Until then I wish you a peaceful time and a merry X-Mas!<\/p>\n
Many might have wondered why there hasn’t been any official release for quite some time and well, that’s a somewhat complicated story to tell. But let’s start with the easy parts.<\/p>\n
The last release I came around to package was 1.0.8.4 which (except for the usual minor problems with language files) works quite well. There have been only few changes to language files and even less to the actual parser – not to say there weren’t actually any. So there’s not much in 1.0.8.5 that’s actually new compared to its predecessor, thus there would have been quite some work packaging and announcing a release without much real news.<\/p>\n
In addition to this the 1.0.8.5 release fell into a period of quite high study workload thus I only tagged the release version inside the version control system. There’s no packaged version for 1.0.8.5 yet, but I’ll hand it in later. And if you wonder: I know – according to schedule – the release of 1.0.8.6 is due soon to. Thus even if the official 1.0.8.5 package will be released soon I suggest you update to 1.0.8.6 straight away.<\/p>\n
Apropos next release: X-Mas is coming up and I for all the webmasters that love updating on holidays I have a special present for you: A Damn Good Looking release that’s a Phantastic Object to Enhance Ur Server with. You wonder why? Well, you’ll see ^^<\/p>\n
So after giving a sneak preview let’s come to recent developements on another aspect of GeSHi. As many might know there’s a developement branch which is called 1.1.X when referred to. That branch got quite some updates recently too that are remarkable in their own way. First off there’s a renderer for Pango-compatible output that allows you to use GeSHi even when creating graphics or to print colored strings in your own application. Another addition in regards to the renderers are some small bugfixes for the ANSI rendering. Also there have been some changes in the styling API GeSHi uses for renderers to allow for the increased variaty of output formats and their different capabilities.<\/p>\n
But enhancing the new developement strand in respect to the parser hasn’t been the only thing we were working on. Because only having a good parser isn’t enough to produce remarkable results. Thus there has been some work on the language files and the language Parsers that help to produce more accurate highlighting than just simple string replacement (which the stable version does) ever could. To ease testing this new version for you, there’ll be a beta release of the developement branch too.<\/p>\n
All together this will be quite some eventfull X-Mas with lots of releases, enhancements and corrections over earlier versions. But I Until then I wish you a peaceful time and a merry X-Mas!<\/p>\nhope<\/del> know you’ll like them! And as this old year ends active I’m sure the new year will bring many news too! Though, more on this later in an upcoming post that will detail the preview for next year …<\/p>\n
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