Release 0 8 2

Gnash 0.8.2 beta was released on March 5 2008.

Changes since Release 0.8.1

Improved timeline redesign.
Action execution order fixes.
Keyboard handling improved [1].
New classes implemented: System.capabilities (partial), SharedObject, LocalConnection.
New opcodes implemented: ActionImplements, Try/Throw.
Movieclip.beginGradientFill completes drawing API support.
MovieClip._lockroot support added.
Implement GET/POST for MovieClip.loadVariables and MovieClip.loadMovie
Textfield support improved.
Security: configurable sandbox restricts filesystem access by movies.
Better support for SWF8.
Streaming OGG-contained multimedia (e.g. vorbis/theora or vorbis/dirac), and other free formats.
OGL and Cairo renderers much improved.
Improvements of the Framebuffer GUI (hide text messages, support Linux events system, built-in touchscreen calibration, simple keyboard support, better architecture support).
SOLdumper utility for reading SOL files ('flash cookies').
DumpShm utility finds and dumps Local Connection memory segments.
Fullscreen display possible.
Extensions for LIRC and DBus.
High quality, cross-platform psuedo-randomness using boost random.
NPAPI (Mozilla) plugin: keyboard events work, navigation and javascript from within movies.
Set and save preferences from the GUI (GTK).
Improved stability and robustness with malformed SWFs.
New User manual! Rewritten reference manual, brought up to date.
Many other bugfixes.

This is what we should complete before the release

Disable SharedObject by default, define safe enabling directives.
Stabilize video playback (Video-rehack). DONE
Stabilize timeline control (more tests?)
Fix action execution order handling - much progress, but still not 100% correct
A/V syncing - POSTPONED
Win32 support This is looking unlikely
OS X support (Implemented but critical bugs remain).
Implement ACTION_TRY/ACTION_THROW opcodes (see misc-mtasc.all/exception.as) - DONE
Implement ACTION_IMPLEMENTS opcode - mostly done, needs more testing
Fix critical bugs exposed by the testsuite. - mostly done
Fix BLOCKER to SECURITY bugs (see savannah)
New implementation of OpenGL renderer. DONE
New implementation of Cairo renderer (mostly done).
Fix the manual. it looks like it was in the middle of a reorg that never got finished. Much stuff doesn't even seem to be in the manual anymore...
Beat Cygnal into a stable enough shape that it's actually usable. This means fixing the AMF/RTMP/SOL support in Gnash as well as they both use libamf.
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