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 Appendix F ChangeLog
 ********************
 
 Changes from 0.60.6 to 0.60.6.1 (July 4, 2011)
 ==============================================
 
    * Update to Automake 1.10.3.
 
    * Fix a bug which caused a race condition (leading to a likely crash)
      when two threads try to update the dictionary cache at the same
      time.
 
    * Make it very clear that compiling Aspell with NDEBUG is a bad idea
      (see `http://aspell.net/ndebug.html') by outputting a warning when
      building with NDEBUG defined.
 
    * Numerous other minor updates and bug fixes.
 
 Changes from 0.60.5 to 0.60.6 (April 16, 2007)
 ==============================================
 
    * Compile fixes for Gcc 4.3.
 
    * Updated to Libtool 2.2.2 and Automake 1.10.1
 
    * Minor tweak to suggestion code which improved suggestion results in
      certain cases.
 
    * Always line buffer stdout and stderr in the Aspell utility when
      there is the potential for it to be used interactively through a
      pipe.
 
    * Removed debug output in `aspell munch-list'.
 
    * Other minor updates and bug fixes.
 
 Changes from 0.60.4 to 0.60.5 (December 18, 2006)
 =================================================
 
    * Compile fix for Gcc 4.1
 
    * Updated to Gettext 0.16.1, Libtool 1.5.22, Automake 1.10, Autoconf
      2.61
 
    * Documentation improvements, including an updated `man' page.
 
    * Complain if more than one file is specified when checking files
      using the `aspell check' command, rather than ignoring the other
      files.
 
    * Large number of bug fixes.
 
 Changes from 0.60.3 to 0.60.4 (October 19, 2005)
 ================================================
 
    * Fixed a bug that caused Aspell to crash when checking certain
      Russian words, this bug likely affected other languages as well.
 
    * Updated to Gettext 0.14.5 which is required for AMD64, also
      updated to to Libtool 1.5.20.
 
    * Fixed an alignment bug which caused mmap to always fail when
      reading in dictionaries.
 
    * Added note about how `make clean' will remove the HTML manuals.
 
    * Added manual page for prezip-bin and enhanced word-list-compress
      manual page thanks to the work of Jose Da Silva.
 
    * Other minor updates and bug fixes.
 
 Changes from 0.60.2 to 0.60.3 (June 28, 2005)
 =============================================
 
    * Fixed bugs involving several of the C API functions.
 
    * Fixed bug where `ultra' or `fast' mode would not return any
      suggestions when soundslike lookup was not used.
 
    * Made a minor, yet significant, optimization to the suggestion code.
      This sped things up by an order of magnitude in some cases.
 
    * Avoid using the slow ngram scan except when the `sug-mode' is
      `slow' or `bad-speller'.
 
    * Fixed a bug in curses mode which caused word-wrap to not work
      correctly in some cases.
 
    * Fixed a bug in pipe mode with a missing newline.
 
    * Fixed the `spell' compatibility script.
 
    * Several other minor bugs fixed.
 
    * Made note about the change in behavior of the `-l' command line
      switch.
 
    * Other manual update/fixes.
 
    * Updated to Libtool 1.5.18, Automake 1.9.6, and Makeinfo 4.8.
 
 Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.2 (December 18, 2004)
 =================================================
 
    * Added the `munch-list' command to the Aspell utility.  The `munch'
      program in the `myspell/' directory will disappear in Aspell 0.61.
      The `munchlist' script will also likely disappear or be replaced
      when Aspell 0.61 is released since it doesn't work correctly
      anyway.
 
    * Several important bug fixes some of which rendered some non-English
      languages unusable.
 
    * Other minor changes.
 
 Changes from 0.60.1 to 0.60.1.1 (November 20, 2004)
 ===================================================
 
    * Fix bug involving checking of capitalized word when affix
      compression is used.
 
    * Compile fixes.
 
    * Added an option to disable using the "wide" curses version in case
      it causes compile problems.
 
    * Minor manual updates
 
    * Avoided including some unnecessary files in the distribution.
 
 Changes from 0.60 to 0.60.1 (November 7, 2004)
 ==============================================
 
    * Lots of compile fixes for various platforms.
 
