XScreenSaver Changelog

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.