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From: "Rob Savoye" <[email protected]>
Date: Mar 4, 2009 11:46 AM
Subject: [Gnash] Gnash 0.8.5 released
To: <[email protected]>

                       Gnash 0.8.5 Released!

The fourth beta release of Gnash has just been made at version
0.8.5. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for
Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features
and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v8 and
v9. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit
architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE
based desktops.

Improvements since the 0.8.4 release are:

   * Cygnal media server alpha release!
   * New MIT-SHM and XVideo support for better performance.
   * Due to better XML parsing compatibility and a minor fix to
     NetConnection, many more video sites work than in the last
     release.
   * Support for saving all streamed (FLV, H264, MP3 etc) and loaded
     (JPEG, SWF, PNG, GIF) media to disk.
   * Basic GUI warning messages when media decoding fails (usually
     missing codecs).
   * Support for new codecs keeps YouTube support up to date.
   * Added support for FLV parsing and decoding of H.264 video and AAC
     audio.
   * Scaled video smoothing implemented in AS and in default renderer
     (AGG). YouTube video looks better when Gnash is running with
     high quality or better.
   * Support for _quality implemented with user-specified
     override. (Presently only affects video smoothing in the default
     renderer).
   * Made NPAPI plugin quiet, except on plugin-specific errors (to
     reduce .xsession-errors pollution).
   * New GUI for KDE4 / Qt4 with SWF properties and Gnash preferences
     dialog boxes.
   * Added support for parsing and decoding Speex audio in FLV files
     using libspeex.
   * Fix decoding of RAW and UNCOMPRESSED audio with gstreamer media
     handler
   * Remoting support generally improved.
   * Support for Mixed SWF Versions added.
   * Fixed bugs found since since the 0.8.4 release.

See the NEWS file for more improvements.

You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.5,
or from Gnash Bzr from the branch release_0_8_5 . Binary packages for
Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux
distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using. Experimental
binary packages built by the Gnash team are also available at
http://www.getgnash.org, along with source snapshots. Please
report packaging bugs upstream to your distribution. If you think you
have found a bug in Gnash, then you should file as complete a report
as possible at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash. Patches are
always preferred to bug reports, as this is a community project. You
can submit patches at https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=gnash, or
email them to [email protected].

Please include the operating system name and version, compiler
version, and the output of `gnash --version`, in your bug
reports. good detailed bug reports are always appreciated.

Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developers email
list at [email protected].

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