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Daniel P. Berrangé ac316905b4 Update NEWS for 9.0 release
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-01 17:30:25 +01:00

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Virt Viewer News
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9.0: May 1, 2020
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- Project moved to https://gitlab.com/virt-viewer/virt-viewer
- Allow toggling shared clipboard in remote-viewer
- Fix handling when initial spice connection fails
- Fix check for govirt library
- Add bash completion of cli args
- Improve errors in file transfer dialog
- Fix ovirt foreign menu storage domains query
- Prefer TLS certs from oVirt instead of CLI
- Improve USB device cleanup when Ctrl-C is used
- Remember monitor mappings across restarts
- Add a default file extension to screenshots
- Updated translations
- Fix misc memory leaks
8.0: Mar 1, 2019
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- Fix warnings with latest GCC versions
- More strictly filter out non-ISO images in ovirt menu
- Require libgovirt >= 0.3.3
- Require librest >= 0.8
- Support UNIX and TLS URI schemes for spice
- Fix full screen monitor placement under wayland
- Fix command line encoding on Windows
- Ensure VM name is set in window title
- Support unix-path in .vv files
- Support text console windows via VTE
- Add machine power control menu options
- Record full build env in MSI installer
7.0: Jul 27, 2018
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- Require spice-gtk >= 0.35
- Clarify error message when no running VM is found
- Improve check for libgovirt requirements
- Support "-" as a URI for input connection file
- Remove support for spice controller interface
- Misc man page fixes
- Lookup win32 translations relative to install dir
- Position connect window in center not top-left
- Misc fixes for ovirt foreign menu support
6.0: Aug 15, 2017
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- 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- Update various outdated links in README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
5.0: Nov 24, 2016
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- Don't retry authentication when credentials
are provided via vvfile
- Fix display of guest name in title for VNC
- Fix detection of domain stop when tunnelling
over SSH
- Fix problem resizing with GTK client side
decorations
- Fix leak on file transfer
- Only include native spec file in dist to fix
rpmbuild -ta
- Check min required spice-glib version
- Display errors to user if failing to open UNIX socket
- Simplify file transfer UI to only display overall
progress, rather than full list of files
- Show list of files which failed to transfer
4.0: Jun 20, 2016
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- Drop support for gtk2 builds
- Require spice-gtk >= 0.31
- Require glib2 >= 2.38
- Require gtk3 >= 3.10
- Require libvirt-glib >= 0.1.8
- Increase minimum window size fo 320x200 instead of 50x50
- Remove use of GSLice
- Don't show usbredir button if not connected yet
- Only compute monitor mapping in full screen
- Don't ignore usb-filter in spiec vv-file
- Port to use GtkApplication API
- Don't leave window open after connection failure
- Validate symbols from max glib/gdk versions
- Don't use GtkStock
- Don't use gtk_widget-modify_{fg,bg} APIs
- Drop use of built-in eventloop in favour of libvirt-glib
- Don't open X display while parsing command line
- Fix window title
- Use GResource for building ui files into binary
- Fix crash with invalid spice monitor mapping
- Add dialog to show file transfer progress and allow
cancelling
- Remove unused nsis installer support
- Include adwaita icon theme in msi builds
- Add more menu mnemonics
- Fix support for windows consoles to allow I/O redirection
- Add support for ovirt sso-token in vv-file
- Fix crash with zooming window while not connected
- Remove custom auto drawer widget with GtkRevealer
- Add appdata file for gnome software
- Misc other bug fixes
- Refresh translations
3.0: Dec 3, 2015
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- Last release to support GTK2 for Linux. The next
4.0 release will be GTK3 only.
- Don't add URI scheme / path info to oVirt URIs
- Require spice-gtk >= 0.30
- Enable webdav folder sharing with spice
- Add preferences UI dialog
- Take --direct into account when checking if guest is
reachable
- Take SPICE proxy into account when connecting to oVirt
instances
- Fail gracefully when hostname is not returned by
oVirt
- Don't show empty foreign menu on secondary displays
- Avoid accidentally trying to connect to port 0 when
oVirt doesn't specify a port number
- Correctly update geometry when enabling/disabling
display heads
- Avoid accidentally creating extra monitors when using
configuration file monitor mapping
- Exit normally when cancelling connect dialog
- Don't wait for a guest that we know will never show up
- Fix crash when using --reconnect with SPICE
- Avoid zooming out if it would decrease window size
below minimum required for top menu display
- Fix crash when disabling last enabled display
- Honour changes in display position from guest
- Don't show error dialog twice for unknown graphics type
- Allow to cancel oVirt auth without error
- Set sensitivity of display menu based on whether it is
usable or not
- Set sensitivity of tool bar buttons based on whether they
are usable or not
- Set guest name reported by VNC
- Fix crash when using gtk-vnc 0.3.8
- Fix alt-tab behaviour in choose VM dialog
- Don't allow missing display in monitor mapping config
- Add --with-osid flag to configure to allow specifying
the operating system build target. The values should
be based on libosinfo OS short IDs.
