46.beta - 21 February 2024

Of Interest to Distros:

* Orca now uses meson instead of autotools.

* Orca no longer depends on the python3-pyatspi package; it accesses
  AT-SPI2 directly through gobject introspection.

* Orca now has an optional dependency on the Spiel library. Please
  see "Experimental Features" in README.md for details.

New and Updated Features:

* Spiel support has been added to Orca. Spiel is a new speech synthesis
  API that works with eSpeak and Piper, with other synthesizers planned.

Web:

* Handled several issues causing Orca to jump unexpectedly to the top
  of the page.

* Interrupt speech before presenting new line/location with caret nav.
  This should improve behavior when arrowing rapidly within content.

* Fix bug causing "\ufffc" to be shown in braille instead of the link.

* Eliminate (nearly all of) our text sanity-checks and hacks that had
  been in place for Firefox/Gecko bugs. Mozilla fixed those bugs as
  part of their Cache The World work. This should improve performance.

General:

* Fix bug causing focus to be incorrectly changed when selection is
  automatically updated in a related tree. This can happen with email
  applications (e.g. incoming messages).

* Fix bug causing us to skip certain named elements in StackExchange
  and StackOverflow.

* Fix several terminal-related flat review issues.

* Fix notifications in KDE not being fully presented by Notification
  Presenter.

* Don't say "Window" when a MATE switcher window first appears.

* Echo sentence after whitespace typed rather than punctuation so the
  presentation does not get cut off.

* Fix bug causing Orca to speak an object from the wrong window in
  Mouse Review.

* Listen for and present document:page-changed events.

* Remove logic from the Event Manager that was obsoleted by the ability
  to obsolete queued events. Make remaining logic more performant.

* Convert Orca from using pyatspi to using AT-SPI2 directly. Much code
  clean-up was also done in the process.

* Miscellaneous code changes related to becoming more ready for Wayland.

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

  cs              Czech                     Daniel Rusek
  eu              Basque                    Asier Sarasua Garmendia
  fa              Persian                   Danial Behzadi
  he              Hebrew                    Yaron Shahrabani
  hu              Hungarian                 Attila Hammer
  ka              Georgian                  Ekaterine Papava
  pt_BR           Brazilian Portuguese      Juliano de Souza Camargo
  ru              Russian                   Artur S0
  sl              Slovenian                 Matej Urbančič
  sv              Swedish                   Anders Jonsson
  tr              Turkish                   Sabri Ünal
  uk              Ukrainian                 Yuri Chornoivan

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