Additional changes:
kde option compiles now, use standard installation method for
Firefox plugin.
2008-02-21 Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
Fifth alpha release of Gnash (0.8.2).
Improvements since 0.8.1 release are:
- Improved timeline redesign.
- Action execution order fixes.
- Keyboard handling improved [1].
- New classes implemented: System.capabilities (partial),
SharedObject, LocalConnection.
- New opcodes implemented: ActionImplements, Try/Throw.
- Movieclip.beginGradientFill completes drawing API support.
- MovieClip._lockroot support added.
- Implement GET/POST for MovieClip.loadVariables and
MovieClip.loadMovie
- Textfield support improved.
- Security: configurable sandbox restricts filesystem access by movies.
- Better support for SWF8.
- Streaming OGG-contained multimedia (e.g. vorbis/theora or vorbis/dirac),
and other free formats.
- OGL and Cairo renderers much improved.
- Improvements of the Framebuffer GUI (hide text messages, support Linux
events system, built-in touchscreen calibration, simple keyboard support,
better architecture support).
- SOLdumper utility for reading SOL files ('flash cookies').
- DumpShm utility finds and dumps Local Connection memory segments.
- Fullscreen display possible.
- Extensions for LIRC and DBus.
- High quality, cross-platform psuedo-randomness using boost random.
- NPAPI (Mozilla) plugin: keyboard events work, navigation and javascript
from within movies.
- Set and save preferences from the GUI (GTK).
- Improved stability and robustness with malformed SWFs.
- Many other bugfixes.
2007-08-29 Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>
Fourth alpha release of Gnash (0.8.1).
Improvements since 0.8.0 release are:
- Garbage Collector
- Support for device fonts
- Support for dynamic text fields
- Better key handling
- Support for FFMPEG SVN
- Support for on-demand install of needed Gstreamer codec plugins.
- Debugger off by default (improves performance and memory use)
- AGG renderer by default
- Support for KDE/AGG combination
- Layout change : we'll now build <gui>-gnash and 'gnash' is a shell
script with gui selection capabilities (-G)
- More robust parser
- Better support for flash player detection
- Fix for 'debugLog' directive in gnashrc
