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What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.37.90:

* Add support for the new mark and suggestion roles (!21).

* Meson: add tests option (!22).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.34.2:

* Meson: don't hard-code shared_library (!19).

* Mitigate missing window events at startup.

* Set C standard to gnu99 (#10).

* Tests: include sys/time.h (#14).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.34.1:

* socket_embed_hook: Make plug_id parameter const.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.34.0:

* Updated doap.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.33.92:

* License is now LGPL-2.1+.
* Several test fixes (thanks to Samuel THibault).
* Initialize desktop name/path early; needed since we now defer
  registration.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.33.91:

* Defer registration until the main loop is entered. This fixes an issue
  where a Python application could import gtk but not enter the main loop,
  resulting in the application registering with AT-SPI but not responding
  to queries.

* Make sure return values are initialized for some functions.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.33.2:

* Add support for ROLE_CONTENT_DELETION and ROLE_CONTENT_INSERTION

* Fix a build issue where libgobject might not have been linked, resulting in
  undefined symbols.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.33.1:

* Document atk_bridge_adaptor_init error messages.

* Add atk_bridge_set_event_context.

* Add AccessibleId property.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.31.92:

* Fix a crash when retrieveing headers from table cells.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.31.2:

* Add ScrollSubstringTo and ScrollSubstringToPoint interfaces.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.29.1:

* Fix a case where we could return without unlocking a mutex (bgo#793625).

* Add ScrollTo and ScrollToPoint interfaces.

* Fix various compiler warnings and build issues.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.26.1:

* meson: Ensure paths written to .pc file are absolute.

* Package a couple of missing meson.build files.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.25.3:

* Add error-message, error-for, details, and details-for relation types

* Add Meson build system (thanks to Emmanuele Bassi).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.25.2:

* Fix use after free when returned objects hold only one ref (bgo#781716).

* Add some missing roles to correspond with atk (description list,
  description term, description value, and footnote).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.25.1:

* Fix position getter for table cells.

* Fix memory corruption when deleting an event from the list of events
  for which there are registered listeners (bgo#781658).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.24.0:

* test: remove atk_table_cell_get_column_index test, as the
  at-spi2-core function no longer exists (and never worked anyhow).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.22.0:

* Remove some inadverrtently-committed debugging code.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.21.91:
What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.21.91:

* atk_bridge_adaptor_init: return -1 if NO_AT_BRIDGE is set (bgo#770574).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.21.4:

* emit_event: Fix out-of-bounds memory access if class is NULL.

* Collection: fix missing return value (bgo#758934).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.19.92:

* Don't drop the main context when p2p socket configuration fails
  (bgo#763273).

* Make sure the runtime directory exists (bgo#763274).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.19.91:

* Avoid lagging with large gtk menus (bgo#754048).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.19.90:

* Always accept connections as root if unable to find an owning user.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.19.2:

* Test fixes for atk-adaptor and cache changes.

* Fixes for Text, Value, and Table Cell adaptors (bgo#755724).

* Many new tests, thanks to Patryk Kaczmarek of Samsung.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.17.90:

* Update for new caching API (bgo#650090).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.17.1:

* Eliminate some console warnings due to NULL gobjects.

* Tests: fix out-of-source and parallel build (bgo#751137).

* Add some missing files to the distribution (bgo#751138).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.15.90:

* Add roles for fractions, roots, subscripts, and superscripts.

* Add action tests (bgo#743418).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.15.4:

* Don't parse non-existent signal arguments from atk.

* Support ATK_STATE_HAS_TOOLTIP (bgo#738953).

* Support ATK_STATE_READ_ONLY (bgo#690008).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.15.3:

* Add mapping between ATK_ROLE_STATIC and ATSPI_ROLE_STATIC

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.14.1:

* Aggressively filter out children-changed signals for objects with
  MANAGES_DESCENDANTS (bgo#728319).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.13.4:

* Fix typo in .pc file (bgo#721719).

