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- Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)
- Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)
- Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)
- Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)
- Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)
- Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)
- Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)
- Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)
- Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)
- Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)
- Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)
- Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)
- Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)
- Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)
- Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)
- Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)
- Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)
- Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)
- Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)
- Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)

# A. Changelog

# Changes from .28.2.1 to .28.3 (Nov 20, 1999)

- Fixed a bug that caused aspell to crash when spell checking words over 60 characters long.
- Reworked ``aspell check'' so that

  1. You no longer have to hit enter when making a choice.
  2. It will now overwrite the orignal file instead of creating a new file. An optional backup can be made by using the -b option.
- Fixed a few bugs in data.cc.

# Changes from .28.2 to .28.2.1 (Aug 25, 1999)

- Fixed the version number for the shared library.
- Fixed a problem with undefined refrences when linking to the shared library.

# Changes from .28.1 to .28.2 (Aug 25, 1999)

- Fixed a bunch of bugs in the language and configuration classes.
- Minor changed in the code so that it could compile with the new gcc 2.95(.1).
- Changed the output of ``dump config'' so that default values are given the value "<default>". This means that the output can be used to created a configuration file.
- Added notes on using aspell with VIM.

# Changes from .28 to .28.1 (July 27, 1999)

- Removed some debug output
- Changed notes on compiling with gcc 2.8.* as I managed to get it to compile on my school account
- Avoided included stdexcept in const_string.hh so that I could get to compile on my schools account with gcc 2.8.1.

# Changes from .27.2 to .28 (July 25, 1999)

- Provided an iterator for the replacement classes.
- Added support for dumping and creating and merging the personal and replacement word lists.
- Changed the aspell utility command line a bit, it now used popt.
- Totally reworked aspell configuration system. Now aspell can get configuration from any of 5 sources: the command line, the environmental variable ASPELL_CONF, the personal configuration file, the global configuration file, and finally the compiled in defaults.
- Totally reworked the language class in preparation for my new language code. See `http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/aspell/international/` for more information of what I have in store.
- Added some options to the configure script: --enable-dict-dir=DIR, --enable-doc-dir=DIR, --enable-debug, and --enable-opt
- Removed some old header files.
- Reoriginized the directory structure a bit
- Made the text version of the manual pages slightly easier to read
- Used the \url command for urls for better formating of the printed version.

# Changes from .27.1 to .27.2 (Mar 1, 1999)

- Fixed a major bug that caused aspell to dump core when used without any arguments
- Fixed another major bug that caused aspell to do nothing when used in interactive mode.
- Added an option to exit in Aspell's interactive mode.
- Removed some old documentation files from the distribution.
- Minor changes on to the section on using Aspell with egcs.
- Minor changes to remove -Wall warnings.

# Changes from .27 to .27.1 (Feb 24, 1999)

- Fixed a minor compile problem.
- Updated the section on using Aspell with egcs to it it more clear why the patch is necessary.

# Changes from .26.2 to .27 (Feb 22, 1999)

- Totally reworked the C++ library which means you may need to change some things in your code.
- Added support for detachable and multiple personal dictionaries in the C++ class library.
- The C++ class library now throws exceptions.
- Reworked aspell ability to learn from users misspellings a bit so that it now has a memory. See section 3.1.1 for more information.
- Upgraded autoconf to version 2.13 and automake to version 1.4 for better portability.
- Fixed the configuration so the ``make dist'' will work. For now on aspell will be distributed with ``make dist''.
- Added support to skip over URL's, email addresses and host names.
- Added support for dumping the master and personal word list. You can now also merge a personal word list. Type aspell -help for help on using this feature.
- Reorganized the source code.
- Started using proper version numbers for the shared library.
- Fixed a bug that caused a spell to crash when adding certain replacement pairs.
- Fixed the problem with duplicate lines when exiting pipe mode for good.

# Changed from .26.1 to .26.2 (Jan 3, 1998)

- Fixed another compile problem. Hopefully this time it will really compile OK on other peoples machines.

# Changed from .26 to .26.1 (Jan 3, 1998)

- Fixed a small compile problem in as_data.cc.

# Changed from .25.1 to .26 (Jan 3, 1999)

- Fixed a bug that causes duplicates items to be displayed in the suggestion list for good. (If it still does it please send be email.)
- Added the ability for aspell to learn form the users misspellings.
- Library Interface changes. Still more to come....
- Is now multiprocess safe. When a personal dictionary (or replacement list) is saved it will now first update he list against the dictionary on disk in case another process modified it.
- Fixed the bug that caused duplicate output when used non interactively in pipe mode.
- Dropped support for gcc 2.7.2 as the C++ compiler.
- Updated the How Aspell Works (6) Chapter.
- Added support for the ASPELL_DATA_DIR environmental variable.

