ATK Changelog

What's new in ATK 2.35.1

Sep 30, 2019
  • AtkComponent, AtkImage, AtkText: Make sure returned values are initialized to some known default value (MR!22, MR!24)
  • AtkPlug:
  • Add atk_plug_set_child (MR!27)
  • AtkSocket:
  • Make AtkSocket get_extents return parent extents by default (MR!23)
  • atk_socket_embed: make plug_id parameter const (MR!26)
  • Make AtkSocketClass (embed) use const for plug_id (MR!31)
  • AtkText:
  • Make atk_text_rectangle_union ignore undefined rectangles (MR!25)
  • Documentation:
  • Refine *_scroll_to_point documentation (MR!21)
  • Refine AtkScrollType documentation (MR!12)

New in ATK 2.33.3 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Documentation: general documentation cleanup, as part of MR!3, changes include:
  • Move Deprecated section down on AtkUtil
  • Update the list of symbols
  • Annotate the version for AtkTableCellIface
  • Use Markdown syntax for notes
  • Use the appropriate syntax for enumerations
  • Add missing documentation for AtkObject functions
  • Write description for AtkImage method
  • Add proper gtk-doc blurbs for AtkDocument, AtkComponentIface and AtkActionIface
  • Remove atk.types (as we can autogenerate it)
  • AtkSocket/AtkPlug:
  • Implement proper constructor for AtkPlug and AtkSocket (MR!3)
  • AtkText:
  • Doc: minor doc fix for atk_text_get_default_attributes (MR!20)
  • New Roles:
  • Issue #2: Add ATK_ROLE_CONTENT_INSERTION and ATK_ROLE_CONTENT_DELETION (MR!19)
  • Build
  • Meson: do not guard gir behind a cross_build check. (MR!12)
  • Meson: refresh the build (part of MR!3)
  • Meson: use Meson to generate the pkgconfig file (MR!3)
  • Translations:
  • Charles Monzat (fr)

New in ATK 2.33.1 (May 22, 2019)

  • AtkObject: added accessible_id property (MR!16)
  • AtkText:
  • Edit documentation for last methods added in order to fix introspection
  • Fix failure value for atk_text_get_caret_offset (MR!14)
  • Build:
  • Bumping ATK version without a release as at-spi2-atk master started to depend on last API changes.

New in ATK 2.32.0 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Translations:
  • Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)

New in ATK 2.32.0 Beta 2 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • Bugfixing:
  • Issue 1: "atk 2.29.2 is reported not to work any more"
  • By mistake, 2.31.90 re-introduced this bug, as master didn't have the revert for "atkimplementor: use the G_DEFINE_INTERFACE macro to declare it as interface in the introspection"

New in ATK 2.32.0 Beta (Feb 6, 2019)

  • AtkText:
  • Add ScrollSubstringTo and ScrollSubstringToPoint methods to AtkText
  • Build - meson:
  • Make atk work as a subproject
  • Use an autotools compatible compatibility_version/current_version on macOS
  • Fix usage of glib as a subproject dependency
  • Replace shared_library by library
  • Build - Visual Studio:
  • Add build instructions for Visual Studio, as now is done via Meson
  • Documentation:
  • Move atk_relation_set_contains_target to correct doc section
  • Improve documentation for AtkText method return values
  • Misc:
  • atkplug, atksocket: Fix -Wredundant-decls
  • Translations:
  • Tiago Casal (pt_BR)

New in ATK 2.30.0 (Sep 12, 2018)

  • Bugfixing:
  • Issue 1: "atk 2.29.2 is reported not to work any more"
  • Needed to revert previous change "atkimplementor: use the G_DEFINE_INTERFACE macro to declare it as interface in the introspection"

New in ATK 2.29.2 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • Add ScrollTo and ScrollToPoint methods to AtkComponent
  • Build:
  • Require a more recent version fo Meson, 0.46.0
  • Misc:
  • Documentation, introspection, and versioning fixes

New in ATK 2.29.1 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Important note: this is the first release without autotools support. From now on only meson would be supported.
  • Bugfixing:
  • Bug 794513: Setting accessible-role does not work
  • Build, autotools:
  • Bug 795315: Remove autotools support
  • Build, meson:
  • Bug 795065: Fix linker options on Darwin
  • Bug 795301: meson: follow meson_options convention
  • Translations:
  • gogo (hr), Cheng-Chia Tseng (zh_TW), Daniel Șerbănescu (ro)

New in ATK 2.28.1 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • meson: fix version numbering. Roll new release to include it.

