Merge pull request #426 from nosracd/update/news

Update changelog

Author: nosracd

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ add_subdirectory(docs)
 lcm_option(
   LCM_ENABLE_JAVA
   "Build Java bindings and utilities"
-  JAVA_FOUND Java 1.6)
+  JAVA_FOUND Java 1.8)
 if(LCM_ENABLE_JAVA)
   add_subdirectory(lcm-java)
   add_custom_target(lcm-spy DEPENDS lcm-spy-alias)

NEWS NEWS.md

@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+April 19, 2023
+==============
+
+Release 1.5.0
+
+This is primarily a bugfix and maintenance release.
+
+- General
+    - Several bug fixes
+    - Fixed general and deprecation warnings on recent versions of Python and Java
+- Build system
+    - Updated CMake to fix warnings
+- Docs
+    - Now built through Sphinx with a ReadTheDocs theme
+    - Automatically updated and deployed via CI/CD
+    - Location has moved from https://lcm-proj.github.io/ to https://lcm-proj.github.io/lcm/
+- Windows support
+    - Moved from supporting Visual Studio to supporting a MSYS2 MGW64 environment
+- Java 
+    - Version 1.8 or later is now required
+
 August 30, 2018
 ==============
 

docs/content/build-instructions.md

@@ -89,17 +89,8 @@ make install
 
 ## Windows
 
-Requirements:
- - GLib for Windows ([http://www.gtk.org](http://www.gtk.org)).  You'll need the following packages
-  - GLib (Run-time, dev)
-  - gettext-runtime (Run-time)
-
-Building:
-  1. Follow the instructions in WinSpecific/README.txt to setup GLib.
-  2. Use the CMake GUI to configure LCM.
-  3. Open the VS Solution created by CMake and build it.
-
-LCM is officially supported on Visual Studio 2015.
+LCM is officially supported on MSYS2. There is some residual support for Visual Studio that is
+unmaintained. Please see WinSpecific/README.md for more information on building on Windows.
 
 ## Other / General