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

[Norman Rasmussen]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.
>

What does 0.16 require that trusty doesn't have?  i.e. if I wanted to
upgrade to 0.16 what do I need to pull from a newer release to support it?


> 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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