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Version 2.8
New ponies: airheart, bastionyorsets, peppermoon, shiningarmorwedding, starlight,
sunnyrays, tenderheart, tom
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.
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.
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