Hi, I have written a draft of the FreeRDP 1.0 changelog: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/Changelog
I'm pretty sure I will forget certain things, so please review and remind me of what I could have possibly forgotten :) On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Marc-André Moreau < marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree, yet I think we'd need more info on how to proceed regarding this > one. > > From my testing, here is what I see: > > when disconnecting for a small period of time, like less than 30 seconds, > connection resumes successfully for me, otherwise connection is lost and > xfreerdp closes. > > There is some confusion around the reconnection token, which is a new > feature. I'm not sure how exactly we should detect that connection has been > lost, and how fast we should detect it. Should we have a thread watching > the connection status and reconnecting if the connection is lost? What > happens if the connection was not lost, but the server intentionally > disconnected the user? What about server redirection, where multiple > connections are done in sequence? What constitutes being fully connected, > such that if we lose that connected state we should normally attempt to > reconnect? > > This feature is more complex than I originally thought, which is probably > why it hasn't been completed yet. Help is welcome, of course. I think we > could likely have it for 1.0.1 and make it a priority. > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Anna Martynova > <terrible.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I'm absolutely agree with Gotsi Boon! >> I know people who prefer Freerdp to Rdesktop mainly because of this — >> Freerdp didn't freeze in case of network faults. >> I think it's very important in everyday usage. >> >> 2012/1/14 Gotsi Boon <gotsi.b...@gmail.com>: >> > Hi Marc-Andre, >> > >> > if I take a look at the list the blocker #189 "X11 client freezes >> > indefinitely if connection is lost" sounds like a severe issue for >> > productivity usage. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > gotsiboon. >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Marc-André Moreau >> > <marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello FreeRDP community, >> >> >> >> We've been working hard lately to stabilize FreeRDP in preparation for >> the >> >> 1.0 stable release. We're currently in beta5, but I do not think we can >> >> release betas forever like this. Important regressions were left to be >> >> fixed until today, but now I feel that we have something good enough >> to be >> >> released. The last two major issues which I really wanted to have fixed >> >> were the sporadic bitmap cache faults and the VRDP connectivity issue, >> both >> >> of which were fixed this week. >> >> >> >> I know that there are still some bugs with red labels on the bug >> tracker, >> >> but I think we now have something good enough for most people. If >> there is >> >> something that I've learned spending months bug fixing stuff is that >> >> stability really is something valuable :) For this reason I would like >> to >> >> propose the following branching strategy, quite similar to the >> >> "maintenance" branch which we once had: >> >> >> >> For each stable release, we should create a new branch. This means that >> >> when releasing 1.0 stable, we would create a "1.0" branch. The current >> >> master will then become the future "1.1" branch, and will get all the >> new >> >> features and bug fixes. The 1.0 branch would not get the new features, >> but >> >> only bug fixes, such that can keep it stable and make maintenance >> releases, >> >> such as "1.0.1". >> >> >> >> When it will be time to make the 1.1 stable release, we will create a >> "1.1" >> >> branch as well, and master will become the future "1.2" branch. At this >> >> point we would maintain the 1.1 branch for maintenance releases but >> stop >> >> maintaining the previous stable release (unless we want to start doing >> >> maintenance releases for multiple past stable releases, which is a lot >> of >> >> work). >> >> >> >> I think the maintenance releases will lead to rock solid versions of >> >> FreeRDP which should satisfy a lot of people looking for >> production-ready >> >> code. The development releases will keep satisfying those of us >> looking for >> >> the latest and coolest features :) >> >> >> >> Would anybody have strong objections to a 1.0 stable release at the >> >> beginning of this week? If there are still some bugs which prevent you >> from >> >> using the soon-to-be 1.0 stable release, they should be addressed in >> the >> >> 1.0.1 maintenance release. We won't suddenly stop fixing bugs just >> because >> >> we have a stable release if this is your concern. >> >> >> >> Comments are welcome, >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> - Marc-Andre >> >> >> >> P.S.: I desperately need help with Remmina development, if you'd like >> to >> >> help me out then contact me, thanks! The deadline for inclusion in >> Ubuntu >> >> 12.04 is getting closer and I'd need to get Remmina updated for 1.0, >> but >> >> I'm truly overworked. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> RSA(R) Conference 2012 >> >> Mar 27 - Feb 2 >> >> Save $400 by Jan. 27 >> >> Register now! >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Freerdp-devel mailing list >> >> Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > No §112! >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > RSA(R) Conference 2012 >> > Mar 27 - Feb 2 >> > Save $400 by Jan. 27 >> > Register now! >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Freerdp-devel mailing list >> > Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> RSA(R) Conference 2012 >> Mar 27 - Feb 2 >> Save $400 by Jan. 27 >> Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freerdp-devel mailing list >> Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
