1Version 5.8.0 (28 February 2020) 2 * Java bindings: Remove the obsolete senses API. 3 * swig-4.0 compatibility bug fix. 4 * English dict: Fixes to support questions ending in WH-words. 5 * Copy (merge) Richard van der Dys `node.js` bindings. 6 * English dict: Provide head and tail markers for all conjunctions. 7 * Remove the Python 2 bindings. 8 * Add dialect support to the library. 9 * English dict: support for archaic/poetic abbreviations 10 * English dict: introduce OH link for vocatives/invocations. 11 * English dict: improved parsing of imperatives. 12 * Add !!word/ link-parser command for displaying extended word dict info. 13 14Version 5.7.0 (13 Sept 2019) 15 * Minor efficiency improvements to the SQL-backed dictionary. 16 * Incompatible change to the Exp traversal API. 17 * Remove the obsolete and unsupported "corpus statistics" code. 18 * Major performance improvement (3x-4x) for long sentences. #996 19 * Fix broken build on Windows. 20 * Convert Windows build to Visual Studio 2019. 21 * Fix a bug that causes random results on 32-bit systems. #1000 22 * Fix a bug that could cause missing linkages on some systems. #1007 23 24Version 5.6.2 (24 June 2019) 25 * Bug-fix the SQL-backed dictionary. 26 * Add missing public symbol to shlib export list. 27 * English dict: additions of paraphrasing verbs. 28 29Version 5.6.1 (27 May 2019) 30 * Performance improvement (approx 20%) in expressions #882. 31 * Performance improvement (approx 10%) by disjunct/connectors pools #896. 32 * Performance improvement (4-10% for English) by faster power-pruning #903. 33 * Fix a bug in trailing connectors encoding (may cause bad linkages). 34 * Fix inability to form linkage when first word is disconnected. 35 * English dict: fix use of quotations with paraphrasing verbs. 36 * English dict: fix broken usage of "have not". 37 * Performance improvement (approx 16%) for long sentences. #931 38 * Performance improvement (approx 20%) for long sentences. #939 39 40Version 5.6.0 (4 January 2019) 41 * Improve Windows support. 42 * Fix dict cost reading under user locales with comma decimal separator. 43 * Support using the pcre2 regex package (configured by default if available). 44 * Add "-with-regexlib=pcre2|tre|regex|c" to "configure". 45 * Fix and document building on FreeBSD. 46 * Major documentation update for building with Cygwin. 47 * Revise the manpage. 48 * Remove the experimental Viterbi code. 49 * Revise the SAT parser cost model to align it with the classic parser. 50 * Implement a strict check on connector name. 51 * Major revision of the SWIG interface file; wrap all the library functions. 52 * Fix linkage_get_disjunct_*() when parse-option display_morphology is true. 53 * Change library and python-bindings default for display_morphology to true. 54 * Drastic speedup for long sentences (hash encoding of trailing connectors). 55 * English dict: Support locative replies/declarations. 56 * English dict: broaden support for misc paraphrasing verbs. 57 * English dict: fix relativized paraphrasing. 58 * English dict: fix comparative-style conjunctions. 59 60Version 5.5.1 (27 July 2018) 61 * Fix broken Java bindings build. 62 * English dict: Fix clause openers with questions. 63 * English dict: Various misc fixes. 64 * English dict: Various paraphrasing verbs 65 * Bring the SQL-backed dict to production state. 66 * Convert MSVC build to MSVC15 (Visual Studio 2017). 67 * Restore the repeatability of the produced linkages. 68 69Version 5.5.0 (29 April 2018) 70 * Fix accidental API breakage that impacts OpenCog. 71 * Fix memory leak when parsing with null links. 72 * Python bindings: Add an optional parse-option argument to parse(). 73 * Add an extended version API and use it in "link-parser --version". 74 * Fix spurious errors if the last dict line is a comment. 75 * Fix garbage report if EOF encountered in a quoted dict word. 76 * Fix garbage report if whitespace encountered in a quoted dict word. 77 * Add a per-command help in link-parser. 78 * Add a command line completion in link-parser. 79 * Enable build of word-graph printing support by default. 80 * Add idiom lookup in link-parser's dict lookup command (!!idiom_here). 81 * Improve handling of quoted words (e.g. single words in "scare quotes"). 82 * Fix random selection of linkages so that it's actually random. 83 84Version 5.4.4 (11 March 2018) 85 * Dictionary loading now thread safe. 86 * Fix post-nominal modifiers used with pronouns. 87 * Fix comparative openers. 88 * Fix given-name single-letter abbreviations. 89 * Fix conjoined questions and conjoined WH-statements. 90 * Fix conditional sentences. 91 * Fix misc comparatives. 92 * Fix crash on invalid UTF-8 input. 93 * Fix many predicative adjective uses. 94 * Fix many paraphrasing-type constructions. 95 * Minor cleanup of word-lists. 96 * New dict definition LENGTH-LIMIT-n to limit connector link length to n. 97 * Speed up parsing of Russian by factor of 2x. 98 * Add assorted technical vocabulary (#680) 99 * Fix conjoined infinitives. 100 101Version 5.4.3 (4 January 2018) 102 * Fix man page installation (actually broken from 5.3.0). 103 * Add "thither" to the English dictionary. 104 * Fix printing inf loop for very narrow screen widths. 105 * Some Windows code clean up. 106 * Remove trailing blanks from the linkage diagram. 107 * Fix square area and cubic volume measurements (English dict). 108 * Fix assorted exclamations and responses (English dict). 109 * Fix displaying random linkages on Windows. 110 * Fix unit tokenization to remove ambiguity. 111 * Fix utf8-related bug on Windows that could affect printing. 112 * Add missing affix file, needed for the 'any' language. 113 114Version 5.4.2 (19 October 2017) 115 * Fix man page build (broken in 5.4.1) 116 117Version 5.4.1 (18 October 2017) 118 * Fix man page installation (broken in 5.3.8). 119 * Add affix-class MPUNC for splitting at intra-word punctuation. 120 * Fix crash when there is no PP info. 121 * Fix a stack buffer overflow. 122 * Eliminate hard-wired linkage diagram size limitations. 123 * Fix an unintended clipping of the linkage-limit option to 250000. 124 125Version 5.4.0 (26 July 2017) 126 * Fix for missing locale info in Windows XP. 127 * Empty out the post-processing tables for the any, ady, amy languages 128 * Remove left_print_string() from the API. 129 * Recover pp_lexer.l from ancient version 2.2! 130 * Fix unusual crash in post-processing for the "any" language. 131 * Remove three deprecated post-processing functions from API. 132 * Major reorganization of code base into more modular directories. 133 * Revive the sqlite3 dictionary into operational form. 134 * Add double-quotes to splittable punctuation for the "any" language. 