GNU Gnash Changelog

What's new in GNU Gnash 0.8.10

Feb 25, 2012
  • Qt4 GUI supports mouse wheel, clipboard, and screen resolution.
  • Enhanced UI support for script limits (abort popups, user prefs).
  • BitmapData functions copyPixels(), copyChannel(), perlinNoise() and noise() implemented.
  • Node id mapping in ActionScript XML class implemented (XML.idMap).
  • Fix dispatching of Sound.onLoad event, fixing google dict audio.
  • Fix support for control tags found after last expected frame (#33176).
  • Fix support for uncompressed sound with gstreamer media handler.
  • Implement Button.getDepth(), fix button key events.
  • Fixes to startDrag and stopDrag opcodes.
  • Implement onSoundComplete() for event sounds (#23020).
  • Fix MovieClip.onLoad event dispatching and constant pools handling, fixing support for movies generated by the evil Adobe Captivate tool (#33521).
  • Fix unattached Sound.stop() semantic (#33888) enjoy Super Mario!
  • OpenVG renderer added.
  • Improved framebuffer GUI and touchscreen support.
  • Framebuffer now supports using multiple renderers.
  • Refactored input device support.
  • Fix parsing of lossless 16bit bitmaps, fixing support for movies generated by the evil TechSmit Camtasia tool (#34625).
  • Improved double buffering support for AGG in a framebuffer.
  • Thumbnailer for SWF files and GNOME2 desktop config for it.

New in GNU Gnash 0.8.4 (Oct 14, 2008)

  • Keep Adobe happy with our users and our users happy with us by changing "Flash player" into "SWF player" everywhere. Adobe claims "Flash" as a trademark and had asked a Linux distributor to fix it.
  • The popular SWF Twitter badge now renders correctly.
  • Fix parsing of urls containing multiple question marks
  • Fix support for movies embedding multiple sound streams
  • Support for loading PNG and GIF images added.
  • Improved rendering of SWF movies because of the less visible changes listed below.
  • Support for writing RGB/RGBA PNG images and JPEG images.
  • Works with Potlatch OpenStreetMap editor
  • New 'flvdumper' utility for analyzing FLV video files.
  • XPI packaging support for Mozilla & Firefox.