[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] xpra 0.16.0 (new major release)

[Antoine Martin]

On 29/12/15 22:48, Douglas Doole wrote:
> Hi Antoine.
> Any ETA for the 0.16 binary to be available for Ubuntu  14.04 (trusty)?
Ubuntu Trusty is not supported with newer versions (0.16 and later).
I will continue to maintain the 0.15 branch for those distros unable to
make the jump.

Cheers
Antoine


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:20 AM Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk
> <mailto:antoine at nagafix.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This release builds on the structural changes made in 0.15 to improve
> the existing functionality and add some useful new features.
> 
> You can find a more user friendly description of these changes,
> including more detailed descriptions and links, here:
> http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/News#a0.16.0Release
> 
> Here are some of the most prominent changes:
> * client side window scaling
> * audio-video synchronization
> * improved printer forwarding and HTML5 client printing support
> * support for screen capture tools
> * support remote SSH start without specifying a display
> * dbus server for easier runtime control
> * XShape forwarding for X11 clients
> * remove more legacy code, cleanups, add sanity checks, etc
> * switch to GStreamer 1.x on most platforms
> * zero copy memoryview buffers, safer read-only buffers
> * improved vp9 support
> * handling of very high client resolutions (8k and above)
> * more reliable window positioning and geometry (many changes)
> * network and protocol improvements: safety checks, threading, etc
> * support multiple socket directories
> * encryption improvements: support TCP only encryption, PKCS#7 padding
> * improved DPI and anti-alias synchronization and handling
> * better multi-monitor support
> * lz4 faster modes with automatic speed tuning
> * server file upload from system tray
> * new debugging subcommand: "xpra showconfig"
> * option to select a specific clibpoard to synchronize with (MS Windows)
> * faster OpenGL screen updates: group screen updates
> * replace calls to setxkbmap with native X11 API
> * opensuse support
> * XShm for override-redirect windows and shadow servers
> * faster X11 shadow servers
> * improved logging and debugging tools, fault injection
> * more robust error handling and recovery from client errors
> * NVENC support for MS Windows shadow servers
> 
> Your comments and feature requests are always welcome.
> Now is the perfect time to submit them for the next release:
> http://xpra.org/trac/milestone/0.17
> 
> The source:
> https://xpra.org/src/
> Binaries/repositories:
> https://winswitch.org/downloads/
> Direct binary downloads:
> https://xpra.org/dists/
> Beta:
> https://xpra.org/beta/
> 
> Cheers
> Antoine
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