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  20           <h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
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  22           <p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
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  24           <p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2006, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
  25           also a few new features.</p>
  26
  27           <h3>New features and highlights</h3>
  28
  29           <p>The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to the new features in this release.
  30           For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the only complete source of information.</p>
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  32           <ul>
  33             <li>
  34               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half / Right
  35               Half Maximize</a>.</p>
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  38             <li>
  39               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus: tiled
  40               maximization</a>. Maximizes windows such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others.</p>
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  43             <li>
  44               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse-resizing
  45               functionality</a>. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel (CTRL+Wheel).</p>
  46             </li>
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  48             <li>
  49               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History and TAB
  50               completion in dialogs</a>. To use this new functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant
  51               entry. It will look like this <code>(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code>. Or use
  52               <code>wmgenmenu</code> to generate a new menu.</p>
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  55             <li>
  56               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
  57               effect</a>.</p>
  58             </li>
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  60             <li>
  61               <p>New applications (<a href=
  62               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu</a> and wmmenugen)
  63               to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your $PATH. Translations to
  64               German, <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish and
  65               French</a> of menus generated by wmgenmenu.</p>
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  68             <li>
  69               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
  70               of configuration changes</a>. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
  71               "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
  72               automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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  75             <li>
  76               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
  77               recognition.</a></p>
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  80             <li>
  81               <p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
  82               control whether or not Window Maker should do <a href=
  83               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
  84               switching</a> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace.</p>
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  87             <li>
  88               <p>(For developers). The <a href=
  89               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition</a> of a debian/
  90               folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git sources.</p>
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  93             <li>
  94               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
  95               shortcut to uncover/cover the dock</a>.</p>
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  98             <li>
  99               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X-style
 100               window cycling</a>.</p>
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 103             <li>
 104               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
 105               support</a> (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you want to
 106               test it).</p>
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 109
 110           <h3>Bug fixes</h3>
 111
 112           <p>Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this release. A <strong>very</strong>
 113           incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will be updated (including links to the commits) in the future.
 114           But the message now is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
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 116           <ul>
 117             <li>
 118               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
 119               states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
 120             </li>
 121
 122             <li>
 123               <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
 124               "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
 125             </li>
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 127             <li>
 128               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
 129               bug</a>.</p>
 130             </li>
 131           </ul>
 132
 133           <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
 134
 135           <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
 136           output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
 137           <pre>
 138 [mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
 139  592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
 140 [mafra@Pilar:wmaker.git]$ git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
 141  566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
 142 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
 143 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
 144 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
 145 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
 146 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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