# Changes from .25 to .25.1 (Dec 10, 1998)

- Fixed the version number so that Aspell reports the correct version number.
- Changed the note on gcc 2.7.2 compilers to make it clear that only the C++ compiler can not be gcc 2.7.2, it is ok if the C compiler is gcc 2.7.2.
- Updated the TODO list and reorganized it a bit.
- Fixed the directory so that all the documentation will get installed in ${prefix}/doc/aspell instead of half of it in ${prefix}/doc/aspell and half of it in ${prefix}/doc/kspell.

# Changes from .24 to .25 (Nov 23, 1998)

- Total rework of how the main word list is stored. Start up time decreased to about 1/3 of what it was in .24 and memory usage decreased to about 2/3. (When used with the provided word list on a linux system). Also the format and default locations of the main word list data files changed in the process and the data is now machine dependent. The personal word list format, however, stayed the same.
- Changed the scoring method to produce slightly better results with words like the vs. teh. And other simpler misspellings where two letters are swapped.
- Fixed the very unpredictable behavior of the '*', '&', '@' commands in the pipe mode.
- Added documentations for Aspell pipe mode (also known as ispell -a compatibility mode)
- Added a bunch of Aspell specific extensions to the pipe mode and documented them.
- Documented the to_soundslike and soundslike methods for the aspell class.
- Changed the scoring method to produce better results for words like ``fone'' vs ``phone'' and other words that have a spelling that doesn't directly relate to how the word sounds by using the phoneme equivalent of the word in the scoring of it.
- Added the to_phoneme and have_phoneme methods to the SC_Language class.
- Added the to_phoneme method to the aspell class.
- Added the framework for being able to learn from the users misspelling. Right now it just keep a log of replacements.
- Redid stl_rope-30.diff. For some reason the version of patch on my system refused it.
- Rewrite of the ``Using as a replacement for Ispell'' section and added the run-with-aspell utility as a replacement of the old method of mapping Ispell to Aspell.
- Fixed a bug that caused duplicate words to appear in the suggestion list.

# Changes from .23 to .24 (Nov 8, 1998)

- Fixed my code so that it can once again compile with g++ 2.7.2.
- Rewrote the How It Works chapter.
- Rewrote the Requirement section and added noted on compiling with g++ 2.7.2.
- Added a To Do chapter.
- Added a Glossary and References chapter.
- Other minor documentation improvements.
- Internal code documentation improvements.

# Changes from .22.1 to .23 (Oct 31, 1998)

- Minor documentation fixes.
- Changed the scoring strategy for words with 3 or less letters. This cut the number of words returned for these roughly in half.
- Expanded the word list to also include american.0 and american.1 from the Ispell distribution. It now includes english.0, english.1, american.0 and american.1 from the directory languages/english provided with Ispell 3.1.20.
- Added a link to the location of the latest Ispell.el in the documentation.
- Started a C interface and added some rough documentation for it.

# Changes from .22 to .22.1 (Oct 27, 1998)

- Minor bug fixes. I was deleting arrays with delete rather than delete[]. I was suppressed that this had not created a problem.
- Added a simple test program to test for a memory leak present on some systems. (Only debian slink at the moment.) See the file memleak-test.cc for more info.

# Changes from .21 to .22 (Oct 26, 1998)

- Major redesign or the scoring method. It now uses absolute distances rather than relative scores for more consistent results. See suggest.cc for more info.
- Suggest code rewritten is several places however the core process stayed the same.
- The suggest_ultra method temporally does nothing. It should be working again by the next release.

# Changes from .20 to .21 (Oct 13, 1998)

- Added documentation for aspell::Error
- Changed the library name from libspell to libaspell. It should never have been libspell in the first place. Sorry for the incompatibility.
- Added as_error.hh to the list of files copied to the include directory so that you can actually use the library outside of the source dir.
- Fixed bug that caused a segmentation fault with words where the only suggestions was inserting a space or hyphen such as in ``ledgerline''.
- Added the score method to aspell.
- Changed the scoring method to deal with word when the user uses "f" in place of "ph" a lot better.

# Changes from .11 to .20 (Oct 10, 1998)

- Name change. Everything that was Kspell is now Aspell. Sorry, the name Kspell was already used by KDE and I didn't want to cause any confusion.
- Fixed a bug that causes a segmentation fault when the HOME environmental variable doesn't exist.

# Changes from .10 to .11 (Sep 12, 1998)

- Overhaul of the SC_Language class
- Added documentation for international support
- Added documentation for the C++ library
- Other minor bug fixes.

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