    * Miscellaneous bug fixes.
 
    * Added Nroff filter thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff.
 
    * The default filter mode when in pipe mode is now nroff for
      compatibility with Ispell.
 
    * Added Texinfo filter.
 
    * Added a section detailing the differences between Ispell and
      Aspell.
 
    * Updated the section on thread safety.
 
    * Other miscellaneous manual changes such as updating the To Do and
      Authors section.
 
 Changes from 0.50.5 to 0.60 (August 27, 2004)
 =============================================
 
    * Added support for Affix Compression.  Affix compression stores the
      root word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that the word
      can take, and thus saves a lot of space.  The codebase comes from
      MySpell found in OpenOffice.  It uses the same affix file that
      OpenOffice (and Mozilla) use.  Affix compression will even work
      with soundslike lookup to a limited extent.
 
    * Added support for accepting all input and printing all output in
      UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell uses.
      This includes support for Unicode normalization.  Aspell can now
      support any language with no more than 210 distinct characters,
      including different capitalizations and accents, _even if_ there
      is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports the language.
 
    * Added support for loadable filters and customizable filter modes
      thanks to Christoph Hintermüller.
 
    * Enhanced SGML filter to also support skipping sgml tags such as
      "script" blocks thanks to Tom Snyder.
 
    * Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff
 
    * Reworked the compiled dictionary format.  Compiled dictionaries
      now take up less space (less than 80% for the English language) and
      creating them is significantly faster (over 4 times for the
      English language).
 
    * Reworked suggestion code.  It is significantly faster when dealing
      with short words (up to 10 times).  Also added support for MySpell
      Replacement Tables and n-gram lookup.  In addition, added basic
      support for compound words.
 
    * Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to the work
      of Chris Martin.
 
    * Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used for
      most of the code.
 
    * All data, by default, is now included in `LIBDIR/aspell-0.60'.
      Also added a built time option to increment the major version
      number of the shared library.  This should allow both Aspell
      version 0.50 and 0.60 to coexist.  The major version number is
      _not_ incremented by default as Aspell 0.60 is binary compatible
      with Aspell 0.50.   Binary Compatibility.
 
    * The code to handle dictionaries has been rewritten.  Because of
      this support for the dictionary option `strip-accents' has been
      removed.  In addition the `ignore-accents' option is currently
      unimplemented.
 
    * Lots of other minor changes due to massive overhaul of the source
      code.
 
 
 Changes from 0.50.4.1 to 0.50.5 (Feb 10, 2004)
 ==============================================
 
    * Reworked url filter which fixed several bugs and now accepts
      "bla.bla/kdkdl" as a url.
 
    * Fixed bug in which the url filter was coming before all other
      filters when it was supposed to come after. This solved a number
      of problems where the url filter was interfering with other
      filters.
 
    * Small bug fix in SGML filter.
 
    * Added code page charsets, ie cp125?.dat.
 
    * Added natural (split) keyboard data file as "split.kbd"
 
    * Compile fixes for the upcoming Gcc 3.4
 
    * Removed Solaris link hack as it was causing more problems than it
      fixes.
 
    * Compile fixes for Sun WorkShop 6 compiler, but there may still be
      some problems, especially with linking.
 
    * Included patch to help compile with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.
 
    * Minor manual fixes.
 
    * Updated the TODO section to reflect the current progress with the
      next major version of Aspell (0.51).
 
    * Updated to Autoconf 2.59, Automake 1.82, and Libtool 1.5.2.
 
 Changes from 0.50.4 to 0.50.4.1 (Oct 11, 2003)
 ==============================================
 
    * Fixed major bug in pipe mode which caused the last character to be
      chopped off words before they were stored.
 
    * Minor formating fixes in the manual.
 
 Changes from 0.50.3 to 0.50.4 (Sep 26, 2003)
 ============================================
 
    * Minor changes in URL filter to avoid treating the double quote
      character as part of the URL, and to avoid treating words ending in
      more than one period as a URL.
 
    * Document fixes in Aspell API
 
    * Small compile fixes, including one for GCC 3.3
 
    * Updated Win32 section since a port now exists thanks to Thorsten
      Maerz.
 