New in ATK 2.26.0 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Build: meson on Windows, tracked by Bug 785802 (not fully fixed yet):
  • Force-include msvc_recommended_pragmas.h on MSVC
  • tests: Fix build on pre-C99
  • meson: Build .rc file on Windows
  • Translations
  • Ask Hjorth Larsen (da)

New in ATK 2.25.2 (May 25, 2017)

  • Bugfixing:
  • Bug 781715: Crash under atk_gobject_accessible_dispose()
  • Build (general/autotools):
  • Add ATK_UNAVAILABLE macro
  • Use template files for the ATK enumerations
  • Convert atkversion.h.in to UTF-8 encoding
  • Include the marshallers header, not the source
  • Add buildir to the docs directories
  • Update deprecation warnings symbols
  • Simplify GObject dependency discovery
  • Build (meson):
  • Bug 782871: Add meson build system
  • Dist the Meson files
  • Use the appropriate soversion
  • Use the appropriate GETTEXT_PACKAGE
  • Install atk.h
  • Only depend on generated header
  • Build (win32):
  • win32: Fix replacing items in files with UTF-8 content
  • Cleaning:
  • Remove atk.spec.in
  • Remove uninstalled pkg-config file
  • Remove unused script for bundling ATK on Windows
  • Remove ChangeLog
  • Remove local introspection.m4
  • Docs:
  • Modernise the API reference:
  • Use XInclude
  • Stop using SGML mode with XML files
  • Drop version.xml and use the gtk-doc package entities
  • Update the README mentioning Meson, Ninja, and cleaning a little
  • Remove empty overrides file
  • Gobject introspection:
  • Mark unbindable functions as 'skip
  • Misc:
  • Update git ignore file
  • New Relations and Roles:
  • Bug 748384: Add ATK_ROLE_FOOTNOTE
  • Bug 781587: Add error-message, error-for, details and details-for-relation
  • Translation support:
  • Update po/Makevars (copyright and bug address)
  • Translations:
  • Yuras Shumovich (be)

New in ATK 2.24.0 (Mar 28, 2017)

  • Build, MSVC:
  • Support Visual Studio 2017
  • Translations:
  • Ask Hjorth Larsen (da), Jordi Mas (ca)

New in ATK 2.23.4 (Jan 25, 2017)

  • Build, MSVC:
  • Remove atk-install.props's on re-generation
  • Makefile.msvcproj, Makefile-newvs.am: Update from GLib
  • Move files to win32
  • Docs:
  • Fix typo
  • Bug 772236: change id of the atkobject chapter needed case-insensitive filesystems
  • Misc:
  • Use Unicode apostrophe in a translatable string
  • Contributors:
  • Murray Cumming, Piotr Drąg, Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias,
  • Translations:
  • gogo (hr), Jordi Mas (ca), Fabio Tomat (fur)

New in ATK 2.22.0 (Sep 24, 2016)

  • Add more options to XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in po/Makevars
  • Translations:
  • Piotr Drąg (po), David King (en_GB)

