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FreeWRL News
14.June.1999 -- 0.20alpha1 is out! EAI is pretty good now, still a few
bugs to work on.
18.May.1999 -- 0.19beta2 should be released soon. I have been working on
EAI code, and fixing some minor bugs. The EAI code and SHARED VIRTUAL WORLDS should work
100% soon...
23.Mar.1999 -- 0.19 is out. Great gains in EAI, some documentation updates.
15.Jan.1999 -- 0.18 is out. First version released by John Stewart (john.stewart@crc.ca)
24.Dec.1998 -- 0.17 is out. Minimal portability fixes.
I haven't had much need for FreeWRL in my own work for a while so
much progress has not been made. I welcome patches and new maintainers,
please do contact me.
15.Aug.1998 -- 0.16 is out. There is not much new, but I just
wanted to get out what I have before leaving for some weeks. I'll be
in touch on email and will be able to put important announcements or
patches up here if someone has some but will probably not be able to release
complete new versions.
4.Aug.1998 -- 0.15 is out. speedups, lighting fixes (e.g. directional
fixes), ...
28.Jul.1998 -- 0.14 is out, finally. Featuring: much-improved
documentation (the manpages are available here on this website as well),
better Extrusions (thanks to Bernhard Reiter once again),
better NavigationInfo handling (John Breen) and lots of cleanups.
The start of the cleanup signifies that we are now headed for 1.0
as fast as possible. As always, keep sending me worlds that don't
work in FreeWRL and I'll try to fix it.
Also, inform me about any problems: otherwise they won't get fixed!
16.Jul.1998 -- 0.13 is out.
Biggest news is EAI classes for Java!
Now FreeWRL is structurally complete and all the rest will hopefully
be just patching in the holes bit by bit. But nothing major is
lacking any more (of course, EAI through java in a NS plugin would
be nice... anyone? ;)
9.Jul.1998 -- The next version of FreeWRL will be under LGPL
(the GNU Library General Public License), allowing redistribution
as parts of larger systems. If you want to include FreeWRL in
your product, email me and we'll work out the details.
9.Jul.1998 -- 0.12 is out, possibly even more unstable
but on the other hand having many bugfixes and new features.
Please send in success/failure reports so I can stabilize the
distributions. This version contains a first shot at EAI using
socket communications, PNG support and many neat changes.
Works better inside Netscape than the previous version, as
now it is possible to specify the URL to be different than the filename
-- enabling e.g. textures and inlines inside netscape.
Now just to make EAI java classes to work in Netscape and... ;)
7.Jul.1998 -- 0.11 is out, but unstable. Get it if you want
to be on the bleeding edge and can take care of problems. Otherwise,
wait for 0.12. 0.11 includes lots of new stuff, e.g. ProximitySensor,
TextureTransform, ... and I've started running the NIST test suite
now that I can use FreeWRL inside Netscape.
6.Jul.1998 -- Just after releasing 0.10 I got XSwallow and
made freewrl work inside netscape navigator. As a result, I've gotten
quite a lot of fixes done -- I'll put a screenshot and a new version
out soon ;)
6.Jul.1998 -- 0.10 is out. Fixes many bugs and makes viewpoints
finally work. Source organized a little bit more again.
See README for more change info.
3.Jul.1998 -- 0.09 is out, fixing some parser bugs and expanding
the JavaScript support quite a bit. Also prototype/event fixes.
30.Jun.1998 -- 0.08 is out, supporting real URLS (using libwww-perl)
and many bug fixes.
22.Jun.1998 -- 0.07 is out, fixing many things over 0.06. I apologize
for the hasty, not-enough-tested releases but I'm preparing the papers
for the Perl conference so I am only concentrating on getting my demos
for there working. The situation will improve in about two weeks.
22.Jun.1998 -- Some other known bugs for 0.06: MFFloats and MFInt32's
with commas are parsed incorrectly. A new release will be out soon.
21.Jun.1998 -- It appears that FreeWRL-0.06 still doesn't work
correctly with FreeType-1.1. For the time being, use FreeType-1.0,
until I finally move my own machines to 1.1. Sorry about this.
21.Jun.1998 -- A new look for the web pages - got rid of the tacky
frames and so on. Now they are generated with Perl to ensure a common
look.
17.Jun.1998 -- Finally it's here: version 0.06. Lots of things
work more stably and much faster than before, it is not as horribly
verbose at startup and so on. Please try it and send bug reports.
Oh yes, there is also a new DESCENT(tm)-like interface for moving
around in 3-space (FLY mode, see README).
16.Jun.1998 -- Several things: 1. FreeWRL is going to be in the
Perl Conference 2.0, in San Jose
in august. 2. 0.06 is coming real soon now, I've added createVrmlFromString
to the Perl script interface, and other languages will soon follow suit.
8.Jun.1998 -- now it works on IRIX 6.2, with accelerated OpenGL.
Is this the first browser with javascript (instead of vrmlscript) for
SGI? Next version coming soon... Also, I'm working on an app that needs
EAI so it is conceivable that EAI will be implemented soon ;) ;)
3.Jun.1998 -- released version 0.05. Contains bugfixes and several
new nodes work, most importantly Plane- and SphereSensor, as well as
Switch and LOD. It should also be quite
a lot faster than the previous version, as now I use polygon culling.
As always, please try out the new version and report
bugs so I can improve FreeWRL!
30.May.1998 -- released new version 0.04, as I accidentally omitted
important Javascript files from 0.03. It was possible to use 0.03 but
not the javascript part. 0.04 also contains support for Text and
Background nodes as well as bindable nodes. Many more examples
from the VRML Sourcebook work now... Go to the download area for the source.
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