GeSHi 1.1.2alpha3 Released

17/09/2006
GeSHi development rolls on with the release of this alpha. There are two major new "features": C support is now all but complete, thanks to the addition of support for line-continuations, and escape characters for strings can now be grouped with their characters to escape, which is necessary for languages such as SQL where ' can escape ' and can escape n, r, t... etc. depending on the dialect.

It seems that the CLC wiki is using the alpha version now, which is good to see. C support in 1.1.X is most definately better than in 1.0.X so if you need C highlighting and you don't mind the default 1.1.X style then I would suggest you try switching :)

There's also been some preliminary work around optimising GeSHi, of which there will be a lot more happening in 1.1.4. For now, there's only one reasonably small feature to add and a bit of work on PHP highlighting to go before 1.1.2 will be done, and work can begin on 1.1.3, which currently has caching support marked for doing then.

Another stable release will be made around the 22nd. About that time I will be starting a 1.0.8 branch also, which will include an experimental patch by Yusuke Endoh that in some cases doubles the speed of GeSHi.