Release 0.8.6

Release 0.8.6 is targeted for September 2009.

Changes from Release 0.8.5

TextSnapshot, Camera, Microphone, TextField and TextFormat implemented.
ASSetNative, ASSetNativeAccessor, ASconstructor implemented.
New utilities for finding input devices for Camera and Microphone.
Fix bitmap smoothing handling in AGG renderer (Bug #25894).
Custom Gnash GTK widget.
Various improvements to text handling
Code refactoring:
- large-scale refactoring of object and class creation for improved AS compatibility,
- extension of native classes now works in many cases,
- more compatible and slimmer DisplayObject classes,
- improvements in parsing,
- general reduction of GC resources,
- easier to implement new classes.
- new ActionScript 2 & 3 test suite.
- re-organization of all ActionScript classes into the proper namespaces.
PyGTK module support.
Native and built-in functions properly separated, more native functions added.
AmigaOS4 support (gui and sound handler)
Fixes to XMLSocket crash and event order.
Performance improvement for SDL gui (invalidated regions).
Corrected timing of various AS events, fixing various SWFs that rely on them.
Many minor bug fixes.
Better A/V synchronization
Rudimentary AVM2 implementation (--enable-avm2). Warning: do not expect this to work usefully.
- Possible to omit AVM2 code from binaries completely where it's not needed.

Progress in Rendering in actionscript.
Implement remaining flash package classes:
- flash.geom.Transform (core support for flash.geom) should only need implementation of the other flash.geom classes.
- flash.display needs further implementation (flash.display.BitmapData is only partly implemented).
- flash.filters: completely unimplemented.
- flash.net: completely unimplemented.
- flash.external: completely unimplemented.
- flash.text: completely unimplemented.
MovieClip (sprite) properties need implementing:
- blendMode Ready for renderer implementation
- attachBitmap (core support for flash.display). done
- more...
Fully reentrant corelib Underway, probably won't be ready for the release
- See Re-entrancy for more information and progress
Dynamically loadable media handler modules Would be possible for this release, needs cleanup of Input classes
AVM2 Depends on corelib refactoring for reentrancy; also not ready for this release
Make VM capable of opening SWFs successively Should be able to do this simultaneously, but only after the release
Implement SOUNDSTREAM synchronization.