Hi, If everything goes well, I should be able to release today. If there is something which you really really need to say before I proceed, please do it now! My next email may very well be the 1.0 stable release announcement.
Best regards, - Marc-Andre On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Marc-André Moreau < marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
