Release Notes

Release notes

v1.4.3.202012111715

• Feature: Check and warn about console settings that I know are bad for performance.
  Eclipse 2020-12 adds "word wrap", and that has terrible performance, with or without my plugin (about 20 times slower)
• Feature: Show icon in About and info in features tab
• Change: Use a combo-box for palettes (less space)
• Performance:
  • Get parent only once (tiny optimization)
  • Add p2.index to the site (faster install)
• Code cleanups:
  • Disabled warning: missing javadoc on public methods
  • Remove unused include

v1.4.2.202002090224

• Fix issue #48: protect from null attributes from non-SGR escapes
• Code cleanup:
  • Removes unused method getImageDescriptor() from AnsiConsoleActivator
  • Make Attributes.toString() ASCII

v1.4.1.202002061844

• Feature: the binaries are now signed
• Fix issues #47: no colors in C/C++ build console
• Performance:
  • Don't scan the document for if the plugin is disabled
  • Replacing a split+parseInt for better performance (about 4 times faster)

v1.4.0.202001311934

• Fix: starting disabled
• Feature: Add support for Ubuntu and mIRC color palettes
• Performance: Caching offset-to-style ranges
• Make sure that the plugin is built without debug info
• Code cleanup: Replace some non-ASCII chars and tabs

v1.4.0.202001252332

• Fix: Big refactoring, hoping to fix multiline, scrolling, and links (issues #3, #27, #32, #40)
• Feature: Add support for Windows 10 color palette
• Feature: Using https instead of http
• Performance:
  • Cache the colors
  • Save device context handles
• Code cleanup:
  • Code style
  • Added toString() to AnsiConsoleAttributes (very compact, for debugging)
  • Added some convenience methods to AnsiConsolePreferenceUtils
  • Move ESCAPE_SGR to AnsiConsoleUtils

v1.3.5.201612301822

• Feature: Add support for true RGB
• Feature: Support copy with and without escape sequences
• Code cleanup: Removed some of the 256 magic-number instances