GeSHi 1.1.0alpha4 Released

06/06/2005
I'm proud to announce the release of GeSHi 1.1.0 alpha 4: Welcome to the holidays! build. I've completed two of my three exams, and now have two weeks off, so look out for improvements in 1.1.0, hopefully a 1.0.7 release and the release of the next beta of the GeSHi phpBB mod.

New features to this release include auto-linkifying of e-mail addresses and URLs in highlighted source code, CSS support again greatly improved and a language file added for CSS (so you can try highlighting CSS files at the demo form at geshi.org), the get-keywords script has been improved with new options and now uses its own copy of the PEAR files it needs, and context naming support has been greatly improved, which will lead to an important optimisation in speed and RAM usage in the next build.

The build is available for download at sourceforge as per usual.

While coding this release I got to test the speed of the last build, and contrary to my previous thoughts, it looks like 1.2 may well be faster than 1.0.X after all, possibly quite a bit faster! (Not to mention that the highlighting is a million times better). However, the 1.2 release is going to suck unless I can get people to help me implement support for more languages! Please, if you have good experience in a language you'd like to see supported by GeSHi and a little experience in PHP, flick me an e-mail at nigel at geshi dot org, even if only to express your interest or intent to help! You don't have to have got your language working yet, or even understand how 1.2 will work. I will help you with that when things get more stable, but just for now will people please contact me!

That's all for now - look out for release 0.4.0 beta of the GeSHi phpBB mod this week some time, and 1.0.7 *definately* within the next two weeks :)