* Fix retrieving text attributes (bgo#731980).

* Correctly remove the socket on exit (bgo#684076).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.13.1:

* Add an atexit handler to remove the D-Bus socket (bgo#684076).

* Only send cache-related events for transients when explicitly requested.
  Hopefully this will improve performance when we are flooded with them.
  (bgo#728319).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.92:

* Bump minimum libdbus version needed, since we use a function
  introduced in 1.5.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.91:

* Improve compatibility with at-spi2-registryd <= 2.10.

* Collection: Fix an infinite loop when encountering a NULL parent

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.90:

* Add AtspitableCell, tracking the new atk interface

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.5:

* Allow sending of properties with events upon request (BGO#708695).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.3:

 * Fix atspi_text_get_bounded_ranges

* document: add support to current page and page count (BGO#719508).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.2:

* Add new roles and states to track atk (BGO#710464, BGO#712608, BGO#712609).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.11.1:

* Fix Contains method for components (BGO#710730).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.92:

* Properly clean up when timing out when motifying keystroke listeners
  (BGO#707218).

* Allow lists of attribute values when reading collection match rules
  (BGO#700865).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.90:

* Implement GetStringAtOffset (BGO#705581).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.5:

* Fix another crash when we're initialized and shut down repeatedly.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.4:

* Fix a deadlock for apps that also register AT-SPI key event listeners
  (ie, the Orca preferences dialog works again).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.3:

* Fix for BGO#681276 (reentrancy issues with gnome-shell).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.9.2:

* Fix a memory leak in the socket adaptor (BGO#696733).

* Fix various DBusError leaks (BGO#698951).

* Fix crash when a main loop is shut down repeatedly (BGO#699554).

* Suppress a warning if an app returns NULL when referencing a child.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.91:

* Add Locale property (BGO#694368).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.90:

* Bump atk dependency to 2.7.5 (BGO#693189).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.5:

* Support ATSPI_ROLE_LEVEL_BAR to correspond to the new atk role.

* Fix various compiler warnings.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.3:

* re-register if the registry goes away and later returns.

* Stop using deprecated glib functions.

* Fix a few memory leaks.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.2:

* atk-adaptor: don't emit a critical in case the bridge was not initialized
  (BGO#684334).
    
* Remove dbind (it was only used for the droute test).

* Fix a crash in socket_embed_hook if spi_global_register is NULL.

* [droute] Fix memory leak in path cleanup (BGO#688363).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.7.1:

* Remove the schema; it was only used to specify the location of the
  atk-bridge library, which is now installed in the standard path.

* Fix compiler warnings (BGO#678045).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.6.0:

* Fix some crashes in atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup (BGO#684434).

* When the cache is activated, register it on the main D-Bus connection.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.92:

* Fix atspi_hyperlink_get_uri (BGO#683182).

* Only initialize the cache when an AT is running.

* Fix various memory leaks (BGO#683979, BGO#684077)
What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.91:

* Removed the gtk 3.0 module (BGO#678315).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.90:

* Don't leak a GError when option parsing fails (BGO#679296)

* Rework some inefficient code when removing clients and events (BGO#679295,
  BGO#679297).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.5:

* Implement GetLocalizedName for actions (BGO#680598)

* Allow to build out of source directory (BGO#680280).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.4:

    Fix for bug #679013 - AtspiCollection should be implemented for
  all containers

* Don't create a (non-readable) subdirectory for the socket when root.

* Plug ref count leaks (BGO#679285).

* Only create a directory and a socket when requested.

* Only add items to the cache on children-changed if the children are
  included in the event.

* Only send PropertyChange signals used for caching, absent listeners.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.3:

* Create a library (libatk-bridge), currently with atk_bridge_adaptor_init()
  and atk_bridge_adaptor_cleanup() functions, to facilitate linking directly
  into, ie GTK+ 3.

* Only register events at beginning if an AT is listening (BGO#678475).

