0.2.8 * Orca has been approved for inclusion into GNOME 2.16!!! YEAH! Thanks everyone for your support. * Many thanks also to the team from Baum for their contributions in improving the support for the Java platform. * Much improvement in the reliability and availability department. Thanks very much to community members for helping test Orca and provide us with constructive feedback and informative bug reports. These community members include: Joanmarie Diggs, Al Puzzuoli, Fco. Javier Dorado Martínez, and Cody Hurst. * Improvements to Yelp access. * Improvements to Firefox 2 chrome. NOTE: we are targeting Firefox 3 as the means for providing compelling access to web content. * The main 'orca' executable is now a shell script that launches the Python process for orca. It includes some utilities to clean up stray processes and latent support to automatically detect failures in Orca and restart it if necessary. We will be improving this script prior to the GNOME 2.16 release. Your testing and feedback will be helpful! * Improved support for the emacspeak speech service, including better ACSS support for DECtalk and overall support for rate/pitch parameters. Many thanks to Joanmarie Diggs for her contributions to this space. The community model works! * Fix for bug 347691: In standard print dialog, printer table items not always spoken/displayed. * Fix for bug 345462: Orca should speak changes when moving up a level in menus. * Fix for bug 341371: Orca will not report the file name in file picker when there is only one file existing in current folder. * Fix for bug 319738: The child routine() needs to be more careful about indices out of bounds. * Fix for bug 319660: Exiting learn mode should display current locus of focus. * Fix for bug 348980: Get braille cursor routing keys working again. * Fix for bug where window activated and deactivated events can arrive out of order. Thanks to Baum for this fix! * Defensive programming in the event that expected object specializations (e.g., text, component, selection, etc.) don't exist. Thanks to Baum for this fix! * Created orca.desktop to add orca to menu items. * Migrated to LINGUAS model (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas). * Added additional testing and debugging utilities. Also added additional helper lines to ~/.orca/user-settings.py that make it more convenient to turn on/off various debugging and testing utilities. * Pychecker fixes and also eliminated circular imports in the python modules. * Additional keystrokes files for testing. We're ramping up our regression tests and hope to have a more complete set by the GNOME 2.16 release. * Provide smoother handling of the crosswires and cursor in the magnifier when tracking the mouse. * New/Updated Translations (Thanks!): Latvian: Raivis Dejus Macedonian: Jovan Naumovski Tino Meinen: Vincent van Adrighem Gujarati: Ankit Patel Spanish: Francisco Javier F. Serrador Greek: Nikos Charonitakis (NEW) ==========