    * Complain instead of doing nothing or aborting for unimplemented
      functions in Aspell utility.
 
    * Portability bug fixes.
 
    * Upgraded to Autoconf 2.57, Automake 1.7.7, Libtool 1.5 (no longer
      use CVS version  of libtool).
 
 Changes from 0.50.2 to 0.50.3 (Nov 23, 2002)
 ============================================
 
    * Hopefully fixed the Ispell alignment error problem when Aspell is
      used with ispell.el.
 
    * Fixed a problem with personal dictionaries on NFS mounted home
      directories.
 
    * Compiled libaspell-common directory into libaspell for now to avoid
      forcing applications to relink whenever a new Aspell version is out
      which was due to the use of the libtool '-release' flag.
 
    * Fixed Makefiles so that Aspell can be built outside the source tree
      (i.e.  with VPATH).
 
    * Updated the section on compiling with Win32.
 
    * Updated to Autoconf 2.56.
 
 Changes from 0.50.1 to 0.50.2 (Sep 28, 2002)
 ============================================
 
    * Fixed a number of bugs in Ispell compatibility mode
 
    * Fixed a number of bugs with the handling of replacement pairs
 
    * Other miscellaneous bug fixes
 
    * Additional Win32 portability fixes
 
    * Added the Ukrainian KOI8-U charset.
 
 Changes from 0.50 to 0.50.1 (Aug 28, 2002)
 ==========================================
 
    * A rather large number of portability fixes for non GNU/Linux
      platforms.
 
    * Fixed pkglibdir and pkgdatadir in configure.
 
    * Reintroduced some configure options from Aspell .33.7 included
      dict-dir, data-dir, curses, curses-include, win32-relocatable.
 
    * Fixed Aspell so it will now compile with -O3 when using gcc.
 
    * Updated note on Win32 support.
 
    * Other minor manual improvements.
 
    * Portability fixes in dictionary files
 
    * Official dictionary package for the Slovak language.
 
 Changes from .33.7.1 to 0.50 (Aug 23, 2002)
 ===========================================
 
    * A complete overhaul of the source code which included merging
      Pspell into Aspell.
 
    * Changed the way dictionaries and languages are handled.
 
    * Added Dvorak keymap.
 
    * Added the ability to list the available dictionaries
 
    * Improved the spell checking interface a bit.
 
    * Added support for using the Ispell keymapping when checking files.
 
    * Complete rewrite of the filter interface.   It should now be
      fairly easy to add new filters to Aspell.
 
    * Added some preliminary developer documentation.
 
    * Lots of other changes due to the massive overhaul of the source
      code.
 
 Changes from .33.7 to .33.7.1 (Aug 20, 2001)
 ============================================
 
    * Minor manual fixes.
 
    * Compile fix for Gcc 3.0 and Solaris.
 
 Changes from .33.6.3 to .33.7 (Aug 2, 2001)
 ===========================================
 
    * Updates to Autoconf 2.50 and switched to the HEAD branch of
      libtools.
 
    * Fixed a bug which caused Aspell to crash when typo-analysis was not
      used such as when sug-mode is *fast* or *bad spellers*.
 
    * Added support for typo-analysis even when a soundslike was not
      used.
 
    * Fixed a bug which causes extended charters to display incorrectly
      on some platforms
 
    * Compile fixes so that it will compile with Gcc 3.0.
 
    * Compile fixed which should allow Aspell to compile with Egcs 1.1.
      I have not been able to actually test it though.  Please let me
      know at kevina@users.sourceforge.net if you have tried with Egcs
      1.1.
 
    * Compile and configuration script fixes so that USE_FILE_INO will
      properly be defined and Aspell will compile correctly when it is
      defined.
 
    * More ANSI C++ compliance fixes.
 
 Changes from .33.6.2 to .33.6.3 (June 3, 2001)
 ==============================================
 
    * Fixed a build problem in the manual/ directory by including
      manual-text and manual-html in the distribution.
 
 Changes from .33.6.1 to .33.6.2 (June 3, 2001)
 ==============================================
 
    * Compile fix so that Aspell will work correctly when not installed
      in /usr/local.
 
    * Avoided regenerating the manual unless configured with
      enable-maintainer-mode.
 
