All releases of libbraille


Release Notes: This version provided a new driver for Papenmeier USB Braille displays. The Alva and Baum drivers were rewritten. Compatibility with Mac OS X was improved. Various bugfixes and minor improvements were made.


Release Notes: This version provides some RPM packages and a new Debian package including the virtual GTK+ display. The Windows installer now contains a precompiled Python module. Libbraille can be compiled with Mingw32. The HandyTech driver has been updated with autodetection. There are many small bug corrections.


Release Notes: This version adds support for the Technibraille braille display. It is now possible to set the level of verbosity of the library in debug mode and to provide different paths for additional drivers and tables. An SDK has been added to the Windows installer. Many bugs have been corrected, including a refresh problem in the GTK+ virtual display and a timeout problem in serial drivers.


Release Notes: This version provides a Windows installer using NSIS for easier distribution. Configuration in Windows is now done through the registry. Tieman Voyager USB displays are now supported.


Release Notes: The main enhancement in this new version is some updated Debian packages with support for hotplug so that USB displays are automatically configured. The ONCE driver has also been rewritten with autodetection and timeout handling. On top of that, this version corrects many small bugs.


Release Notes: This version finally adds support for some USB Braille displays thanks to libusb; the Alva Satellite series work and the Tieman Voyager should come soon. Some improvements have also been made in the configuration functions so that an application using libbraille can easily incorporate a configuration panel for the Braille settings.


Release Notes: This version is able to autodetect some of the devices (6 at this time; more will come). It also features a new eurobraille driver that supports Iris terminals. It provides a braille_timeout function to switch between blocking and timeout mode, as well as a few bug corrections and extra features.


Release Notes: A braille_config function was added to configure some parameters without using a configuration file. The configuration behavior was changed, and a Braille table was added for French under Windows. The options name was changed in libbraille.conf, and the drivers were renamed from libbraillefo to foo.