	
	FIM NEWS -- history of (main) user-visible changes in FIM.

                Version 0.5-rc1

 * fix: enabled concurrent make, e.g.: make -j 4
 * bug workaround: had no console scroll if no command executed on PostInteractiveCommand
 * fix: some systems don't have sys_errlist: using strerror there
 * fix: corrected the quiet mode (-q) to be quieter
 * fix: no zlib.h build time dependency (this will be reintroduced in the future)

                Version 0.5-rc0

 * -R / --recursive switch to turn on recursive push of command line specified directories
 * added --sort and --sort-basename to sort the images list
 * introduced mipmap mechanism (_use_mipmaps) for faster display/scaling of images
 * status bar customizable with _display_status_fmt and _info_fmt_str, which can be
   controlled by the use of special image variable specifiers ('expandos'):
    "%T" expando to get (and display) total memory used by the program 
    "%C" expando to get (and display) file/memory usage by image cache
    "%M" expando to get (and display) memory used by the current (displayed) image
    "%c" expando to get (and display) centering information
    "%m" expando to get (and display) current image mipmap occupation information
    "%k" expando to get (and display) current image i:_comment value
    "%?PRE?VAR?POST?" expando to get (and display) "PRE".i:VAR."POST"
    ...
 * search (and jump) on image descriptions via 'goto' and key '/'
 * when repeating search with 'repeat_last', will use last direction
 * '?' key is now assigned to backward search (goto '-//')
 * default 'C-p' key is now assigned to repeat last backward search (goto '-//')
 * image cache will remember alignment within viewport
 * jump back and forth from the last viewed image with the ' (single quote aka apostrophe)
   key and the _lastfileindex variable
 * added --load-image-descriptions-file (equivalent to 'desc' 'load') to populate 
   the i:_comment values of each loaded image file and set _caption_over_image=2
   (with it added also --image-descriptions-file-separator)
 * added the 'desc "load"' command to load a textual files comments description file
 * introduced a 'limit' command, with comment, file name, or marked file criteria
 * the '`' key is bound to toggle limit'ing to the marked files list
 * introduced 'list "mark"' and 'list "unmark"' syntax styled as 'limit'
 * load i:_comment and i:var from description file, with forms:
   "filename comment" (to i:_comment),
   "#!fim:var=value" (to   set i:var=value on all all the files following)
   "#!fim:var="      (to unset i:var=value on all all the files following)
   "filename #!fim:=" (to i:_comment from the value read last)
   "filename #!fim:+comment" (similar, but will append the new comment)
   "filename #!fim:^comment" (similar, but will prepend the new comment)
   "filename #!fim:s/f/t" (similar, but replace string f with string t)
 * EXIF tags will be read with libexif and become i:EXIF_-prefixed variables
 * if _want_exif_orientation is set, images will be reoriented according to EXIF
   metadata (i:__exif_orientation, i:__exif_mirrored, i:__exif_flipped).
 * the 'help' command will search also in fim command options
 * will optionally use C++11 constructs with ./configure --enable-cxx11 (no user level impact)
 * scaling image code faster (thanks to __restrict__ pointers)
 * customizable SDL window caption line with _want_wm_caption_status
 * BMP format support is now optional
 * PCX format support (optional)
 * changed meaning of variable _ignorecase: now it affects autocommands
 * introduced variable _re_search_opts affecting regexp-based search
 * default key 'r' is bound to 'rotate90', key 'R' to 'rotate270'
 * can be invoked without stdin; e.g. from an X menu
 * added "display 'resize'" to resize the SDL window, eventually to image size
 * default SDL mode is windowed now
 * by default, the 'C-w' key will resize the SDL window to the original image size
 * by default, the 'W' key will resize the SDL window to the image size,
   and added an --autowindow switch to adapt window size to picture size
 * the 'help' command will search in help items if argument starts with /
 * special variable i:* expanding to all the variable name/value pairs of the current image
 * opening image files in archives (e.g. CBZ,CBR,RAR,TAR,TGZ,TBZ,7Z,ISO,...)
   with libarchive (experimental)
 * JPEG-2000 file support via JasPer (experimental)
 * added a ':- INTEGER' syntax, so one can specify the file in the list counting from the end
 * added an _archive_files variable to specify which file name types specify archives
 * added a 'list "pushdirr"' command, working like "pushdir" but recursively
 * the _fbfont variable will contain the current console font file string
 * mirror/flip are now being applied with respect to the viewport borders
 * stat() checking of files on load can be disabled with _push_checks
 * added --no-stat-push to set _push_checks=0 before initialization
 * added the _caption_over_image variable (which is 0 unless --load-image-descriptions-file)
 * 'Pause' and 'Menu' keys are now available in SDL (-o sdl) mode
 * added  'list' 'marked'  to show the list of marked files
 * key 'Del' bound to pop (delete) the current image from the list
 * i:_file loader will store the used loader string
 * switch --offset accepts a range now (using the new _open_offset_retry variable)
 * if an image has been opened with an offset, i:_open_offset will be set accordingly
 * variable i:pagecount is now replaced by i:pages
 * put aside (disabled) the v: b: and w: namespaces until they make more sense
 * panning on mouse movement in SDL mode
 * `make fim' goal has been deleted
 * changed librsb library detection: now it's e.g.:
   LIBS="`librsb-config  --ldflags --extra_libs` " CXXFLAGS="`librsb-config --cflags ` \
   ./configure --enable-matrices-rendering
 * bugfix: in some situations fim -o fb was not clearing the screen before drawing the image
 * bugfix in the "list 'remove'" internals
 * --binary=1/--binary=24 will not pad tiny renderings to _preferred_rendering_width pixels