    * Added the missing documentation files in the scowl directory.
 
 Changes from .33.6 to .33.6.1 (May 29, 2001)
 ============================================
 
    * Fixed a formating problem with the manual involving <.
 
    * Added a note about creating pwli files.
 
    * Removed the space after between the -L and the directory name in
      the pspell-module/Makefile  which caused problems on some
      platforms.
 
    * Added the configure option AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to avoid enabling
      rules which often causes generated build files to be rebuilt with
      the wrong version of Libtool by default.  I don't know why I
      didn't think to do this a long time ago.
 
 Changes from .33.5 to .33.6 (May 18, 2001)
 ==========================================
 
    * Fixed a minor bug where some words would have random compound tags
      attached to them.
 
    * Fixed a compile problem on many platforms where fileno is defined
      as a macro.
 
    * Updated the description for a few of Aspell's options.
 
    * Removed the note of Aspell not being able to run when compiled with
      the upcoming Gcc 3.0 compiler as things seam to work now.
 
    * Added a note about Aspell not being able to compile with Egcs 1.1.
 
    * Added hack to deal with Libtool's interdependencies problem.  See
      bug #416981 for Pspell for more info.
 
 Changes from .33 to .33.5 (April 5, 2001)
 =========================================
 
    * *dump master* correctly detects which dictionary and language to
      use based on the `LANG' environment variable.
 
    * Fixed a problem on Win32 which involves path names that began with
      <Drive Letter>:.
 
    * Bug fixes and enhancements so that Aspell can once again run under
      MinGW.  You can even use the new full screen interface if Aspell is
      compiled with PDCurses.
 
    * Some major modifications to make Aspell more C++ compliant in
      order to get Aspell to compile under the upcoming Gcc 3.0
      compiler.  This included only using STL features found in the
      standard version of C++.  (Which means Aspell will no longer
      require using the SGI version of the STL) This should also make
      compiling C++ under non-gcc compilers a lot simpler.  Please note
      that Aspell still has some problems with the upcoming Gcc 3.0
      compiler.
 
    * Minor changes to remove some -Wall warnings.
 
    * Added a hack so that Aspell would properly compile as a shared
      library under Solaris.
 
    * Added a few important missing words to the English word list.
 
 Changes from .32.6 to .33 (January 28, 2001)
 ============================================
 
    * Added a new new curses based interface to replace the dumb terminal
      interface everyone has been bitching about.
 
    * Added the ability to give higher priority to words such as "the"
      instead of "teh" which are likely to be due to typos.
 
    * Reorganized the manual so that it is hopefully easier to follow.
 
    * Ability to automatically select the best dictionary to use based on
      the setting of the `LANG' environment variable.
 
    * Expanded the medium dictionary size to include more words which
      included the original words found in Ispell and eliminated the
      large size for now.
 
    * Added three special variant add-on dictionaries.
 
    * Switched to the multi-language branch of the CVS version of
      libtool.
 
 
 Changes from .32.5 to .32.6 (Nov 8, 2000)
 =========================================
 
    * Fixed a bug where Aspell would crash when reading-in accented
      characters on some platforms.  This fixed bug # 112435.
 
    * Fixed some other bugs so that it will run under Win32 under CygWin.
      Unfortunately it still won't run properly under Mingw.
 
    * Fixed the mmap test in configure so that it won't fail on some
      platforms that use munmap(char *, int) instead of munmap(void *,
      int).
 
    * Upgraded to the latest CVS version of libtool which fixed the
      problem with using GNU Make under Solaris.
 
    * Added an option to copy files instead of using symbolic links for
      the special *multi* dictionary files.
 
 Changes from .32.1 to .32.5 (August 18, 2000)
 =============================================
 
    * Changed my email from kevinatk at home com to kevina at users
      sourceforge net please make a note of the new email address.
 
    * Added an option to control if the personal replacement dictionary
      is saved when the save_all_wls method is called.
 
    * Brought back the ability to dump the master word list even in the
      case of the special *multi* lists.
 
    * Added a large number of hacker related words and some other slang
      terms to the medium size word list.
 
