# # Release notes for edict # v2.0 2004/12/27 Vishal Verma This is a bug fix release. - Bug 1079288: Ctrl-D on "Your choice" prompt used to cause a Perl error. - Bug 1091879: edict stopped showing suggestions for invalid words starting the 2.0-beta version. This has been fixed now. - Bug 1091884: Fix for directive occasionally showing up in output - Fixed a misspelled word. v2.0-beta 2004/12/03 Vishal Verma This is a major revision of edictionary. New features: - A totally revamped architecture which allows easier inclusion of new dictionaries/content sites. - Support for configuration files to let you customize edictionary. Check out the documentation. - Better output for M-W dictionary. - Near-perfect handling of digraphs in output. - A new -l switch to list all the available dictionaries. - Bug 1073349: A new -c switch to disable color when you want/need. Bug Fixes: - Bug 998315: Garbled output problems for M-W are fixed now. - Bug 915190: Possible fix for extra trailing white space. Need to verify this with the submitter. - Bug 915186: "undefined HTTP port number" on some platforms - should be fixed. v1.2 2004/02/09 Vishal Verma This is a bug fix release. - Bug fix: 893704. M-W website layout has changed and this caused edict to output junk characters. Thanks, Bo Pan for the patch. - Bug fix: "make install" caused an error if ethes already installed v1.1 2003/07/15 Vishal Verma This is a bug fix release. - New feature: edict option -p now takes hostnames for proxy servers. - Bug fixes: 771934, 697431, 756309, 771221, 708141, 659236 and 769932 fixed. v1.0 2003/03/01 Vishal Verma The first main release of edict. Changes are: - New Feature: Thesaurus support now available. Type "ethes" to get thesaurus entries, "edict" to get dictionary entries. v1.0-beta2 2003/01/28 Vishal Verma This is the final beta version of edict. Following are the changes: - New Feature: edict now provides suggestions if you enter an invalid word. - New Feature: edict now provides alternate meanings of the word (if any). - Bug Fix: BUG# 672762 fixed. v1.0-beta 2003/01/02 Vishal Verma This is the beta version of edict. Following are the changes: - Improved windows installation support - Fixed bugs in HTTP proxy support v1.0-00alpha 2002/12/12 Vishal Verma This is the alpha version of edict. Following main features are supported - querying one or more word meanings using a single command - specifying a proxy server if there's no direct connection to Internet - support for extending the dictionary by providing infrastructure for adding more dictionary servers