* Known bugs not documented elsewhere:

** get/setkeycodes and resizecons are known not to compile on some
  architectures. As I don't know for which feature to check to decide whether
  they can/have-to be built, they are built by default, but can be
  disabled using "configure" command-line, if compilation fails
  because these features lack. See "configure --help".


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1998.08.11:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** First support for the new KDFONTOP kernel interface, up to date with
  kernel 2.1.115 (no support for custom font-width yet).

*** Support for CP file-format was temporarily dropped.  It should
  come back with the next release.

*** New keymap `sundvorak'.

*** Updated keymaps for Linux/Atari.

*** New keymap include file vim-compose-latin1.inc, to get VIM-like
  compose sequences.

*** showcfont(1) now uses a 32-column layout when displaying a
  512-chars font, so that it fits on a standard 80x25 screen.

*** charset(1) is now documented.

*** Real implementation of high-level libcfont has begun.

*** XPSF draft file-format has been revised.  Implementation should
  start with the next release.  Please comment.


** Corrected bugs:

*** Writing an SFM in a PSF file was not bigendian-safe.

*** consolechars(8) could be interrupted by a SIGCHLD while reading a
  font.

*** unicode_{start,stop} are now more robust; they had problem when
  the keyboard and display modes were out-of-sync.

*** showcfont(1) was still documented in showfont.1.

====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1998.06.03:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** Up to date with kbd 0.96a.

*** `showfont' has been renamed to "showcfont" to avoid a name-clash
  with an xcontrib program.

*** `consolechars' now accepts a --g1 option, which activates the G1
  charset with the user-defined ACM, instead of the G0 charset, which
  is the default.

*** New script `charset' to allow the user to setup G0/G1 charsets.

*** `loadkeys' now supports a --quiet option, as well as different
  verbosity levels.

*** `dumpkeys' now supports more output formats (see new --shape
  option).

*** Keymaps now support include files, "strings as usual" and "compose
  as usual" shortcuts, and symbolic names for the 3rd argument in
  Compose statements.

*** New keymaps: i386/qwerty/{ru-yawerty,ru_win}, mac/mac-us-{std,ext}.

*** Updated keymaps: dk, dk-latin1.

*** Specific symbols for latin5 (iso-8859-9) are now supported by
  loadkeys and dumpkeys.

*** Keymaps are now organized in a hierarchical manner to ease user's
  choice.

*** File specifications can now include sequences of star characters
  in their path, with the meaning of "at most as much subdir-levels as
  the number of stars".  Eg, "/usr/share/keymaps/**/mymap" can match
  "/usr/share/keymaps/mymap", "/usr/share/keymaps/mac/mymap", or
  "/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/mymap".  Note that "any/*/dir",
  unlike in the shell-syntax, can match "any/dir" as well as
  "any/other/dir".  Please try not to rely too much on this syntax (I
  don't like it, and it may change), which kbd 0.96{,a} uses almost
  only internally, although console-tools uses it externally too.  I
  document it so you know it is there, should the need arise.

*** Keymaps are now refered to as "keymaps", not "keytables".  This is
  reflected in the directory name (/usr/share/keymaps/), and the
  manpage name (keymaps.5).  Note that /usr/local/share/keytables/ is
  still scanned in addition to /usr/local/share/keymaps/ when
  --enable-local-dir is configured.

*** keypad.kmap is now installed as keypad.inc.  It should be included
  in your keymap.

*** `loadkeys' now supports a --quiet option, as well as different
  verbosity levels.

*** `dumpkeys' now supports more output formats (see new --shape
  option).

*** Improved autogenerated sample fallback table for latin diacritics
  (renamed to latin_diacr.fallback); added autogenerated sample
  fallback table for arabic forms.


** Corrected bugs:

*** Option handling in `loadkeys' and `dumpkeys' was broken with
  --help and usage messages not causing the program to exit.

*** Keymaps without a "keymaps" line are now correctly handled.

*** "make install" does not fail if a previous version is already
  installed.

*** Corrected various minor bugs, and some erroneous documentation.


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1998.04.08:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** The SFM fallback-tables can now be safely compressed, and are
  installed compressed by default.

