[winswitch] [ANNOUNCE] xpra 0.5.0

[Antoine Martin]

Hi,

This new stable release adds many improvements over previous releases, 
notably: faster network code, out of the box support for Xdummy (*), 
global and per-user preference files, automatic tuning of x264 image 
compression quality and speed, automatic encoding switching, DPI 
override support, fairer bandwidth allocation, new options, and also 
many fixes.

As usual, the source can be found here:
https://xpra.org/src/
And links to the binaries/repositories here:
https://winswitch.org/downloads/
A WindowSwitch update will follow shortly so that MS Windows and Mac OS 
X users who use it can get the updated Xpra too.

Cheers
Antoine

Full release notes:
* new packet encoder written in C (much faster and data is now smaller too)
* read provided /etc/xpra/xpra.conf and user's own ~/.xpra/xpra.conf
* support Xdummy out of the box on platforms with recent enough versions 
of Xorg (and not installed suid)
* pass dpi to server and allow clients to specify dpi on the command line
* fix xsettings endianness problems
* fix clipboard tokens sent twice on start
* new command line options and UI to disable notifications forwarding, 
cursors and bell
* MS Windows clients can now choose the remote clipboard they sync with 
('clipboard', 'primary' or 'secondary')
* x264: adapt colourspace conversion, encoding speed and picture quality 
according to link and encoding/decoding performance
* automatically change video encoding: handle small region updates (ie: 
blinking cursor or spinner) without doing a full video frame refresh
* fairer window batching calculations, better performance over low 
latency links and bandwidth constrained links
* lower tcp socket connection timeout (10 seconds)
* better compression of cursor data
* log date and time with messages, better log messages (ie: "Ignoring 
ClientMessage..")
* send more client and server version information (python, gtk, etc)
* build cleanups: let distutils clean take care of removing all 
generated .c files
* code cleanups: move all win32 specific headers to win32 tree, fix vpx 
compilation warnings, whitespace, etc
* more reliable MS Windows build: detect missing/wrong DLLs and abort
* removed old "--no-randr" option
* drop compatibility with versions older than 0.3: we now assume the 
"raw_packets" feature is supported