Announce: Entangle “Bottom“ release 0.7.2 – an app for tethered camera control & capture

Posted: August 25th, 2017 | Filed under: Entangle, Fedora, Photography | 1 Comment »

I am pleased to announce a new release 0.7.2 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location:

  http://entangle-photo.org/download/

The this is mostly a bug fix release, but there was a little internal refactoring work to prepare for future support of timelapse / animation video display and possible webcam support.

  • Requires Gtk >= 3.10.0
  • Fix some introspection annotations
  • Use GdkSeat APIs if available
  • Use GtkOverlay and GtkRevealer in preference to custom widgets
  • Refactoring to prepare to support display of video files
  • Draw symbolic icons for video/image files while waiting for thumbnails to load
  • Ensure session highlight has a min 1 pixel visible border
  • Ensure session browser scrolls fully to right
  • Check for Adwaita icon theme which now includes symbolic icons
  • Remove left over check for DBus GLib
  • Remove use of deprecated GDK monitor functions
  • Remove use of deprecated GTK API for loading URIs
  • Fix handling of motion-notify event that broke client side window dragging
  • Fix warning when setting size of settings viewport
  • Update bug reporting address
  • Turn off over-zealous compiler warning about loop optimizations
  • Add ability to enter IP address of network camera
  • Fix URI pattern used to locate gphoto gvfs mounts
  • Add example plugin for bracketing photos of a total eclipse

ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer 6.0 release

Posted: August 15th, 2017 | Filed under: Fedora, libvirt, Virt Tools | Tags: , | No Comments »

I am happy to announce a new bugfix release of virt-viewer 6.0 (gpg), including experimental Windows installers for Win x86 MSI (gpg) and Win x64 MSI (gpg). The virsh and virt-viewer binaries in the Windows builds should now successfully connect to libvirtd, following fixes to libvirt’s mingw port.

Signatures are created with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)

All historical releases are available from:

http://virt-manager.org/download/

Changes in this release include:

  • Mention use of ssh-agent in man page
  • Display connection issue warnings in main window
  • Switch to GTask API
  • Add support changing CD ISO with oVirt foreign menu
  • Update various outdated links in README
  • Avoid printing password in debug logs
  • Pass hostname to authentication dialog
  • Fix example URLs in man page
  • Add args to virt-viewer to specify whether to resolve VM based on ID, UUID or name
  • Fix misc runtime warnings
  • Improve support for extracting listening info from XML
  • Enable connecting to SPICE over UNIX socket
  • Fix warnings with newer GCCs
  • Allow controlling zoom level with keypad
  • Don’t close app during seemless migration
  • Don’t show toolbar in kiosk mode
  • Re-show auth dialog in kiosk mode
  • Don’t show error when cancelling auth
  • Change default screenshot name to ‘Screenshot.png’
  • Report errors when saving screenshot
  • Fix build with latest glib-mkenums

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release.

ANNOUNCE: libosinfo 1.1.0 release

Posted: August 15th, 2017 | Filed under: Fedora, libvirt, OpenStack, Virt Tools | Tags: , | No Comments »

I am happy to announce a new release of libosinfo version 1.1.0 is now available, signed with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R). All historical releases are available from the project download page.

Changes in this release include:

  • Force UTF-8 locale for new glib-mkenums
  • Avoid python warnings in example program
  • Misc test suite updates
  • Fix typo in error messages
  • Remove ISO header string padding
  • Disable bogus gcc warning about unsafe loop optimizations
  • Remove reference to fedorahosted.org
  • Don’t hardcode /usr/bin/perl, use /usr/bin/env
  • Support eject-after-install parameter in OsinfoMedia
  • Fix misc warnings in docs
  • Fix error propagation when loading DB
  • Add usb.ids / pci.ids locations for FreeBSD
  • Don’t include private headers in gir/vapi generation

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release.