135 * Add API functions to get linkage word positions in the sentence. 136 * Fix printing of diagrams containing Chinese or other wide glyphs. 137 * Fix `make distclean` when ant not installed. 138 139Version 5.3.16 (15 April 2017) 140 * Fix python3 unit tests. 141 * Restore tty state after ctrl-C, ctrl-Z of the app. 142 * Check for <stdatomic.h> before use (in Java bindings). 143 * Fix handling of punctuation in the "any" language. 144 145Version 5.3.15 (12 Feb 2017) 146 * Fix Windows compilation; the new wcwidth files were omitted. 147 * Fix "amy" language for 3-way random morphology splits. 148 * Remove the "EMPTY_WORD" device; it is no longer needed. 149 * Enable morphology display in the java bindings, by default. 150 * Improve random sampling in the "ady" language. 151 * Improve performance by 10% to 15% for all languages. 152 * Fix broken multi-threading support in the Java bindings. 153 * Fix the `make uninstall` targets. 154 155Version 5.3.14 (19 Jan 2017) 156 * Fix printing widths for Unicode-9 CJK ideographs and emoji's. 157 * Fix broken randomization in the "any" language. 158 * Add UTF-8 support to the random morpheme splitter (amy). 159 * Create an "ady" language for two-part morphology splits. 160 * Improved error notification facility (experimental). 161 162Version 5.3.13 (19 Nov 2016) 163 * Fix fatal errors w/ zlib-dev and python dependencies. 164 165Version 5.3.12: (17 Nov 2016) 166 * Fix bug in 'any' language (opencog/relex/issues/248). 167 * Preliminary support for common typos in English. 168 * Enable both python2 & python3 bindings by default. 169 * Fix locale_t use for the newly introduced Cygwin 2.6.0. 170 * Include in the distribution the missing make-check.py (for Windows). 171 * Minisat configuration improvements + fix a problem on Gentoo. 172 * When using the bundled minisat, link it statically, don't install it. 173 174Version 5.3.11: (26 Sept 2016) 175 * Re-enable postscript header printing! 176 * Cleanup python API (in a non-backwards-compat fashion). 177 * Fix certain adverbial uses of "only". 178 * Fix some interjective openers to questions. 179 * Fix serious error with subject-verb inversion to past participle. 180 * Remove most calls to exit() from the library. 181 * Update the SAT solver code to use MiniSAT 2.2. 182 * Use the system minisat2 library if available, instead of the bundled one. 183 184Version 5.3.10: (14 Sept 2016) 185 * Implement `make installcheck`. 186 * Pull #371: Simplification of API when handling disconnected words. 187 * Fix SAT parser crashes. 188 * Expand default list of Java JDK search paths. 189 * Fix python bindings: after timeout, no further parsing is performed. 190 * Fix various adverbial, conjunctive uses of "as", "so". 191 * Extended list of exclamations. 192 * Remove CC link, add VC link, for clauses to coordinating conjunctions. 193 * Fixes for the verb "dare", "someone or other", etc. 194 * Fix OSX build break, concerning undefined locale_t. 195 * Pull #385: Fix ancient bug that made dictionary debugging difficult. 196 197Version 5.3.9: (27 August 2016) 198 * Pull req #354: Major changes to support Cygwin. 199 * Pull req #356: SAT parser bug fix. 200 * General python binding cleanup. 201 * Fatal error: Unable to open default dictionary. 202 203Version 5.3.8: (15 August 2016) 204 * Disambiguate "Bob" the given name from "bob" the verb. 205 * Pull req #300: Crash while parsing certain Russian sentences. 206 * Pull req #301: MSVC compiler error, and warnings. 207 * Pull req #304: Python failure when no parses are possible. 208 * Pull req #309: Add MSVC14 support, remove MSVC9, MSVC12. 209 * Pull req #317: Make Java build reproducible. 210 * Remove (obsolete) binreloc support. 211 * Enable both python2.7 and python3.4 bindings to be built. 212 * Improved Cygwin and MinGW support (as well as improved MSVC support). 213 * Dictionaries now specify the appropriate locale. 214 215Version 5.3.7: (7 May 2016) 216 * Fix another MacOS build break, regarding library exports. 217 218Version 5.3.6: (30 April 2016) 219 * Add missing `parses-quotes-en.txt` file that python tests need. 220 * Fix build break related to lg_fgetc when libeditline is missing. 221 222Version 5.3.5: (28 April 2016) 223 * Modified (hacked) Kazakh dictionary. 224 * MacOS bug fix: fgetc behaves oddly in OSX, see bug #293. 225 226Version 5.3.4: (16 March 2016) 227 * Fix broken handling of apostrophe (issue #281). 228 * Revamp the README file; describe transitivity. 229 * Revised Turkish dictionary from Tatiana Batura, et al. 230 * Prototype Kazakh dictionary from Tatiana Batura, et al. 231 * Parse priority tweaks for the OpenCog chatbot. 232 * Fix Windows printing problem affecting some utf8 codepoints (issue #285). 233 234Version 5.3.3: (23 December 2015) 235 * Improve support for quoted phrases. 236 * Fixes for assorted zero-infinitive speech acts. 237 * Add 37 paraphrasing verbs. 238 * Add Greek mythological names. 239 * A few dozen more common computing terms added to dictionary. 240 * Misc coordination and question fixes. 241 * Misc abbreviations. 242 * Vietnamese dictionaries! 243 * Major overhaul of subject-verb inversion. 244 * Performance improvements on long sentences. (pull #247) 245 * Change default setting of 'islands_ok' back to false (bug #140). 246 * Fix for build break on Mac OSX el_capitan w/clang (bug #255). 247 * Disable perl bindings by default; use Lingua::LinkParser 248 249Version 5.3.2: (4 December 2015) 250 * Performance improvements, esp. for long sentences. 251 * Use std=c11 (the 2011 C standard) by default. 252 * Partial Irish English support. 253 * A few dozen common computing terms added to dictionary. 254 * Fix for build break on Mac OSX. 255 256Version 5.3.1: (22 November 2015) 257 * Fix build break with SAT solver. 258 259Version 5.3.0: (22 November 2015) 260 * Major redesign of the python bindings. 261 * Major redesign of sentence tokenization (the "wordgraph" design) 262 * Verb 'steal' is optionally transitive. 263 * Fixes for misc MSVC warnings. 264 * Hebrew dictionary expansion. 265 * Enhanced diagram printing, giving more space for link names. 266 * Minor work on phonetic agreement for 'a' vs. 'an'. 267 * Add ability to histogram the costs of different parses. 268 * Improve support for splitting sentences. 269 * Change default setting of 'islands_ok' to true. 270 * Improve performance on long sentences. 271 * Fix rare crash due to memory corruption on long sentences. 272 * Random morphology generation can be enabled at runtime. 273 * Remove obsolete, unmaintained MacOSX build file. 274 * Extensive updates to man page. 275 * Fix crash on long sentences (issue #137). 