New in ATK 2.22.0 Beta (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Bug 764883: Add some missing argument (out) annotations
  • Add Language headers to po files
  • MSVC/win32:
  • MSVC Builds: Add a Common Autotools Module for Introspection (Bug 764983)
  • MSVC Builds: Generate the Introspection Build Commands (Bug 764983)
  • Clean up atk-introspection-msvc.mak
  • Visual Studio builds: Include version info in property sheets
  • Visual Studio builds: Generate atk.pc
  • Visual Studio 2008 builds: Ensure pc file is generated before "install"
  • Visual Studio builds: Make .pc generation more flexible
  • build/win32/pc_base.py: Allow custom options
  • build/win32/atkpc.py: Fix dependent package string
  • Translations:
  • GNOME Translation Robot (gd), Cédric Valmary (oc)

New in ATK 2.18 Beta 1 (Aug 20, 2015)

  • Documentation:
  • Replace mentions of 'state-changed' with 'state-change'.
  • Fixed some tiny typos
  • Build/win32 improvements:
  • Use Pattern Rules on build/Makefile-newvs.am
  • Tidying and cleaning .vcxproj.filters generation
  • Fixes Bug 748176: out-of-tree distcheck fails in build/win32
  • Removed GCC requirement
  • "install" Projects renamed to "atk-install"
  • Misc: set proper file permission to source files
  • Translations:
  • Pedro Albuquerque (pt), Daniel Martinez (an)

New in ATK 2.16.0 (Mar 23, 2015)

  • Bug 746459: Fix a couple of GTK-Doc comment blocks
  • Visual Studio support
  • Speed Up Release Builds
  • Fix and improve .pdb Generation.
  • "Install" .pdb Files
  • Translations:
  • Josef Andersson (sv), Jiri Grönroos (fi), Baurzhan Muftakhidinov (kk), Samir Ribic (bs), Zahari Yurukov (bg)

New in ATK 2.15.4 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • AtkRole:
  • Bug 742806: Add new roles for fractions, roots, subscripts, and superscripts

New in ATK 2.15.3 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • AtkState:
  • Bug 665598: Add ATK_STATE_READ_ONLY
  • Bugfixing:
  • Unref STATE_TYPE class ref after using it at state_type_get_name
  • AtkTable: Added missing ":" on one gi annotation
  • Translations:
  • Muhammet Kara (tr)

New in ATK 2.15.2 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • AtkState:
  • Bug 739981: Add ATK_ROLE_STATIC and clarify ATK_ROLE_TEXT
  • Bug 740152: Document the deprecation of ATK_STATE_ARMED
  • Documentation:
  • Bug 740044: Fix some unclear language regarding ATK_STATE_ACTIVE
  • Bug 740066: Improve documentation related to AtkState and AtkStateSet
  • Extend atk_focus_tracker_notify deprecation documentation
  • Remove some in-code documentation, that is already part of the docs
  • Translations:
  • Anders Jonsson (sv)

New in ATK 2.15.1 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • Bug 407539: Add ATK_STATE_HAS_TOOLTIP
  • Documentation:
  • Updated README file
  • Bug 737602: Update documentation to reflect an additional use case for STATE_INDETERMINATE

New in ATK 2.14.0 (Oct 23, 2014)

  • Translations: DuÅ¡an Kazik (sk), Maria Mavridou (el), Yuri Myasoedov (ru)

New in ATK 2.11.6 (Feb 6, 2014)

  • AtkText:
  • Bug 723292: Getting the localized role name fails for ATK_ROLE_EDITBAR
  • Bug 653293: text-insert and text-remove are again detailed signals. Document it.
  • Translations:
  • Aurimas ÄŒernius (lt), Marek ÄŒernocký (cs), Tong Hui (zh_CN), Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK)

New in ATK 2.11.5 (Jan 15, 2014)

  • MSVC Builds: Rework Introspection Build and other miscellaneous fixes
  • Translations: Yosef Or Boczko (he), Dimitris Spingos (el), Peter Vágner (sk)

