Speech Dispatcher 0.7.1 Beta 1 Ready for Testing

[Hynek Hanke]

Speech Dispatcher 0.7.1 Beta 1
====================

We are happy to announce the availability of the 0.7.1 Beta
version of Speech Dispatcher. This is a testing version,
not a final release. We would like to ask you for help with
testing it.

Download at:
http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd/speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-beta1.tar.gz

* What is new in 0.7.1?

  * Easy configuration of the client communication method using a single
    environment variable SPEECHD_ADDRESS.

  * Advanced autospawn -- server is autostarted only when its communication
    channel matches the communication channels requested by the client.
    Local server is not started when client attempts to connect to a remote
    server.

  * Both libspeechd and python library now report a detailed error 
information
    in case of connection failure (why has connect failed, why was it not
    possible to autostart the server, what has the server reported etc.)
    Clients can directly show this information to the user and the user
    doesn't have to search it in log files.

  * Improvements in memory usage

  * Cleanup of priorities of messages in logging output

  * Various bugfixes, cleanups and fine-tunnings

We are thankful to the many developers who have contributed
to this release.

NOTES:

  * There are changes in the configuration file, it is recommended
    to replace your configuration with the new version

  * Common Lisp, Guile and Java libraries do not support the socket
    communication method in this release

* How to report bugs?

   Please report bugs at <speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>

* What is Speech Dispatcher?

More information about Speech Dispatcher:

     http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke