Greetings, I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.6 of the vty-ui package. This release focuses on the following changes, some of which resolved long-standing GitHub issues: * Most uses of 'String' were replaced with 'Data.Text.Text'. * All built-in widgets are now capable of handling "wide" unicode characters (i.e., those requiring two terminal cells instead of one). Corresponding support code is provided for widget authors. * Support for GHC 7.6 (with the help of the 'vty' package). To realize support for wide characters, the text and text editing widgets were heavily refactored. As an added bonus, the text editor widget now uses a zipper under the hood[1]. This resulted in a signficant implementation and interface cleanup as well as added testability and more QuickCheck properties. You can obtain the release on Hackage or from the vty-ui project site at http://jtdaugherty.github.com/vty-ui/ The user's manual for 1.6 can be obtained at http://jtdaugherty.github.com/vty-ui/manuals/vty-ui-users-manual-1.6.pdf For a comprehensive list of API changes and other noteworthy trivia, see https://github.com/jtdaugherty/vty-ui/blob/master/CHANGELOG As always, check out the demo programs to get a feel for what the library can do. Thanks to Corey O'Connor, the maintainer of vty, for fixing bugs and exposing unicode character width functionality in vty. Thanks also to the folks on the GitHub issues who patiently waited for me to find time to do all of the work that went into this release. :) Enjoy! [1] Graphics.Vty.Widgets.TextZipper. -- Jonathan Daugherty Software Engineer Galois, Inc.