CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Asciiville-3.0.2r3 (2024-06-28)

• Bug fix release
• Fix Python module installs in ascinit
• Fix Asciiville config file syntax error when lolcat is disabled
• Prepend ~/.local/bin to PATH after Python virtual environment is activated
• Add durdraw examples to applications menu
• Update PKGBUILD, modify mkaur.sh for execution on Ubuntu Linux

Asciiville-3.0.2r2 (2024-06-27)

• Install latest got and updated got config
• Install kitty-control in ascinit
• Use current terminal for phantasia if Kitty is set
• Use Homebrew GNU bash, sed, mktemp on macOS
• Add shortcuts to menu entries
• Remove rainbowstream twitter client, no longer works
• Add Durdraw to menu system, update lazyman
• Add Durdraw ASCII editor installation and configuration
• Use single dash options to wc for portability
• Add static path to readthedocs
• Add function to remove html comments safely in newsboat
• Add security policy
• Add tmux2k example configuration to tmux.conf
• Attempt to install the coreutils package in ascinit
• Use npm -g to install mapscii in ascinit
• Add collapsed gallery
• Use PNG image of Asciiville as header
• Change CNAME to asciiville.dev
• Remove title from Jekyll theme config
• Remove description from Jekyll theme config
• Update Jekyll theme config
• Update lazyman to v3 release
• Expand description of Bob Neovim version manager
• Rename Lazyman menu entry to Neovim
• Remove Lazyman tools install if no Neovim install selected
• Exit after creation of compressed tar archive on macOS
• Update manual installation instructions in README
• Install and Uninstall for Linux compressed tar archive
• Linux compressed tar archive install with ./Install
• Get rid of shellcheck warnings in preparation for creating a gzip tar release asset for all platforms
• Add Lazyman Menu to Asciiville menus if installed

Asciiville-3.0.2r1 (2023-02-14)

• Automated Neovim installation and configuration using lazyman
• Install and use Homebrew by default on macOS
• Add 'brew' option to ascinit to allow use of Homebrew on Linux

Asciiville-3.0.1r2 (2023-02-04)

• Automatic installation of many Ascii games
• Improved interactive menu system
• Add 'a' to interactive art view mode to auto zoom
• Add 'd' to interactive art view mode to set default art font size
• Add 'f' keyboard control for display of ascii art filename
• Add 'zoom_depth' and 'zoom_interval' settings in config and ascii art menu

Asciiville-3.0.1r1 (2023-01-26)

• Asciiville is now architecture independent
• Many installation improvements on Apple macOS
• Move btop to external package install
• Move cbftp to external package install
• Move endoh1 to external package install
• Add term-image command - display and browse images in the terminal
• Move installation location back to /usr except macOS to /usr/local
• Improved support for macOS manual installation
• Moved several package/utility installs from postinstall to ascinit
• Several bug fixes

Asciiville-2.0.1r1 (2023-01-10)

• Add support for Arch-like platforms (e.g. Manjaro Linux)
• Fix remote Arch package installs in ascinit

Asciiville-2.0.0r2 (2023-01-07)

• Move installation location from /usr to /usr/local
• Add support for Apple macOS manual installation
• Update btop to version 1.2.13

Asciiville-2.0.0r1 (2023-01-05)

• Modularize Asciiville installation and initialization
  • Remove aewan, jp2a, and ninvaders from source, build, and packaging
  • use external build and packaging to install in ascinit
• Update btop to 1.2.9
• Install the kitty terminfo entry when installing kitty
• Add any2ascii command and its dependencies
• Add asciibrow command
• Use rich to format usage messages if available
• Add kitty session startup for zsh users
• Add Jekyll theme for Github Pages
• Update tmux configuration
• Add VHS install in ascinit
• Improve newsboat config, additional newsboat scripts
• Use HOME/.config/newsboat for Newsboat config
• Use kitty for image display in Newsboat
• Center ascii art when displaying in Kitty

Asciiville-1.4.1r2 (2022-10-02)

• Install go in ascinit if not present
• Use Kitty as default terminal emulator if available, if not then use gnome-terminal
• Porting changes to support several modern compiler constraints
• Integration of asciifetch in asciiville menu
• Add signal handling and child process wait to asciifetch to enable kitty remote control
• Add zoom and keepalive to asciifetch
• Add splash screen to interactive startup
• Add show_pokemon command
• Add language and arg processing to weatherfetch, enhance show_weather command
• Add Pokemon display to commands and menu, enhanced weather report using weatherfetch
• Patch cbftp if on Arch to accomodate their unified ncurses implementation
• Use format string to avoid error when -Werror=format-security is enabled
• Fix aewan build in PKGBUILD
• Kitty integration, update Kitty configuration, set Kitty url opener in ascinit
• Add gum install to ascinit
• Add diyfetch examples to tools/bin
• Add Sphinx documentation for Asciiville docs on Read the Docs
• Add installation of rich-cli rich command in ascinit
• Add color display option to show_endo
• Add show_endo to display ascii fluid dynamics simulations
• Add endoh1 fluid dynamics ascii animation and build
• Add Webb telescope images, add tmux plugin manager

Asciiville-1.4.1r1 (2022-06-08)

