uim 1.6.0 Release Note
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About This Release
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This distribution of uim 1.6.0 is latest stable release of uim.

This release achieved both considerable internal improvement and many
user-visible new feature additions.

Please report us if you find a problem.

Homepage:            http://code.google.com/p/uim/
Mailinglist:         uim-en@googlegroups.com
Bug tracking system: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/


What's New
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See NEWS for the fully detailed changes.

  - New IM uim-social-ime
  - New IM uim-ajax-ime
  - New IM uim-yahoo-jp
  - Support Wubi86 and ZhengMa tables with Generic IM
  - Improved uim-tutcode with many nice features with table style
    candidate window
  - Stable Qt4 bridge
  - Annotation system
  - Internal plugin system reorganization
  - uim-elatin enhancement
  - Japanese multiple-segment IM enhancement


Notes for Packagers and System Integrators
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  - The option "--enable-debug" and/or "--enable-backtrace" makes uim (in
    accurately, underlying SigScheme interpreter) quite heavy. Please keep them
    unspecified for normal library

  - Use the bundled SigScheme, and do not depend on external SigScheme
    package. Since the SigScheme interpreter is completely embedded into
    libuim without linking to libsscm, and exposing no SigScheme-specific
    symbols regardless of environment-dependent symbol exportation control
    existence such as -export-symbols of libtool or version script of ld,
    no conflict with libsscm occurs

  - libuim links to libgcroots although SigScheme is embedded into
    libuim. Although libgcroots is also bundled in uim, it should be
    managed as a separated package since both libsscm and libuim which
    provided by separated package depends on it. Add
    '--with-libgcroots=installed' to configure options for uim to disable
    build and install of the bundled version of libgcroots

  - libuim, and libuim-custom ABI are updated, and some of libuim-scm
    API are added.


Roadmap
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  - uim 1.7.0 and later

    The time for drastic reconstruction. Many user-visible changes.

    The composer framework will be introduced for extensible IM
    development.


  - uim 2.0.0

    Overall uim API will be revised.
