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Gnash 0.8.10 released


From: Rob Savoye
Subject: Gnash 0.8.10 released
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:05:04 -0700
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                       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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