| liblouis 3.3.0 has been released |
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| The liblouis developer team is proud to announce the liblouis release |
| 3.3.0. The release is available for download at: |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/releases |
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| Introduction |
| ============ |
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| Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator. It |
| features support for computer, literary and math braille, supports |
| contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages[1]. |
| It plays an important role in an open source accessibility stack and |
| is used by screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca and JAWS. A companion |
| project liblouisutdml[2] deals with formatting of braille. |
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| Changes in this release |
| ======================= |
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| This release brings a slew of Braille table improvements, fixes a |
| number of security related bugs and introduces a new tool to generate |
| liblouis Braille tables based on a corpus of know good Braille |
| translations. For a detailed list of all the changes refer to |
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| https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/milestone/13?closed=1 |
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| New features |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| maketable tool |
| -------------- |
| A new tool `lou_maketable' enables the creation of tables based on a |
| corpus of known good Braille translations. This has huge potential to |
| simplify table maintenance for tables that have so far been dominated |
| by large exception lists. Thanks to Bert Frees. |
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| Meta data query API |
| ------------------- |
| A new API and a corresponding command line tool to query table meta |
| data thanks to Bert Frees |
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| Bug fixes |
| ~~~~~~~~~ |
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| Back translation |
| ---------------- |
| - UEB grade 2 |
| - Fix back-translation of whole word contractions followed by other |
| contractions thanks to James Teh. |
| - Fix back-translation for contractions followed by punctuation |
| thanks to James Teh. |
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| Security |
| -------- |
| - Fix a number of CVEs (illegal address access, buffer overflow and |
| use-after-free or in terms of CVEs: CVE-2017-13738, CVE-2017-13739, |
| CVE-2017-13740, CVE-2017-13741, CVE-2017-13742 and CVE-2017-13744) |
| thanks to Mike Gorse. |
| - Fix CVE-2017-13743 thanks to Christian Egli. |
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| Braille table improvements |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| - New table for Croatian grade 1 Braille thanks to Zlatko Sobočan. |
| - Fixes and tests for Slovak Braille thanks to Simon Aittamaa |
| - Numerous fixes in the character definitions of the Spanish tables |
| thanks to Simon Aittamaa |
| - Unified French 6 dots and 8 dots improvements for back-translation |
| thanks to Michel Such |
| - Updates to the Chinese braille table thanks to Coscell Kao |
| - Updates to Nemeth character definitions thanks to Attila Hammer |
| - The Hungarian tables now conform to the new 2017 standard thanks to |
| Attila Hammer |
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| New, renamed or removed tables |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| New |
| --- |
| - hr-g1.ctb |
| - hr-g1.tbl |
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| Renamed |
| ------- |
| - hr.ctb -> hr-comp8.utb |
| - hr.tbl -> hr-comp8.tbl |
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| Next release |
| ============ |
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| The next release will be published on December 4, 2017 so please keep |
| up the excellent work and keep those improvements coming. |
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| Share and Enjoy! |
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| -- Christian Egli, on behalf of the liblouis developers |
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| Footnotes |
| ========= |
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| [1] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis/tree/master/tables |
| [2] See https://github.com/liblouis/liblouisutdml |