New in ATK 2.11.4 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • AtkRole:
  • Bug 720065: add roles for description lists
  • Deprecations:
  • Bug 476674: deprecate table properties that depend on the row/column number
  • Bug 652798: kill AtkMisc
  • Deprecate connect/remove_property_change_handler
  • Deprecate atk_role_register
  • Documentation:
  • Bug 644747: improve documentation for AtkObject::property-change
  • Improved AtkUtil documentation
  • Updated new symbols sections on documentation
  • Not using GTK-Doc tag "Virtual" anymore, as is deprecated
  • Building:
  • Bug 644756: remove atkintl.h in favour of gi18n-lib.h from glib
  • Bug 652965: include atk-enum-types.h on atk.h
  • Fixed some gobject-introspection warnings
  • Replace INCLUDES for AM_CPPFLAGS to silence automake deprecation warnings.
  • Visual C++ Studio files:
  • Add a PlatformToolsetTag on gengir MSVC Project
  • Split the Property Sheets
  • Update Visual C++ 2008 "install" phase
  • Bug 690145: use Python to Generate the MSVC Projects
  • Miscellanea:
  • Bug 572489: atk_text_range_extents should use g_return_if_fail
  • Bug 653293: remove G_SIGNAL_DETAILED from atktext signals that doesn't use details
  • Bug 720095: add atk_object_peek_parent
  • Updated AUTHORS and doap files
  • Added role names on source file in order to be translated

New in ATK 2.11.3 (Nov 30, 2013)

  • Bug 709214: Need API to get the document's current page number and page count
  • Updated Greek translation

New in ATK 2.11.2 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • AtkRole:
  • Bug 709106: add media (audio and video) roles
  • Bug 712586: new ATK roles for ARIA roles (plus rating)
  • This includes: ATK_ROLE_DEFINITION, ATK_ROLE_ARTICLE, ATK_ROLE_LANDMARK, ATK_ROLE_LOG, ATK_ROLE_MARQUEE, ATK_ROLE_MATH, ATK_ROLE_RATING, ATK_ROLE_TIMER,
  • AtkState:
  • Bug 712576: add ATK_STATE_CHECKABLE
  • Bug 712581: add ATK_STATE_HAS_POPUP
  • AtkDocument:
  • Bug 709106: add page-changed-signal
  • Deprecated atk_document_get_document and atk_document_get_document_type
  • Added testdocument on tests directory
  • Documentation:
  • Update documentation for selected_link method and property
  • Improve documentation of AtkAttribute and AtkAttributeSet
  • Updated Galician and Spanish translations

New in ATK 2.11.1 (Oct 29, 2013)

  • Bug 684667: Improve AtkObject::children-changed documentation
  • Bug 709351: new role ATK_ROLE_TITLE_BAR
  • Bug 710463: new role ATK_ROLE_BLOCK_QUOTE
  • Updated Spanish translation

New in ATK 2.10.0 (Sep 25, 2013)

  • Documentation:
  • Bug 684667: improve documentation for AtkObject::children-changed signal
  • Visuall C++ Builds: Use Custom Build Rules
  • Updated Aragonese and Japanese translation.

New in ATK 2.9.4 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Deprecations:
  • Bug 649575: Deprecate AtkObject::focus-event signal and all related methods
  • Bug 653291: Deprecate 'text-changed' signal (in favour of 'text-insert' and 'text-remove').
  • Bug 573539: Deprecate 'link-selected' property (at AtkHyperlink)
  • Bug 705580: Implement atk_text_get_string_at_offset and deprecate old API
  • Remove 'text-update' signal (without deprecation, as was not used and can be removed without breaking ABI/API)
  • Documentation:
  • Removed unneeded comments at atk_implementor_ref_accessible and about glib usage.
  • Bug 684665: removing several .sgml files and fixing gtk-doc warnings
  • Bug 684705: little update on 'text-insert' and 'text-remove' documentation
  • Bug 491998: add documentation for AtkRectangle
  • Tests:
  • Refactor test suite: no longer a loadable module but an standalone executable.
  • Split testrelation into testrelation and testrole.
  • Execute all role tests, doesn't matter if one fails
  • Bugfixing and miscellanea:
  • Bug 704092: Fix and off-by-one in role names
  • Bug 705290: Use generated enum type for AtkRole to get the role name
  • Drop use of ATK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED guards in ATK

