1.0.0

Release highlights:

• New ‘phonetic features’ and ‘autosegments’ allow better support for suprasegmentals (with a new example file to demonstrate)
• Sound change rules are now applied iteratively, allowing targets and environments to overlap (use -no flag to disable)
• A report directive to report intermediate results
• New ‘named backreference’ syntax allows for more flexibility in specifying sound changes
• Behaviour of right-to-left application is now fully consistent with that of left-to-right application
• Greatly improved and rewritten documentaton
• Web user interface brought to full parity with desktop interface, with numerous improvements to both

Plus many more… see the changelog for details.

Important note: this release contains breaking changes. As of the time of writing, Brassica 0.3.0 remains online at https://bradrn.com/brassica-0.3.0 for reference purposes.

0.3.0

Release highlights:

• New directive extra for specifying graphemes outside categories
• New directive filter for removing unwanted results
• Wildcards can now be used in the replacement of a rule
• Target and replacement can now be separated by ->
• Brassica desktop edition applies changes in parallel, for a speedup on multi-core computers
• Paradigm builder now has a CLI version, brassica-pb

For the full list of changes see the changelog.

0.2.0

Release highlights:

• Multiple lexemes can now be used in categories using {…} syntax (fixing #2)
• Backreferences can now occur in the environment
• Allow user to choose separator used between multiple results
• Performance improvements (>50% speedup by my measure)
• Usability improvements to paradigm builder, including a new web version

For the full list of changes see the changelog.

0.1.1

This has a minor internal rewrite, meaning that Windows installers can now be created. The Linux release is also made slightly easier to use, by bundling examples and a CLI AppImage. Otherwise there are no differences from the previous version.

0.1.0

Unfortunately I am having difficulty building and packaging the desktop version of Brassica. I will update this release once I am able to do so.

Release highlights:

• Significant improvements to the web interface, which is now nearly at feature parity with the desktop version.
• Breaking change: can apply a sound change in any one of a set of given environments with the syntax target / replacement / env1 / env2 / …. Exceptions to rules now have the syntax target / replacement / env // exception.
• Added syntax for category backreferences in target and replacement.
• Brassica can now apply sound changes across words to simulate processes such as sandhi and affixation.

For the full list of changes see the changelog.

0.0.3

An installer for Windows may be downloaded below, as may prebuild Linux binaries (as a gzipped tarball). Alternately, try Brassica online at http://bradrn.com/brassica. Read the documentation for this version at https://github.com/bradrn/brassica/blob/v0.0.3/Documentation.md.

Changes in this version of Brassica include:

• The online version has been largely brought to parity with the desktop version, and now includes the paradigm builder and live results view, amongst other features
• Brassica can now process MDF dictionary files (as used by tools including SIL Toolbox and Lexique Pro)
• Rules can be marked as sporadic or otherwise nondeterministic, in which case both the result of applying the rule and the result of not applying the rule will be visible
• Three example sound changes are distributed with both the desktop and the web version
• The CLI interface has been wholly updated to improve ease of use (especially on Windows)
• The library API has similarly been revised, with better documentation and a more logical module organisation
• Font customisation for both sound changes and words is now allowed in the desktop interface
• The desktop interface now contains both ‘Save’ and ‘Save as’ menu items
• Bugfix: ‘different from last’ highlighting works correctly when editing category blocks
• Bugfix: paradigm slots parse as expected
• Glosses now parse more predictably, with nested glosses and glosses without a preceding separator now working as expected

0.0.2

This maintenance release adds a Windows installer and instructions for building from source. There are two bugfixes:

• The paradigm builder now correctly interprets the first slot specified in each line
• The Windows executable no longer opens a console window along with the main GUI

0.0.1

First release, yay! Warning: there are probably bugs here.