BRLTTY 3.4 has been released.

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Release 3.4 of BRLTTY is now available. It can be downloaded from BRLTTY's web 
site: http://mielke.cc/brltty/

Highlights in this release include:

*  BrlAPI is enabled by default.
*  The OpenBSD operating system is supported.
*  More than one driver can be built into a single brltty executable.
*  A virtual braille display driver has been added.
*  Several EuroBraille driver upgrades (including BrlAPI compatibility).
*  The HandyTech keypad (Modular displays and Braille Star 80) is supported.
*  The HandyTech Braillino is supported.
*  The Papenmeier driver allows more time for the display to become ready.
*  The TSI driver no longer hangs when falling back to 9600 baud.
*  The Vario driver no longer hangs when the display is turned off and on.
*  The VarioHT driver (Vario in HandyTech emulation mode) has been revived.
*  Enhancements to Chinese big5 character set support.
*  Enhancements to grade 2 English braille support.
*  The Festival Lite text to speech engine from CMU is supported.
*  The Theta text to speech engine from Cepstral is supported.
*  The screen-3.9.11 patch has been fixed.
*  A patch for screen-4.0.1 has been added.
*  The .tbl extension for attributes tables is optional.
*  The .ctb extension for contraction tables is optional.
*  Optional table extensions and prefixes may be omitted when configuring.
*  New make file targets to compile/uncompile text tables.
*  Non-existent directories aren't reported when uninstalling.
*  Support a deficiency in Linux frame buffer console character mapping.
*  The brltty-config script has been added.

For more details, see the ChangeLog. For even more details, see the source
repository: svn log -r 159:360 svn://mielke.cc/main/brltty

We hope you enjoy this release. Please do send us whatever feedback you have.

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