4 Changes in version 1.5.0 (unreleased):
6 * XBoard protocol support, enabling the use of XBoard as a graphical
7 interface, officially deprecating XShogi.
8 * Build system switched from pure autoconf to automake
9 * Support for cross-compilation using standard "./configure --host=...",
10 including building windows binaries (both 32bit and 64bit) using
11 the gcc-mingw toolchain
13 Changes in version 1.4.2 (02/2014):
15 * XShogi is no longer included in the GNU Shogi source, it is
16 available as a separate source archive.
17 * Fixes for edit mode:
18 - fixed clobbering of board on invalid input
19 - display a message on wrong input
20 * Fixed Curses mode display:
21 - reversed column number for MiniShogi
22 - clock and captures position for MiniShogi
23 - refresh display after "switch" to get player names updated
24 - layout fixes, notably when using only 80 columns
25 * Minor code cleanups.
27 Changes in version 1.4.1 (01/2014):
29 * Initial support for the MiniShogi variant, for now as a separate
30 executable built using "./configure --enable-minishogi".
31 * Support for building without the curses UI.
32 * Preliminary win32 support: can be built on cygwin with gcc3, in the
34 * Build system enhancements.
37 Changes in version 1.4.0 (03/2012):
39 * Main change is the license switch to GPL3.
40 * Project is now being maintained on a git repository.
43 Changes in version 1.3.2 (07/2004):
45 * configure.in has been renamed to configure.ac
47 * A number of small fixes were added to make the program compile and run
48 correctly on modern Linuxes.
51 Changes in version 1.3.1 (07/2001):
53 * New piece bitmaps for both westernized and Japanese piece sets, courtesy of
57 Changes in version 1.3 (07/1999):
59 * xshogi has been merged into the gnushogi source tree and build process.
61 * gnushogi is now only one executable, instead of three (one each for the raw
62 text interface, the xshogi interface, and the curses interface). The three
63 interfaces are still there; you select between them using a command-line
64 option: "gnushogi -C" for the curses interface, "gnushogi -R" for the raw
65 text interface, and "gnushogi -X" or just "gnushogi" for the xshogi
66 interface. Making the xshogi interface the default makes it easier for
67 xshogi to invoke gnushogi (translation: I couldn't be bothered figuring out
68 why this was the case, so I just left it that way).
70 * The gnushogi and xshogi source code has been thoroughly cleaned up and
71 ANSIfied. Several files have been renamed. Makefiles have also been
72 cleaned up considerably, but you don't need to care about this, because...
74 * Building GNU shogi and xshogi now uses a configure script generated by
75 autoconf. This should increase portability and make compilation much
78 * There is now fairly extensive documentation in texinfo form, which has been
79 used to generate info, postscript, and html versions of the documentation.
80 The man page is included in the texinfo file. The (separate) man pages have
81 been updated to deal with the new command-line options for gnushogi.
84 This file starts with GNU Shogi 1.3 (07/01/1999).