New in ATK 2.9.3 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • Bug 697968: Deprecate atk_text_get_text_{before,after}_offset()
  • Deprecated atk_text_get_text_{before,after}_offset()
  • Deprecated ATK_TEXT_BOUNDARY_WORD_END, ATK_TEXT_BOUNDARY_SENTENCE_END and ATK_TEXT_BOUNDARY_LINE_END on the documentation.
  • Updated atk_text_get_text_{at,before,after}_offset() documentation
  • Bug 701503: Fix documentation for atk_object_get_attributes()
  • Removed pads from interfaces

New in ATK 2.9.2 (May 29, 2013)

  • Leak management:
  • Bug 699262: Nullify the gobject cache accessible when the accessble is finalized.
  • Bug 699368: Fix typo - parameter is _obj not obj. Set feed to NULL
  • Bug 699256: Free 'embedded_plug_id' when destroyed
  • Tests:
  • Bug 696466: Fix logic when testing for empty state set
  • Bug 696409: fix hyphenation on testrelation.c
  • Documentation:
  • Include atk_object_get_object_locale documentation
  • Fix having a repeated id on the main doc template
  • Bug 700800: Improve documentation for AtkPlug and AtkSocket

New in ATK 2.8.0 (Mar 27, 2013)

  • Updated Visual C++ configuration files
  • Make entries more consistent with the other GNOME Visual Studio projects.
  • Enable the building of introspection files for Visual C++ builds
  • bgo694255: Visual C++ builds: Integrate building of introspection files
  • Updated Slovak, Portuguese and Tadjik translation.

New in ATK 2.7.91 (Feb 20, 2013)

  • atkobject: added a explicit include to locale.h

New in ATK 2.7.5 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • build: Use GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS
  • atkhyperlink: Ensure we get even deprecated prototypes
  • Bug 651343: add ATK_ROLE_LEVEL_BAR
  • Prepare Visual Studio 2010 projects for Visual Studio 2012
  • Updated Uyghur translations

New in ATK 2.7.4 (Jan 15, 2013)

  • Bug 690379: Atk lacks any kind of version utilities
  • Fixed out of tree builds caused by fix of bug 690379
  • Bug 656750: AtkWindow requires documentation

New in ATK 2.7.3 (Dec 18, 2012)

  • Bug 689907: Problems with the management of
  • ATK_STATE_SELECTABLE/ATK_STATE_SELECTED states at AtkObject
  • Bug 686746: Port introspection fixes from Vala
  • Bug 689952: Add introspection support for Windows MSVC builds
  • Other Visual C++ configuration files:
  • Use MultiByte character set

New in ATK 2.4.0 (Mar 27, 2012)

  • Bug 593220: Some typos in atktable signals (docs)
  • Updated Hindi and Simplified Chinese translation

New in ATK 2.1.0 (Jul 29, 2011)

  • Bug 654767: shlib downgrade at update atk-1.32.0 to atk-2.0.1
  • Bug 651343: New ATK Roles
  • Added Leon Fan as maintainer
  • Improved Visual C++ 2010 infrastructure
  • Updated Russian, Slovenian, Persian, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Latvian,
  • Norwegian, Galician, and Spanish translations

New in ATK 2.0.1 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Bug 652205: Use const instead G_CONST_RETURN
  • Bug 649307: Clarify AtkPlug and AtkSocket docs
  • Bug 551489: Fix doc of atk_text_get_text_before_offset
  • Bug 588083: Information about return value of some AtkText methods can be clearer
  • Added Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias as maintainer
  • Updated .gitignore
  • VS 2008/2010 support update
  • New Zulu translation added, Esperanto and Catalan updated

New in ATK 1.29.92 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Fixes: Bug #608399. Correct the link of accessibility page.
  • Fixes: Bug #606888. Link libatk against libintl.
  • Translation update.