ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc release 1.2.0 available

Posted: April 15th, 2021 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 1.2.0.

https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk-vnc/1.2/gtk-vnc-1.2.0.tar.xz (213K)
sha256sum: 7aaf80040d47134a963742fb6c94e970fcb6bf52dc975d7ae542b2ef5f34b94a

Changes in this release include

  • Add API to request fixed zoom level
  • Add API to request fixed aspect ratio when scaling
  • Add APIs for client initiated desktop resize
  • Implement “Extended Desktop Resize” VNC extension
  • Implement “Desktop Rename” VNC extension
  • Implement “Last Rect” VNC extension
  • Implement “XVP” (power control) VNC extension
  • Implement VeNCrypt “plain” auth mode
  • Implement alpha cursor VNC extension
  • Use GTK preferred width/height helpers for resizing
  • Fix misc docs/introspection annotation bugs
  • Honour meson warninglevel setting for compiler flags
  • Fix JPEG decoding in low colour depth modes
  • Fix minor memory leaks
  • Add header file macros for checking API version
  • Change some meson options from “bool” to “feature”
  • Validate GLib/GTK min/max symbol versions at build time
  • Avoid recreating framebuffer if size/format is unchanged
  • Emit resize signal after WMVi update
  • Various fixes & enhancements to python demo program
  • Ensure Gir files build against local libs
  • Enable stack protector on more platforms
  • Don’t force disable introspection on windows
  • Relax min x11 deps for older platforms
  • Avoid mutex deadlock on FreeBSD in test suite
  • Stop using deprecated GLib thread APIs
  • Stop using deprecated GLib main loop APIs
  • Stop using deprecated GObject class private data APIs
  • Add fixes for building on macOS
  • Fix deps for building example program
  • Update translations

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provided patches that went into this new release.

ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc 1.0.0 release

Posted: August 7th, 2019 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 1.0.0.

https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk-vnc/1.0/gtk-vnc-1.0.0.tar.xz (211K)
sha256sum: a81a1f1a79ad4618027628ffac27d3391524c063d9411c7a36a5ec3380e6c080

Pay particular attention to the first two major changes in
this release:

  • Autotools build system replaced with meson
  • Support for GTK-2 is dropped. GTK-3 is mandatory
  • Support for libview is dropped in example program
  • Improvements to example demos
  • Use MAP_ANON if MAP_ANONYMOUS doesn’t exist to help certain macOS versions
  • Fix crash when connection attempt fails early
  • Initialize gcrypt early in auth process
  • Emit vnc-auth-failure signal when SASL auth fals
  • Emit vnc-error signal when authentication fails
  • Fix double free when failing to read certificates
  • Run unit tests in RPM build
  • Modernize RPM spec
  • Fix race condition in unit tests
  • Fix install of missing header for cairo framebuffer
  • Fix typo in gir package name
  • Add missing VncPixelFormat file to gir data

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provides patches that went into this new release.

ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc 0.9.0 release

Posted: August 17th, 2018 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, libvirt, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 0.9.0. This is a cleanup/modernization release. Note that the next release (1.0.0) will drop support for GTK-2

  • Requires gnutls >= 3.1.18
  • Requires libgcrypt >= 1.5.0
  • Requires glib2 >= 2.42.0
  • Use libgcrypt for DES routines
  • Add missing cipher close calls in ARD auth
  • Check for errors after reading mslogon params
  • Support newer UltraVNC mslogon auth type code
  • Avoid divide by zero in mslogin auth from bogus params
  • Re-allow python2 accidentally blocked when removing python binding

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provides patches that went into this new release.

ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc 0.8.0 release

Posted: August 1st, 2018 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, libvirt, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 0.8.0. This is a small maintenance release tidying up some loose ends

  • Deleted the python2 binding in favour of GObject introspection
  • Pull in latest keycodemapdb content
  • Disable/fix -Wcast-function-type warnings

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provides patches that went into this new release.

ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc 0.7.2 release

Posted: March 23rd, 2018 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, libvirt, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 0.7.2. The release focus is on bug fixing, and addresses an important regression in TLS handling from the previous release.

  • Deprecated the manual python2 binding in favour of GObject introspection. It will be deleted in the next release.
  • Emit led state notification on connect
  • Fix incorrect copyright notices
  • Simplify shifted-tab key handling
  • Don’t short circuit TLS credential request
  • Improve check for keymap under XWayland
  • Update doap description of project
  • Modernize RPM specfile

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provides patches that went into this new release.