Gnash 0.8.7 Released! The 0.8.7 release of Gnash has just been made. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, all other Geeko based browsers, Chrome, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v8 features and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v10 and ActionScript 3. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC), and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops.
Improvements since the 0.8.6 release are: * Automatic and spontaneous screenshots support in all GUIs * Significant memory savings in parsing large XML trees and in some function calls * Enhancements in video streaming * Non blocking load of bitmaps, movies, data * Refactoring to eliminate most static data and get closer to re-entrant VM * Cygnal now supports multiple network connections, handling multiple video streams * Cygnal now supports plugins for server side scripting in C/C++ * Improved packaging support for deb and rpm See the NEWS file for more improvements. You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.7, or from Gnash Bzr from the branch release_0_8_7 . Binary packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using. Experimental binary packages built by the Gnash team are also available at http://www.getgnash.org, along with source snapshots. Questions, about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developers email list at gnash-...@gnu.org. Checksums: dd111329b31539ca003c5141549f2ec9 gnash-0.8.7.tar.bz2 454a30fec44ef90acdaacd4d582539a7 gnash-0.8.7.tar.bz2.sig 3a7c7b6e59fbca21375a22b886c78293 gnash-0.8.7.tar.gz 28c09df2f80babc932a461644f149c70 gnash-0.8.7.tar.gz.sig _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
