What's new in XScreenSaver 5.40
Aug 16, 2018
- New hacks, filmleader, vfeedback.
- New hack, glitchpeg (X11 and macOS only).
- GLPlanet blends between day and night maps at the dusk terminator.
- DymaxionMap can display arbitrary map images, and animate sunlight across the flattened globe.
- Tessellimage can draw either Delaunay or Voronoi tilings.
- XAnalogTV includes test cards.
- Android: These hacks work now: blitspin, bumps, cityflow, endgame, esper, flipscreen3d, gleidescope, glslideshow, jigglypuff, queens, tessellimage, xanalogtv, xmatrix, zoom.
New in XScreenSaver 5.39 (Apr 20, 2018)
- New hacks, 'razzledazzle', 'peepers', 'crumbler' and maze3d.
- More heuristics for using RSS feeds as image sources.
- Android: Image loading works.
- Built-in image assets are now PNG instead of XPM or XBM.
- X11: Better font-loading fallback heuristics on systems with a terrible selection of installed fonts.
- macOS: Retina display-related bug fixes.
New in XScreenSaver 5.35 (Jun 27, 2016)
- New hacks, dymaxionmap, unicrud, energystream, raverhoop and hydrostat.
- Added Windows 10 to bsod.
- X11: ignore WM_USER_TIME property changes with days-old timestamps. Thanks, KDE.
- MacOS, iOS: Better fonts in BSOD and memscroller.
- MacOS 10.7 or later and iOS 6.0 or later are now required, since Xcode 6 can no longer build executables that work on older OSes.
- Many, many Android improvements.
- iOS: Fixed rotation to work with the new iOS 8+ API.
- X11: pong is now playable.
New in XScreenSaver 5.34 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Fixed a crash when hot-swapping monitors while locked.
- Fixed some incorrect output from xscreensaver-command -watch.
- Various OSX and iOS performance improvements.
New in XScreenSaver 5.33 (Jul 15, 2015)
- New hacks, splitflap and romanboy.
- Better detection of user activity on modern GNOME systems.
- Sonar now does asynchronous host name resolution.
- Improved Unicode support.
- Updated webcollage for recent changes.
- Various minor fixes.
New in XScreenSaver 5.26 (Dec 12, 2013)
- More auto-updater tweaks.
New in XScreenSaver 5.23 (Nov 26, 2013)
- New hack, geodesic.
- iOS and OSX: huge XCopyArea performance improvements.
- More heuristics for using RSS feeds as image sources.
- Improved Wikipedia parser.
- Updated webcollage for recent Flickr changes.
- Added Android to bsod.
- OSX: Added a real installer.
- iOS and OSX: fixed a font-metrics bug.
- iOS: Fixed aspect ratio bug in non-rotating apps when launched in landscape mode.
- Made quasicrystal work on weak graphics cards.
- iOS: fixed ifs.
- Better compression on icons, plists and XML files: smaller distribution and installation footprint.
- Reverted that DEACTIVATE change. Bad idea.
- Phosphor now supports amber as well as green.
New in XScreenSaver 5.13 (Apr 20, 2011)
- Optionally enabled full-scene OpenGL antialiasing. Set the resource *multiSample to true if doing so doesn't kill performance with your video hardware.
- New version of glhanoi.
- Image-loading hacks that display the file name now also display the sub-directory (xscreensaver-getimage now returns relative paths under imageDirectory).
- Passwords that contain UTF-8 non-Latin1 chars are now typeable.
- Numerous minor stability fixes.
New in XScreenSaver 5.08 (Dec 28, 2008)
- A new hack: photopile.
- Updates to sonar, jigsaw, maze, m6502, hypnowheel, timetunnel, munch, and webcollage.
- EXIF rotation support.
- RANDR fixes.
- Some old, boring screen savers have been retired.