[virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-viewer 2.0 release
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Jan 12 18:07:32 UTC 2015
I am happy to announce a new release of virt-viewer, version 2.0:
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-2.0.tar.gz
This release also includes semi-experimental MSI installers for the
Win32 (x86) and Win64 (x64) platforms:
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x86-2.0.msi
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x64-2.0.msi
All are signed with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-2.0.tar.gz.asc
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x86-2.0.msi.asc
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x64-2.0.msi.asc
This is release includes a mixture of bug fixes and new features, as well
as a significant update of GTK & gstreamer in Windows builds
Changed in this release:
- Fix handling of zoom in/out accelerators
- Fix warning going in/out of fullscreen
- Add dialog showing info about the current guest
- Change format of fullscreen config setting to
allow for sparse guest displays
- Write VM name to config file as a comment
- Never use fallback CA certs when loading vv-file
- Remove extraneous '/' from oVirt URIs
- Support oVirt foreign menus
- Allow using numapad for zoom in/out accelerators
- Force geometry update when agent connects
- Fix misc crash bugs
- Fix misc memory leaks
- Allow viewing of password entry characters
- Don't fail when auth dialog is cancelled
- Only create extra windows on demand
- Use more sensible default window size
- Improve docs for URIs and config files
- Allow cancellation of SPICE auth dialog
- Use new libvirt API for --attach to avoid SELinux AVC
- Allow removable of CD images with oVirt connections
- Show VM choose dialog when oVirt VM name is missing
- Support usernames request with SASL auth
- Use socat instead of nc if available
- Use PNG instead of SVG for icons
- Support connection to UNIX sockets instead of TCP
- Honour zoom level from CLI args with VNC
- Switch to GTK3 instead of GKT2 for Windows builds
- Ensure dialogs have transient parent set
- Switch to gstreamer 1.0 instead of 0.10 for Windows builds
- Avoid accidentally connecting to localhost with VNC/SPICE
- Use a versioned install directory for Windows builds
All historical releases are available from:
http://virt-manager.org/download/
Thanks to everyone who contributed patches towards this release
Regards,
Daniel
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