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49.beta - 12 August 2025

New Features:

* Orca now has a systemd user service. (Thanks Adrian Vovk!)

* Structural Navigation is now available in all apps; not just web
  content. To toggle it, try Orca + Z. Note that there are still many
  improvements to be made and some bugs to be fixed.

* Many commands are now available via the still-work-in-progress D-Bus
  "Remote Controller." Documentation: README-REMOTE-CONTROLLER.md.

Other Changes:

* Support "politeness" level in the accessible "announcement" event.

* Improve performance of finding "clickables" in web content.

* Improve line identification of web content with sub/superscripts.

* Use SIGUSR1 to show the preferences dialog for the running Orca.
  Also provide a D-Bus command to accomplish the same thing.

* Fix several issues related to shutting down Orca when a speech
  server was unresponsive.

* Work around some hypertext/hyperlink implementation brokenness that
  was causing Orca to get stuck in certain Chromium content.

* Fix several bugs in Say All's rewind/fast-forward support.

* General code clean up, fixes for tracebacks, etc.

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

  eo              Esperanto                 Kristjan SCHMIDT
  gl              Galician                  Fran Diéguez
  hu              Hungarian                 Attila Hammer
  ro              Romanian                  Antonio Marin
  ru              Russian                   Artur S0
  sl              Slovenian                 Martin
  tr              Turkish                   Emin Tufan Çetin