* Use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to hold the socket, rather than a potentially secure
  directory hard-coded under /tmp (BGO#678348).

* Fix various compiler warnings and build errors.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.2:

* Fix for bug 677211 - The collection interface's MATCH_ANY fails for states

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.5.1:

* Updated Norwegian Nynorsk translation

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.4.0:

* Updated Hindi translation.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.92:

* Add Khmer and Malayalam translations.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.91:

* Have GetIndexInParent() return a signed int, per the spec.

* Send a DoAction reply message before invoking atk (works around
  atk_action_do_action potentially not returning right away for gtk).


What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.90:

* Have GrabFocus return a bool, per the spec, rather than a uint32.

* Fix a potential crash when emitting a signal if the ATK implementor
  misbehaves.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.5:

* Remove the ability to set an accessible's name and description via AT-SPI
  (it seems wrong to have been exposing this in the first place).

* Fix for BGO#659967: some list API usage fixes.

* Fix for BGO#663967: Don't use /a11y/ as a dconf path.

* Fix for BGO#666371: possible crash when accessibles are created and
  deleted in rapid succession; eg, in gnome-shell)

* Avoid triggering GLib criticals in a few places.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.4:

* Fix for BGO#666870: Keystroke listeners do not work unless an event listener
  is also registered [also needs updated at-spi2-core]

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.3:

* Fix for BGO#664822 - gnome-shell crash when an AT is launched

* Fix a reference leak if a child-added signal has no object value.

* Change a : to a / in the suffix to an event, to allow DBus match rules
  using arg0path.

* Only deregister objects when they are marked defunct, not when a previously
  defunct object is marked as no longer defunct.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.2:

* Have AtkSocket's implementation of ref_state_set to return empty sets
  instead of NULL

* Fix for BGO#663876: Make sure the a11y hierarchy under an AtkPlug is
  generated when embedding.
    
What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.3.1:

* Fix a small coding error that could generate compiler warnings.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.2.1:

* Updated Finnish translation.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.2.0:

* Really fix BGO#658013: Attach the timeout for a key listener to the
  appropriate main loop context.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.92:

* Fix for BGO#658013: Add timeout to check for disconnect on a key listener.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.91:

* Fix for BGO#645321: Use an array of bytes rather than a string for the
  atk-bridge location in the schema.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.90:

* Try to use the new AtkWindow interface to register for window events.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.5:

* Use libatspi constants rather than keeping duplicate copies of the
  constants in at-spi2-atk.

* Fixed some problems when shutting down and restarting the module.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.4:

* Ensure the detail integers are initialized before sending events.

* Map some new atk roles.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.1.3:

* Fix for BGO#652797: Remove unused AtkMisc instance.

* Only register events when something is listening.  In theory, this should
  mitigate performance loss that might show up when no ATs are running.

* BGO#652596: Allow setting value via the DBus property again.

* BGO#652858: Deregister objects on state-changed:defunct.

* Add AT-SPI mapping for ATK_RELATION_NODE_PARENT_OF.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.0.2:

* Fix matching on attributes for collection methods

* Fix for BGO#650286: Ensure valid UTF-8 from ATK

* Always emit children-changed, property-change, and state-changed events, in
  order to keep caches synchronized.

* Add GetAtspiVersion to fetch the version of the AT-SPI specification provided
  by an application.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 2.0.1:

* Fix a memory leak in impl_GetText

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.93:

* Removed dbus-glib-related includes, as they are no longer required.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.92:

* Handle text-insert and text-removed signals from ATK (BGO#638377).

* Use the new dbus errors when compiled against a version of libdbus that
  defines them.

* Use libatspi to get the accessibility bus and handle main loop integration.
  This fixes a crash with some builds of Firefox (FDO#35115).
  Note that this adds a dependency on libatspi.

* Fix accessibility of applications running as root on Linux.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.91:

* Fix some missing prototypes.