    * Added an *ispell* and *spell* compatibility script for systems
      which don't have Ispell installed.  They are located in the
      scripts/ directory and are not installed by default.
 
    * Manual fixes.
 
    * Added a note on not using GNU Make on Solaris.
 
 Changes from .32 to .32.1 (August 5, 2000)
 ==========================================
 
    * Minor compile fixes for recent gcc snapshot.
 
    * Fixed naming of pwli files.
 
    * Fixed a bug when Aspell will crash when used with certain single
      letter flags.  This bug was most noticeable when used with Emacs.
 
    * Word list changes, see SCOWL Readme.
 
    * Other miscellaneous changes.
 
 Changes from .31.1 to .32 (July 23, 2000)
 =========================================
 
    * Added support for optionally doing without the soundslike data.
 
    * Greatly reduced the amount of memory used when creating word lists.
 
    * Added support for ignoring accents when coming up with suggestions.
 
    * Added support for local-data-dir which is searched before data-dir.
 
    * Added support for specifying which words may be used in compounds
      and where  they may be used.
 
    * Added support for having more than one main word list as well as a
      special *multi* word list files which will allow multiple word
      lists to be treated as one.
 
    * Aspell now uses a completely new word list.
 
    * The apostrophe (') is no longer considered part of the word when
      it as at the end of the word such as in `dogs''.
 
 Changes from .31 to .31.1 (June 18, 2000)
 =========================================
 
    * Fixed a bug where Aspell would not create a complete dictionary
      file on some platforms when the data is 8-bit.
 
    * Added a workaround so Aspell will work with ispell.el 3.3.
 
    * Minor compile fixes so it would compile better with the very latest
      gcc (CVS Version).
 
    * Removed note about compiling in Win32 as I was now able to get it
      to work.
 
 Changes from .30.1 to .31 (June 11, 2000)
 =========================================
 
    * Added support for spell checking run together words.
 
    * Added an option to produce a list of misspelled words from
      standard input.
 
    * More robust error reporting when reading in language data files.
 
    * Fixed a bug that would cause Aspell to crash if the *special* line
      was not defined in the language data file.
 
    * Updated Pspell Module.
 
    * Minor bug fixes.
 
    * Added cross references in "The Aspell Utility Chapter" for easier
      use.
 
 Changes from .30 to .30.1 (April 29, 2000)
 ==========================================
 
    * Ported Aspell to Win32 platforms.
 
    * Portability fixes which may help Aspell compile on other platforms.
 
    * Aspell will no longer fail if for some reason the mmap fails,
      instead it will just read the file in as normal and free the
      memory when done.
 
    * Minor changes in the format of the main word list as a result of
      the changes, the old format should still work in most cases.
 
    * Fixed a bug where Aspell was ignoring the extension of file names
      such as .html or .tex when checking files.
 
    * Fixed a bug where Aspell will go into an infinite loop when
      creating the main word list from a word list which has duplicates
      in it.
 
    * Minor changes to the manual for better clarity.
 
 Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)
 =========================================
 
    * Fixed many of the capitalization bugs found in previous versions of
      Aspell.
 
    * Changed the format of the main word list yet again.
 
    * Fixed a bug so that `aspell check' will work on the PowerPC.
 
    * Added ability to change configuration options in the middle of a
      session.
 
    * Added words from /usr/dict/words found on most Linux systems as
      well as a bunch of commonly used abbreviations to the word list.
 
    * Fixed a bug where Aspell would dump core after reporting certain
      errors when compiled with gcc 2.95 or higher.  This involved
      reworking the Exception heritage to get around a bug in gcc 2.95.
 
    * Added a few more commands to the list of default commands the TeX
      filter knows about.
 
    * Aspell will now check if a word only contains valid characters
      before adding it to any dictionaries.  This might mean that you
      have to manually delete a few words from your personal word list.
 
    * Added option to ignore case when checking a document.
 
    * Adjusted the parameters of the *normal* suggest mode to so that
      significantly less far fetched results are returned in cases such
      as tomatoe, which went from 100 suggestions down to 32, at the
      expense of getting slightly lower results (less than 1%),
 
    * Improved the edit distance algorithm for slightly faster results.
 
