Goban

Release Notes

Known issues (?) denotes problem that we haven't been able to reproduce

Internet Go
- Handicap cannot be undone
- Matching several people in a row has unpredictable effects
- Password must be set correctly (no facility to type a password during a connection)
- teach, look, and other useful IGS commands are not yet supported
- Observed games are not updated once saved
- Not compatible with the WING server (?)

History

Changed in 3.2.12 (August 30, 2006)

Fixed IGS games observing

Changed in 3.2.11 (May 30, 2006)

Universal binary
Fixed IGS login on Intel
Fixed Rendez-vous server on Intel

Changed in 3.2.10 (January 11, 2006, unreleased)

Universal binary

Changed in 3.2.9 (October 28, 2005)

Fixed error where Goban was ignoring server opponents resigning or forfeiting
Fixed editing of comments in Move and Position panels
Added french translation for player types

Changed in 3.2.7 (June 13, 2005)

Removed "It does not look as though that player is challenging you" alerts
Fixed rank range filtering of games and players lists
Fixed GNU Go vs GNU Go games

Changed in 3.2.6 (June 3, 2005)

Fixed "say" messages
Fixed missing handicap stones
Fixed undo bug
Fixed server window Tiger incompatibility
More robust UGF/UGI Import
Show numeric rating

Changed in 3.2.5 (April 12, 2005)

Unlock the new IGS rating system.
Komi can be changed for server games.
Faster and better SGF reading (~ 0.1 second to open Kogo's Joseki dictionary on a 1 GHz G4).
Ready for Tiger.

Changed in 3.2.4 (v65.4, March 30, 2005)

Support for the new IGS rating system.
Corrections to the french translation.

Changed in 3.2.3 (v65.3, January 18th, 2005)

French localization, thanks to Jean-Jacques Ardoino
GNU Go updated to 3.6

Changed in 3.2.2 (v65.2, October 25th, 2004)

General
- Fixed General inspector

Changed in 3.2.1 (v65.1, March 31st, 2004)

General
- Fixed extra "pass" sounds when game is scored
- Added client identification to IGS
- Fixed error when opening SGF files with move in root node

Changed in 3.2 (v65, March 29th, 2004)

General
- Adding comments and other SGF editing mark the document as edited
- Faster display in Position editor
- Faster opening of SGF files (1.5 s to open Kogo's on a Powerbook G4 @ 500MHz)
Internet Go
- Made trail command unavailable to non IGS servers

Changed in 3.1.4 (v64, March 24th, 2004)

General
- Implemented GTP v2, Goban is now compatible with other engines such as badukiplus
- Removed console logs

Changed in 3.1.3 (v63, March 23rd, 2004)

General
- Fixed SGF compressed points, now understand AB[xx:yy]
- Added "Redo Move"

Changed in 3.1.2 (v62, February 6th, 2004)

Internet Go
- Improved console: clickable links, filter automatic traffic, better formatting
- Added idle time to player's info

Changed in 3.1.1 (v61, January 29th, 2004)

General
- Better display of coordinates
Internet Go
- Propose white to opponent by default if he is stronger or equal
- Fixed bugs introduced in v60
- Fixed disconnection/reconnection problems
- Signal when observed games are adjourned
- Formatted output of various messages (tell, shout, kibitz, say)

Changed in 3.1 (v60, January 16th, 2004)

General
- Added stone design preference
- Added copying of position in Sensei's ASCII format
- Added a preference to not automatically open a game window
- Removed stone collisions
- Fixed window resizing with toolbar displayed
- Removed keyboard shortcut for Open service
- Fixed duplicate tree node in some SGF files
- Fixed a crash when closing a window while in automatic replay
GNU Go
- Fixed crash when undoing after resigning against GNU Go (resignation can't be undone)
Internet Go
- Added registration button for IGS
- Changed match proposal default opponent to (more polite) white
- Multiple game invitations are received in separate popup windows
- Display an alert before starting a server game as black (to prevent accidental moves)
- Added sound for Invitation accepted
- Added sound preference for Kibitz
- Added trail.
- Uses game title
- Observed games are loaded faster
- Added support for IGS rooms
- Nicer statistics display
- Removed output of moves, games, who and others from the Console
- Do not use clocks in replayed games
- Fixed "Loading a stored game by typing "load" in the console does not work"
- Fixed missing output in Console
- Fixed font change following Asian text output in Console
- Fixed search in Player list hanging on Panther

