Appendix A Change log

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, shiningarmorwedding, soaringofficer, starlight, sunnyrays, sweatiesing, tenderheart, tom, twilightspike, zecorabalance
• New extraponies: applejack (Tumblr), applejack-63, artemis, blueberry, butterscotch, drhoovesdiscorded (Tumblr), duskshine, elusive, rainbowblitz
• Pony symlink added:
  • georgewashingtony → bastionyorsets
• Support for explicit hyphenation 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, meadownsong, meliot, pinkiegummydisguise, seaswirl, theodoredonaldkerabatsos, turf, waltercoltchak
• New extraponies: blueballblitz (Varous fanfics, Shadowbolt), drhooves1, drhooves2, drhooves3, drhooves4, drhooves5, drhooves6, drhooves7, drhooves8, drhooves9, drhooves10, drhooves11, nyx (Fanfic: Past Sins), nyxdisguised (Fanfic: Past Sins), pinkaminacupcake (Fanfic)
• cracky is renamed to crackle.

Version 2.6

• New ponies: applebloomdance, blueberry, blueberrycake, blueharvest, candylicious, cherrycola, cracky, cutiemarkcrusaders, derpybags, derpycloud, firestreak, hughjelly, lemonhearts, lyrabonbon, noi, pictureperfect, poppycock, quickfix, silverspeed, rainbowhurricane, rainbowshadowbolt, silverspeed, surprise (wonderbolt), thunderlane, timeturner, twilightthebearded
• New extraponies: faust (alicorn), maria (Moonstuck, seapony), posey (Tumblr), slanderpony, sparkler (Tumblr), twilight (Tumblr)
• Pony symlink added:
  • bonbonlyra → lyrabonbon
  • epona → quickfix
  • clockwork → quickfix
  • drhooves → timeturner
  • lotusbloosom → lotus
• doctor and doctornohat has become extraponies, because their mane style is differenct 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 extraponies: 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). This is implemented with the options -F, +l, and +L corresponding to -f, -l, and -L.

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

• applebumkin is renamed to applebumpkin.
• New ponies: owlowiscious, purplehaze
• Cowsay has be reimplemented, and have full Unicode support and support for 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: unisay's format instead of cowsay's Perl based format. This includes arbitrary position of balloon, mirrored balloon links, and minimum size of balloon.

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
• sindy is renamed 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.
• Pony symlinks added:
  • mrsparkle → nightlight
  • elsie → prettyvision
• New ponies: ace, blueblood, filthyrich, gingergold, hayfever, highscore, junebug, mrsparkle, persnickety, ponet, screwloose, tornadobolt.
• elsie is renamed to 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, snowflake, 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 existence of cowsay.

Version 0.4

• .cow files are removed.
• Support for -W option.
• Select random pony if not specified.
• -f 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.
• -h prints proper help.

Version 0.1

First release.

• Includes the ponies: applejack, derpy, derpysit, fluttershy, luna, lyrasleep, pinkie, rainbow, rarity, sweetie, twilight.