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  19         <h3>Version 0.95.4 released</h3>
  20           <p> Window Maker 0.95.4 was released on January 3rd 2013. There was a major code cleanup related to icons, some changes
  21               in WPrefs, the addition of a new "Center" placement strategy, support for _NET_FRAME_EXTENTS, the removal of CPP
  22               dependency to process menu files and small fixes and improvements all around.</p>
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  24         <h3>Version 0.95.3 released</h3>
  25           <p> Window Maker 0.95.3 was released on May 16th 2012. This release fixes a regression
  26           which would cause more than one instance of an application to start (under some circunstances) when using menu
  27           shortcuts. The window maximization procedures now have a more intuitive behavior with respect to remembering
  28           the old geometry and going back to it. Furthermore, there are some other small fixes and cleanups.</p>
  29
  30           <h3>Version 0.95.2 released</h3>
  31           <p> Window Maker 0.95.2 was released on February 14th 2012, and it contains just a few
  32           commits on top of 0.95.1. They were necessary to fix a few issues like 'make dist' not compiling.
  33           Furthermore a few more code cleanups slipped in.</p>
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  35
  36           <h3>Version 0.95.1 released</h3>
  37
  38           <p>Window Maker 0.95.1 was released on January 29th 2012.</p>
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  40           <p>The last official Window Maker release was version 0.92.0 from 2005, and version 0.95.1 contains many bug fixes and
  41           also a few new features.</p>
  42
  43           <h3>New features and highlights</h3>
  44
  45           <p>The following list is incomplete, but should give a first-order approximation to the new features in this release.
  46           For the truly curious among you, reading through <code>git log</code> is the only complete source of information.</p>
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  48           <ul>
  49             <li>
  50               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/6924454836b3a9432def2749f093ea060ac82e97">Left Half / Right
  51               Half Maximize</a>.</p>
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  54             <li>
  55               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/cf62d1591f5aef1e6760a8c0881a6de97ae26e92">Maximus: tiled
  56               maximization</a>. Maximizes a window such that it occupies the largest area without overlapping others.</p>
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  59             <li>
  60               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a063338175511c4e6af211cef9f2c8a555d7cb44">New mouse-resizing
  61               functionality</a>. Windows can now be resized vertically (horizontally) using MOD+Wheel (CTRL+Wheel).</p>
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  64             <li>
  65               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/05720d97076ffc1569e50d904b998ec99c3d3d4e">History and TAB
  66               completion in dialogs</a>. To use this new functionality in your old WMRootMenu, replace %a by %A in the relevant
  67               entry. It will look like this <code>(Run..., SHEXEC, "%A(Run, Type command:)")</code>. Or use
  68               <code>wmgenmenu</code> to generate a new menu.</p>
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  71             <li>
  72               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/a257e16593bb471662ce46f65d489c2ba6d87813">Bouncing appicon
  73               effect</a>.</p>
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  76             <li>
  77               <p>New applications (<a href=
  78               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/1861880239634774bf898175a3155b7c7cd9b59c">wmgenmenu</a> and wmmenugen)
  79               to generate the root menu automatically by looking which applications you have on your $PATH. Translations to
  80               German, <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/077a2eaa71623421eaffc234c30e6d40a52f0220">Spanish and
  81               French</a> of menus generated by wmgenmenu.</p>
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  84             <li>
  85               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/56d856878743ec2d3b8d98ab6a0b61a6b2c99129">Automatic detection
  86               of configuration changes</a>. Linux users whose kernel supports the <a href=
  87               "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify">inotify</a> mechanism have their configuration changes detected
  88               automatically without polling, reducing the number of CPU wakeups.</p>
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  91             <li>
  92               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/9318a7f42870753bd6b8c306573936369aa819f4">Improved dockapp
  93               recognition.</a></p>
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  96             <li>
  97               <p>And many trivial things which reduce little annoyances one might have. For example, an option was added to
  98               control whether or not Window Maker should do <a href=
  99               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/d6c134f420bfa1cd6b6a9474d01548933b559901">automatic workspace
 100               switching</a> to satisfy a focus request from a window located in another workspace.</p>
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 102
 103             <li>
 104               <p>(For developers). The <a href=
 105               "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/442e3876c6e5a78c6ed385ec204647553f45c168">addition</a> of a debian/
 106               folder which allows the creation of a debian package for wmaker using the git sources.</p>
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 109             <li>
 110               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/b6689a0108fd06ba4d7bf22b789b3de531c2ad70">Added keyboard
 111               shortcut to uncover/cover the dock</a>.</p>
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 114             <li>
 115               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/18408fff93468c533bf4aef3ce6c9808b415adde">Mac OS X-style
 116               window cycling</a>.</p>
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 119             <li>
 120               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c201e1612c1798106ccc2f806669a90b0bbb7a19">Preliminary XRandR
 121               support</a> (needs a bit more work to be bug-free; not compiled in by default. Use --enable-xrandr if you want to
 122               test it).</p>
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 125
 126           <h3>Bug fixes</h3>
 127
 128           <p>Window Maker 0.92.0 was already very stable, but many bugs were fixed in this release. A <strong>very</strong>
 129           incomplete list is given below, and as time permits it will be updated (including links to the commits) in the future.
 130           But the message now is that if you don't like bugs, use version 0.95.1.</p>
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 132           <ul>
 133             <li>
 134               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/37829a7c60ca09eb47d4d82b00070f6f6c0fb277">Fix loading saved
 135               states on 64-bit systems</a></p>
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 138             <li>
 139               <p>Fix to avoid a segfault when creating more than 81 workspaces, as reported on youtube <a href=
 140               "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNJZvKwmhE">here</a>.</p>
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 143             <li>
 144               <p><a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17">Periodic focus
 145               bug</a>.</p>
 146             </li>
 147           </ul>
 148
 149           <h3>Summary of changes</h3>
 150
 151           <p>A lot of effort was put into cleaning up the code, with lots of code removal and tidying things up. The following
 152           output should give you an idea of the development in the last cycle:</p>
 153           <pre>
 154 git diff --shortstat wmaker-0.92.0+..wmaker-0.95.1
 155  592 files changed, 118361 insertions(+), 133342 deletions(-)
 156 git diff --shortstat 688a56e8ab67b..wmaker-0.95.1
 157  566 files changed, 37676 insertions(+), 41817 deletions(-)
 158 </pre>The first shortstat is really everything, including the (huge) patch generated in this <a href=
 159 "http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git/commit/688a56e8ab67b56550e2874d9d7423f0d435bfd9">commit</a> from 2009, which changed the old
 160 sources to the linux kernel coding style. The second shortstat contains the summary of development afterwards -- but included is
 161 the addition of a debian folder with files summing around ~20k lines. The full diffstat for the second command can be seen
 162 <a href="fulldiffstat.php">here</a>.
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