276 * Fix a memory leak in language bindings (issue #138). 277 * Remove bogus post-processor API function. 278 * Fix broken domain letter printing. 279 * New regex-file feature - negative regex'es. 280 * Correct the handling of morphology stems with non-LL links. 281 * Fix !!LEFT-WALL and !!RIGHT-WALL 282 * SAT solver now linked statically. 283 * Assorted SAT solver cleanup and improvements. 284 * Performance improvement in fast matcher: 15% faster on fixes.batch. 285 286Version 5.2.5: (1 February 2015) 287 * Fix contracted "is" verb. 288 * Fix crash in batch mode (issue #63). 289 * Fix Python bindings so that setting PYTHONPATH is not required. 290 * Fix "... as I expected him to be." 291 * Fix incorrect printing for some Russian linkages. (pull #75) 292 * Fix warning from glibc version 2.20 (bug #77) 293 294Version 5.2.4: (12 January 2015) 295 * Fix usage of 'less'. 296 * Fix MS Windows random number portability API. 297 * Fix mis-handled dictionary subscript dot (issue #53). 298 * Fix crash on dots used as fill (issue #57). 299 * Fix memory leak (issue #54). 300 301Version 5.2.3 (4 January 2015) 302 * Fix broken check for editline UTF8 support. 303 * Work around broken perl binding definition for clang. 304 305Version 5.2.2 (3 January 2015) 306 * Fix OSX build break. 307 * MSVC12 project file fixes. 308 * Check for UTF8 support in libedit ("undefined reference to el_wgets") 309 * Enable the 'make check' target for the multi-threading unit test. 310 * Misc verb fixes. 311 312Version 5.2.1 (28 December 2014) 313 * Prototype Indonesian dictionary from Hendy Irawan. 314 * Fix crash on long sentences. 315 316Version 5.2.0 (27 December 2014) 317 * y'all, ain't, gonna, y'gotta: Beverly Hillbillies basilect. 318 * Permanent removal of the fat-link code. 319 * Remove deprecated constituent tree code. 320 * Windows: add terminal screen resizing support. 321 * Windows: a build fix. 322 * reign, rule, run, leave, come: can take predicative adjective. 323 * Rework costs for many verb-derived adjectives. 324 * Handle (predicative) adjectival modifiers for assorted perfect verbs. 325 * Fixes for various color names. 326 * Fixes for various affirmative answers. 327 * Add 100 missing verbs. 328 * Add preliminary lxc-docker (docker.io) support. 329 * Remove MSVC6 support. 330 * Fix memleak introduced in version 5.1.0 331 * Speedup of 1.7x to 4x (depending on text) from linkage processing redesign. 332 * Fix multi-threading safety bug. 333 * Fix link-and-domain printing alignment (to handle utf8 char widths). 334 * Windows: fixes for MSVC12 support. 335 * Fix memory consumption bug (EMPTY_WORD) introduced in version 4.7.10. 336 * Get rid of xrealloc, which clashes with libbfd symbol xrealloc. 337 * Add multi-threaded parsing unit test. 338 339Version 5.1.3 (7 October 2014) 340 * More fixes for build breaks on Apple OSX. 341 * Minor fixes involving "to do" 342 343Version 5.1.2 (4 October 2014) 344 * Fix greeting: "How do you do?" 345 * Fix indirect object in 'what' questions: 'To what do you owe your success?' 346 * Fix assorted questions with verb "to be". 347 * Compile fixes for Apple OSX version "Mavericks" 348 349Version 5.1.1 (23 September 2014) 350 * Minor post-processing cleanup. 351 * English dict: Fix questions with "it". 352 * swig: add missing API functions sentence_split, dictionary_get_lang 353 * Swap order of post-processing and bad morphology rejection. 354 * Fix handling of ellipsis when there's missing whitespace. 355 * Java: API bugfix/change: costs should have been doubles not ints. 356 * Fat-linkage code: fix it so it compiles again. 357 * Sat-solver: re-enable it so that it runs. 358 359Version 5.1.0 (29 August 2014) 360 * Updated Russian dictionaries from Sergei Protasov. 361 * Added morphology-based unknown-word handling for Russian, from Sergei. 362 * Fix up fat-linkage code, which was recently broken... 363 * API cleanup: many command-line options never belonged in the API. 364 * New emoticon support was clobbering certain dictionary words. 365 * Fix: "Go to spot X", "It happens at time T." 366 * Add a dozen missing verbs. 367 * Minor work on greetings. 368 * Add mechanism for denoting fractional costs in the file-backed dict. 369 * Fix: broken handling of gerunds (due to bad verb-wall connectors) 370 * Major redesign of morpheme splitting mechanism (from AmirP) 371 * Minor extensions to support numeric formulas, e.g. 1 + 1 = 2. 372 * Remove fat linkage support from the SAT solver. 373 * Enable build of SAT solver by default. 374 * Fix multiple bugs with unit stripping. 375 * Add bounds-checking to the C API. 376 * Fix the old disjunct-printing implementation. 377 * Add support for easy-to-use link direction indicator. 378 * Add random morphology generator tool. 379 * Partial support for phonetic use of "a" vs. "an" for English. 380 * Rework how coordination between conjunctions works: "either... or ...", etc. 381 * Major redesign of tokenization mechanism (from AmirP) 382 383Version 5.0.8 (30 April 2014) 384 * Fix handling of initial letters in ordered lists. 385 * Fix another serious error in constituent printing, introduced in 4.8.0. 386 * New emoticon support was clobbering certain number expressions. 387 * Misc English dict fixes, more verb-wall connectors. 388 389Version 5.0.7 (29 April 2014) 390 * Compile fixes in SAT solver. 391 * Add missing verb-wall connectors for is, hasn't, haven't, hadn't, etc. 392 * Remove verb-wall connector for imperative verbs. 393 * Fix serious error in constituent printing, introduced in 5.0.3 394 * Fix old bug in command-line handling of options. 395 * Fix parsing of various ordered lists, including some tables of contents. 396 397Version 5.0.6 (18 April 2014) 398 * Fix: JSON output format missing brace; from Matt Kruse. 399 * Fix: Serious error in Russian morphology printing. 400 401Version 5.0.5 (17 April 2014) 402 * Fix packaging bug with the English dictionary. 403 404Version 5.0.4 (16 April 2014) 405 * Expanded unit tests for capitalization. 406 * Fix who questions: "Who are they?", "Who are you?", etc. 407 * Provide verb-wall linkage for many questions. 408 * Add Biblical naming idioms: "Lud, son of Shem, ..." 409 * Fix MacOSX build break. 410 * Fix the 'make clean' target to not remove critical files. 411 * Fix broken emoticon support in English dict. 412 * Remove obsolete entity detection tokens from English dict. 413 * Fix broken equation parsing. 414 415Version 5.0.3 (13 April 2014) 416 * Minor memory usage optimization 417 * Fix unit test: suppress printing of empty word, and of morphology. 418 * Fix: Swig and python were meant to be optional, not required! 