GNUbg version 1.08.001 available

[Philippe Michel]

A new version of GNUbg is available at https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/
with the following improvements or new features since the previous version.

Playing skill:

Improvement to cube decisions at 0- and 1-ply and weaker levels. Cube 
error rates are approximately halved and the repartition of errors 
(premature doubles vs. missed doubles vs. take or pass errors) is now 
similar to higher plies instead of being mostly premature doubles.

GUI:

New button to analyse the current match with one click instead of going 
through a menu. Optionally runs in background and allows to start 
browsing the results while the analysis is still running.

New button to analyse a file. This offers three usage modes:
- batch analysis, similar to what was already existing
- single file analysis, similar to the current match analysis above
- smart analysis: single file analysis of the most recent file of a 
  directory (presumably where the user saves its exported matches 
  when playing online).

Feature to show how the player's GNU error rate has evolved throughout 
the player's history, as provided by the database records.

The above "one click analysis" features have added two more buttons to 
the toolbar, and this could make it too wide for some screens. Using an 
icons-only toolbar allows to work around this issue ; every button has a 
tooltip and the settings are autosaved.

Improvement the the existing (but almost undocumented and only available 
from the CLI) possibility to always show a list of players at the bottom 
of the board

Other miscellaneous improvements:

Much more extensive Japanese translation.

Many bug fixes.