I am glad to announce that presage has been accepted into Debian Sid and migrated into Debian testing. presage-0.8.6-1 was built, signed, and uploaded on Sat, 6 August 2011.

As this is the first upload of the presage package, it was moved to the new/ directory, where it waited for approval by the ftpmasters.

Once the package was accepted, I got a confirmation mail and the “Intent To Package” bug was closed.

Presage 0.8.6 is now available for download.

Presage 0.8.6 brings improved support for Visual Studio compilers on Windows through the presage C API.

Presage 0.8.6 also comes with improvements to the predictive text editor gprompter.

Presage 0.8.6 comes with a number of other enhancements and fixes. Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

Presage 0.8.5 is now available for download.

Presage 0.8.5 now offers a new C API to libpresage, in addition to the C++ and Python APIs. gprompter is now written in plain C and uses the new libpresage C API.

Presage 0.8.5 brings improvements to the experimental D-BUS service interface and start-stop scripts. A D-BUS python example client is also provided.

Presage 0.8.5 comes with a number of other enhancements and fixes. Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

Presage has been used as the predictive engine in the Predictor Input Method, an experimental GTK+ Input Method offering a novel and interesting predictive text entry approach. Read more about the implementation of this GTK+ Predictor Input Method and watch a demo of the predictor method in action:

Presage has been used in Caribou, a text entry and UI navigation application being developed as an alternative to the Gnome On-screen Keyboard. The overarching goal for Caribou is to create a usable solution for people whose primary way of accessing a computer is a switch device. Read more about the Caribou prototype offering predictive functionality has been implemented using the Presage DBUS service and watch a demo of it in action:

Finally, check out this write-up and this demo about Caribou and the Predictor Text Input Method used together and powered by presage:

Presage 0.8.4 is now available for download.

Presage 0.8.4 comes with a number of improvements and fixes to its build system.

Presage 0.8.4 adds shared library symbol versioning. Symbols exported by libpresage are limited to public API symbols and versioned.

Presage 0.8.4 removes its dependency on embedded convenience copy of XML configuration parser library, when a system installed libtinyxml is available.

Presage 0.8.4 also provides an experimental DBUS prediction service and Spanish language model generation.

Presage 0.8.4 also includes other bug fixes and enhancements. Please see the ChangeLog for more details.

Presage 0.8.3 is now available for download.

Presage 0.8.3 comes with a number of improvements and fixes to its build system. No major features were added in this release. Presage 0.8.3 is a minor mantainance release.

Presage 0.8.3 also includes other bug fixes and enhancements. Please see the ChangeLog for more details.