* Do not exit if the accessibility bus disconnects.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.90:

* Fix for BGO#641338: Avoid crashing when unable to listen for p2p connections.

* Set /tmp/at-spi2 to be world-writable.

* Fix for BGO#641869: Remove --enable-relocate option.

* Changed accessibility key name as was done in gsettings-desktop-schemas.

* Fixed several memory leaks.

* Fixed some build errors.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.6:

* Fixed the path in org.a11y.atspi.gschema.xml for lib64.

* Implemented SetPosition, SetExtents, and SetSize for components.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.5:

* Fixed some memory leaks.

* Fixed a crash if peer-to-peer connections are disabled.

* Fixed setting of GTK_PATH with --enable-relocate (was broken in 1.91.4).

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.4:

* Support direct dbus connections to improve performance if dbus-glib
  0.90 or greater is available.

* Added a GSettings key to specify the location of libatk-bridge.so.

* Added a desktop file to load gail and atk-bridge with the new
  gnome-settings-daemon.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.3:

* Attributes in a collection match rule are now expected to be sent as a
  dictionary.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.2:

* FIxed BGO#563546: Removed the g_atexit hook.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.1:

    * Fire all events until we receive a reply from GetRegisteredEvents

What's new in at-spi2-atk 1.91.0:

* --disable-relocate is the default again.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.92:

* Have value methods return 0 on failure rather than fail, as in original pyatspi

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.91.1:

* Fi a build error introduced in 0.3.91.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.91:

* Default to --enable-relocate for now.

* Fix for FDO#29880: gtk module can't handle reloading.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.90:

* FDO#29365: Stop using a deprecated glib function.

* Caching fixes--GetItems was completely broken in v0.3.6, and fixed a
possible crash when it is called.

* Only emit signals when AT-SPI clients are listening for them.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.6:

* Fixed a problem with dbus introspection.

* Do not block waiting for a response when registering.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.5:

* Have a socket retrieve its state set from its embedded plug

* Rename AT_SPI_CLIENT to AT_SPI_REENTER_G_MAIN_LOOP, but still check the
former variable as well for now.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.4:

* Ref an object while adding it to the message generated by GetItems.
This prevents a crash if all other references to the objects go away while
it is being analyzed.

* Add GetChildren to the introspection.

* Fix NSelectedRows and NSelectedColumns.

* Fix the behavior of ChildCount and GetChildAtIndex for sockets with
embedded plugs.

* Fix extra unref when calling get_row_header or get_column_header on a
table, or calling atk_hyperlink_get_object.

* Set the /desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-dbus gconf key to false by default
(this key is only used when at-spi2 is relocated, which it is not by default).

* Fix a few compiler warnings.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.3:

* Remove unused gtk build dependency.

* Install a copy of the module into the gtk-3.0 modules directory.

* Correct handling of some children-changed events sent by Firefox.

* Lease objects that send events if they are not cached; fixes some
tracebacks when handling Firefox events.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.2:

* Some hyperlink fixes.

* Cache additions are now done in an idle call.  This prevents additions
from being made when an object may not be fully initialized and prevents
Firefox 3.6 from crashing.

* The cache object has been placed into the org.a11y.atspi namespace.

What's new in at-spi2-atk 0.3.1:

* Added a gconf schema.

* org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll now works rather then crashing.

* The position, size, and extents of an AtkSocket are now fetched from the
corresponding AtkPlug.

* An application is no longer registered if its root is an AtkPlug.

* Fix BGO#538680 - Count ignored in GetMatchesTo

* Fix FDO#27626 - deadlock when registering an application.

* Fix a problem with various hyperlink methods.

* Fix for an AtkPlug sometimes not appearing in the hierarchy.

* Fix a crash if the registry returns an unexpected message while embedding.

* Remove libxml2 dependency since libxml2 is no longer used.

* Fix handling of MATCH_ANY for a stateset in a collection match rule.

* Disabled relocation by default.