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Gnash 0.8.7 Released!
Item posted by Rob Savoye <rsavoye> on Wed 24 Feb 2010 04:52:13 PM UTC.
Gnash 0.8.7 Released!
The 0.8.7 release of Gnash has just been made. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, all other Geeko based browsers, Chrome, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v8 features and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v10 and ActionScript 3. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC), and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops.
Improvements since the 0.8.6 release are:
- Automatic and spontaneous screenshots support in all GUIs
- Significant memory savings in parsing large XML trees and in
some function calls
- Enhancements in video streaming
- Non blocking load of bitmaps, movies, data
- Refactoring to eliminate most static data and get closer to
re-entrant VM
- Cygnal now supports multiple network connections, handling multiple video streams
- Cygnal now supports plugins for server side scripting in C/C++
- Improved packaging support for deb and rpm
See the NEWS file for more improvements.
You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.7, or from Gnash Bzr from the branch release_0_8_7 . 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.
Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developers email list at gnash-dev@gnu.org.
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