Version 3.0 Renamed option -F to +f and option --F to ++f. Environment variable 'PONYSAY_TYPO_LIMIT' has been added. Environment variable 'PONYSAY_WRAP_HYPHEN' has been added. Version 2.9 New ponies: pinkieumbrelahatfear, twilighttime New extraponies: molestia (Tumblr) The option -q works like -f and -F, it takes one argument, and may be used multiple times for more arguments. The old option -q is renamed to --q. The options --f and --F has been added. Weighted distance for autocorrection on pony names and boolean style name is set to 5, rather than unlimited. Currently this cannot be modified (without editing the source code.) If file descriptor 3 is definied when ponysay is executed, extra information is printed to it. Arguments starting with n or i is allowed for -W. Version 2.8 New ponies: airheart, bastionyorsets, gustavelegrand, milkyway, peppermoon, pinkacopter, pinkiefly, pinkieparade, pinkieumbrellahat, raritycomplaining, shiningarmorwedding, soarinofficer, starlight, sunnyrays, sweatiesing, tenderheart, tom, twilightspike, zecorabalance New extraponies: applejack (Tumblr), applejack-63, artemis, blueberry, butterscotch, drhoovesdiscorded (Tumblr), duskshine, elusive, rainbowblitz Pony symlink added: georgewachingtony → bastionyorsets Support for explicit hypthenation using soft hyphens had been added to the word wrapper. Support for explicit non-word wrapping using non-breaking space had been added to the word wrapper. The word wrapper colours the inserted hyphens in red. Support for terminal capabilities emulation with the flags -X, -V and -K. Support for printing just the pony, using the flag -o. Colouring option flags are added. Automatic correction of incorrectly spelled pony names and balloon style names added. Version 2.7 New ponies: basil, cloudkicker, cerberus, cow, derpysad, flowertrio, frederickhorseshoepin, horsemd, jeffletroski, jesuspezuna, joe, joetuxedo, manticore, meadowsong, meliot, pinkiegummydisguise, seaswirl, theodoredonaldkerabatsos, turf, waltercoltchak New extraponies: blueballblitz (Various fanfics, Shadowbolt), drhooves1, drhooves2, drhooves3, drhooves4, drhooves5, drhooves6, drhooves7, drhooves8, drhooves9, drhooves10, drhooves11, nyx (Fanfic: Past Sins), nyxdisguised (Fanfic: Past Sins), pinkaminacupcake (Fanfic) Pony renamed: cracky to crackle Version 2.6 New ponies: applebloomdance, blueberry, blueberrycake, blueharvest, candylicious, cherrycola, cracky, cutiemarkcrusaders, derpybags, derpycloud, firestreak, hughjelly, lemonhearts, lyrabonbon, noi, pictureperfect, pigpen, poppycock, quickfix, rainbowhurricane, rainboshadowbolt, silverspeed, surprise (wonderbolt), thunderlane, timeturner, twilightthebearded New extraponies: faust (alicorn), maria (Moonstuck, seapony), posey (Tumblr), slanderpony (Various tumblr), sparkler (Tumblr), twilight (Tumblr) Pony symlink added: bonbonlyra → lyrabonbon clockwork → quickfix drhooves → timeturner epona → quickfix lotusbloosom → lotus doctor and doctornohat has become extraponies, because their mane style is different from in the TV show. And timeturner no longer links to any of them. ./configure and make is no longer support. Version 2.5.1 New extra ponies: sealyra Build system as compatibility with standard GNU Make build system. Version 2.5 Brand new highly configurable build system. UTF-8 as I/O encoding is enforced. (Critical bug fix for ASCII locale users.) Version 2.4 Nothing worth mentioning. Note: Identifies itself as version 2.3 Version 2.3 Support for 'best.pony' file. `-q` accepts file names. Improved Unicode support: treats combining characters as invisible. Optional support for UCS pony names. Pony files and balloon style files can be pipes (as well as sockets, doors and as always regular files.) Support cowsay style message compression. New ponies: blaze New extraponies: fyrefly (Tumblr), surprise (Tumblr), woona (Moonstuck), woonanohat (Moonstuck) Pony symlink added: pinkieoink → oinkoinkoink Support for non-MLP:FiM ponies (known as extraponies). Version 2.2 Full support for arbitrary positioning of balloon in pony files. ANSI colour sequences in pony files are applied only to the pony image, not the balloon link or the balloon itself. Support for colours in the message. Support custom balloon styles using the option '-b', '-B' will list all available. This list depends on whether you are invoking `ponysay` or `ponythink`. Version 2.1.1 Nothing worth mentioning. Version 2.1 Pony renamed: applebumkin to applebumpkin New ponies: purplehaze, owlowiscious Cowsay has be reimplemented, and have full Unicode support and support for @code{figlet} style messages. Deleted environment variables: PONYSAY_COWSAY, PONYSAY_COWTHINK You will need Python 3, but not GNU Bash, Perl or Cowsay. New .pony file format is used. Version 2.0 Makefile is generated by running `./configure`. All Perl scripts and almost all Bash are reimplemented in one Python 3 script. kmsponies4ponysay is included. Version 1.4.1 Code is repaired and more portable. Version 1.4 Make file is improved. Note: Identifies itself as version 1.3 Version 1.3 New ponies: forestspirit, hollydash, raggedy, rhyme Pony renamed: sindy to powderrouge Pony symlink added: sindy → powderrouge PREFIX=/some-dir can be used when invoking make, the default value is /usr Version 1.2 ponyquotes4ponysay is included. Support for extension: kmsponies4ponysay. New ponies: ace, filthyrich, blueblood, gingergold, hayfever, highscore, junebug, mrsparkle, persnickety, ponet, screwloose, tornadobolt. Pony renamed: elsie to prettyvision Pony symlinks added: mrsparkle → nightlight elsie → prettyvision Arbitrary spaces in '-f' argument is not longer accepted (it causes problems with file names including spaces). Note: Identifies itself as version 1.1 Version 1.1 Manpages are compressed before installation. 