ANNOUNCE: gtk-vnc 1.0.0 release

Posted: August 7th, 2019 | Filed under: Fedora, Gtk-Vnc, Virt Tools | No Comments »

I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 1.0.0.

https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk-vnc/1.0/gtk-vnc-1.0.0.tar.xz (211K)
sha256sum: a81a1f1a79ad4618027628ffac27d3391524c063d9411c7a36a5ec3380e6c080

Pay particular attention to the first two major changes in
this release:

  • Autotools build system replaced with meson
  • Support for GTK-2 is dropped. GTK-3 is mandatory
  • Support for libview is dropped in example program
  • Improvements to example demos
  • Use MAP_ANON if MAP_ANONYMOUS doesn’t exist to help certain macOS versions
  • Fix crash when connection attempt fails early
  • Initialize gcrypt early in auth process
  • Emit vnc-auth-failure signal when SASL auth fals
  • Emit vnc-error signal when authentication fails
  • Fix double free when failing to read certificates
  • Run unit tests in RPM build
  • Modernize RPM spec
  • Fix race condition in unit tests
  • Fix install of missing header for cairo framebuffer
  • Fix typo in gir package name
  • Add missing VncPixelFormat file to gir data

Thanks to all those who reported bugs and provides patches that went into this new release.