[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] xpra 0.6.0 (and stable updates)

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Sat Sep 8 13:49:08 BST 2012


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Hi,

This new release does not bring any major new enhancements, but the
code structure is much improved and lays some more solid foundations
for the future. The only significant change that you may notice is
that x264 (or vpx) are now the default encodings ahead of png, rgb24
and jpeg.
You can obviously change this default in /etc/xpra/xpra.conf, or in
each user's .xpra/xpra.conf

I shouldn't say that this is the last update to the stable branches...
because the last time I said this was just a few days ago, but I
really mean it this time! (0.5.x will be maintained for a while still)

The source:
https://xpra.org/src/
Binaries/repositories:
https://winswitch.org/downloads/
Direct binary downloads:
https://xpra.org/dists/
(the Windows installers are now also signed with my gpg key)

Cheers
Antoine

Release notes for 0.6.0:
* fix launcher: don't block the UI whilst connecting, and use a lower
timeout, fix icon lookup on *nix
* fix clipboard contents too big (was causing connection drops): try
to compress them and just drop them if they are still too big
* x264 or vpx are now the default encodings (if available)
* compress rgb24 pixel data with zlib from the damage thread (rather
than later in the network layer)
* better build environment detection
* experimental multi-user support (see --enable-sharing)
* better, more accurate "xpra info" statistics (per encoding, etc)
* tidy up main source directory
* simplify video encoders/decoders setup and cleanup code
* many debian build files updates
* remove 'nogil' switch (as 'nogil' is much faster)
* test all socket types with automated tests

Stable fixes for all branches:
* fix man page typo
* fix non bash login shell compatibility
* fix xpra screenshot argument parsing error handling

Stable fixes in 0.5.4 only:
* fix video encoding mismatch when switching encoding
* fix ssh mode on OpenBSD
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