version 1.4.67b

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polyglot (1.4.67b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *   Disable "book learning". Polyglot saves learning information but does not use it itself, probably for a reason. I believe the booklearning concept of Polyglot is fundamentally broken. Learning information is engine specific so it should not be saved in the opening book (it might be saved elsewhere). There are other issues as well, such as copyright and the possibility of the proliferation of polluted books. Opening books can be improved with information from games by using the merge command. This is a form of off line learning which is probably much more effective since one has strict control over what kind of information is added to the book.
        
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.66b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *   Fix a printf 32 vs 64 bit format (crash) bug which manifested itself on windows.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.65b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *   Bugfix: dump-book with -color black generated the file book_white.txt.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.64b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *   Reduce movetime in the implementation of the fixed time per move command (st), to account for differences in the wording of the protocols. 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:00:00 +0100      

polyglot (1.4.63b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *  Give ponder move as hint.
  *  Support for egtpath "gaviota" (this is a bit hacky now).
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.62b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  *  StringSize was not everywhere the same in Polyglot. This could lead to a buffer overflow in case of very long PV's. 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:00:00 +0100      

polyglot (1.4.61b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * uci_isready replaced by uci_isready_sync. Polyglot should not send commands to the engine while it is syncing.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 2 Oct 2010 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.60b) unstable; urgency=low

  * The result string after an illegal move now shows the actual attempted move.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:00:00 +0100       

polyglot (1.4.59b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bugfix: the changes in 1.4.57b created a regression where the input buffer of polyglot could overflow with engines producing lots of output very fast. 

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4.58b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Implementation of BookDepth in UCI mode.
  * Small corrections to the manpage. 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 25 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.57b) unstable; urgency=low

  * First attempt at killing engines that do not react to "quit". 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 25 Apr 2010 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.56b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Better handling of non-existing engine command.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.55b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Suppression of some error dialogs.
  * Small delay in between final error message and actually quitting.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.54b) unstable; urgency=low

  * More graceful handling of engine crashes.
  * New EngineCommand is now passed through wordexp on Linux.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.53b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Multipv code by HGM. 

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4.52b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reexport SyncStop. It is apparently necessary for the Aquarium Book Adapter.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4.51b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Support for new nps command. Code provided by Harm Geert Muller. 

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4.50b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Change in architecture. Persistence is disabled. The user is required to push th "Save" button explicitly to save the settings. What is retained is that in case PG is invoked with -noini (or as a special exception for WB 4.4.0 when the config files are polyglot_1st.ini or polyglot_2nd.ini) then PG uses a default config file whose name is derived from the engine name. 

  * New option: OnlyWbOptions (default: true). Restrict the options that PG sends to those that are potentially useful for WinBoard.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 9 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4.46b) unstable; urgency=low

  * The default persistence directory on Windows is now _PG. The names of the engine specific ini files are mangled so as not to contain spaces. 
        
  * PG now tries to guess if a string option is really a file or a path (like in the Arena GUI). 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.45b) unstable; urgency=low

  * The engine specific config files (<myname>.ini) are now stored in a separate directory. $HOME/.polyglot on Linux and "./Polyglot Settings" on Windows. 
        
  * The engine specific config files are now complete config files. So they can be used in a stand alone fashion.

  * Implemented a minor hack to make xboard show error messages during startup.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.44b) unstable; urgency=low

  * "Implementation" of new buttons and controls.
        
  * The "Persist" option is now persistent. That is if you turn of "Persist" then as a special case PG will remember this.
        
  * There is now a "reset" button which restores the default options. The code is commented out since WB does not support it yet.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.42b) unstable; urgency=low

  * SaveSettingsOnExit/SaveFile renamed as Persist/PersistFile.
        
  * Many bug fixes in the persistence feature.
        
  * The PG_<myname>.ini file now contains only options that have been changed. So the resulting ini files are much smaller. This makes this version of PG usable on WB 4.3.15 as now the engine specific ini file will be empty (the user has no way to change options).        
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Mon, 1 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.41b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * Some segfaults fixed in case of corrupt config files.
        
  * Persistence of options. If the option SaveSettingsOnExit is true (the default) PolyGlot now saves its options in a file whose name is given by the option SaveFile which by default is equal to the engine name, prefixed by PG_ suffixed by ".ini".
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sun, 31 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.39b) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * Refactoring of config file parsing

  * Fix crash bug in epd-test
        
  * Do not export Chess960. This is handled completely internally. 
        
  * Do not export UCI_Opponent and UCI_Chess960. These are handled internally.
        
  * PG can now also be comfortably configured through command line options (i.e. without using a config file). 
        
  * Allow quotes in configfile (as in Fonzy Bleumer's PG). 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.37b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Two new options: BookDepth and BookTreshold. BookDepth limits the number of moves the book is used and BookTreshold sets the minimum weight a book move should have.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.36b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bugfix: option = 0/1 was translated incorrectly.

  * EOF received from the engine should now be logged correctly (i.e. after the buffer is empty)

  * Bugfix: Nasty buffer overflow in the macro CONSTRUCT_ARG_STRING.