- Ensure windows installer places menu icon for all users
not just admin. Requires manual uninstall of previous
windows version
- Require address in remote viewer connect dialog
- Automatically retry VNC connection after auth failure
- Drop GTK2 support for Windows builds
- Enable keepalives on libvirt conncetion
- Allow resize of window to arbitrary size
- Fix thread safety handling event callbacks
- Avoid deprecation warnings with newer glib
- Pulled in multiple fixes for event loop from libvirt-glib
- Fix misc bugs reported by coverity
- Fix binary ID in MSI installer
- Stop polling libvirt after reconnceting to libvirt
2.0: Jan 12, 2015
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- 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
1.0: Jul 21, 2014
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- Switched to 2-digit version numbering.
- Improve error reporting when failing to find
the GtkBuilder UI files
- Honour title provided by SPICE server if available
- Don't hide main window when disconnecting in multi-monitor
configurations
- Don't show VNC widget until authentication has completed
- Fix session handling when re-authenticating
- Improve docs for --attach flag
- Ask for credentials for SPICE proxy
- Fix scaling of windows when resizing
- Remove 'Automatically resize' menu, leaving the behaviour
permanently enabled
- Improve USB icon in full screen toolbar
- Don't resize guest when changing zoom level
- Don't create windows at startup if kiosk mode isn't enabled
- Don't show quit confirmation dialog in kiosk mode
- Misc typos / fixes in man pages
- Fix race with metacity window manager in fullscreen mode
- Avoid accidentally connecting to localhost with --direct flag
- Use custom log handler to silence debug messages on old glib2
- Fix tiny windows for secondary displays with gtk2 build
- Take zoom into account when checkign display limits
- Fix unshrinkable displays with windows guests
- Allow ctrl-[+-] to zoom in fullscreen mode
0.6.0: Jan 24, 2014
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- Require govirt 0.3.0
- Require spice-gtk 0.22
- Show error dialog if password is wrong
- Document application/x-virt-viewer file format
- Remove unused '-d' option from remote-viewer
- Add a kiosk mode
- Add menu for sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete
- Add Ctrl+Alt+End as accelerator for Ctrl+Alt+Delete
- Send modifiers before the non-modifier key in send
key menu
- Fix GTK warning when disconnecting from VNC due to
auth error
- Make 'Cancel' default button in exit dialog
- Make send key menu accelerators work in fullscreen
- Remove insecure fetching of oVirt CA cert
- Build for GTK 3 by default
- Fix title bar after failed connection
- Reshow remote-viewer connection dialog upon error
- Hide all windows upon disconnect
- Add ability to define custom monitor mapping
- Ensure all windows obey command line zoom level
- Add an icon to the desktop file
- Fix event loop implementation on Win32 platforms
- Misc other bug fixes
0.5.7: Jul 31, 2013
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- Many fixes to full screen / window positioning handling
- Reshow connect dialog if connection fails
- Misc man page fixes
- Mark RPM as obsoleting spice-client
- Set the host subject to fix SSL connections with ovirt
- Use -H as short variant of --hotkeys
- Add missing trailing ';' in desktop file
- Allow TLS only SPICE connections
- Use dynamic key send menu
- Enable smartcard shortcuts only when smartcard reader is present
- Misc other bug fixes
0.5.6: Apr 12, 2013
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- Add ovirt:// support to remote-viewer (needs libgovirt)
- Many fullscreen and multi-monitor fixes
- Add a minimum version check in connection file
- Fix sending key combinations from "Send Key" menu when the key names are
localized
- Fix build with older glib and gtk+
- Fix MSI x64 build
- Clean-ups (remove browser plugin entirely)
0.5.5: Feb 13, 2013
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- Improve screenshot saving dialog
- remote-viewer learned to connect with a file of mime type
application/x-virt-viewer, described in src/virt-viewer-file.c
- Add a "do not ask me again" dialog checkbox when leaving
- Add a MSI target, using https://live.gnome.org/msitools
- Add windows debug helper, useful in Spice controller running context
- Add remote-viewer --title STRING
- Support for Spice proxy settings added
- Numerous Spice display and multi-monitor fixes
- win32, memory, build, and other misc fixes
- Requires spice-gtk >= 0.16.26
0.5.4: Sep 17, 2012
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- Fix host migration with Spice
- Fix misc memory leaks
- Fix build with newer glibc and -O0
- Improve automatic fullscreen Spice configuration
- Avoid crash when quiting application
- Rebuild display men whenever a window is added/removed
- Number displays starting from 1 instead of 0
- Add support for handling multiple monitors with Spice
- Menu display menu insensitive if no displays can be selected
- Use real binary name in remote-viewer help message
- Document -f=auto-conf in remote-viewer help
0.5.3: May 14, 2012
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- Add support for raw IPv6 addresses
- Add a remote-viewer.desktop file and register spice:// handling
- Add a simple connection dialog to remote-viewer
- Add remote-viewer --fullscreen=auto-conf option, to update guest