*** The tools can now handle data files compressed with any supported
  method, not just the one selected.

*** Now support the bzip2 and lzop compression programs.

*** HTML docs are build by default.

*** The lct.sgml document was (hopefully) improved.

*** Builds of resizecons and keycode-progs now enabled by default, so that
  I get quicker feedback on what problems they may cause on other archs.

*** New keymaps: croatian, cz-us-qwertz, sunt5-fr-latin1


** Corrected bugs:

*** Compressed-file handling should not cause reads to fail any more because
  of SIGCHLD.

*** There was a poorly-tested problem with compressed-file handling.

*** The Makefile.am's were fixed to fully support "uninstall" and build
  in any dir.

*** Fixed se-latin1 keymap for caps-lock on 3 characters.


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1997.12.16:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** The SFM fallback-table mechanism has been improved: multiple
  tables may be loaded with one command.

*** The keyboard tools now support ethiopic keysyms (from kbd-0.95).

*** "consolechars -U" now outputs corresponding UTF chars inside
  comments.

*** Data files were sync-ed to kbd-0.95.


** Corrected bugs:

*** The compressed-files installation problem has been fixed.


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1997.11.13:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** Written some doc; have a look at doc/lct.txt.

*** All provided fonts are now either in PSF or in CP format; several
  PSF now include their SFM as well.

*** consolechars(8) has started to supports "SFM fallback tables" (-k
  option).  Support is however limited to one fallback-table per
  command-line invocation, and implementation is not really
  satisfying.

*** consolechars(8) now support 2 new flags: "--no-act" and
  "--default-font", the latter being equivalent to setfont(1) called
  without arguments.

*** filename-syntax for default fonts has changed: "default8x08"
  instead of "default8x8", for better file-sorting.

*** updated/new keymaps: "fi-latin1.kmap", "ru-ms.kmap".

  
** Corrected bugs:

*** compat scripts now call consolechars(8).

*** gzip issuing warnings should not cause programs to fail with only
  little clue.  We now let gzip print its warning, and it's not fatal
  any more.

*** "gr*.psf" were NOT PSF files (RAW format) !

*** "configure --enable-local-datadir" prevent correct compilation of
  the package.

*** Fixed consolechars.8.


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1997.10.28:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** setfont(8) has been renamed consolechars(8).

*** setfont(8), loadunimap(1), saveunimap(1), mapscrn(1) are available, as
  wrapper scripts around consolechars(8), by using the --use-kbd-compat
  option to `configure'.

*** clrunimap(1) is no more installed by "make install". You'll need to
  install it manually if you really want it, which you probably don't.
  
*** showfont(1) has been thoroughly rewritten. It now uses left-to-right-then-
  top-to-bottom display style, as was probably expected by many people ;),
  and can now display 512-chars fonts. Some bugs were fixed (see below).

*** New keymap (keypad.kmap, extracted from lt.kmap) allowing build of UCS2
  chars using Ctrl-Shift-numbers, to be used as overriding keymap. 
  Eg. of use: "loadkeys fr-pc keypad"

*** New program vt-is-UTF8(1), to check if a VT is in UTF8- or byte-mode.

*** unicode_start(1) doesn't load a default font any more when called without
  arguments; it just switches to screen and keyboard modes.
  
*** Several new manpages.

*** Updated the following data-files: lt{,.l4}.kmap
  lat4{,u}-{08,10,12,14,16,16+,19}.psf lat4{,u}.sfm koi8-r.sfm cf.kmap

*** New 512-chars font file LatArCyrHeb (in size 8, 14, 16, 16+, 19),
  containing all characters from iso8859-1 through -10, except from -5 (greek
  characters).
  

** Corrected bugs:

*** Fixed showfont(1) display of characters 27 and 27+128.

*** Fixed dumpkeys(1) check of the validity of "--charset" argument.

*** Fixed loading of CP font-files.

*** Fixed display bug in showkey(1), when called with no command.

*** Fixed showfont(1) to restore original mode (UTF8- or byte-) on exit.


====================

* Major changes in console-tools-1997.10.14:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** `setfont' now loads the default unimap ("def.uni") when loading a default
  font, to help the kernel keeping up-to-date unimap.
  