• Zoomable display of ascii art
• Center ascii art in zoom/browse mode
• Turn linewrap off during ascii art display
• Add shuffle and length settings to asciiville config
• Upgrade to Btop++ 1.2.7
• Update sample config with character palette settings
• Fix jrnl default config and journals creation
• Adapt art font size for each file in file list display mode
• Add support for slideshow of files provided on command line
• Add support for slideshow/display of files from list in file
• Add support for centering borderless ascii art
• Add sample irssi config

Asciiville-1.4.0r3 (2022-05-31)

• Manual installation and removal for non-Debian/RPM Linux systems
• Improved Ascii Art display features
• Additional Ascii Art
• Shuffle and random display modes now supported
• Several bug fixes
• Add aewan ascii art creation tools
• Add per-gallery config file support
• Add Vintage ascii art gallery

Asciiville-1.4.0r2 (2022-05-24)

• Better support for console-only deployments
• Console-based mailcap configs used with ascinit -c
• Add sample NNTP account in NeoMutt (use NeoMutt to read Usenet newsgroups)
• Use encrypted credentials for NNTP server authenticaton
• Add preconfigured Cruzio account for NeoMutt
• Mailcap improvements for mutt, neomutt, and tuir
• Use jp2a in mailcaps for images
• Add support for TUIR - Terminal UI for Reddit
• Add khard contact management integration and configuration
• Add support for selecting multiple ascii art files with ranger
• Add ascii art selection to menus
• View individual ascii art via command line
• Compress ascii art files

Asciiville-1.4.0r1 (2022-05-17)

• Add manual installation script for non Debian/RPM systems
• Support for xfce4-terminal slideshows with FIFO
• Updated NetHack to latest development snapshot
• Add Tetris video game to build and packaging
• Add several new Ascii Art galleries
• Add Ninvaders game
• Add termprofset command to manage terminal profile settings
• Add newsboat RSS Feed reader
• Maintain Asciiville preferences in $HOME/.config/asciiville/config
• Beginning with version 1.4.0 a console-only setup is supported
  • No graphical utilities are installed if ascinit -c used
  • Console screen used exclusively for display
• Move installation of terminal emulators to ascinit
• Add got translation tool
• Add tdraw ascii drawing tool
• Dynamically generate Art folder menu entries
• User generated ASCII Art galleries can be added to menu
• Add generate ascii art menu entry to art menu
• Use architecture in distribution filenames
• Add menu for generating and viewing ascii art

Asciiville-1.3.1r2 (2022-05-06)

• W3M configuration with support for acting as a Markdown pager
• Mailcap and MIME type enhancements for NeoMutt, Mutt, and W3M
• NeoMutt and Mutt configuration in ascinit
• Enhanced Mutt/NeoMutt mailcap, auto view text/html MIME type
• Support for GPG encrypted passwords in NeoMutt
• Extended Help menu in asciiville
• Colorized man command output in Help menus
• Add support and integration for jrnl Journal application
• Add Matrix and NetHack commands
• Additional freely licensed songs for slideshow and animation audio tracks
• Rename all Ascii Art files to use .asc filename suffix
• Add rifle config for opening .asc files
• Simplify menus, match partial responses when possible
• Create and check initialization file in asciiville
• Add selection menu for command and terminal, add select song option

Asciiville-1.3.1r1 (2022-05-01)

• Create armhf architecture Debian format package for Raspberry Pi installs
• With no arguments asciiville brings up a menu
• Add Mutt configuration to ascinit
• Install Asciiville Figlet Fonts in pyfiglet during postinstall
• Add cbftp FTP client and support for ncftp
• Add jp2a image to ascii converter
• Add show_moon and show_weather commands
• Create cbftp man page
• Add show_figlet_fonts command
• Add -d option to indicate use of disk usage analyzer
• Add -f option to indicate use of FTP client
• Add -X option to indicate use of current terminal window
• Change -f to -F option to indicate fullscreen terminal window
• Fixup exit from asciimatics scripts
• MusicPlayerPlus and RoonCommandLine menu integration
• Support for w3m, mapscii, and setting default browser
• Add Figlet Fonts and use Figlet Text for menu headers
• Lolcat install during postinstall
• Removed support for neomutt, just use Mutt
• Add semi-auto-configuration of Mutt
• Add show_ascii_art command to display/generate ascii art
• Add dependency on ImageMagick
• Add show_figlet_fonts command
• Add grayscale option and color depth option to show_ascii_art
• Fold my changes to jp2a with newer version
• Added character set option to show_ascii_art
• Updated screenshots
• Install btop themes, create btop man page
• Animate lolcat display
• Add Dragonfly, Space, and Doctorwhen ascii art and slideshows
• Add make_ascii_art command
• Option to play audio during slideshow
• Create 'Asciiville' profile for Tilix and gnome-terrminal in ascinit

Asciiville-1.3.0r1 (2022-04-20)

Initial release with support for:

• The lightweight character based system monitor, btop
• The lightweight character based web browser, lynx
• The lightweight character based mail client, neomutt or mutt
• The lightweight character based file manager, ranger
• One or more terminal emulators running a command
• A tmux session
• A command line web search
• Command line character based Twitter client
• A network download/upload speed test
• The AAlib BB demo running in a tmux session (Debian based systems only)
• Character based ASCII art
• Display system info
• Display the Phase of the Moon
• Display a weather report
• Any character based client the user wishes to run
• One of several asciimatics animations optionally accompanied by audio