199
 200           <ul>
 201             <li>
 202               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
 203               states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
 204             </li>
 205
 206             <li>
 207               <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
 208               "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
 209             </li>
 210
 211             <li>
 212               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
 213               bug</a>.</p>
 214             </li>
 215           </ul>
 216
 217           <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
 218
 219           <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
 220           output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
 221           <pre>
 222 git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
 223  592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
 224 git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
 225  566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
 226 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
 227 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
 228 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
 229 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
 230 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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