Gnash 0.8.9 released

[Rob Savoye]

                        Gnash 0.8.9 Released!

 Open Media Now! and the Gnash community are happy to announce the
release of Gnash v0.8.9. Gnash the GNU Flash player is a free/libre SWF
movie player, with all the source code released under GPLv3. Gnash is
available as both a standalone player and also as a browser plugin for
Firefox (and all other Gecko based browsers), Chromium and Konqueror.
Currently Gnash has been ported to most GNU/Linux distros, embedded
GNU/Linux, *BSD, non x86 architectures - ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, and even 64
bit processors. And yes, Gnash plays Youtube!!

 The last few months have been pretty eventful, and Gnash has made
several important advances.

Improvements since 0.8.8 release are:

 * Avoid drawing operations when the window is obscured, including when
   Gnash is used as a plugin, starting with Firefox 4.0 (GTK GUI).
 * NPAPI plugin: fix relative urls resolution in presence of <base> tag
   and "base" parameter; improved robustness and compatibility with
   chromium browser. Avoid blocking the parent process.
 * Support SWF with embedded ScreenVideo when using FFMPEG or
   gstreamer-ffmpeg >= 0.10.12.
 * Fixed playback of uncommon MPEG4 streams when using GStreamer.
 * Fix playback of SWF-embedded ADPCM audio when using Gstreamer.
 * Fix playback of SWF-embedded PCM audio when using FFMPEG.
 * Fixes for several crashes, with better automated testing of the
   entire ActionScript API for input sanitization.
 * Improved ActionScript performance processing, especially
   for interactive applications.
 * Improved SWF8 support with BitmapData.draw, BitmapData.loadBitmap,
   and other bitmap functions.
 * Re-entrant core libraries. Now Gnash is no longer dependent on a
   singleton Virtual Machine and Garbage Collector.
 * RTMP remoting support.
 * Support for PNG and GIF files in all DefineBitsJpeg tags; support
   for DefineBitsJpeg4 tags, and fix display of some GIFs with
   multiple records.
 * Restore support for mingw32.
 * dump-gnash: improved speed, sync and flexibility.
 * JPEG screenshot output.
 * Support for linear RGB interpolation mode in gradient fills.
 * Clipboard setting (GTK only).
 * More flash.geom.Rectangle functions.
 * Improved OpenBSD compatibility.

You can grab the Gnash sources from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.9, or from Gnash Git using the
release_0_8_9 branch. Experimental binary packages built by the Gnash
team are also available at
http://www.getgnash.org/packages, along with source snapshots. Binary
packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your
GNU/Linux distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using.

Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developer's
email list at address@hidden Free software doesn't exist without
your support, for donation information, go to
http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32.