    * Removed the `$$m' command in pipe mode, you should now use `$$cs
      mode,MODE' to set the mode and *$$cr mode* to find out the current
      mode.
 
    * Reworked parts of Aspell to use Pspell services to avoid
      duplicating code.
 
    * Added a module for the newly released Pspell.  It will get
      installed with the rest of Aspell.
 
    * Miscellaneous other bug fixes.
 
 Changes from .29 to .29.1 (Feb 18, 2000)
 ========================================
 
    * Improved the TeX filter so that it will accept '@' at the beginning
      of a command name and ignored trailing '*'s.  It also now has
      better defaults for which parameters to skip.
 
    * Reworked the main dictionary so that it can be memory mapped in.
      This decreases startup time and allows multiple Aspell processes
      to use the same memory for the main word list.  This also also
      made Aspell 64 bit clean so that it should work on an alpha now.
 
    * Fix so that Aspell could compile on platforms that gnu is not yet
      available for.
 
    * Fixed issue with flock so it would compile on FreeBSD.
 
    * Minor changes in the code to make it more C++ compliant although I
      am sure there will still be problems when using some other
      compiler other than gcc or egcs.
 
    * Added some comments to the header files to better document a few of
      the classes.
 
 Changes from .28.3 to .29 (Feb 6, 2000)
 =======================================
 
    * Fixed a bug in the pipe mode with lines that start with `^$$'.
 
    * Added support for ignoring all words less than or equal to a
      specified length
 
    * New soundslike code based thanks to the contribution of Björn
      Jacke.  It now gets all of its data from a table making it easier
      for other people to add soundslike code for their native language.
      He also converted the metaphone algorithm to table form,
      eliminating the need for the old metaphone code.
 
    * Major redesign of the suggestion code for better results.
 
    * Changed the format of the personal word lists.  In most cases it
      should be converted automatically.
 
    * Changed the format of the main word list.
 
    * Name space cleanup for more consistent naming.  I now use name
      spaces which means that gcc 2.8.* and egcs 1.0.* will no longer
      cut it.
 
    * Used file locks when reading and saving the personal dictionaries
      so that it truly multiprocesses safely.
 
    * Added rudimentary filter support.
 
    * Reworked the configuration system once again.  However, the
      changes to the end user who does not directly use my library
      should be minimal.
 
    * Rewrote my code that handles parsing command line parameters so
      that it no longer used popt as it was causing too many problems
      and didn't integrate well with my new configuration system.
 
    * Fixed pipe mode so that it will properly ignore lines starting with
      '~' for better Ispell compatibility.
 
    * Aspell now has a new home page at
      `http://aspell.sourceforge.net/'.  Please make note of the new URL.
 
    * Miscellaneous manual fixes and clarifications.
 
 Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
 ============================================
 
    * Fixed a bug that caused Aspell to crash when spell checking words
      over 60 characters long.
 
    * Reworked *aspell check* so that
        1. You no longer have to hit enter when making a choice.
 
        2. It will now overwrite the original file instead of creating a
           new file.  An optional backup can be made by using the -b
           option.
 
    * Fixed a few bugs in data.cc.
 
 Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
 ============================================
 
    * Fixed the version number for the shared library.
 
    * Fixed a problem with undefined references when linking to the
      shared library.
 
 Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
 ==========================================
 
    * Fixed a bunch of bugs in the language and configuration classes.
 
    * Minor changes in the code so that it could compile with the new gcc
      2.95(.1).
 
    * Changed the output of `dump config' so that default values are
      given the value `<default>'.  This means that the output can be
      used to create a configuration file.
 
    * Added notes on using Aspell with VIM.
 
 Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
 =========================================
 
    * Removed some debug output
 
    * Changed notes on compiling with gcc 2.8.* as I managed to get it to
      compile on my school account
 
    * Avoided including *stdexcept* in `const_string.hh' so that I could
      get Aspell to compile on my school account with gcc 2.8.1.
 
 Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
 =========================================
 
      Provided an iterator for the replacement classes.
 
    * Added support for dumping and creating and merging the personal and
      replacement word lists.
 
    * Changed the Aspell utility command line a bit, it now used popt.
 
