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What's New in libchewing 0.3.2
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* Add gcc visibility support to hide private APIs.
* APIs and Headers refactoring.
* Doxygen-friendly API documentation.
* New binary data manipulation approach to dramatically reduce storage
  usage and loading time via memory mapping. (enabled by default)
* New word segmentation method based on mmseg.
* Improved auto-learn new phrases method.
* Improved test suite and added simple benchmark program.
* Option to indicate the behavior for phrase choice to be rearward
  or not.
* New APIs to enumerate supported keyboard types.
* Repair improper memory access.
* API united in Win32 and UNIX world.
* Initial Pythin binding support.
* Merged with libchewing-data project. (r342)
* Canonical debugging messages.
* Successful stories:
  . OpenBSD porting
  . ibus-chewing : chewing engine for ibus input method framework.
  . UIM-chewing leveraging libchewing 0.3.x development branch.

What's New in libchewing 0.3.1
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* New keyboard layout DACHEN_CP26.
* Add key '`' to open symbol table.
* Erase candidate and reset its length when 'Esc' key is handled.
* Closes candidate window when user pressed 'Up' key.
* Doing select at the end of edit buffer works on the
  last phrase (interval).
* Improved reminding message text.
* Sync with libchewingdata project.
* A new HanYu-PinYin mapping table
* More robust behavior when IM crashes.
* Allow '#' comment and blank line in tsi.src.
* Fix chewing switch between Full/Half mode and cursor moves one space in
  gedit.
* Fix when list available phrases to choice, user's own phrases are
  not included.
* Release PgUp/PgDn key event to running applications.
* Fix portability issues on FreeBSD.
* Fix incorrect initialization.
* Fix pinyin key order, put "shun" before "shuo".
* Fix various potenital boffer overflow bugs.
* Fix various memory leaks.
* chewing_set_PinYinMethod to support multiple PinYin methods.
* chewing_handle_CtrlOption was removed.
* New structure SymbolEntry.
* Rename selectAreaLen to candPerPage.
* Added bEasySymbolInput.

What's New in libchewing 0.3.0
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* This is a new development branch differing a lot from
  0.2.x series, and breaks API/ABI for new features.
* UTF-8 based language engine core for common Unicode
  environment.
* Porting layer for POSIX/Unix-like and Win32 to reduce the
  redundant porting process.
* New API design for better consistency.
* Merge the efforts from libchewing-data subproject, which
  means various phrases have been reviewed and corrected.
* Zuin fixes and symbol improvements.
* Support key 'j' / 'k' for paging in selection mode.
* Fix some internal memory management bugs and leaks.
* Improved internal test suite.
* New binary-form of user hash data to speed up loading and
  solve hash data corruption.
* Better calculating of internal tree and phone constants.
* Revised tsi.src for richer phrases and avoiding crashes.
* Merge phone and phrase from CNS11643.
* Reduce the amount for the expose for internal symbols.
* Improved Han-Yu PinYin to use table-lookup implementation.
* Experimental frequency-evaluation. (re-compute chewing 
  lifetime)
* Implement the choice mechanism for pair symbols.
* Improved Tab handling to allow the switching over different
  frequency orders of candidated phrases.
* New auxiliary module for simpler API uses.
* Experimental memory-mapping based binary data handling to
  speed up data loading.
* Successful stories:
  . Sun Solaris 10 U2 and 11 will provide built-in Chewing
    IM support.
  . OXIM input method suite from OpenDesktop/OSSI provides
    Chewing support as its default input method.
  . New Win32-Chewing subproject to provide efficient input
    mthod solution on Microsoft Windows platforms.
    
What's New in libchewing 0.2.7
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* Fix the keyboard type state changing bug.
* Add new function to specify the space as the selection
  key.
* Improved debug messages.
* Provide cutomized user-defined PinYin table support.
* Add termination mechanism.
* Successful stories:
  . Chewing has its Win32 porting (MS-IME) via OVIME (the
    Win32 port of OpenVanilla Input Method Framework).

What's New in libchewing 0.2.6
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* Experimental feature -- HanYu PinYing Keyboard layout.
* Proper $HOME env handling.
* SegFault workaround after libtabe's tsi.src merge.
* Add the facility to input symbols.
* Successful stories:
  . Chewing becomes one of the built-in input methods in Sun 
    Java Desktop System (JDS).

What's New in libchewing 0.2.5
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* Merge SpaceChewing's frequency tweaking from zonble.
* Minor fixes for building process and zuin core.
* Successful stories:
  . IIIMF-chewing
  . SCIM-chewing
  . OpenVanilla Input Method Framework for MacOS X

What's New in libchewing 0.2.4
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* Merge from SpaceChewing:
  . Dvorak Hsu keyboard layout.
  . Hanin style support.
* Directly use tsi.src from libtabe.
  . No longer maintain separate tsi.src.
* Fix the word selection bug.
* Fix phonetic index in Hsu keyboard, and do fuzzy "g e"
  to "j e" convertion.
* Provide pkg-config and RPM spec.
* Allow users to specify forward/backward phrase addition.
* Initial Win32 support.

What's New in libchewing 0.2.3
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* Fix candidate phrase choice bug.
* Built-in debugging routines.
* Test suite & sample implementation.
* Merge the enhancements from SpaceChewing, such as
  space key selection, Eten special symbol input, and
  MacOSX awared information.
* Fix broken encoding in sort_dic utility.
* Doxygen documentation support.
* Add Dvorak keyboard support.