What's new in Slint64-14.2.1.2

Highlights:
An enhanced installer that handles hardware synthesizers, probes your
sound cards to find one that works and record it, provides speech for
language written in non-latin characters, boot using either syslinux or
grub, installs the grub bootloader instead or lilo or elilo, register
the partitions to mount by UUID so you can safely move your devices, can
auto-partition a device dedicated to Slint.
A kernel 4.19.30 able to handle the most recent hardware.
Many new applications, mostly usable on a console.
Now all voices usable with Orca in grahical environments like MATE
can also be used in console mode with speechd-up.
The spd-list custom utility allows to easily manage the TTS, voices and
languages.
The switch-on and switch-off custom utilities allow to safely enable or
disable emacspeak, espeakup, orca, spechd-el and speehchd-up.
All accessibility software have been upgraded, most to their most
recent version.
The MATE desktop provides a better accessibility, also enhanced for
users with a low vision especially when using the Compiz window manager.
Navigation between the various components of the desktop is enhanced.

Note: the lists below are tentative; they will be updated.

New software:

audio: 
abcde (shell script to encode audio CDs)
dae (The Digital Audio Editor)
ecasound (multitrack audio processing)
libmp4v2 (library to read, create, and modify mp4 files)
music-collection-sync (Synchronizes a music collection)
daisy-player (A parser to play Daisy CD's with Linux)
ffmpeg (software to record, convert and stream audio and video)
jack-audio-connection-kit (Jack Sound Server)
mps-youtube (Terminal based YouTube jukebox)
mp3gain (adjusts mp3 files so they have the same volume)
ponymix (PulseAudio CLI mixer)
ripit (command line audio CD ripper)
sonic (Simple library to speed up or slow down speech)
soundtouch (Sound processing library)
youtube-dl (YouTube video download utility)
Several codecs are also provided.

ebook readers:
ebook-speaker (read aloud eBooks and other text formats)
fbreader (e-book reader)

OCR applications:
tesseract (Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine) and associated data
lios (Linux Intelligent OCR Solution, version 4)

Text To Speech synthesizers and associated applications:
RHVoice (Free and open source synthesizer) and associated voices
flite (a lightweight speech synthesis engine) and associted voices
mbrola (speech synthesizer) and associated voices
speechd-up (interface between Speech Dispatcher and Speakup)

Documentation converters in various formats:
docutils (Python Document Utilities module)
man2html (An utility to convert man pages to html format)
pdfrw (Python library to read and write PDF files)
reportlab (PDF generation toolkit using python)
rst2pdf (convert reStructuredText documents to pdf)
rubygem-ronn (manual authoring tool)
txt2man (set of utilities to handle man pages)

Browsers for local files and the Internet:
edbrowse (a Command Line Editor Browser)
emacs-w3m (simple Emacs interface of w3m)
nnn (Terminal file browser for X)
xvfb-run (wrapper for xvfb commands, to access to X apps from the CLI)
w3m (text based web browser and pager)

Miscellaneous:
alsacap (ALSA device capability lister)
apulse (PulseAudio emulation for ALSA)
dosemu (a DOS EMUlator)
pip (a better easy_install replacement)
urlscan (Mutt and terminal url selector)
virtualenv (python containers)