December 10th, 2003: v59

Fixed: Importing UGI/UGF files: 9x9, 13x13; SJIS encoding, ignore 2nd players in pair go
Alternative moves (alt-click) are now added outside of the main branch

September 4th, 2003: v58

Fixed: space bar shortcut not working when Move list is selected
Fixed: crash when editing positions too fast
Fixed: pull down menus missing from Position Editor
Fixed: Japanese label for 11

September 1st, 2003: v57

Added automatic replay
Added a button to swap player colors
Added UGF to SGF filter
Resizable drawer
Faster display of large stones
Equalized stone sizes, reduced collisions
More constraint on window size for square board
Nicer toolbar icons
Nicer Japanese labels
Menu changes:
- Play / Adjourn moved from Edit to Game menu
- Overload Start/Resume/Replay/Adjourn/Pause
- Added Score to Edit menu
- Shortcuts: "," for Preferences (Apple recommendation); "." for Pass; (space) for Start/Resume/Replay/Adjourn/Pause
Reset position to current move when trying to play after undo + show next
Default komi now 6.5, including for IGS games and local Rendez-vous server
Reorganized Display and Board preferences
PrintPreview arguments customizable, help updated
Fixed: handle server results like {Game 143: CHOU vs CHANG : White lost by 0.5}
Fixed: handle server results like {Game 1: phink vs aaa : Black resigns. W 67.5 B 2.0}

August 20, 2003: v56

Changed: Black stones
Added: square grid option
Added: window constraint when resizing
Fixed: shadows of large and small stones

August 18, 2003: v55

Changed white stones
Fixed: Guess next move mode in scored games
Fixed: Komi text field not updated
Fixed: Support for non standard fixed 3-stone handicap
Fixed: Generation of texfonts for Print Preview

August 5, 2003: v54 (a big thank you to Patrice Fontaine for his help)

Added: Print Preview
Added: Chinese and Korean encodings for Internet Go
Fixed: Reading and writing SGF file with placed handicap stones (AB[])
Fixed: Observing Tournament or Pro matches on IGS resulted in a crash
Fixed: Could not play after a GNU Go 3.4 pass

July 15, 2003: v53 (unpublished)

Added: Help on SGF editing
Fixed: Do not overwrite date (DT[]) when saving
Fixed: Reflect coordinate label style changes immediatly
Fixed: Crash when closing some multi-game files
Fixed: Disallow play when not looking at last played move
Fixed: Crash when opening some illegal SGF files
Added: Try to extract games from illegal SGF files
Changed: Help on Rendezvous server

(February 7, 2003) v51

General
- Added: Service to extract games from emails, newspost, ...
- Added: guess next move
- Added: separate sound preference for pass moves
- Added: use GN property in window title
- Added: nicer drawing of markup signs
- Added: Mark/Unmark last move
- Fixed: do not jump at the end after loading scored games
Internet Go
- Added: search for ranges: "1d-1k" "2k-4k" or even "2-4k"
- Added: Adjourn menu and toolbar items
- Added: handling of multiple string encodings: can now display Japanese players info regardless of preferred encoding
- Added: shortcut to change availability status
- Fixed: result string when opponent resigns out of his turn
- Fixed: display of score when network game is done without prisoner
- Fixed: availability of "Done" button in network games
- Fixed: availaibility of "Undo" when only one of the players typed "done"
- Fixed: do not jump to the end when observing Internet games
Smart Game Format (SGF)
- Added: editing including position setup, game information, variations
- Added: handling of all character encodings (CA[])

(December 21, 2002) v50

Fixed the inversion of colors in the match making window

(December 16, 2002) v49

Removed "Show Territory" action (territory stored as TW, TB in last move)
Scoring can be manually launched on all finished games
Progress view: transform in slider when reviewing games
Do not resume GNU Go games automatically
Help is now indexed
Added 6.5 komi shortcut
Adapted to GTP v2
Added backward compatibility with 10.1.x
Fixed observation of games with same name for both players (meijin vs meijin)
Fixed IGS game replay results (e.g. "Black lost by Resign")
Fixed automatic scoring timeout

(October 15, 2002) v48

Fixed handicap bug in v47
Added progress indicators during game and player list refresh
Improved memory usage

