Otter 1.2.1 - Online Table Top Environment Renderer

[Ian Jackson]

Release
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I am pleased to announce Otter 1.2.1.

Otter 1.2.1 has some bugfixes.

The most notable fix is that it now works much better in Chromium and
Chrome, without the weird flickering effect during drag select.

See below for instructions on where to obtain Otter, and the full changelog.


Deprecation warning re uploadable game bundle format 1
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Last month I wrote:

   I am not aware of any format 1 bundles in the wild.  If you have (or
   are preparing) a format 1 bundle (ie one based on Otter 1.0 and its
   bundle documentation) please let me know.  If there are no users of
   format 1 I will retire the compat code.


About Otter
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Otter is a system for playing board games online, but it is not like
most other such systems.  In the words of the README:

  It does not know (nor does it need to know) the rules of the game you
  are playing.  Instead, it lets you and your friends play with common
  tabletop/boardgame elements such as hands of cards, boards, and so on.

Full information can be found in the online README and documentation:
  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/otter/docs/README.html
  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ianmdlvl/otter/docs/

Otter can be obtained via git:
  https://salsa.debian.org/iwj/otter
For the release, there is a PGP signed tag there, `otter-0.5.0`.

When I made the first public release, I blogged about it here:
  https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/8121.html
  https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/tag/otter


Version 1.2.1 - 2022-06-26
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Bugfixes
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 * Fix "flickering drag select" effect in Chromium, by preventing
   propagation of mouse events which Otter's JS has handled itself.

 * Do not allow "r for rotate" to trump "r for roll" when dice and
   rotateable pieces are both selected.  Instead, suppress that keybinding
   in that case.

 * Fix documetation of
    - Date of Version 1.2.0 in this changelog
    - Format version status and release dates

 * Developer release script and checklist improvements.


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