All Packages added to the version 14.2.1.2 of Slint (64-bit) are listed
below (but the voices):
Pafy (Python API for YouTube content)
Pygments (syntax highlighting package written in Python)
RHVoice (Free and open source synthesizer)
abcde (shell script to encode audio CDs)
alsacap (ALSA device capability lister)
apulse (PulseAudio emulation for ALSA)
ccsm (CompizConfig Settings Manager)
cd-discid (Backend utility to retrieve CDDB discid information)
celt (low delay audio codec)
compiz-bcop (OpenGL window and compositing manager)
compiz-plugins-experimental (Experimental compositing manager plugins)
compiz-plugins-extra (Community extra compositing manager plugins
compiz-plugins-main (Non-default Compiz compositing manager plugins)
compizconfig-python (Python binding compizconfig-settings)
dae (The Digital Audio Editor)
daisy-player (A parser to play Daisy CD's with Linux)
docutils (Python Document Utilities module)
dosemu (a DOS EMUlator)
duktape (embeddable Javascript engine) 
ebook-speaker (A parser to play Daisy CD's with Linux)
ecasound (multitrack audio processing)
edbrowse (a Command Line Editor Browser)
efivar (library and utilities to handle UEFI variables)
emacs-w3m (simple Emacs interface of w3m)
eyeD3 (Python module and program for processing ID3 tags)
faac (Freeware Advanced Audio Coder)
faad2 (MPEG2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
fbreader (e-book reader)
festival-freebsoft-utils (collection of Festival utilities)
ffmpeg (software to record, convert and stream audio and video)
flite (a lightweight speech synthesis engine)
glyr (a search engine for music related metadata)
gnustep-base (GNUstep Base Library)
gnustep-make (GNUstep build/setup/packaging tool)
grub-extras (utilies to be usued with grub)
jack-audio-connection-kit (Jack Sound Server)
jansson (JSON data handling library)
lame (LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder)
leptonica (Image Processing Library)
libcompizconfig (plugin required by the CCSM)
libcuefile (CUE File library)
libdbus-c++ (C++ API for D-BUS)
libedit (Command line editor library)
libfdk-aac (Fraunhofer FDK AAC code from Android.)
liblo (OSC Protocol Implementation)
libmp4v2 (library to read, create, and modify mp4 files)
libquicktime (quicktime/avi/mp4 codec library)
libreplaygain (Musepack ReplayGain library)
libunibreak (a line breaking library)
lios (Linux Intelligent OCR Solution)
lv2 (LADSPA Version 2)
man-db (database-driven manual pager suite)
man2html (An utility to convert man pages to html format)
mate-user-guide (Mate user guide)
mbrola (speech synthesizer based on the concatenation of diphones)
meson (A high performance build system)
mkcue (generates cue sheets from a CD TOC)
mp3gain (adjusts mp3 files so they have the same volume)
mps-youtube (Terminal based YouTube jukebox)
musepack-tools (Musepack SV8 command line tools)
music-collection-sync (Synchronizes a music collection)
ninja (build system with a focus on speed)
nnn (Terminal file browser for X)
nodejs (JavaScript runtime)
opus (Audio Codec)
p7zip (File Compression/Decompression Utility)
pathlib (Object-oriented filesystem paths)
pcaudiolib (Portable C Audio Library)
pdfrw (Python library to read and write PDF files)
perl-CDDB-get (read the CDDB entry for an audio CD)
perl-Mojolicious (next-generation web framework for Perl)
perl-MusicBrainz-DiscID (calculate a disc ID from an audio CD)
perl-WebService-MusicBrainz (retrieve music metadata)
perl-YAML-Tiny (Read/Write YAML files with a little code as possible)
pip (a better easy_install replacement)
ponymix (PulseAudio CLI mixer)
protobuf (Google's data interchange format)
pyenchant (a spellchecking library for Python)
pyinsane (Python library to access and use image scanners)
pylast (A Python interface to Last.fm)
python-magic (uses ctypes to access the libmagic)
python3-pillow (Python Imaging Library)
re2c (regular expressions to C/C++ conversion tool)
reportlab (PDF generation toolkit using python)
ripit (command line audio CD ripper)
rst2pdf (convert reStructuredText documents to pdf)
rubygem-hpricot (HTML parser)
rubygem-mustache (logic-free views)
rubygem-rdiscount (Markdown for Ruby)
rubygem-ronn (manual authoring tool)
schroedinger (a C implementation of BBC's Dirac Codec)
sonic (Simple library to speed up or slow down speech)
soundtouch (Sound processing library)
speechd-up (interface between Speech Dispatcher and Speakup)
svox (small footprint text-to-speech engine)
swfdec (decoder/renderer for Macromedia Flash animations)
tesseract (Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine)
tesseract-data (Language data for Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine)
tidy-html5 (correct and clean up HTML and XML documents)
tta (TTA lossless audio codec)
twolame (an MP2 Encoder)
txt2man (set of utilities to handle man pages)
unixODBC (ODBC for Unix platforms)
urlscan (Mutt and terminal url selector)
virtualenv (python containers)
w3m (text based web browser and pager)
webkit2gtk (Web content rendering)
x264 (free h264/avc encoder)
x265 (H265/HEVC video encoder)
xvfb-run (wrapper for xvfb command)
xvidcore (MPEG-4 Compliant Video Codec)
youtube-dl (YouTube video download utility)

All packages ugpraded are listed below:
NetworkManager
aaa_base
asunder
at-spi2-atk
at-spi2-core
atk
atril
blackbox
brltty
caja
compiz
doclifter
emacs
emacspeak
engrampa
espeak-ng
espeakup
fluxbox
fontforge
fvwm
geany
geany-plugins
gparted
grub
hplip
inkscape
json-glib
libfm
libwebp
lightdm
lightdm-gtk-greeter
lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
man
marco
mate-applets
mate-calc
mate-control-center
mate-desktop
mate-menus
mate-panel
mate-power-manager
mate-sensors-applet
mate-settings-daemon
mate-system-monitor
mate-terminal
mate-tweak
mate-utils
menu-cache
mlterm
nano
network-manager-applet
orc
orca
pandoc
parole
pcmanfm
pkgtools
pluma
po4a
portaudio
py3gobject
pyatspi
python3
scribus
slint-misc
speech-dispatcher
spi
sysvinit-scripts
twm
v4l-utils
xterm
yelp
yelp-tools
yelp-xsl