(October 14, 2002) v47

Local network play and rendezvous
Fixed undo on server games
Added command history (use up and down arrow keys in command field)
Changed "Normal" listening mode to quiet on / shout on (instead of quiet off / shout on)
Better sounding stones
Added sounds for game invitations and received messages
User can now play both sides of a human vs human game
Automatic logout from servers after 30 minutes of inactivity
Game invitations are modeless (avoid sheet frenzy, less blocking)
Better NNGS support
Better WING support
Fixed Japanese record coordinates
Many small UI improvments
Improved memory usage in server operations

(Unreleased) v46

Fixed tell from Message window

(August 6, 2002) v45

Added Byo Yomi in game list
Fixed bug in comment edition
Fixed bug in undo
Fixed behavior when closing a game in progress

(July 18, 2002) v44

Fixed ko bug introduced in v43
Fixed missing rules in SGF files

(July 16, 2002) v43

Fixed missing last move mark on new games
Reset filename when starting a new game in same window
Fixed undo when observing server games
Fixed crash when displaying move numbers with pass move
Fixed kanji labels
Memory improvment

(June 11, 2002) v42

Fixed Undo crash
Fixed drawer size
Decoupling of handicap and komi
Remember goban window position
Reordered kanji labels
Changed license: Goban is freeware, FreeGoban is GPL.

(June 4, 2002) v41

Fixed a crashing bug when the "Go to the last move when opening a game" preference is on.
Should work with the next Mac OS X release (code name Jaguar).
Minor cosmetic changes.

(June 3, 2002) v40

Added a new board image (thanks to Tweet)
Added optional shadow under markup
Added optional move number on stones
Added frequent phrases for Say/Tell
Added short-on-time alert
Fixed toolbar text enabled for progress item and clock items
Added Duplicate board to open an analyse window

v39

Internet Go
- Changed "Cancel" to "Not yet" in Done alert
- Removed beep on "Game saved" notifications
SGF support
- Optimized opening of game collections
- Fixed bugs from v38: move inspector, undo, player names in tool bar
- Added menu item to go to the next/previous variation (work also from setup nodes)
- Changed navigation keyboard shortcuts
- File score reported
- Handle TW, TB properties
- Corrected crash when opening illegal files
- Accepts files with move in root node
- Accepts files with PL[1], PL[2] properties (compatibility with TsumeGo of the day)
Other
- Added preference to go or not to the end of opened games
- Faster display
- Added optional stone shadows

v38

Display markup properties
Display setup nodes and properties
Display variations

(May 5, 2002) v36

Support for Internet Go servers
Includes GNU Go 3.2

(January 20, 2002) v21

Fixed Undo pass move bug (used to crash Goban)

(January 18, 2002) v20

Fixed broken package (missing framework)

(January 17, 2002) v19

Work around handling of non-ASCII player names in SGF files (lossy conversion for now)
Corrected handling of non-ASCII SGF filenames
Corrected default window frames
GNU Go Version 3.1.19

(January 1, 2002) v18

Support for collection files
Added Next Game, Previous Game menu items

(December 23, 2001) v17

Speech synthesis

(December 13, 2001) v16

Do not accept first mouse.
Smart Undo
- Undo 1 or 2 moves depending on context
- Undo first move
- Undo last move (game's end)
Corrected crash when changing player preference during game
Corrected several memory leaks

(November 10, 2001) v15

Accept unknown SGF identifiers
Faster launch time
GNU Go Version 3.1.11

(October 15, 2001) v14:

GNU Go Version 3.1.9
Corrected SGF flipped coordinates and handicap stones.

(October 3, 2001) v13:

Corrected: Goban did not work when some defaults were missing.

(October 1, 2001) v12:

New Move inspector
New Preferences
Resume saved games (except for GMP programs)
Includes GNU Go Version 3.1.8
Supports for GTP (the Go Text Protocol)
Fixes window zoom and other usability improvments
Better SGF handling
Includes source code under the GPL license

(August 24, 2001) v11:

Corrected bug in automatic scoring (crashed Goban in some cases).

(July 8, 2001) v10:

Automatic Scoring
Fixed some display bugs
Includes newer release of GNU Go (2.7.243)

(June 15, 2001) v9:

Window is now resizable.
Help (some).
Replaced Inspector panel with drawers.
New icons, board and stones.

(May 18, 2001) v7:

Fixed undoing a pass move.
Fixed crash when gnugo quits.
Toolbar items are disabled when not available.
Preferences panel simplified.
Replaced Alert panels with sheets.

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