419 420Version 5.0.2 (10 April 2014) 421 * Expanded unit tests 422 * Fix another sqlite3-dev build break 423 424Version 5.0.1 (9 April 2014) 425 * Dictionary debugging print fixes from Amir P 426 * Print summary of parse statistics when in batch mode (from AmirP) 427 * Generalize the notion of prefix/suffix to arbitrary classes (Amir P) 428 * Fixes for German adjectives. 429 * Fix build break when sqlite3-dev not installed. 430 * Fix regression in Russian morphology handling. 431 432Version 5.0.0 (1 April 2014) 433 * License upgrade to LGPLv2.1 434 * Arabic dictionaries, from Jon Dehdari 435 * Persian dictionaries, from Jon Dehdari 436 * Support for Hebrew tokenization, from Amir P. 437 * Fix wild-card matching for user-supplied word lookup. 438 * Prototype Turkish dictionary from Can Bruce. 439 * Re-arrange programming language bindings directory. 440 * Adopt the orphaned/unsupported pylinkgrammar Python bindings. 441 * Deprecate the obsolete CNode interface. 442 * Provide low-level perl bindings. 443 * Adopt the orphaned/unsupported OCaML bindings. 444 * Support affirmative replies: "Who did it?" "John's evil twin." 445 * Expanded Lithuanian dictionary. 446 * Minor disjunct printing fixes. 447 * Fix: "Mary is too XXX to talk to." 448 * Prototype Hebrew dictionary from Amir P. 449 * Change !suffixes flag to !morphology. 450 * Introduce a bi-directional connector, for free-word-order languages. 451 * Introduce a symmetric-AND operator, for free-word-order languages. 452 * Add demo shell script for running the JSON parse server. 453 * Bugfix: Java server failing when input sentence has commas in it! 454 * New !test and !debug commands for selective debugging support. 455 * Print post-processing rejection message, when !bad is enabled. 456 * Remove some deprecated functions for C API. 457 * Remove all deprecated functions from Java API. 458 * Initial support for an SQL-backed dynamic dictionary. 459 460Version 4.8.6 (2 February 2014) 461 * Fix minor OSX compiler warnings. 462 * Check for presence of Java ant before assuming it is there. 463 * Fix crash on certain sentences containing equals sign. 464 * Fix parsing of lists (blah, blah and blah). 465 * Fix build break for uClibc systems (Gentoo). 466 * Allow ungrammatical usage of 'ages' instead of 'aged'. 467 * Fix crash on certain sentences containing words with periods. 468 469Version 4.8.5 (5 January 2014) 470 * Update memory usage accounting; fix accounting bugs. 471 * Fix Java garbage collection bug. 472 * Fix numerous compiler warnings in the SAT-solver code. 473 * Fix build-break involving multiple declaration of 'Boolean'. 474 475Version 4.8.4 (30 December 2013) 476 * Fix build break for Mac OSX. 477 478Version 4.8.3 (30 December 2013) 479 * Create new msvc12 build files, restore old msvc9 files. 480 * Revert location of the Windows mbrtowc declaration. 481 * Add verb-wall connector for present participles. 482 * Fix build-time include file directory paths. 483 * Provide the 'any' language to enumerate all possible linkages. 484 * Fix recognition of U+00A0, c2 a0, NO-BREAK SPACE as whitespace. 485 * Improve parse-time performance of exceptionally long sentences. 486 * Fix crash on certain sentences containing equals sign. 487 488Version 4.8.2 (25 November 2013) 489 * More MSWindows UTF-8/multi-byte fixes (for Russian). 490 * Add missing JSONUtils file. 491 492Version 4.8.1 (21 November 2013) 493 * Ongoing work on Viterbi. 494 * Updated MSVC9 project files from Jand Hashemi (Lucky--) 495 * Fix important bug in Java services: return top parses, not random ones. 496 * Java: for the link-diagram string, do not limit to 80 char term width. 497 * Windows: UTF-8 fixes so that Russian works in most MSWindows locales. 498 499Version 4.8.0 (24 October 2013) 500 * Fix "he answered yes" 501 * Support bulleted, numbered lists. 502 * New link types from Lian Ruiting, for identifying the head-verb. 503 * Java: fix bug when totaling WordNet word-sense score. 504 * Java: add info to README about using the JSON parse server. 505 * Java: remove many deprecated functions. 506 * C API: remove some deprecated functions. 507 * Java: fix silent failure when library is not found. 508 * Java: Add support for fetching the ASCII-art diagram string. 509 * Java: Fix insane language selection initialization. 510 * Fix: "The pig runs SLOWER than the cat." 511 * Fix: conjoined superlatives: "... the longest and the farthest." 512 * Fix: "inside" can be used with conjunction: "near or inside..." 513 * Fix: conjoined question modifiers: "exactly when and precisely where..." 514 * Fix: issue 59: crash/corruption when dictionary opened twice. 515 * Fix: assorted exclamations! 516 517Version 4.7.14 (20 June 2013) 518 * Fix build break on MacOSX 519 520Version 4.7.13 (17 June 2013) 521 * Remove trailing carriage return in MSVC6 filenames. 522 * Performance improvement: avoid excess system timer calls. 523 * Unicode fixes for Windows. 524 * Fix: "... a purseful of pesos"; other currency fixes. 525 * MinGW, unicode fixes from Per Larsson 526 527Version 4.7.12 (25 May 2013) 528 * Large fixes to the Russian dictionaries. 529 * Windows: Explicitly fail if Cygwin version is too old. 530 * Tweak the lt dict to work again with the modern parser. 531 * Make the fat linkages code be compile-time configurable. 532 * Disable fat linkages by default; mark as deprecated. 533 * Fix SAT-solver build; recent changes had broken it. 534 * Export read-dict.h as a public API. 535 * Ongoing development of the Viterbi prototype. 536 * Windows: some UTF8/widechar refactoring. 537 * Java bindings: add method to set the language. 538 * CMake: add version checking to the CMakefile 539 * Fix: failed handling of capitalized first word for Russian. 540 * Fix: stemming failures in many cases (for Russian dictionaries) 541 * Add flag to suppress stem-suffix printing. 542 * Windows: Fixes to MSVC6 build files. 543 * Fix: hash-table bug affecting Russian dictionaries 544 545Version 4.7.11 (23 March 2013) 546 * Fix build bug introduced recently (build_disjuncts_for_dict_node) 547 * MSVC6 build environment fixes. 548 * Ongoing development of the Viterbi prototype. 549 550Version 4.7.10 (9 March 2013) 551 * New: Russian dictionaries from Sergey Protasov! 552 * Improve prefix, suffix handling and stemming (needed for Russian) 553 * Fix: add "gurgle.n" to dictionary. 554 * Improve memory utilization (remove pointless malloc/free). 555 * Fix: UTF8 multi-byte diagram printing. 556 * Add UTF8 multi-byte editline support, when available. 557 * Include Common Lisp bindings, from Peter Szolovits (circa 2009). 