    * Totally reworked Aspell configuration system.  Now Aspell could get
      configuration from any of 5 sources: the command line, the
      environment variable `ASPELL_CONF', the personal configuration
      file, the global configuration file, and finally the compiled-in
      defaults.
 
    * Totally reworked the language class in preparation for my new
      language code.  See `http://aspell.sourceforge.net/international/'
      for more information of what I have in store.
 
    * Added some options to the configure script: -enable-dict-dir=DIR,
      -enable-doc-dir=DIR, -enable-debug, and -enable-opt
 
    * Removed some old header files.
 
    * Reorganized the directory structure a bit
 
    * Made the text version of the manual pages slightly easier to read
 
    * Used the `\url' command for urls for better formating of the
      printed version.
 
 Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
 =========================================
 
    * Fixed a major bug that caused Aspell to dump core when used without
      any arguments
 
    * Fixed another major bug that caused Aspell to do nothing when used
      in interactive mode.
 
    * Added an option to exit in Aspell's interactive mode.
 
    * Removed some old documentation files from the distribution.
 
    * Minor changes to the the section on using Aspell with egcs.
 
    * Minor changes to remove -Wall warnings.
 
 Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
 ========================================
 
    * Fixed a minor compile problem.
 
    * Updated the section on using Aspell with egcs to it.  It was now
      more clear why the patch was necessary.
 
 Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
 ========================================
 
    * Totally reworked the C++ library which means you may need to change
      some things in your code.
 
    * Added support for detachable and multiple personal dictionaries in
      the C++ class library.
 
    * The C++ class library now throws exceptions.
 
    * Reworked Aspell ability to learn from users misspellings a bit so
      that it now has a memory.  For more information see  Notes on
      Storing Replacement Pairs.
 
    * Upgraded autoconf to version 2.13 and automake to version 1.4 for
      better portability.
 
    * Fixed the configuration so the `make dist' will work.  From now on
      Aspell will be distributed with `make dist'.
 
    * Added support to skip over URL's, email addresses and host names.
 
    * Added support for dumping the master and personal word list.  You
      can now also merge a personal word list.  Type aspell -help for
      help on using this feature.
 
    * Reorganized the source code.
 
    * Started using proper version numbers for the shared library.
 
    * Fixed a bug that caused Aspell to crash when adding certain
      replacement pairs.
 
    * Fixed the problem with duplicate lines when exiting pipe mode for
      good.
 
 Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
 =========================================
 
    * Fixed another compile problem.  Hopefully this time it will really
      compile OK on other peoples machines.
 
 Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
 =======================================
 
    * Fixed a small compile problem in `as_data.cc'.
 
 Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
 =======================================
 
    * Fixed a bug that caused duplicate items to be displayed in the
      suggestion list for good.  (If it still does it please send me
      email.)
 
    * Added the ability for Aspell to learn form the users misspellings.
 
    * Library Interface changes.  Still more to come ....
 
    * Is now multiprocess safe.  When a personal dictionary (or
      replacement list) is saved it will now first update the list
      against the dictionary on disk in case another process modified it.
 
    * Fixed the bug that caused duplicate output when used non
      interactively in pipe mode.
 
    * Dropped support for gcc 2.7.2 as the C++ compiler.
 
    * Updated the How Aspell Works ( Aspell Suggestion Strategy.)
 
    * Added support for the `ASPELL_DATA_DIR' environment variable.
 
 Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
 ========================================
 
    * Fixed the version number so that Aspell reports the correct version
      number.
 
    * Changed the note on gcc 2.7.2 compilers to make it clear that only
      the C++ compiler cannot be gcc 2.7.2, it is OK if the C compiler
      is gcc 2.7.2.
 
    * Updated the TODO list and reorganized it a bit.
 
    * Fixed the directory so that all the documentation will get
      installed in ${prefix}/doc/aspell instead of half of it in
      ${prefix}/doc/aspell and half of it in ${prefix}/doc/kspell.
 
 Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
 ======================================
 
    * Total rework of how the main word list is stored.  Start up time
      decreased to about 1/3 of what it was in .24 and memory usage
      decreased to about 2/3.  (When used with the provided word list on
      a Linux system).
 
