[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] Gnash 0.8.10 Released

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Sat Feb 4 20:36:25 EST 2012


"..And yes, Gnash plays Youtube." OK. Will try again.

Sameer

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI.
>
> cjl
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rob Savoye <rob at welcomehome.org>
> Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM
> Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash 0.8.10 Released
> To: Development mailing list <Gnash-dev at gnu.org>
>
>
>                       Gnash 0.8.10 Released!
>
>  Gnash 0.8.10 has just been released. Gnash is the GNU Flash player, a
> free/libre SWF movie player, with all the source code released under
> GPLv3 or later. Gnash is available as both a standalone player and
> also as a browser plugin for Firefox (and all other Gecko based
> browsers), Chromium and Konqueror. Currently Gnash has been ported to
> most GNU/Linus distros, embedded GNU/Linux, *BSD, non x86 architectures
> - ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and even 64 bit processors. And yes, Gnash plays
> Youtube.
>
> Improvements & fixed bugs since 0.8.10 release are:
>
>  * Qt4 GUI supports mouse wheel, clipboard, and screen resolution.
>  * Enhanced UI support for script limits (abort popups, user prefs).
>  * BitmapData functions copyPixels(), copyChannel(), perlinNoise()
>    and noise() implemented.
>  * Node id mapping in ActionScript XML class implemented (XML.idMap).
>  * Fix dispatching of Sound.onLoad event, fixing google dict audio.
>  * Fix support for control tags found after last expected frame
>    (#33176).
>  * Fix support for uncompressed sound with gstreamer media handler.
>  * Implement Button.getDepth(), fix button key events.
>  * Fixes to startDrag and stopDrag opcodes.
>  * Implement onSoundComplete() for event sounds (#23020).
>  * Fix MovieClip.onLoad event dispatching and constant pools handling,
>    fixing support for movies generated by the evil Adobe Captivate
>    tool (#33521).
>  * Fix unattached Sound.stop() semantic (#33888) enjoy Super Mario!
>  * OpenVG renderer added.
>  * Improved framebuffer GUI and touchscreen support.
>  * Framebuffer now supports using multiple renderers.
>  * Refactored input device support.
>  * Fix parsing of lossless 16bit bitmaps, fixing support for movies
>    generated by the evil TechSmit Camtasia tool (#34625).
>  * Improved double buffering support for AGG in a framebuffer.
>  * Thumbnailer for SWF files and GNOME2 desktop config for it.
>
>  You can grab the Gnash sources from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.10, or from Gnash Git using the
> release_0_8_10 branch. Experimental binary packages built by the Gnash
> team are also available at http://www.getgnash.org/packages, along with
> source snapshots. Binary  packages for Debian or RPM based systems will
> be available from your GNU/Linux distribution, and from whatever BSD
> variant you are using.
>
>       - rob -
>
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