ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer release 10.0

I am happy to announce a new bugfix release of virt-viewer 10.0 (gpg), including experimental Windows installers for Win x86 MSI (gpg) and Win x64 MSI (gpg).

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With this release the project replaced the autotools build system with Meson and Ninja and re-designed the user interface to eliminate the menu bar

All historical releases are available from:

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

Changes in this release include:

• Switch to use Meson for build system instead of autotools
• Require libvirt >= 1.2.8
• Redesign UI to use title bar widget instead of menu bar
• Request use of dark theme by default, if available
• Don’t filter out oVirt DATA storage domains for ISO image sharing
• Add –keymap arg to allow keys to be remapped
• Display error message if no extension is present for screenshot filename
• Fix misc memory leaks
• Use nicer error message if not ISOs are available
• Use more explicit accelerator hint to distinguish left and right ctrl/alt keys
• Report detailed file transfer errors
• Use standard about diaglog
• Refresh and improve translations
• Install appstream data file in preferred location
• Refresh appstream data file contents
• Display VM title when listing VMs, if available
• Display VM description as tooltop, if available
• Sort VM names when listing
• Enable ASLR and NX for Windows builds
• Add –shared arg to request a shared session for VNC
• Disable all accels when not grabbed in kiosk mode
• Allow num keypad to be used for zoom changes
• Disable grab sequence in kiosk mode to prevent escape
• Allow zoom hotkeys to be set on the command line / vv file
• Display error message if VNC connection fails
• Fix warnings about atomics with new GLib
• Remove use of deprecated GTK APIs
• Document cursor ungrab sequence in man pages
• Honour Ctrl-C when auth dialog is active
• Minor UI tweaks to auth dialog
• Support VM power control actions with VNC
• Add –cursor arg to control whether a local pointer is rendered with VNC
• Add –auto-resize arg and menu to control whether to resize the remote framebuffer to math local window size
• Add support for remote framebuffer resize with VNC
• Handle case sensitivity when parsing accelerator mappings