558 * Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder. 559 * Fix: Bug 55: aspell header file included even if disabled. 560 * Updated MSVC6, MSVC9 project files. 561 * New, improved search for java jni.h 562 * Faster counting of disjuncts for the !! command. 563 * The !! command now shows regex entries and stem+suffix splits. 564 565Version 4.7.9 (3 November 2012) 566 * Fix: Poor comma choices: "The man, that you saw..." (issue #36) 567 * Fix: Add more java jni.h search paths. 568 * Fix: Warning in java JSON interface. 569 * Fix: weren't constructions: "If it weren't for Sally, ..." 570 * Fix: Better support for ellipsis ... 571 * Fix: strangely: "He is behaving very strangely" 572 * Fix: assorted usages of yes, no, maybe 573 * Fix: "being" in subordinate clauses: "The blade being dull, he ..." 574 * Fix: Build failure for Mac OSX. 575 * Fix: "... this time for real". 576 * Fix: "... the impudence to laugh." 577 * Fix: "we two", "us two" 578 * Fix: very old parse bug, using "enough" 579 * Fix: assorted profanity as synonyms to "else" 580 * Fix: whoever, whomever 581 * Fix: decade possessives: "It's a 60's hit" 582 * Fix: "... chances that ... could be ..." 583 * Fix: "Do you have it ready?" 584 * Fix: "What John wants are those cats" 585 * Fix: greetings 586 * Fix: misc verbs: wave, ink, kiss, bake, corral, crown, decant, rope, 587 slice, ink, butter, proclaim, make, give, bid, bade, think 588 * Fix: titles can behave as indefinite nouns. 589 * Fix: somewhere, near, nearby, halfway, about 590 * Fix: police-interrogation style questions 591 * Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder. 592 593Version 4.7.8 (10 October 2012) 594 * Ongoing work on pre-alpha Viterbi decoder. 595 * Fix include file paths so that 'make install' doesn't cause recompile. 596 * Fix build break due to bad include file paths in Makefiles. 597 598Version 4.7.7 (6 October 2012) 599 * Fix configure to not bomb if c++ is not found. (weird regex.h missing) 600 * Fix configure to explicitly require c++ only if sat-solver enabled. 601 * Dictionary: parse comma in "Monsters, Inc." 602 * Update README about Viterbi algo. 603 * Remove malloc-dbg.c from the MSVC6 project file. 604 * Add missing source files to MSVC6 project file. 605 * Use enums for constituent display style. 606 * Move command-line parser to its own directory. 607 * Portability fixes for Windows, from Bill Hayes. 608 * Fix: "Show results from today" 609 * Fix: conjoined imperatives. 610 * Fix: qualified conditional clauses 611 * Fix: conjoined irregular verbs: seem, appear, do, be, prove, have 612 * Disable fat link code via conditional compile. 613 * Fix: "a lot of", "a gaggle of" now treated as quantifying determiners 614 * Fix: likewise: "gallons of", "grams of" volume measures as determiners 615 * Update German dictionary so that it actually loads. 616 * Fix: assorted "but not", "not very" constructions. 617 * Pre-alpha implementation of Viterbi decoder started. 618 * Fix: conjunctions of optionally ditransitive verbs. 619 620Version 4.7.6 (26 April 2012) 621 * fast-match.c: unroll recursive call into loop (thx Valery Kholodkov). 622 * Fix accidental inclusion of internal header file from public header file. 623 624Version 4.7.5 (16 April 2012) 625 * Remove several duplicate given names. 626 * Remove malloc-dbg.c from the MSVC9 project file. 627 * Remove several dozen duplicated idioms. 628 * New AM_SILENT_RULES for less noisy build! 629 * Clean up misc minor compiler warnings. 630 * Start using -O3 optimization for another 2% perf improvement. 631 * Fix configure.in --enable/--disable flags (bug #53) 632 * Some intransitive verbs are actually transitive in rare cases. 633 * Use enum not int for the cost-model type. 634 * Update the man page to reflect actual command usage. 635 636Version 4.7.4 (13 February 2011) 637 * Dramatic speed improvement for long sentences (hash table fix). 638 * Fix: crash on certain sentences, when fat-link parsing enabled. 639 * Fix: fatal error introduced in last version (combinatorial explosion). 640 * Fix: mem leak introduced in last version (combinatorial explosion). 641 * Assorted fixes to the Boolean SAT solver. 642 643Version 4.7.3 (7 February 2011) 644 * Fix: "level" as indefinite noun: "... at knee level". 645 * Enable max disjunct cost as a controllable parser parameter. 646 * Don't just give up on combinatorial explosion, show something! 647 648Version 4.7.2 (6 January 2011) 649 * Fix: crash on certain sentences, when fat-link parsing enabled. 650 * Fix: 3 corrupted nouns in words.n.1 651 * Fix: minimize cpu spin if constituent processing and-list overflows. 652 653Version 4.7.1 (11 December 2010): 654 * Fix: dictionary: Add "x" as synonym for "times". 655 * Fix: compilation failure due to lack of termios support on Windows. 656 * Fix: if not set, then force-set locale to UTF-8 in the java library. 657 * Fix: Explicitly include <stddef.h> for Windows builds. 658 * Fix: "John imagines himself lost". 659 * Fix: predicative adjectives w/misc verbs: "You are driving me crazy" 660 * Fix: "judge innocent", etc. 661 * Fix: many, many conjoined present tense verbs. 662 * Fix: conjoined verbs with negations. 663 * Fix: "to" as post-nominal modifier: "the inability to laugh" 664 665Version 4.7.0 (12 September 2010): 666 * Fix: hunspell configuration on Fedora (bugtracker issue 47) 667 * Fix: 'turn' with adjective: "She turned him green" from wingedtachikoma 668 * Fix: comma-conjoined modifiers: "It tastes bitter, not sweet." 669 * Fix: conjoined question words: "When and where is the party?" 670 * Fix: recognize short, capitalized words (Los, La, etc.). 671 * Treat colon as synonym for is: "The answer: yes." 672 * Fix: begin with prepositions: "It all began in Chicago." 673 * Fix: "What does it come to?" and related. 674 * Fix: null infinitive: "I'd like to, I want to." 675 * Fix: "Because I said so." 676 * Fix: "sure" as preverbal adverb: "It sure is." 677 * Fix: Gerunds with determiners: "a running of the bulls" 678 * SJ link for conjoined nouns/noun phrases. 679 * Sort linkages according to whether fat linkage was used. 680 * Add flag to enable use of fat linkage during parsing. 681 (Fat links now disabled by default). 682 * Add male/female gender tags to misc nouns. 683 * Fix: misc optionally transitive verbs: mix, paint, boot 684 * Fix: word order: "look about fearfully", "look fearfully about", around 685 * Fix: recognize simple fractions 686 * Fix: "is" with uncountable nouns: "there is blood on your hands" 687 * Fix: Roman numeral suffixes e.g. "Henry VIII" 688 * Fix: regression in dates followed by punctuation. "In the 1950s, ..." 689 * Fix: verbs drank, drunk are optionally transitive. 