'info manual' added. Shell completion for 'ponythink' added, in addition to 'ponysay'. 'fish' completion added. '/usr/lib/ponysay' is used instead of '/usr/bin' for code used by the main script. '~/.local/share/ponysay is used for private pony directories. 'ncurses' is no longer needed for determining the screen's size, 'coreutils' is used instead. Pony symlinks added: amethyststar → sparkler berrypinch → ruby craftycrate → boxxy magnum → raritysdad pearl → raritysmom powderrouge → sindy royalribbo → violet New ponies: blossomforth, bonvoyage, cadance, celestiasmall, changelingqueen, cherryberry, discordamused, discordpuppetmaster, fleurdelishair, fleurdelislay, owl, perrypierce, petunia, pinacolada, skyra, truffleshuffle. Pony spelling removed: fillycadence. Pony symlink change: perry → (pokey → perrypierce). Option '-L' added, lists ponies with symlink mapping. Support for extension: ponyquotes4ponysay. Accepts arbitrary spaces in '-f' argument. Version 1.0 Spanish translation of the manpage is added. New ponies: applecore, applejackscarecrow, bonbonstand, changeling, chrysalis, cottoncloudy, diamondmint, discord, fillycadence, flam, fleurdelis, flim, fluttershyshy, fluttershystare, lyrasit, oinkoinkoink (is pinkie), philomenaphoenix, pinkiecannon, pinkiecannonfront, pinkiecannonhappy, pinkiegummy, pinkiehugfluttershy, pinkiehugsfluttershy, pinkiepartycannon, pinkieprincess, pinkiesilly, pinkietongue, pinkiewhoops, pinkiewhoopseat, pinkiewhoopsout, rainbowdrag, rainbowsalute, rainbowshine, raritydrama, shiningarmor, shiningarmorguard, snowflak, spikemustache, stevenmagnet, stevenmagnettrue, twilightcrazyfromball, twilightrage, twilightzero, wildfire. Pony symlinks added: djpon-3 → vinyl fillycadance → fillycadence horsepower → snowflake Improved TTY support: ponies have low colours resolution, instead of monochrome, when the high colour resolution is not available. Version 0.10 Manpage manual added. The directories for pony directories are changed from '/usr/share' to '/usr/share/ponysay' and '~' to '~/.ponysay'. Pony symlinks added: carrottop → carrot goldenharvest → carrot harpass → lyra heartstrings → lyra lulamoon → trixie minuette → colgate noteworthy → blues perry → pokey pokeypierce → pokey timeturner → doctornohat trixielulamoon → trixie twilightvelvet → mrssparkle Support for truncating output on height, enabled by default under TTY. Environment variables added: 'PONYSAY_FULL_WIDTH', 'PONYSAY_SHELL_LINES', 'PONYSAY_TRUNCATE_HEIGHT', 'PONYSAY_BOTTOM'. Version 0.9 Output truncated on width to fit screen. Support for TTY (Linux VT). 'bash' completion added. 'zsh' completion added. New ponies: allie, archer, boxxy, carecake, cupcake, daringdo, davenport, fancypants, ironwillwalk, lily, lunafly, maredowellfly, maredowellgallop, master, mjolna, orange, raritysdad, raritysmom, royalnightguard, ruby, sparkler, violet. Version 0.8 New ponies: aloe, angle, applebloom, applebumkin, applefritter, berrypunch, bigmac, blinkie, blues, braeburn, caesar, candymane, caramel, cheerilee, cheerilee80, clyde, colgate, colton, daisy, derpystand, derpystandwing, diamondtiara, dinky, doctornohat, elsie, fido, fillycelestia, fillydash, fillydashfly, fillyjack, fillyjacktravel, fillypinkie, fillypinkiecurly, fillyrarity, fillyshy, fluttershygala, gilda, gildastand, granny, grannychair, grannysleep, gummy, hoity, horte, inky, laflour, lightning, lintsalot, lotus, mayor, mrssparkle, nightmare, opal, parasprite, philomena, photofinish, pinkamina, pinkiebounce, pinkiechicken, pinkiegala, pipsqueak, pokey, rainbowfly, rainbowgala, rainbowsleep, raindrops, rarityfly, raritygala, rarityponder, redheart, rocky, rose, rover, royalguard, sapphire, scootaloo, screwball, shadowbolts, silverspoon, silverstar, sindy, snails, snips, soarin, soigne, spike, spikefloat, spikelove, spot, stella, strongheart, sue, suedance, tank, trixiestage, trixiestand, turnip, twist, winona. Note: Identifies itself as version 0.7 Version 0.7 New ponies: carrot, octavia, trixie, vinyl, zecora. Support for listing ponies with '-l' option. Version 0.6 New ponies: bonbon, celestia, doctor, fillistia, spitfire, woona (not moonstuck). Dropping usage of utility 'which', using 'hash' instead. Note: Identifies itself as version 0.5 Version 0.5 Using utility 'which' to determine existance of 'cowsay'. Version 0.4 '.cow' files are removed. Support for '-W' option. Select random pony if not specified. Added command '-f' for supports file names, and not only pony names. Version 0.3 Fixed use of '.pony' files. Version 0.2 Pony files end with '.pony' instead of '.cow'. lyrasleep is renamed to lyra. '.cow' files are kept but not used. Added option '-h' prints proper help. Version 0.1 First release. Includes the ponies: applejack, derpy, derpysit, fluttershy, luna, lyrasleep, pinkie, rainbow, rarity, sweetie, twilight.