monitors configuration to match client
- Spice controller support for disable-effects, color-depth and
usbredir
- Spice controller interaction fixes
- Windows version and nsis installer improvements
- Import newer translations from transifex
- Misc reference leak / crash bugs fixed
0.5.2: Mar 09, 2012
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- Require libvirt >= 0.9.7, spice-gtk >= 0.11, spice-protocol >= 0.10.1
- Import newer translations from transifex
- remote-viewer learned Spice controller customizable key bindings,
smartcard property, and foreign menu
- Fix Spice crash on re-connection
- Fix connecting via ssh to a password-protected server
- Add a sendkey menu in fullscreen mode
- Add USB device selection in fullscreen mode
- Misc reference leak / crash bugs fixed
0.5.1: Feb 17, 2012
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- Import newer translations from transifex
- Fix build system to ensure we don't loose GNU_RELRO
security feature
- Don't link virt-viewer binary against spice controller
- Add back compat for GObject 2.22 which lacks GBinding
0.5.0: Feb 14, 2012
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- Add a remote-viewer binary for connecting to a SPICE/VNC
server based on URI, instead of querying libvirt
- Add ability to attach to a local VM via libvirt instead of
connecting over UNIX sockets
- Add support for SPICE controller
- Allow build without libvirt, for remote-viewer only
- Automatically resize guest desktop when resizing window with SPICE
- Add support for redirecting host USB devices to remote guest
- Grab focus when first showing the display
- Register as a spice-xpi-client-remote alternative
- Add pretty icon for virt-viewer app
- Set transient window hints on all popups
- Activate password 'Ok' button when pressing Enter
- Support secure connections with SPICE
- Don't hardcode 'localhost' for hostname
0.4.2: Nov 9, 2011
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- Fix exports of signal functions for GTK UI builder on Windows
- Avoid crash if xmlParseURI fails
- Fix inverted test for SSH port that broke tunnelling
- Don't hardcode port numbers for SSH if not requested by user
- Fix deadlock in event handling
- Fix initial zoom level for all windows
- Fix window title to include domain name
- Fix hostname used when XML gives a wildcard IP address
- Fix window title when waiting for domain to appear
- Fix key shortcust for F9-F12 menus
- Always ask libvirt for its canonical URI
- Allow build without GTK-VNC (ie spice only)
- Require GTK-VNC >= 0.4.3
- Require SPICE-GTK >= 0.6.0
0.4.1: Aug 4, 2011
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- Remove bogus use of AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT macro to try to
facilitate BSD builds
- Support multiple monitors with SPICE and QXL drivers
- Don't hardcode SSH port to 22 when tunnelling
0.4.0: Jul 12, 2011
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- Require SPICE-GTK >= 0.6
- Hide menu bar when going fullscreen
- Support building against GTK2 or GTK3
- Convert from Glade to GtkBuilder
- Honour 'listen' attribute from <graphics> XML when connecting
- Fix reconnection after authentication failure
- Make --verbose flag actually do something
- Enable scaling with SPICE to match VNC behaviour
- Rewrite widget resizing code to (try to) be more reliable
- Fill extra space outside guest display with black
- Fix (null) in title bar while not connected
- Fix multiple memory leaks
- Fix reconnecting to display with SPICE
0.3.1: Feb 21, 2011
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- Fix typo in configure script that broke SPICE
0.3.0: Feb 21, 2011
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- Add support for SPICE graphics client
- Allow connections to VNC server over UNIX sockets
- Improve error messages on auth/connection failure
- Add support for zoom levels
- Many updated translations
0.2.1: Jan 15, 2010
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- Add infrastructure for translation
- Display dialog to user if authentication fails
- Display dialog to user if domain cannot be found
- GTK/GLib best practice cleanups
- Add Polish translation
0.2.0: July 20, 2009
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- Switch UI over to use Glade
- Support graphical dialog for VNC and libvirt authentication
- Resize window to match VNC desktop size where possible
- Scale down VNC desktop if it cannot fit in host desktop space
- Allow user to resize window to arbitrary size, scaling VNC
- Fix blocking of accelerators
- Allow automatic reconnect to a VM via --reconnect
- Use libvirt events to detect when VM changes state
- Wait for VM to appear if it does not exist
- Fix plugin build with newer xulrunner
- Port & build for Mingw32 target
0.0.3: March 10, 2008
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- Block accelerators when grab is active
- Enable smooth scaling of desktop to fill screen
- Added an experimental firefox plugin (disabled by default)
- Hide characters in password entry field
- Use domain name in title bar instead of VNC desktop name
0.0.2: August 28, 2007
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- Support connecting to remote libvirt servers
- Support connecting to remote VNC consoles
- Support tunneling VNC over SSH
- Support TLS x509 certificate credentials
0.0.1: August 15, 2007
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- Initial release