690 * Fix: regression: "all the X", X can be plural or mass. 691 * Fix: verbs paint, color may be ditransitive: "paint the car bright green" 692 693Version 4.6.7 (16 April 2010) 694 * Fix: configure handling of --enable-hunspell (bugtracker issue 46) 695 * Fix: conjoined modifier phrases: "the black and white cat sleeps." 696 * Fix: MSWindows+MingGW compilation issue. 697 * Update msvc9 Microsoft Visual C 2008 project, from Boris Iordanov. 698 699Version 4.6.6 (19 March 2010) 700 * Minor fixes to handling of units. 701 * Fix: MSWindows+Cygwin/MingGW compilation issues. 702 * Use pkgconfig for editline (from Vincent Untz) 703 * Fix: "I want it back." 704 * Additional titular prefixes, suffixes: Maj. Ph.D. 705 * Add code to detect dictionary version number. 706 * Fix: MS VC missing strdup() function. 707 * Add AutoIt3 bindings from JRowe 708 709Version 4.6.5 (3 November 2009) 710 * Fix: Superlatives without preceding determiners ("... likes you best") 711 * Fix: Take more care in distinguishing mass and count nouns. 712 * Fix: Old bug w/relative clauses: Rw+ is optional, not mandatory. 713 * Provide tags identifying relative, superlative adjectives. 714 * Remove BioLG NUMBER-AND-UNIT handling, its been superseded. 715 * Fix handling of parenthetical phrases/clauses. 716 * Fix: handling of capitalized first words ending in letter "s". 717 * Fix: support "filler-it" SF link for "It was reasoned that..." 718 * Fix: certain WH-word constructions: "I did not know why until recently" 719 * Fix: go: "there goes the greatest guy ever" 720 * Fix: opening coordinating conjunctions: "And you can also ..." 721 * Configurable Hunspell spell-checker dictionary location. 722 * Fix: Misc ordinal usage. 723 * Add support for aspell spell-checker. 724 725Version 4.6.4 (11 October 2009) 726 * Restore nouns starting w/letters x-z, elided in version 4.5.9 ff. 727 * Add support for single-word interjections/exclamations! 728 * Fix: sometimes command line client fails to show all valid linkages. 729 * Misc fixes: such_that, upon, acted.v 730 * Fix: impersonal "be" linking to passive participle. 731 * Fix: handling of capitalized first words. 732 * Fix: duplication of certain parses involving transitive verbs. 733 734Version 4.6.3 (4 October 2009) 735 * Fix compilation bug on FreeBSD. 736 * Fix: allow MX link to post-nominal ", to be ..., " 737 * Fix: add idiom "time and again" 738 * Fix: another BioLG regression in handling of possessives. 739 * Fix: handling of period at end of number at end of sentence. 740 * Fix: Capitalized words ending in s at start of sentence. 741 * Use corpus-statistics-based ranking by default, if available. 742 * Fix difficulties in build of corpus statistics module. 743 744Version 4.6.2 (21 September 2009) 745 * Fix: "come across as authoritative". 746 * Improve Java location guessing in FreeBSD 747 * Fix for assert triggered by long sentences. 748 * Fix: long sequence of periods treated as unknown word. 749 * Add informational print showing dictionary location on startup. 750 * Remove duplicated {@MV+} in tend.v 751 * Automatically resize the display size to fit the current window size. 752 * Fix handling of punctuation at the end of a capitalized word. 753 * Fix misc verbs acting as adjectival modifiers: e.g. "given", "allied" 754 * Fix bug in BioLG code regarding the handling of possessives. 755 * Fix a (rare) crash in sentences with many conjunctions. 756 * Fix a crash involving long sequences of UTF8 punctuation marks. 757 758Version 4.6.1 (31 August 2009) 759 * Stop printing annoying warning when !vars are used. 760 * Fix missing dict file units.2 problem 761 * Fix compilation bug on FreeBSD. 762 763Version 4.6.0 (29 August 2009) 764 * Avoid used of bzero, add missing include directives (MacOSX problem) 765 * Reclassify a number of "medical" prepositions as adverbs. 766 * Add approx 100 adverbs & 300 adjectives. 767 * Add approx 250 verbs. 768 * Add approx 300 nouns. 769 * Add misc units. 770 * Add misc European connector words/patronymics. 771 * Reclassify 100's of transitive verbs as optionally-transitive. 772 * Add distinct tokenization step ("sentence_split") to public API. 773 This last change forces the minor-version-number bump. 774 775Version 4.5.10 (25 August 2009) 776 * Be sure to link with -lm 777 778Version 4.5.9 (25 August 2009) 779 * Modify error messages to indicate that they are from link-grammar. 780 * Add missing Java files that were forgotten last time around. 781 * Add greeting to command-line client startup. 782 * Print disjunct cost also, when requesting disjunct printing. 783 * Add missing color names as mass nouns. 784 * Fix: Reclassify musical instruments: "He plays piano" 785 * Add experimental word-clustering system. 786 * Add CMake build file 787 * Fix: "It takes longer than that." 788 * Fix: "He has done very well." 789 * Fix: a dozen optionally transitive verbs (swim, kill, etc.) 790 * Fix: "He's out running." 791 * Fix: "suddenly" is a "manner adverb", not a clausal adverb. 792 * Fix: Use Pg links to gerunds: "He feared hitting the wall." 793 * Fix: assorted numerical-range bugs. 794 * Fix: prep modifiers with distances: "It is a few miles out" 795 * Fix: Spelled-out dates: "It started in nineteen twelve" 796 * Fix: Misc date, time expression parsing e.g "Zero hour is here." 797 * Fix: Misc words, "ordered list", "screened out" 798 * Fix: Post-fixed numbers can act as determiners. 799 * Fix: "We bought the last 50 ft. of cable." 800 * Fix: opening directives to imperatives: "Finally, move it back." 801 * Fix: Improved simple equation parsing support. 802 * Fix: Add misc fixes from BioLG that were previously overlooked. 803 * Fix: "favorite" can take determiner "a" ("a favorite place") 804 * Fix: assorted clausal complements: "The emperor ordered it done." 805 * Fix: ordinals: "First on our list is ..." 806 * Fix: verb modifier "some of the time", "most places" 807 * Fix: Sit, stand take modifiers: "he stood still" 808 809Version 4.5.8 (2 July 2009) 810 * Fix: 'than anticipated', 'than was anticipated', etc. 811 * Fix: 'saw the wood' 812 * Fix: sometimes commas are used as if they were semicolons. 813 * Fix: 'We have quite enough work already, thank you!' 814 * Fix: allow 'and' as conjunction in entity names. 815 * Fix: 'I stared him down', 'They shouted him down', 'booed off' 816 * Fix: 'sound him out', 'look him over' 817 * Fix: 'Somewhere in the distance' 818 * Stub out list of names given to both men and women, to avoid duplication. 819 * Fix: 'I think so, too' 820 * Fixes for compilation under Cygwin. 