wrspice-2.2.65  Release notes, 8/7/07
re-release 5/16/08
re-release 6/22/08

This is the final release of wrspice-2.2.  The 3.0 branch of wrspice
will soon be available for testing.

There are no "official" changes in this release.


Changes and New Features
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* THE DEVICE LIBRARY IS NO LONGER A SHARED LIBRARY

  On some operating systems (FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris), the library of
  devices use by WRspice were contained in a separate dynamic library. 
  The original intent was to give the user control of this library -
  the user could recompile, leaving out devices or adding local
  devices.  However, there has been no user interest in this feature
  to date, and maintaining the separate device library is a minor
  headache at times.  Thus, all WRspice releases now have the devices
  built into the main executable.
 
  The library was installed as prefix/lib/libxsdev.so.2.0, where
  "prefix" is /usr/local by default.  This is not removed automatically.

  The user can remove this file when no longer needed.  It is needed to
  run WRspice releases prior to this one.

  If there is interest in a user-configurable library, contact
  Whiteley Research.

re-release 6/22/08

* The overall font used in GTK versions (not Windows) of Xic and
  WRspice is now set explicitly.  Previously, this was a GTK library
  default, which in many cases seemed too large.

  Thus, the appearance of the application may be different with this
  release.

  Here is how to change the font, if it seems to big or too small.
  The font is set in the file "gtkrc" found in either the startup
  directory, or the startup/default_theme directory.  The startup
  directory is usually /usr/local/lib/xictools/xic/startup, and
  analogous for WRspice.

  In the startup directory, there is a directory named
  "default_theme", containing the distribution gtkrc file (also see
  the README file for more information).  Copy the gtkrc file from
  startup/default_theme into startup.  Edit startup/gtkrc to change
  the font definition.  The startup/gtkrc file will have precedence,
  and will not be clobbered when the software is updated.


Bugs Fixed
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* The previous release was accidentally built linking dynamically to
  libstdc++, causing it not to run on some Linux distributions without
  adding the needed shared library.  The present release and future
  releases link this statically, so this should not be a problem.

* Fixed a bug when "set unixcom" is active that would cause memory
  errors and faults.