--- layout: post title: "New release: boxes v1.2" date: 2017-03-16 22:40:00 +0100 comments: false --- **Version 1.2 is out**. This release features a minor enhancement to the configuration file capabilities, several bug fixes, improvements to the build, and several new box designs. - The *boxes* configuration file knows a new keyword: `designer`. This gives us the possibility to distinguish between the person who created the original ASCII art, and the person who made it into a *boxes* configuration. Despite this change, the *boxes* config files remain compatible in both directions. - Patch by [François-Xavier Coudert](https://github.com/fxcoudert) to enable *boxes* to be compiled as a 64-bit application on Mac. *Boxes* is available on MacOS via Homebrew. - Patch by [Yu-Jie Lin](https://github.com/livibetter) to better close file handles - Bug fix by [Nic H](https://github.com/scyptnex) on OSX where a box size description like `x7` was being interpreted as hexadecimal 7 - Two fixes to the [*boxes* mode for Emacs]({{ site.baseurl}}/docs/install.html#emacs) by [Jason L. Shiffer](https://github.com/zerotao) in response to bug reports, one fix suggested by *Kevin Ryde* - Bug fix by [Salvatore Bonaccorso](https://github.com/carnil) which had caused the build to fail on Ubuntu - New box designs 'tex-cmt' and 'tex-box' by [Nic H](https://github.com/scyptnex) - New box design 'face' by [bdimych](https://github.com/bdimych) - New box designs 'twisted' and 'scroll-akn' by [Tristano Ajmone](https://github.com/tajmone) The detailed changes can be seen in the [commit history](https://github.com/{{ site.github }}/commits/master). [[Release History]({{ site.baseurl}}/docs/releases.html)]