821 * From Boris Iordanov: fixes to JSON java code. 822 * From Boris Iordanov: new java remote client code. 823 * Fix: Biological texts commonly have adj-noun-adj-noun chains 824 825Version 4.5.7 (4 June 2009) 826 * Fix 'make install' for MSWindows (abi bug 12049) 827 * Fix multi-threaded bug when TRACK_SPACE_USAGE is defined. 828 * Add './configure --enable-mudflap' just for fun... 829 * Fix: "Walk tall", "Think quick" 830 * Fix: "... part no. 1234-56A" 831 * Fix regression from BioLG merge: "It cost $14 million." 832 * Fix come/came: "The dog came running..." 833 * Fix year abbreviations: "He drove a souped-up '57 Chevy" 834 * Fix sit, stand: "The dog stood still" 835 * Fix act up, act out: "He is acting out." "The motor is acting up." 836 * Fix notoriously, poorly: "The store was poorly stocked". 837 * Fix: "strong" can be adverb 838 * Add support for recognizing basic time zones during parsing. 839 * Fix: verbs acting as adjectival modifiers: "a very politicized deal." 840 * Fix: ".. nearly so well", "...almost so well". 841 * Fix financial ranges: "It will cost $10 million to $20 million to build." 842 * Expand handling of capitalized words that appear in entity names. 843 * Expand the list of characters that are recognized as quotes. 844 * Support usage of yes, no as sentence openers. 845 * Better support for directives, commands. 846 * Fix: "Ash Wednesday", "Fat Tuesday", etc. 847 * Fix: post-verbal adj: "she wiped the table dry" 848 * Fix: wish: "she wished me a happy birthday" 849 850Version 4.5.6 (24 May 2009) 851 * Bugfix: fix non-thread-safe usage. 852 * Changes to enable MinGW/Windows to compile. 853 * Update of MSVC6 build files 854 * Fix: pizza, fries, chopsticks. 855 * Export word-sense database to Java apps. 856 * Fix: "Was the man drunk or crazy or both?" 857 858Version 4.5.5 (10 May 2009) includes the following changes: 859 * Bugfix: crash for zero-length sentences. 860 861Version 4.5.4 (9 May 2009) includes the following changes: 862 * Fix: "sleep in": "A bed is something you sleep in." 863 * Fix: "drinking": "Let's go drinking." 864 * Fix go+bare infinitive: "Let's go shop", "Let's go swim" 865 * Fix: "Let's go for a swim." "Let's go for a smoke". 866 * Fix: "Let's not" "Let's not go" "Let's not cry" 867 * Fix: ... is <bare-infinitive>: "All he ever does is complain." 868 * Fix: "You will die young/happy/unhappy" 869 * Fix: "You should exercise to stay fit." 870 * Fix: "We danced 'til dawn." 871 * Fix: "tell <direct-object> off": "She had told him off." 872 * Bugfix: sometimes spell checker would run even if turned off. 873 874Version 4.5.3 (14 April 2009) includes the following changes: 875 * Haste makes waste! Revert a recent 'fix'. 876 877Version 4.5.2 (14 April 2009) includes the following changes: 878 * Use re-entrant version of mbtowc in all code. 879 * Fix run-time breakage on Mac OSX and FreeBSD. 880 881Version 4.5.1 (13 April 2009) includes the following changes: 882 * Fix Assertion failed: negative constituent length! 883 * Fix build break for Mac OSX. 884 * Force use of UTF-8 locale in the command-line tool. 885 886Version 4.5.0 (10 April 2009) includes the following changes: 887 * Hack around missing SQLite3 pkgconfig on MacOS 888 * Fix adverbs: 'The motor ran hot', 'the door swung wide open', etc. 889 * Fix: 'at risk of breakdown', 'under threat of fire' 890 * Add regular-expression-based word guessing, from BioLG project. 891 This provides support for many scientific/biomedical terms. 892 * Add spell-guessing for unknown words. 893 * Fix UTF8 support to be correctly thread-safe. 894 * BioLG: fix post-numbering: 'it started on day one' 895 * BioLG: add number ranges: 'it takes 2 to 3 times the effort' 896 * BioLG: assorted adverb fixes, typical of scientific prose. 897 * BioLG: initiate, attach, localize etc are optionally transitive. 898 * BioLG: allow fork, branch, splice, export, etc to take particles. 899 * BioLG: extended use of Greek letters in biomedical text. 900 * BioLG: support parsing of Roman numerals. 901 * BioLG: support Greek-letter-number combinations. 902 * Fix: 'she was singing', etc. 903 * Enable WordNet word-sense identification based on syntactical usage. 904 905Version 4.4.3 (11 March 2009) includes the following changes: 906 * Look at JAVA_HOME to guess location of jni.h 907 * Add dictionary maintenance utility script. 908 * Add prototype German dictionary. 909 * Fix sentences containing measurements, lengths, speeds. etc. 910 * Add 1400 new adjectives, many of scientific origin. 911 * Add 250 international currencies, including special utf8 symbols. 912 * Performance optimization in sentence tokenization. 913 * Add 1100 male, female given names (from Bruce Wilcox). 914 * Cleanup parsing of "in-" date expressions, e.g. "in the 1940's". 915 * Cleanup of assorted compiler warnings. 916 * Fix handling of special utf8 characters in dictionary. 917 * Fix hang when parsing certain utf8 input strings. 918 * Make sure that most strings in the API are declared const char * 919 * Add option to command-line client to print disjunct strings. 920 921Version 4.4.2 (15 January 2009) includes the following changes: 922 * Fix: 'The keys are gone', 'It is a gone desire' 923 * Fix: 'He poured me a glass', 'He wired me the money', etc. 924 * Initial rough-in of corpus statistics based parse ranking. 925 * Initial rough-in of corpus-guided word-sense identification. 926 * Fix for googlecode bugs 38, 39 (Java, Ruby failure to load) 927 * Add new API routine to return disjunct string. 928 929Version 4.4.1 (15 December 2008) includes the following changes: 930 * Balance the dictionary tree; this speeds word-lookup slightly. 931 * New MSVC6 build files from Evgenii Philippov. 932 * Fix java server classes to pass along the link-grammar version number. 933 934Version 4.4.0 (7 December 2008) includes the following changes: 935 * fix: recognize curly-single-quote ’ where straight quote can be used. 936 * recognize and explicitly ignore emoticon types. 937 * Include MSVC6 build files. 938 * Apply patch needed for Ruby bindings. 939 * fix: "Where did they come from?", per Viswanath IIIT 940 * fix: "Where did they go to?" 941 * fix: "It gives me peace of mind." 942 * fix: many, many incorrectly identified mass nouns. 943 * fix: ladle.v "molten hot" "piping hot" 944 * fix: "It's a shame that...", "The crux of the plan is that..." 945 * Performance improvements (about 11%) to prune.c from Bruce Wilcox 946 * fix: "He eats with me nightly." 947 * Add new public api function: linkgrammar_get_version() 948 * MSVC9 build files from Borislav Iordanov 949 * Java network-efficient client-server classes from Borislav Iordanov 950 951Version 4.3.9 (8 October 2008) includes the following changes: 952 * Issue 13: "John is altogether amazingly quick." 