*** Added warning-printing to `setfont' for operations leading the kernel
  to an invalid-unimap state ("load a font" && "-u none" || "load a font not
  containing a unimap" && "no external unimap specified").

*** `resizevt' has been renamed `resizecons' again, as all VTs (for noa) are
  resized at the same time.

*** Added "--with-compressor" option to `configure' script.

*** Several manpages updates.

*** New doc file: BUGS (formerly contained in TODO).


** Corrected bugs:

*** Fixed "setfont -{op,opu}" to correctly outputs 512-chars fonts when
  console is in 512-chars more.

*** Fixed "setfont -{or,op,opu} to be robust, and not to produce invalid
  or empty font-files when all data isn't available.
  
*** Fixed "setfont -{ou,opu}" to handle the case where the unimap is
  considered invalid by the kernel.
  
*** Fixed behaviour of `deallocvt' - now tries do deallocate all args, even if
  one failed.
  
*** Fixed "--help" handling in `dumpkeys' - now lists really-available charsets
  for "--charset" option, instead of hard-coded string.

*** Fixed validity check on arguments to "--charset" in `dumpkeys' - now
  properly rejects requests for unknown charsets.

*** Fixed problem which used to forbid the tools to use "-" as filenames on
  command-lines when the compression-support was not compiled in.


====================

* Major changes from kbd-0.94 to console-tools-1997.10.03:

** Note-worthy changes:

*** source-tree was completely reorganized, and now uses autoconf/automake/
  libtool to build.

*** PSF font-files can now be safely compressed.

*** 16-bit screen-maps can be loaded (by "setfont -m" or "mapscrn"), instead of
  just 8-bit maps interpreted as straight-to-font. This allows to have
  correct interpretation of chars sent to the console, even when the input
  encoding does not completely map to the font. Test for example something
  like "setfont iso02.f08 -u iso02 -mlatin1" to display, as far as possible,
  latin1 texts with a iso02 font loaded.

*** Generated 16-bit screen-maps are provided for common encodings. Take a
  look at consoletrans/UTF-tmpl.8bit if you need some more.
  
*** "setfont -om" now produces a 16-bit binary map instead of a 8-bit one.
  "setfont -m" can read them.

*** spawn_console and spawn_login are not built any more, as "init" should be
  used to log into dynamically spawned consoles if no more than that is
  needed. They are still provided as example code for those who'd like to
  customize their console-spawn mechanism.
  
*** "resizecons" and "sti" have been respectively renamed "resizevt" and
  "writevt"  for consistency.

*** Programs can now search /usr/local/share/ as well as /usr/share/ for input
  files, but it is disabled by default, because probably not
  FSSTND-compliant. See "configure --help".
    
*** setfont(8) can now ouput PSF files: mode 0, ie. 256 chars without unimap, with
  -op; mode 2, ie. 256 chars with unimap, with -opu.
  
*** setfont's "-o" option has been obsoleted by "-or", for "old RAW font", but is
  still accepted for compatibility. "-op[u]" should probably be used whereever
  "-o" was used.
  
*** showkey(1) now accepts one more command (--keymap) to allow installers to
  test a new keymap.
  
*** showkey(1) now allows the user to set the timeout (--timeout); still
  defaults to 10s.
  
*** "Magics" for MS-DOS CPI files, and codepage(1)-produced CP files are now
  available (see fontfiletools/fonts.magic).

*** Added documentation on font-file formats used.


** Corrected bugs:

*** reading a unicode-map from a PSF file is now bigendian-safe.

*** Compressed files are now identified by checking magic numbers instead of
  filename's extension.
  
*** Compressed files are now found even when given fullname including ".gz"
  suffix.
  
*** vcstime now correctly handles screen widths from 128 up to 255
  (limitation is now in /dev/vcsa structure).

*** Now setfont rejects "-m none -m <file>" and "-u none -u <file>".

*** screendump doesn't need /dev/vcsa0 any more, but /dev/vcsa.

*** showkey(1) now properly rejects simultaneous multiple commands.

*** showkey(1) now properly reports when keyboard was in unicode mode.