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• Updated PC and MS-DOS fonts to Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.2.
• Support for custom ports in URLs such as http://localhost:8080 or https://example.com:9999.
• Replaced all the woff fonts with woff2 fonts to offer better file compression. This reduces the overall file size of RetroTxt and system resource usage.
• The Options Fonts tab Jump to the menu now always remains on the tab.
• Reduced page flicker when switching Options tabs.
• Fixed broken Apple Lisa fonts.
• Fixed the local file viewer toggling on non-text file tabs when the file's extension is in uppercase.
• Fixed certain fonts that use spaces within their names, breaking the loading text files.
• Fixed broken SAUCE IBM VGA50 font.
• Improved support and display of multiline SAUCE comments.
• Improve the positioning of the error alert box.
• Spelling and typo fixes for both UK and US English.
• Using Task for the build process.
• Dropped the use of the convoluted Node.createTextNode() and Node.appendChild() methods.

Fixed font title not always being applied to the information header. Added a confirmation alert when importing settings is complete. Reworked the text used by the Welcome to RetroTxt popup.

Fixed the broken import of v3 header and line-height settings.

• Improved compatibility with wide, 80+ column ANSI art.
• Improved compatibility with narrow, -80 column ANSI art.
• Much improved compatibility with late 1990s, 80 column ANSI art.
• Added new Display Option "Smear block characters" that applies CSS text-shadowing specifically on CP-437 block characters to reduce line artefacts on Windows operating systems.
• Added Celerity BBS | color codes support.
• Added Renegade BBS | color codes support.
• Added Telegard BBS ` color codes support.
• Added WVIV BBS |# pipe code support.
• Added WVIV BBS ♥ heart code support.
• Added Apple IIgs and Commodore 64 palettes for 4-bit ANSI.
• Blinking text now works properly on non-black backgrounds.
• Change minimum Chromium version to 58.
• Simplified some of the JS source code.
• Horizontal tab C0 codes in ANSI art now always display the ○ character when DOS control glyphs is enabled.
• • Test case blocktronics_block_n_roll/die-already.ans
• Improved the accuracy of parsing of iCE color ANSIflags.
• Changed the ANSI slow blink timing (SGR5) to 500ms and fast blink (SGR6) to 300ms.
• Default CSS line-height value switched from 100% to normal for better compatibility with alt-fonts.
• Consolidated iCE Colors and VGA CSS classes to reduce duplication.
• Fixed issue 71 with the incorrect colour rendering of some RGB values.
• Fixed ultrawide ANSI art wrapping to the browser tab instead of overflowing with scrollbars.
• Fixed critical issue where a corrupt SAUCE font value breaks the ANSI render.
• • Test case blocktronics_block_n_roll/nu-ninja_cat.ans
• Fixed welcome page not displaying Configure RetroTxt and Permissions Request example images.
• Fixed @CLS@, it now does not automatically assume a PCBoard @-code file.
• Fixed > < and & characters breaking the end-of-line character count in ANSI text.
• Fixed RetroTxt unintentionally triggering when the browser plays audio/video media using file:/// URLs.
• Fixed Firefox Options sample text displaying a white shadow effect in Normal render mode.
• Renamed /docs/ directory to /md/, most of the documentation is now located at the Wiki.
• Replaced non-working textmod.es/crew links with 16colo.rs/tags/group.
• Removed the Smeared text render toggle as it has been replaced with the Smear block characters setting.

• Added a Focus mode toggle.
• Added Unscii 8 and Unscii 16 font support.
• Added Line wrap toggle to the information header when displaying ANSI/ECMA-48 text.
• Added preferred dark mode support for Chrome/Chromium 67+ browsers.
• Significantly reduced the tab memory usage after rendering ANSI/ECMA-48 text.
• Dropped the use of null in all large, internal arrays which should slightly improve performance with the JavaScript V8 engine.
• Significantly reduced the console spam when undetected ANSI control sequences are found.
• Refactored scripts\parse_ansi.sys to use ES5 Class expressions so the source code easier to follow.
• Added support for the following ECMA-48 controls.
• • CHT Cursor Forward Tabulation, it acts as 4 forward space movements.
• Changed the horizontal behaviour of the ECMA-48 HVP command, it will now wrap to the maximum columns limit and then continue on the new row.
• Greatly expanded the unit test coverage of parse_ansi.js.
• Fixed, duplicate downloads are triggering with some binary file types such as woff fonts.
• Fixed, Save link as accidentally creating a new, empty file:/// tab.
• Fixed ECMA-48 CUD bug where there were too many rows created.
• An error is now displayed when trying to load a file:/// with no content.

Bug fixes

Please see docs\changes.md