953 * Nonstandard spelling "unequivocably" 954 * Dictionary fixes for 'marginally', etc. "That one is marginally better" 955 * Issue 7: Dictionary fixes for 'done': "I am done working" 956 * dictionary entries for walk-up drivethru car-wash 957 * dictionary: "I am through being mad", "It was a through flight", etc. 958 * Issue 11: "You are doing well" 959 * Issue 3: "I asked Jim a question", "I told Jim a story" 960 * Passive subjects with objects: "I was told that crap, too" "...was asked..." 961 * Fixes for Apple Mac OSX (crash on non-executable stack) 962 * Early version of Filip Maric's boolean SAT solver 963 * fix: "He talked quietly of revolt." 964 * fix: "It consists mostly of sand.", "He talks, mostly of revolution." 965 * fix: "He talked mostly to Ann.", "He talks a lot." 966 * fix: than_usual: "He is taking longer than usual." 967 * fix: a batch of new verbs from Roman Khlupin 968 * fix: Fix crash on Apple Macintosh by correctly identifying the platform. 969 * fix: "San Gabriel" "Block Island" "Great Southern Bank" "de la Rente" 970 * fix: "I biked Johnson Creek." 971 972Version 4.3.8 (14 August 2008) includes the following changes: 973 * Build fixes for Windows (missing bzero and thread-safe rand) 974 * Fix several mem leaks, one in the Java jni code. 975 * Fix crash of java6 jvm, due to blown stack limits. 976 977Version 4.3.7 (8 August 2008) includes the following changes: 978 * Expanded list of given names to include those from 2005 US Census 979 * Export a new java jni function, to get the inflected word. 980 * Add a TO+ connector so that "I tend to agree" parses correctly. 981 * Makefile fixes for Mac OS/X Leopard. 982 983Version 4.3.6 (21 July 2008) includes the following changes: 984 * Fixes for Windows MS Visual-C builds. 985 * Fix parsing of "He walked the dog.", "He sailed the boat." 986 * Add support for right-apostrophe (’) which is a non-ASCII UTF8 char. 987 * Add support for other non-ASCII UTF8 punctuation. 988 * Fix crash on printing constituent tree of certain long sentences. 989 * Avoid recursive error reporting for UTF8 dictionary errors. 990 * Clarify error logging and error printing. 991 * Add java getVersion() to return link-grammar version string. 992 * Add more numbers to dict (e.g. twenty-seven, bazillion, half-dozen, etc.) 993 * Foodstuffs: bagels, lox, tacos, guacamole, roe, neufchatel, mayo, etc. 994 * Weights and measures: megabytes, °C, km² etc. 995 * Performance improvements in printing of link-tree. 996 * Convert assert into warning when no canonical linkages can be found. 997 * Convert assert into warning when constituent andlist overflows. 998 * Provide additional checks for constituent overflows. 999 * Convert most error printfs into a formal error reporting system. 1000 * Remove all globals, library is now thread-safe. 1001 * Fix crash when sentence has square bracket, and doing constituents. 1002 1003Version 4.3.5 (29 April 2008) includes the following changes: 1004 * Added ant build file to create the link-grammar jar file. 1005 * Fix regression in command-line client of multiple-parse display. 1006 * Use MB_LEN_MAX, not MB_CUR_MAX for UTF8 support. 1007 * Fix a WIN32 compiler regression (no inline support in Windows). 1008 * Fix error in handling of UTF8 dictionaries. 1009 * Fix strncat() misuse in error.c 1010 * Fix capitalization errors in country names. 1011 * Fix parsing of "he angled left, he dodged left, he turned left". 1012 * Don't build the JNI library if Java isn't found. Fixes build on Windows. 1013 * Fix install bug for NetBSD systems. 1014 * Pre-detected entities cannot participate in G links. 1015 * There is no UTF8 support in MSWindows, so stub it out. 1016 * Fix crash in constituent output, bug #22 in googlecode bugtracker. 1017 * Some small steps taken to eventually make library thread-safe. 1018 * There are three constituent string styles, enable all three. 1019 * Make the command-line flag errors less cryptic. 1020 * Add readline (BSD editline) support. 1021 * Rename "grammar-parse" to the more logical "link-parser". 1022 * Small man page updates. 1023 * Export and cost, link cost via public API. 1024 1025Version 4.3.4 (16 March 2008) includes the following changes: 1026 * Fix regression of handling of capitalization at the start of sentences. 1027 * Fix dictionary search path so that it respects command-line input. 1028 * Fix rare but nasty crash when parsing long sentences in panic mode. 1029 * Add a method to set the dictionary path. 1030 * Fix all remaining compiler warnings. 1031 * Make parser capable of handling UTF8 strings and dictionaries. 1032 * Ongoing minor expansion of the Lithuanian (lt) dictionary. 1033 1034Version 4.3.3 (27 February 2008) includes the following changes: 1035 * Missing java is a warning, not an error. 1036 * man page for grammar-parse. 1037 * Removed cruft from the dictionary open routines. 1038 * configure tries to guess some non-standard jni.h locations. 1039 * Split up java library exports, should help Cygwin builds. 1040 * Fix java library pre-linking bug. 1041 * Minor English dictionary additions. 1042 * Prototype Lithuanian (lt) dictionary. 1043 1044Version 4.3.2 (2 February 2008) includes the following changes: 1045 * Compile fixes for WIN32 1046 * Dictionary fixes for given names. (Fixes a serious problem with 4.3.1) 1047 1048Version 4.3.1 (31 January 2008) includes the following changes: 1049 * A merger of significant parts of the "medical terms" dictionary 1050 from Peter Szolovits. This includes thousands of additional words. 1051 1052Version 4.3.0 (30 January 2008) includes the following changes: 1053 * New link types (Ct, Cta, Rn, Rw) for comparatives, so as to link 1054 relative clauses: "John is bigger than Dave is", "John wants more 1055 cookies than Dave wants". The Rw link is used to link question words 1056 to the relative clauses that follow them. 1057 * Dictionary Fixes for "Expresso is a coffee drink", "Teach me fetch", 1058 "I am pooped" as synonym for "I am tired", "Mother likes her", 1059 "Mommy loves me" and related. Also, directives involving "go": 1060 "Go play ball", "Go take a walk", "You and Rover go play with the 1061 ball." 1062 * Dictionary support for external entity markup. This includes the 1063 recognition of personID0..personID60, dateID0..dateID60, 1064 organizationID0..organizationID60 and locationID0..locationID60 1065 as appropriate words. 1066 * Fixes of numerous compile-time warnings. 1067 * Simple Java (JNI) bindings. 1068 1069Version 4.2.5 (11 November 2007) includes the following changes: 1070 * Security fix for a buffer overflow. CVE-2007-5395 1071