Done during 2007Q4 freeze because the old distfile is no longer available.
New audio/video options
* H.264/HE-AAC codec support
Improved Performance
* Multi-core support
* Multi-threaded video decoding
* Image scaling
* Flash Player cache
* Flash Media Server buffering
Universal Reach
* Full screen mode for Linux
* Accessibility support for the plugin
* Mac Os X Leopard support
Fixed in this version:
* On Linux, modal dialogs displayed by Flash Player stay in front of browser windows but do not prevent interaction with the browser as they should. (191331)
* On certain SUSE 9.2 installations using the standalone player only, trying to Open a browser from the standalone player with SeaMonkey open will cause the player to hang. (193383)
* On Linux, networking operations in the standalone player are currently slow. (193158)
* On Linux, when the mouse is hovering over Flash content, keyboard input is not sent to the browser. (194265)
* Full-screen mode is not supported in the Opera Browser on Macintosh systems. (189140)
* Full-screen mode is now supported on Linux.
* The plugin version of Flash Player does not fire flash.events.Event.RENDER when wmode is set as transparent. (198515)
* Full-screen can be used when wmode is set (202290)
* Passing large amounts of XML through External Interface is significantly faster (206828)
* ExternalInterface now works with HTML objects that contain dots within the object name (199614)
binary-only packages that require binary "emulation" on the native
operating system. Please see pkgsrc/mk/emulator/README for more
details.
* Teach the plist framework to automatically use any existing
PLIST.${EMUL_PLATFORM} as part of the default PLIST_SRC definition.
* Convert all of the binary-only packages in pkgsrc to use the
emulator framework. Most of them have been tested to install and
deinstall correctly. This involves the following cleanup actions:
* Remove use of custom PLIST code and use PLIST.${EMUL_PLATFORM}
more consistently.
* Simplify packages by using default INSTALL and DEINSTALL scripts
instead of custom INSTALL/DEINSTALL code.
* Remove "SUSE_COMPAT32" and "PKG_OPTIONS.suse" from pkgsrc.
Packages only need to state exactly which emulations they support,
and the framework handles any i386-on-x86_64 or sparc-on-sparc64
uses.
* Remove "USE_NATIVE_LINUX" from pkgsrc. The framework will
automatically detect when the package is installing on Linux.
Specific changes to packages include:
* Bump the PKGREVISIONs for all of the suse100* and suse91* packages
due to changes in the +INSTALL/+DEINSTALL scripts used in all
of the packages.
* Remove pkgsrc/emulators/suse_linux, which is unused by any
packages.
* cad/lc -- remove custom code to create the distinfo file for
all supported platforms; just use "emul-fetch" and "emul-distinfo"
instead.
* lang/Cg-compiler -- install the shared libraries under ${EMULDIR}
instead of ${PREFIX}/lib so that compiled programs will find
the shared libraries.
* mail/thunderbird-bin-nightly -- update to latest binary
distributions for supported platforms.
* multimedia/ns-flash -- update Linux version to 9.0.48 as the
older version is no longer available for interactive fetch.
* security/uvscan -- set LD_LIBRARY_PATH explicitly so that
it's not necessary to install library symlinks into
${EMULDIR}/usr/local/lib.
* www/firefox-bin-flash -- update Linux version to 9.0.48 as the
older version is no longer available for interactive fetch.
I would list the changes here, but I don't entirely understand them.
XXX Why do we have a separate multimedia/ns-flash package? The
XXX packages to handle the opera plugins depend the ns-flash package
XXX -- perhaps this could do the same so there is only one place this is
XXX handled?
This release fixes several security vulnerabilities as reported in
Adobe Vulnerability APSB06-11. Multiple input validation errors
have been identified that could lead to the potential execution of
arbitrary code, such as that delivered from a remote location via
the user's Web browser. Updating is strongly recommended.
it will live with other "check" targets run after package installation.
Get rid of SHLIB_HANDLING, whose meaning had mutated over the years
from one thing to another. Currently, it is used to basically note
whether the system's "ldd" command can be usefully run on the package's
binaries and libraries. Rename this variable to CHECK_SHLIBS_SUPPORTED
for more clarity.
CHECK_SHLIBS is now a variable set exclusively by the user in /etc/mk.conf
to note whether the check for missing run-time search paths is performed
after a package is installed. It defaults to "no" unless PKG_DEVELOPER
is set.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
