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

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Mon Dec 28 05:19:52 GMT 2015


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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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