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  18           <h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
  19
  20           <p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
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  22           <p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2006, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
  23           also a few new features.</p>
  24
  25           <h3>New features and highlights</h3>
  26
  27           <p>The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to the new features in this release.
  28           For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the only complete source of information.</p>
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  30           <ul>
  31             <li>
  32               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half / Right
  33               Half Maximize</a>.</p>
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  36             <li>
  37               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus: tiled
  38               maximization</a>. Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others.</p>
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  41             <li>
  42               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse-resizing
  43               functionality</a>. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel (CTRL+Wheel).</p>
  44             </li>
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  46             <li>
  47               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History and TAB
  48               completion in dialogs</a>. To use this new functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant
  49               entry. It will look like this <code>(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code>. Or use
  50               <code>wmgenmenu</code> to generate a new menu.</p>
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  53             <li>
  54               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
  55               effect</a>.</p>
  56             </li>
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  58             <li>
  59               <p>New applications (<a href=
  60               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu</a> and wmmenugen)
  61               to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your $PATH. Translations to
  62               German, <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish and
  63               French</a> of menus generated by wmgenmenu.</p>
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  66             <li>
  67               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
  68               of configuration changes</a>. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
  69               "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
  70               automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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  73             <li>
  74               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
  75               recognition.</a></p>
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  78             <li>
  79               <p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
  80               control whether or not Window Maker should do <a href=
  81               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
  82               switching</a> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace.</p>
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  85             <li>
  86               <p>(For developers). The <a href=
  87               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition</a> of a debian/
  88               folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git sources.</p>
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  91             <li>
  92               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
  93               shortcut to uncover/cover the dock</a>.</p>
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  96             <li>
  97               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X-style
  98               window cycling</a>.</p>
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 101             <li>
 102               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
 103               support</a> (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you want to
 104               test it).</p>
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 107
 108           <h3>Bug fixes</h3>
 109
 110           <p>Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this release. A <strong>very</strong>
 111           incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will be updated (including links to the commits) in the future.
 112           But the message now is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
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 114           <ul>
 115             <li>
 116               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
 117               states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
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 120             <li>
 121               <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
 122               "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
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 125             <li>
 126               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
 127               bug</a>.</p>
 128             </li>
 129           </ul>
 130
 131           <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
 132
 133           <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
 134           output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
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 136 git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
 137  592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
 138 git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
 139  566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
 140 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
 141 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
 142 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
 143 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
 144 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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