uim 1.5.3 Release Note
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About This Release
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This distribution of uim 1.5.3 is latest stable release of uim.

Please report us if you find a problem.

Homepage:            http://code.google.com/p/uim/
Mailinglist:         uim-en@googlegroups.com
Bug tracking system: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/


What's New
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Critical bug fixes for Qt4 bridge.  Also a few minor fixes against 1.5.2. See NEWS for the detailed changes.


What's New in 1.5.0
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This release achieved both considerable internal improvement and many
user-visible new feature additions.

The complicated legacy C part of uim which prevented extensions, design
improvements and automated input method tests have been turned into Scheme
codes or optimized out.

See NEWS for the fully detailed changes.

  - New IM uim-wnn
  - New IM uim-sj3
  - New IM uim-elatin
  - New IM uim-look
  - New IM uim-anthy-utf8
  - Improved uim-tutcode with many long-awaited features
  - Experimental Qt4 bridge
  - Experimental uim to user message notification system
  - Emergency disablement of all uim functionality on fatal errors to
    protect user application data
  - Many R5RS/SRFI features of the embedded Scheme interpreter


Notes for Packagers and System Integrators
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  - The option "--enable-debug" and/or "--enable-backtrace" makes uim (in
    accurately, underlying SigScheme interpreter) quite heavy. Please keep them
    unspecified for normal library

  - Use the bundled SigScheme, and do not depend on external SigScheme
    package. Since the SigScheme interpreter is completely embedded into
    libuim without linking to libsscm, and exposing no SigScheme-specific
    symbols regardless of environment-dependent symbol exportation control
    existence such as -export-symbols of libtool or version script of ld,
    no conflict with libsscm occurs

  - libuim links to libgcroots although SigScheme is embedded into
    libuim. Although libgcroots is also bundled in uim, it should be
    managed as a separated package since both libsscm and libuim which
    provided by separated package depends on it. Add
    '--with-libgcroots=installed' to configure options for uim to disable
    build and install of the bundled version of libgcroots

  - libuim ABI and so libtool-version has been updated due to the
    libuim-scm separation and some API changes


Roadmap
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  - uim 1.6.0 and later

    The time for drastic reconstruction. Many user-visible changes.

    The composer framework will be introduced for extensible IM
    development.


  - uim 2.0.0

    Overall uim API will be revised.