[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] version 0.12.5

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Thu Sep 1 19:24:29 BST 2011


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Hi,

Version 0.12.5 is now available:
http://winswitch.org/downloads/

This version contains important bugfixes and a number of improvements.
For details, please see the reasonably small release notes below.

Cheers
Antoine



RELEASE_NOTES:
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Major items:
* MS Windows: crash on startup fixed (affected first installs only)
* OSX Lion support
* VP8 video compression option for GStreamer screencasting
* upgrade to TigerVNC 1.1 (Windows and OSX) and hide its system tray
on Windows
* use Growl for notifications if available (recommended on OSX)
* better support for loading and resizing icons (inc SVG) on headless
servers
* fix for applet messages received via local unix domain socket
* Xpra keys should no longer get stuck (xpra 0.0.7.25) and better
keymap support
* ability to install missing protocols more easily (Linux for now)
* workaround memory and file descriptor leaks in buggy versions of Python

More minor improvements:
* Java client (proof of concept only)
* updated Windows and OSX builds to Python 2.7.2
* show a bookmarks menu for easy access to session shortcuts
* OSX: bundle gnome icons to speedup icon lookups
* OSX: simplify build, use system alert box rather than Tkinter
* better shadow error detection
* slow down local display detection when under heavy utmp traffic
(batch delay)
* Linux support for installing protocols on demand (NX, VNC, etc)
* avoid unhelpful mDNS warning when there are no network connections
* systems using appindicator API are no longer missing the tray icon
on startup
* more robust local display detection on *nix

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