first release since april 2022! we're still here, bitches.
alright, so i pretty much ignored this project for 30 months while doing other shit--built a gigantic app at work built around XDP and @axboe's magnificent io_uring, topics regarding which i am now expert, but which had very little to do with terminal semigraphics. i also wrote and published my first novel, which everyone ought purchase, read, and give as gifts, but it too had very little bearing on notcurses. i felt really bad whenever i ignored a notification mail...but only until i got distracted, and there were many distractions. it makes me almost think that perhaps it's time for a comaintainer. we'll see. feel free to suggest yourself if you have contributions to notcurses, or can point at a largish thing you've written using it.
anyway, i was hesitant to release, because i have a vague sense that there have been regressions (primarily in the non-fullscreen paradigm) since...a few releases ago? but i haven't had the time to properly investigate this. and meanwhile real fixes were blocked up, and eventually debian/fedora forced my hand due to ffmpeg 7.0 updates. so that's the realpolitik motivation for this release.
but it's also good to show the world we're still active.
i was heartened: no release for 30 months, yet i ran tools/release.sh and everything worked beautifully, running like a gentle wind, right up until the point we hit python when it exploded like agitated diarrhea for reasons i don't and will never give a shit about and now i'm trying to recover my pypi account which is mysteriously dysfunctional and i hate this language and all its practitioners and would like to go to some major python conference and just start throwing fucking People's Elbows like my Samoan brother The Rock. alas, it would almost certainly violate the CoC. i guess that's why they have those things. note that notcurses has no CoC, and should you approach me in the street, feeling froggy and like you want to jump up on it, i will represent and whoop your ass word is bond, but certainly not reject your patches. i'm not sure how the two are related.
anyway, i hope to dig into this over the next few months. butttttttttttttttttttttttttt i'm not promising anything! hack on everybody.
update: apparently tagging axboe marked him a contributor to this release, which he was not, though he'd certainly be welcome were he to show up and sling some VT code. sorry about the falsehood, argh.