  * Bugfix: pipex_writeln (win32) was logging at the wrong spot. 

  * Log board when an illegal move is received.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.35b) unstable; urgency=low

  * New WbWorkAround for silly bug in WB. Depth <=1 clears the engine output window. Why shouldn't an engine be allowed to send info at depth one?      

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 7 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.34b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Allow spaces around "=" in "option =" commands.
        
  * WbWorkArounds is now true by default.
        
  * Trying to set a non existent UCI option gives an error. 
        
  * PG will now resign in case of an illegal engine move. 
        
  * More code has been moved into the I/O abstraction layer pipex. This has reduced to win32 dependence of utils.c
        
  * info strings and unrecognized info lines are relayed to the GUI.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.33b) unstable; urgency=low

  * New option: "WbWorkArounds". Currently it blocks options which contain "Draw" in their name from being sent to the GUI. Engines that have such options are Rybka and HIARCS. 
        
  * Bugfix for ASSERT failure in bright. Now another ASSERT failure has appeared which seems to be bright's fault however. 
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.32b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bugfix: the default setting for RepeatPV had become false again...

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.31b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bugfix: improper handling of vararg function.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4.30b) unstable; urgency=low

  * Some more meaningful error messages added.
  * Some buffer overflow checks added.  
  * Simplification of strange signal kludge in gui.c. 
  * Removal of obsolete code in engine.c and gui.c. Platform specific code has been abstracted and pushed into pipex_win32.c and pipex_posix.c
  * The format of the version number has changed once again. Debian was unhappy with the previous one.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4b29) unstable; urgency=low

  * Conversion from C++ to C (suggested by E.M.).
        
  * More refactoring. The win32 and posix I/O have now a uniform interface (see pipex.h). 

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4b28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Some comments added to explain the exact behaviour of some of the public functions in pipe.cpp. 
  * LineInput now returns a bool which is FALSE in case of EOF. 

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4b27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Option "ScoreWhite" : report score from white's point of view (suggested by E.M.).
        
  * Option "KibitzInterval" : try to wait this many seconds between kibitzes (suggested by E.M.).

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4b26) unstable; urgency=low

  * Contraction of version number.
        
  * Log if SetProcessAffinityMask is not available (suggested by E.M.).
        
  * pipe.cpp : Make PipeStruct a proper class with private/public members.
        
  * Check for EOF in GUI input.
        
  * pipe.cpp : delay reporting EOF until buffer is empty.
        
  * Messages from the Engine to PG were not logged in the windows version.
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Portability fixes for WIN9X (Eric Mullins).
        
  * Portability fixes for MSVC++ (Eric Mullins).
        
  * Default setting of RepeatPV is now true.
        
  * Do not read data if input buffer is full (windows).
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb22) unstable; urgency=low

  * Polyglot is now completely poll free...     
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 18 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Crash bug in memory command fixed
        
  * Small optimizations

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 18 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb20) unstable; urgency=low

  * More refactoring.

  * No more polling for GUI input

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

        
polyglot (1.4w10UCIb18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Two new utilities: info-book and dump-book.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 15 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb17) unstable; urgency=low

  * More refactoring. main.cpp is now #ifdef _WIN32 free.
        
  * The main loop (previously in adapter.cpp) is now in its own file mainloop.cpp.
        
  * adapter.cpp has been renamed into xboard2uci.cpp. It is #ifdef _WIN32 free.
        
  * EOF from the engine no longer kills PG. It should now be possible to close an engine and reopen another one (if that ever were useful)
        
 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 14 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb16) unstable; urgency=low

  * xboard option commands

  * correction of handling of combo boxes in UCI protocol

  * "gui-mode". It is now possible to run PG without config file

  * The polyglot options are not exported, so they are now settable by the GUI

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 12 Jan 2009 21:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb15) unstable; urgency=low

  * bugfix : due to refactoring time stamps in Windows would be written twice. This has been fixed. 

  * More refactoring; the number of #ifdef _WIN32's has again been drastically reduced.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb14) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * option to alter priority now also works on windows (Eric Mullins)

  * refactoring so that posix and win32 part share more code

  * a number of potential busy loop scenarios have been eliminated in the Windows code (Windows uses polling)
        
  * the return value of CreateProcess is now checked

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb13) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * Perft mode exposed.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 06 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4w10UCIb12) unstable; urgency=low
        
  * Replaced %lld everywhere by S64_FORMAT.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0100
        
polyglot (1.4w10UCIb11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Crash bug fix (wrong parentheses in instruction that checked for help
option)

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 05 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Trivial bug fixes

  * It is now possible to do "make rpm" to make an rpm binary package. 

  * Documentation added for epd-test functionality (man page).
        
  * Cosmetic cleanups of output of epd-test.
        
  * "polyglot --help" output added.
        
  * Added polyglot book format specification to distribution.


 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 02 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Trivial cosmetic fixes

  * Some engines do not support the Hash option. So we don't send memory=1 in that case.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 02 Jan 2009 15:15:15 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Support for egtpath command in xboard protocol

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:10:23 +0100

polyglot (1.4w10UCIb7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial Release.

 -- Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh@uhasselt.be>  Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:32:12 +0100