GeSHi 1.0.8 Released

08/08/2008
Right on the scheduled date of release we are proud to announce the new version 1.0.8 of GeSHi, released 8:08 on 8th August 2008. There's plenty of bug fixes and thirteen new language files in this release making a total of 109. Also this release had a strong focus on performance and quite a load of other features added, improved or otherwise revised. One of the biggest changes you will notice is the boost on performance this new release brings. We sometimes got up to 75 KBs on our computers. So even larger sources should now be no longer a problem. As announced in the previous release this release contains the second set of changed color schemes. I hope you like it; it's at least by far more readable. If not, this release brings a new external style settings file feature where you can override the language defaults without touching the language files: Simply create a file langname.style.php and copy in the STYLES-array as $styledata.

Another big change in this version - if not the biggest at all - is the rewritten highlighting engine that now allows for some more flexibility and fixes some bugs that seemed unsolveable in previous releases.

I bet I still missed some patches that you guys have sent in :). Please send again if you think I missed any!

Lately there has been an issue with especially old PHP versions like 4.3.X - if you are using such an old version please consider upgrading PHP or if this is not possible check the SF.net bugtracker on updates on open issues and I'm sure you'll get information on patches affecting you in time. Please also note that some features added in this release will be auto-disabled in old PHP versions as I won't go through the hassle of writing work-around for legacy PHP systems.

Once again we want to remind you of our code repository: There we collect source snippets to test, verify AND improve GeSHi. So if you have some small snippet of a language not yet supported there, feel free to donate it!

Download from the usual place, bug reports to the sf.net tracker please etc. etc...

BenBE.