enchant-2.8.4

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

2.8.3 (April 28, 2025)

This release marks Enchant’s move from the aegis of the defunct AbiWord to the current maintainer.

Code-wise, the two command-line utilities, enchant(1) and enchant-lsmod(1) have been rewritten in Vala. All of Enchant’s core is now written in Vala; the providers are still a polyglot of C, C++ and Objective C++.

The AppleSpell provider was fixed to not crash when it is partially initialised, but initialisation ultimately fails, for example because a valid dictionary cannot be found. Thanks to Fredrik Larsson for the fix.

Some minor fixes and improvements to the build system were made.

Missing NEWS was added for release 2.8.2.

2.8.2 (August 14, 2024)

This release prevents crashes in client applications that treat GLib critical warnings as fatal. This affected recent versions of Epiphany, for example. Enchant was misusing the GLib API g_return_val_if_fail in cases that did not necessarily indicate programmer error.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

39a24ce33d Update to unbound-1.23.0.
c7507877e9 pdate to xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin-0.5.1.
83e2805657 Update to libxkbcommon-1.9.0.
4b683ccbe5 Update to ncftp-3.3.0.
5f06c2497d Update to enchant-2.8.3.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Now version 2.8.4.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Release v2.8.4 Latest

This urgent bug-fix release fixes word tokenization in enchant(1) which was broken by the previous release (2.8.3).

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

d59953ba0a pdate to enchant-2.8.4.
771abe526e Update to libxkbcommon-1.9.1.