treewide: Document changes and release 1.42.0~rc1

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/680>

NEWS

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+squeekboard 1.42.0~rc1
+----------------------
+Released September 2024
+* New layouts:
+    * Belarusian (by)
+    * Japanese (jp)
+    * Serbian (rs), (rs+latin), (rs+latinunicode)
+* Fixes:
+    * "Keyboard Settings" in the language-selection-popover will now open the correct panel in GNOME Settings.
+    * On some relatively small screens in horizontal orientation, the compact shape was used instead of the wide shape,
+      even though the wide shape can fit into the same height. The wide shape will be used on those screens now.
+* Changes:
+    * The height of the panel will adapt to screens differently now.
+      In particular, the panel will now be 1/3 of the screen's height on most monitors in horizontal orientation,
+      and as tall as it can be, while maintaining the aspect-ratio of the wide shape (16:5) without empty space next to it,
+      for most monitors in vertical orientation.
+    * Settings for adjusting the height of the panel for the keyboard have been added.
+    * The documentation has been improved. In particular, it should now be much easier to learn how to test changes to Squeekboard and layouts.
+    * After building a Debian-package for Squeekboard and installing it, `update-alternatives` is now supported.
+    * The layout-files now have the English name of the language for which the respective layout is, in a comment at the top of the file.
+    * For a few languages which do not have a layout yet, a more appropriate fallback-layout will be chosen.
+* Contributors:
+    * Guido Günther
+    * MoonlightWave-12
+* UI translations:
+    * Sabri Ünal (tr)
+
 squeekboard 1.41.0
 ------------------
 Released August 2024

debian/changelog

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+squeekboard (1.42.0~rc1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  [ MoonlightWave-12 ]
+  * meson.build: Check the exit-status-code of `run_command()`
+  * debian: Support using `update-alternatives`
+  * documentation: Improve documentation
+  * .gitignore: Add debian/*.debhelper
+  * layouts: Add Serbian layouts
+  * layouts: Increase the font-size of the wide shape of the Malayalam layout
+  * layouts: Add English language-names to layout-files
+  * Layouts: Add Belarusian layout
+  * Layouts: Add Japanese (jp) layout based on japanese keyboards
+  * Layouts: Fallback to more appropriate layouts
+  * popover.rs: Open correct panel in GNOME Settings
+  * layouts: Add a placeholder to the emoji-layout
+  * NEWS.md: Rename to `NEWS` and Change `-` to `*` in lists
+  * Cargo.toml: Simplify versions
+  * Cargo.toml: Change accepted version-range to SemVer-compatible versions
+  * Cargo.toml: Update dependencies
+  * state.rs: Make `get_preferred_height_and_arrangement` easier to understand
+  * scaling: Improve scaling
+  * dependencies: Require at least version 1.0.0 of Meson
+  * scaling: Add GSettings for adjusting the height of the panel
+  * testing: Mention non-default scaling-settings during scaling-tests
+  * Cargo.lock: Update dependencies
+  * README.md: Improve the information about using the settings
+  * hacking.md: Simplify `gbp dch …`-command
+
+  [ Sabri Ünal ]
+  * Update Turkish translation
+
+  [ Guido Günther ]
+  * dbus: Update OSK0 protocol from phosh
+
+ -- MoonlightWave-12 <135532-MoonlightWave-12@users.noreply.gitlab.gnome.org>  Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:42:26 +0200
+
 squeekboard (1.41.0) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   [ MoonlightWave-12 ]

meson.build

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 project(
     'squeekboard',
     'c', 'rust',
-    version: '1.41.0',
+    version: '1.42.0.rc1',
     license: 'GPLv3',
     meson_version: '>=1.0.0',
     default_options: [