      Also the format and default locations of the main word list data
      files changed in the process and the data is now machine
      dependent.  The personal word list format, however, stayed the
      same.
 
    * Changed the scoring method to produce slightly better results with
      words like the vs.  teh.  And other simpler misspellings where two
      letters are swapped.
 
    * Fixed the very unpredictable behavior of the `*', `&', `@'
      commands in the pipe mode.
 
    * Added documentations for Aspell pipe mode (also known as `ispell
      -a' compatibility mode)
 
    * Added a bunch of Aspell specific extensions to the pipe mode and
      documented them.
 
    * Documented the `to_soundslike' and `soundslike' methods for the
      `aspell' class.
 
    * Changed the scoring method to produce better results for words like
      _fone_ vs _phone_ and other words that have a spelling that
      doesn't directly relate to how the word sounds by using the phoneme
      equivalent of the word in the scoring of it.
 
    * Added the `to_phoneme' and `have_phoneme' methods to the
      `SC_Language' class.
 
    * Added the `to_phoneme' method to the `aspell' class.
 
    * Added the framework for being able to learn from the users
      misspelling.  Right now it just keeps a log of replacements.
 
    * Redid `stl_rope-30.diff'.  For some reason the version of patch on
      my system refused it.
 
    * Rewrite of the "_Using as a replacement for Ispell_" section and
      added the `run-with-aspell' utility as a replacement of the old
      method of mapping Ispell to Aspell.
 
    * Fixed a bug that caused duplicate words to appear in the suggestion
      list.
 
 Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
 =====================================
 
    * Fixed my code so that it can once again compile with g++ 2.7.2.
 
    * Rewrote the How It Works chapter.
 
    * Rewrote the Requirement section and added notes on compiling with
      g++ 2.7.2.
 
    * Added a To Do chapter.
 
    * Added a Glossary and References chapter.
 
    * Other minor documentation improvements.
 
    * Internal code documentation improvements.
 
 Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
 ========================================
 
    * Minor documentation fixes.
 
    * Changed the scoring strategy for words with 3 or less letters.
      This cut the number of words returned for these roughly in half.
 
    * Expanded the word list to also include *american.0* and
      *american.1* from the Ispell distribution.  It now includes
      *english.0*, *english.1*, *american.0* and *american.1* from the
      directory `languages/english' provided with Ispell 3.1.20.
 
    * Added a link to the location of the latest Ispell.el in the
      documentation.
 
    * Started a C interface and added some rough documentation for it.
 
 Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
 ========================================
 
    * Minor bug fixes.  I was deleting arrays with delete rather than
      delete[].  I was suprised that this had not created a problem.
 
    * Added a simple test program to test for a memory leak present on
      some systems.  (Only debian slink at the moment.) See the file
      memleak-test.cc for more info.
 
 Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
 ======================================
 
    * Major redesign of the scoring method.  It now uses absolute
      distances rather than relative scores for more consistent results.
      See `suggest.cc' for more info.
 
    * Suggest code rewritten in several places, however the core process
      stayed the same.
 
    * The `suggest_ultra' method temporarily does nothing.  It should be
      working again by the next release.
 
 Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
 ======================================
 
    * Added documentation for aspell::Error
 
    *  Changed the library name from `libspell' to `libaspell'.  It
      should never have been `libspell' in the first place.  Sorry for
      the incompatibility.
 
    * Added `as_error.hh' to the list of files copied to the include
      directory so that you can actually use the library outside of the
      source dir.
 
    * Fixed bug that caused a segmentation fault with words where the
      only suggestions was inserting a space or hyphen such as in
      *ledgerline*.
 
    * Added the *score* method to `aspell'.
 
    * Changed the scoring method to deal with word when the user uses
      "f" in place of "ph" a lot better.
 
 Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
 ======================================
 
    * _Name change_.  Everything that was Kspell is now Aspell.  Sorry,
      the name Kspell was already used by KDE and I didn't want to cause
      any confusion.
 
    * Fixed a bug that causes a segmentation fault when the `HOME'
      environment variable doesn't exist.
 
 Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)
 ======================================
 
    * Overhaul of the SC_Language class
 
    * Added documentation for international support
 
    * Added documentation for the C++ library
 
    * Other minor bug fixes.
 
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