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| | 5 | {{{#!div class="box" |
| | 6 | == 2014-08-17 == |
| | 7 | === 0.14.0 Release === |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | This being the first Long Term Support (LTS) release, many of the changes are in fact clean-ups or changes which allow us to provide better security and control over the application's deployment. |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | In particular, we remove older codecs (python-webm), add support for new alternatives in the packet layer (lzo compression, yaml packet encoder) and allow each and every codec to be disabled: this applies to all the parsers, compressors, picture encoders and decoders - of which there are many. |
| | 12 | Should there be another security issue with lz4 / lzo (see [http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html The 20 Year Old Bug that Went to Mars]) or even zlib (ie: [http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-2096/ CVE-2005-2096]), then the application can be secured using configuration changes only, without having to wait for a security update. |
| | 13 | This is most important for platforms which do not have a real native package manager (MS Windows and Mac OSX). |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | We no longer ship static codecs for any RPM distribution (centos / Fedora), instead we maintain our own private RPM builds of the media libraries (x264, ffmpeg and for some versions also libvpx and libwebp), which we will keep up to date independently of the xpra packages. (and certainly more up to date than any other repositories we are aware of) |
| | 16 | Users of the yum repositories will get their security updates as soon as new versions are available instead of just when a newer version of xpra is released. |
| | 17 | (thanks to Matthew Gyurgyik). |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | There is also a new integrated bug reporting tool, and many performance optimizations. |
| | 20 | One major new feature is the automatic display selection, which means that you no longer need to choose a free X11 display (thanks to Benoit Gschwind). |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | This will be the last release to support python 2.5 and older. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | * RPM packaging changes: #613, #606 |
| | 25 | * support for lzo compression (r6986) |
| | 26 | * support for choosing the compressors enabled (lz4, lzo, zlib) - #614 |
| | 27 | * support for choosing the packet encoders enabled (bencode, rencode, yaml) - #614, r6934 |
| | 28 | * support for choosing the video decoders enabled - #614 |
| | 29 | * built in bug report tool, capable of collecting debug information - #627 |
| | 30 | * automatic display selection using Xorg "{{{-displayfd}}}" - #172 |
| | 31 | * better video region support, increased quality for non-video regions - #410 |
| | 32 | * more reliable exit and cleanup code, hooks and notifications - #626, #623, #581, r7097, r7098 |
| | 33 | * prevent SSH timeouts on login password or passphrase input - r7252 |
| | 34 | * automatically launch the correct tool on MS Windows - r7100 |
| | 35 | * OSX: may use the Application Services folder for a global configuration - r7160 |
| | 36 | * removed python-webm, we now use the native cython codec only - r6555 |
| | 37 | * OpenCL: warn when AMD icd is present (causes problems with signals) - r7250 |
| | 38 | * better avahi mDNS error reporting - r7109 + r7110 |
| | 39 | * better clipboard compression support - #621 |
| | 40 | * better packet level network tuning and cleanups - r7040, r7021, r7019, r6963, r6953, r6951, r6950, r6949, #581, #614 |
| | 41 | * support for input methods - #634 |
| | 42 | * xpra info cleanups and improvements (show children, more versions, etc) - r6960, r6959 |
| | 43 | * integrated keyboard layout detection on *nix - r6931 |
| | 44 | * upgrade and shadow now ignore start child - r6851 |
| | 45 | * improved automatic encoding selection, also faster - #410, #419, #620 |
| | 46 | * keyboard layout selection via system tray on *nix - #86 |
| | 47 | * more Cython compile time optimizations - r6759, etc |
| | 48 | }}} |
| | 49 | |
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