Release v0.83 - Codename: "Al Jarreau"

Changelog

• Inside the system menu "voices" is refactored. Voices must be first turned on/off and there is no longer this "mute" entries. To change your settings please go over this voice menu once.
• picochess obeys that a RaspberryPi needs several secs to activate its iNet connection. Therefore picochess now waits abit to update for example IP-Adr and Location (see Webserver)
• "set pieces" improvements
• showing "update" in clock display during updating picochess. Also fixed an issue with non-english versions on git&update
• delete gavoita function (this was just made for test several months ago).
• since Rev2 is autodetected the lights can now only be turned off (fixed: useless to turn them on). Please update your picochess.ini (changed names)
• The ponder interval (mode: ponder) and if you want confirm-messages or not can now be setup by clock menu. Go to "system/display" for this. Please update your picochess.ini (changed names)

Please take into account that the startup files for systemd/system are now moved from "dgt" to "etc" folder. This is of interest if you have symbolic links (=good idea) inside your "/etc/systemd/system" folder or want to provide a new picochess image.

Games (Pgn files) are now safed inside the "games" folder. If you want to keep your old games (and get them emailed lateron) please move your *.pgn files inside this folder first.

Please change your "ponder-time" to "ponder-interval" and "disable-ok-message" to "disable-confirm-message" and "enable-revelation-leds" to "disable-revelation-leds" inside your picochess.ini file. As said above the flag "enable-gaviota" is no longer supported.

Release v0.82 - Codename: "Voice menu"

Changelog

• voices can now be edited from the system menu. If y dont want voice, please choose one of the "mute" entries.
• more WIP for 2 clocks display
• bugfix for PI clock with freezed display

Please change your "beep-level" to "beep-some-level" and "auto-reboot" to "enable-update-reboot" inside your picochess.ini file. If y using a remote engine server please take a look for changed flags too.

Please also check your service files for old ini flags. If they wrong (like "-web") your picochess wont start automatically. Its btw. a good idea to use soft-links inside "/etc/systemd/system" instead of copying the files from the dgt folder.

Release v0.81 - Codename: "Kurt"

• picochess returning (more often) to the "display time" after messages show time runs out
• bugfix at "alternative move" with Rev2
• improvements in display with 2 clocks

Release v0.80 - Codename: "Christmas"

• picochess checking the serial communication and deals with wrong packages sendings much better as before
• alot of new voices (german, english, french, italian, spanish, dutch) Thanks to Cristina from DGT!
• Rodent II book update - The engine now using the correct book paths (use picochess "no-book" to use them!)
• bugfix in Rev2 lights at slide
• lots of small improvements & bugfixes in user interface

Please change your "en:dgt" to "en:christina" inside your picochess.ini file

Release v0.79 - Codename: "Italian"

Changelog

• picochess now supports italian in voice & menu. Thanks to @Albireo54
• first german voice from a 10years old son (with austria dialect)
• queen placement is now with detailed voice (instead of just "ok")
• bugfix in Rev2 lights at startup
• pgn emails are now send without giving the "enable-internet" flag. See last comment
• work in progress for serial communication & voice output

Please change your "enable-internet" to "enable-update" inside your picochess.ini file. "enable-internet" is no longer supported and will be kicked out in next release

Release v0.78 - Codename: "Talker"

Changelog

• picochess now using human voices (at first please only use "en:al"). More voices to come (soon)
• Bugfix chess960 handling in "newgame" & "setup". Parameters not been send to engine before
• Log file can now be send directly from Menu "System". This solves the problem that you needed access to the linux file system before to send out the log file to the developers.

Before update (or before using the voice system) please run these commands at the Raspberry console:

sudo apt-get install python3-numpy
sudo apt-get install libportaudio2
sudo apt-get install python3-cffi

Please change your "en:Elsie" & "en:Marvin" to "en:al" or "en:dgt" inside your picochess.ini file

Release v0.77 - Codename: "Kuman"

Changelog

• Webserver can now deal alot better with very small LCD devices like Kuman 3.5''
• Non-normal modes are now automatically started - similar to "Ponder"
• On XL Clocks (Rev2) the combined depth/score display now showing values with max +/-9.99 to prevent displays like "162 3.45" for depth 16 & value 23.45 (consider to end the game if such values happening, anyway)

Release v0.76 - Codename: "Doku"

Changelog

• Online Dokumentation updated - the old docu <v0.60 is gone (that includes the stable branch too)
• introduce a new interaction mode "Ponder" which can be also activated with wQf5. This mode combining the "analysis" & (updated) "kibitz" mode showing each info for 2 secs in rotation
• Kibitz mode or value display now also showing the search-depth. Display like "16 -0.23"
• Display now showing dots (not on DGT3000 due to hardware limits) & move number
• Rodent II engine in new version
• various small bugfixes

Release v0.75 - Codename: "Rodent"

Changelog

• bugfix engine "Rodent" - Personalities are working now
• Rev2 lights are now automatically turned on in case y use the auto-configure feature from Jessie
• various small improvements with book names, webserver (on game ends), python-chess lib etc

Release v0.74 - Codename: "Engine 2"

Changelog

• updated engines Arasan, Texel, Claudia - also engine "zurichess fribourg" as fallback for RaspberryPi 1
• rename "blitz" & "fixed" (wish from "Digital Game Technology")
• various Bugfixes
• longer book & engine text for dgt3000 & dgtPi

After update please run "build_engines.py" cause of changed engines!

After update please save your book decision using the clock buttons.