                Version 0.4

 * changed --random semantics and introduced --random-no-seed switch
 * customizable status bar file info string
 * introduced --as-text to render printable bytes as text
 * key r is bound to 'rotate90', key R to 'rotate270'
 * bug fixes for the g: namespace, SDL/X mode, "list 'pop'" command, 
   the --offset option, 'ascale' and rotation, documentation.

                Version 0.4-beta

 * interface to the GraphicsMagic library (more graphics formats supported)
 * introduced bitwise AND and OR operators
 * support for rendering "matrix market" numerical matrix files (with librsb)
 * X mode not anymore default in aalib, available at option 
 * libjpeg usage fixes
 * libpng usage fixes (support for PNG_LIBPNG_VER>=10209)
 * documentation improvements (e.g.: fim man page is auto-generated)
 * "imlib2" X-based output device support 
 * "sdl" output device improvements (fullscreen/mouse/windowed options, I/O, ..)
 * more default consolefont options (e.g.: hardcoded consolefonts support)
 * configure option to disable the fim history file
 * improvements to scale, goto, other commands
 * improved directories reading
 * introduced --no-commandline, --no-internal-config switches
 * aggregated some commands for clarity
 * output console can be disabled at configure time
 * important fbdev bug fixes 
 * autocompletion of variable identifiers

        	Version 0.3

 * minor strchr compilation problem on some systems
 * better consolefonts support  
 * much better SDL support (different color modes)
 * 'negate' feature
 * -S, or 'sanity-check' switch 

               Version 0.3-beta-prerelease

 * auto-generated documentation: more consistency 
 * grammar specification, in man fimrc
 * internal commands,variables,autocommands  reference man page, in man fimrc
 * better internal help mechanisms
 * more control (resolution change,windowed mode) in experimental sdl mode
 * new commands (pread,reverse,shuffle,...) 
 * (temporarily) disabled internal windows splitting 
 * pushing files from a directory
 * several minor and major bugfixes

        	Version 0.3-beta

 * full         support for AAlib (Ascii Art rendering) (-o aa)
 * experimental support for SDLlib (Simple Directmedia Layer) (-o sdl) (X!)
 * experimental PDF, PS, DJVU file support
 * history file support (~/.fim_history)
 * seamless caching and prefetching integration
 * viewing of any type files as bitmaps (unset bits black, set bits white)
 * viewing of any type files as pixmaps (as RGB triples)
 * framebuffer driver now can be disabled at compile time
 * colors inversion: saves a significant fraction of power when viewing documents 

        	Version 0.3-alpha

 * experimental support for AAlib (Ascii Art rendering) (-t)
 * reading image files (-i) and scripts (-p) from stdin
 * runs on the powerpc architecure
 * rewritten from scratch the debug console, now buffered and with scrolling
 * achieved speedup in magnifying pictures
 * achieved speedup in displaying dithered images
 * smarter quoting rules (looser quote checking) when "push"ing files
 * dumping to file execution logs as executable scripts (-W/--write-scriptout)
 * implemented regular expressions matching operator (=~)
 * new default key bindings for split windows control
 * could be compiled with no readline library (--disable-readline)

        	Version 0.2
 
 * internal windowing (with splitting, resizing, swapping) support
 * .xcf, .fig, .dia, .svg files now viewable via wrapper calls
 * introduced interactive command iteration ( in the [n]<command key> form )
 * fim will try to run under screen and over ssh now
 * custom framebuffer device, fonts and gamma are supported
 * enriched compile-time options via the ./configure script
 * vim-styled variable scoping g:,i:,v:,w: (local variables)
 * eradicated some bugs
 * introduced new variables, commands

        	Version 0.2-alpha
 
 * first windowing functionalities
 * bugs and subtle flaws handling
 * introduced new variables, commands

            	Version 0.1

 * regular expressions for filtering the viewed image list
 * vim-like autocommands
 * command line autocompletion
 * command line history
 * completely customizable key bindings
 * external/internal scriptability
