libqrencode NEWS - Overview of changes
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Version 3.0.1 (2008.5.9)
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* A bug fix for non-POSIX platform. (Thanks to Paul Janssens)
* The RPM spec file now packages the man page correctly.
Version 3.0.0 (2008.4.30)
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Summary:
* The interface of QRencode_encodeInput() has been changed. User applications
using it must be modified.
* Structured append support has been added. (patches from Yusuke Mihara)
* The "-S" option for structured append has been added to qrencode and
view_qrcode.
* Some functions now set errno to indicate errors.
* Some bug fixes.
Release Note:
Now libqrencode supports "structured-append" of symbols. A large data set can
be split into multiple QR code symbols. The basic usage of structured-append
is not so different from the single symbol encoding: just call
QRcode_encodeStringStructured() or QRcode_encodeString8bitStructured() and
they return a list of symbols. Instead of giving a string, you can encode
an explicitly typed data. See the manual generated by Doxygen for the detailed
usage.
Many thanks to Yusuke Mihara, who contributed a patch to add support of
structured-append to version 1.0.2.
API changes:
* Incompatible API changes:
- QRencode_encodeInput
* New types:
- QRinput_Struct
- QRcode_List
* New functions:
- QRinput_new2
- QRinput_Struct_new
- QRinput_Struct_setParity
- QRinput_Struct_appendInput
- QRinput_Struct_free
- QRinput_Struct_insertStructuredAppendHeaders
- QRinput_splitQRinputToStruct
- QRcode_encodeStructuredInput
- QRcode_encodeStringStructured
- QRcode_encodeString8bitStructured
- QRcode_List_size
- QRcode_List_free
* Declarations moved to qrencode.h:
- QRinput_getErrorCorrectionLevel
- QRinput_setErrorCorrectionLevel
- QRinput_getVersion
- QRinput_setVersion
Version 2.0.0 (2008.1.24)
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Summary:
* "-i" option to ignore case distinctions has been added to qrencode and
view_qrcode.
* "-c" option (case-sensitive mode) of qrencode is now enabled by default and
has been improved. See details in Release Note section.
* "-8" option has been added to qrencode to encode whole data in 8-bit mode.
* tests/view_qrcode now accepts various options like qrencode.
* Man page has been added.
* Code cleanup.
* The mask evaluation bug has been fixed. (Philippe Delcroix)
* API changes
- QRcode_encodeString() now receives case-sensitive flag.
- QRcode_encodeStringCase() has been removed.
- QRcode_encodeString8bit() has been added.
Release Note:
Previously libqrencode encodes lower-case alphabet characters in Alphabet-
Numeric mode (upper-case alphabet and numeric) by default. According to the
specification of QR code, however, it is clearly claimed that Alphabet-Numeric
mode provides only upper-case alphabet (+ numeric and some symbol) characters.
Since this version, libqrencode distinguishes lower-case and upper-case of
alphabet characters by default. Because of that, "-c" option of qrencode
is now deprecated, and "-i" option has been added. By giving "-i", qrencode
converts lower-case characters to upper-case if possible, then encode a QR code
symbol. Please read qrencode.h for the details about API changes if you are
going to use this library.
Many thanks to NANKI Haruo for his suggestions.
Version 1.0.2 (2007.03.24)
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* A small bug fix. (Thanks to NANKI Haruo)
* 'extern "C"' barrier has been added to qrencode.h.
Version 1.0.1 (2006.12.27)
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* Added "force 8-bit encoding mode".
* Configure script finds libpng's header correctly.
Version 1.0.0 (2006.12.12)
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* The first public release.
