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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)
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)
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)
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
(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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