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FreeWRL News

  • 14.June.1999 -- 0.20alpha1 is out! EAI is pretty good now, still a few bugs to work on.
  • 18.May.1999 -- 0.19beta2 should be released soon. I have been working on EAI code, and fixing some minor bugs. The EAI code and SHARED VIRTUAL WORLDS should work 100% soon...
  • 23.Mar.1999 -- 0.19 is out. Great gains in EAI, some documentation updates.
  • 15.Jan.1999 -- 0.18 is out. First version released by John Stewart (john.stewart@crc.ca)
  • 24.Dec.1998 -- 0.17 is out. Minimal portability fixes. I haven't had much need for FreeWRL in my own work for a while so much progress has not been made. I welcome patches and new maintainers, please do contact me.
  • 15.Aug.1998 -- 0.16 is out. There is not much new, but I just wanted to get out what I have before leaving for some weeks. I'll be in touch on email and will be able to put important announcements or patches up here if someone has some but will probably not be able to release complete new versions.
  • 4.Aug.1998 -- 0.15 is out. speedups, lighting fixes (e.g. directional fixes), ...
  • 28.Jul.1998 -- 0.14 is out, finally. Featuring: much-improved documentation (the manpages are available here on this website as well), better Extrusions (thanks to Bernhard Reiter once again), better NavigationInfo handling (John Breen) and lots of cleanups. The start of the cleanup signifies that we are now headed for 1.0 as fast as possible. As always, keep sending me worlds that don't work in FreeWRL and I'll try to fix it. Also, inform me about any problems: otherwise they won't get fixed!
  • 16.Jul.1998 -- 0.13 is out. Biggest news is EAI classes for Java! Now FreeWRL is structurally complete and all the rest will hopefully be just patching in the holes bit by bit. But nothing major is lacking any more (of course, EAI through java in a NS plugin would be nice... anyone? ;)
  • 9.Jul.1998 -- The next version of FreeWRL will be under LGPL (the GNU Library General Public License), allowing redistribution as parts of larger systems. If you want to include FreeWRL in your product, email me and we'll work out the details.
  • 9.Jul.1998 -- 0.12 is out, possibly even more unstable but on the other hand having many bugfixes and new features. Please send in success/failure reports so I can stabilize the distributions. This version contains a first shot at EAI using socket communications, PNG support and many neat changes. Works better inside Netscape than the previous version, as now it is possible to specify the URL to be different than the filename -- enabling e.g. textures and inlines inside netscape. Now just to make EAI java classes to work in Netscape and... ;)
  • 7.Jul.1998 -- 0.11 is out, but unstable. Get it if you want to be on the bleeding edge and can take care of problems. Otherwise, wait for 0.12. 0.11 includes lots of new stuff, e.g. ProximitySensor, TextureTransform, ... and I've started running the NIST test suite now that I can use FreeWRL inside Netscape.
  • 6.Jul.1998 -- Just after releasing 0.10 I got XSwallow and made freewrl work inside netscape navigator. As a result, I've gotten quite a lot of fixes done -- I'll put a screenshot and a new version out soon ;)
  • 6.Jul.1998 -- 0.10 is out. Fixes many bugs and makes viewpoints finally work. Source organized a little bit more again. See README for more change info.
  • 3.Jul.1998 -- 0.09 is out, fixing some parser bugs and expanding the JavaScript support quite a bit. Also prototype/event fixes.
  • 30.Jun.1998 -- 0.08 is out, supporting real URLS (using libwww-perl) and many bug fixes.
  • 22.Jun.1998 -- 0.07 is out, fixing many things over 0.06. I apologize for the hasty, not-enough-tested releases but I'm preparing the papers for the Perl conference so I am only concentrating on getting my demos for there working. The situation will improve in about two weeks.
  • 22.Jun.1998 -- Some other known bugs for 0.06: MFFloats and MFInt32's with commas are parsed incorrectly. A new release will be out soon.
  • 21.Jun.1998 -- It appears that FreeWRL-0.06 still doesn't work correctly with FreeType-1.1. For the time being, use FreeType-1.0, until I finally move my own machines to 1.1. Sorry about this.
  • 21.Jun.1998 -- A new look for the web pages - got rid of the tacky frames and so on. Now they are generated with Perl to ensure a common look.
  • 17.Jun.1998 -- Finally it's here: version 0.06. Lots of things work more stably and much faster than before, it is not as horribly verbose at startup and so on. Please try it and send bug reports. Oh yes, there is also a new DESCENT(tm)-like interface for moving around in 3-space (FLY mode, see README).
  • 16.Jun.1998 -- Several things: 1. FreeWRL is going to be in the Perl Conference 2.0, in San Jose in august. 2. 0.06 is coming real soon now, I've added createVrmlFromString to the Perl script interface, and other languages will soon follow suit.
  • 8.Jun.1998 -- now it works on IRIX 6.2, with accelerated OpenGL. Is this the first browser with javascript (instead of vrmlscript) for SGI? Next version coming soon... Also, I'm working on an app that needs EAI so it is conceivable that EAI will be implemented soon ;) ;)
  • 3.Jun.1998 -- released version 0.05. Contains bugfixes and several new nodes work, most importantly Plane- and SphereSensor, as well as Switch and LOD. It should also be quite a lot faster than the previous version, as now I use polygon culling. As always, please try out the new version and report bugs so I can improve FreeWRL!
  • 30.May.1998 -- released new version 0.04, as I accidentally omitted important Javascript files from 0.03. It was possible to use 0.03 but not the javascript part. 0.04 also contains support for Text and Background nodes as well as bindable nodes. Many more examples from the VRML Sourcebook work now... Go to the download area for the source.