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10.9.9
2   - Overall changes:
3     * Added noVNC HTML5 VNC viewer (http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/) connect possibility
4       to our http server. Pure JavaScript, no Java plugin required anymore! (But a
5       recent browser...)
6     * Added a GTK+ VNC viewer example.
7
8   - LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient:
9     * Added support to build for Google Android.
10     * Complete IPv6 support in both LibVNCServer and LibVNCClient.
11
12   - LibVNCServer:
13     * Split two event-loop related functions out of the rfbProcessEvents() mechanism.
14       This is required to be able to do proper event loop integration with Qt. Idea was
15       taken from Vino's libvncserver fork.
16     * Added TightPNG (http://wiki.qemu.org/VNC_Tight_PNG) encoding support. Like the
17       original Tight encoding, this still uses JPEG, but ZLIB encoded rects are encoded
18       with PNG here.
19     * Added suport for serving VNC sessions through WebSockets
20       (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket), a web technology providing for multiplexing
21       bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels over a single TCP connection.
22     * Support connections from the Mac OS X built-in VNC client to LibVNCServer
23       instances running with no password.
24     * Replaced the Tight encoder with a TurboVNC one which is tremendously faster in most
25       cases, especially with high-color video or 3D workloads.
26       (http://www.virtualgl.org/pmwiki/uploads/About/tighttoturbo.pdf)
27
28   - LibVNCClient:
29     * Added support to only listen for reverse connections on a specific IP address.
30     * Support for using OpenSSL instead of GnuTLS. This could come in handy on embedded
31       devices where only this TLS implementation is available.
32     * Added support to connect to UltraVNC Single Click servers.
33
340.9.8.2
35   - Fixed a regression that crept in with the Apple Remote Desktop support.
36
370.9.8.1
38   - Fixed an ABI compatibility issue.
39
400.9.8
41   - Overall changes:
42     * Automagically generated API documentation using doxygen.
43     * Added support for pkg-config.
44     * Fixed Mingw32 cross compilation.
45     * Fixed CMake build system.
46
47   - LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient:
48     * All files used by _both_ LibVNCServer and LibVNCClient were put into
49       a 'common' directory, reducing code duplication.
50     * Implemented xvp VNC extension.
51     * Updated minilzo library used for Ultra encoding to ver 2.04.
52       According to the minilzo README, this brings a significant
53       speedup on 64-bit architechtures.
54
55   - LibVNCServer:
56     * Thread safety for ZRLE, Zlib, Tight, RRE, CoRRE and Ultra encodings.
57       This makes all VNC encodings safe to use with a multithreaded server.
58     * A DisplayFinishedHook for LibVNCServer. If set, this hook gets called
59       just before rfbSendFrameBufferUpdate() returns.
60     * Fix for tight security type for RFB 3.8 in TightVNC file transfer
61       (Debian Bug #517422).
62
63   - LibVNCClient:
64     * Unix sockets support.
65     * Anonymous TLS security type support.
66     * VeNCrypt security type support.
67     * MSLogon security type support.
68     * ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) security type support.
69     * UltraVNC Repeater support.
70     * A new FinishedFrameBufferUpdate callback that is invoked after each
71       complete framebuffer update.
72     * A new non-forking listen (reverse VNC) function that works under
73       Windows.
74     * IPv6 support. LibVNCClient is now able to connect to IPv6 VNC servers.
75     * IP QoS support. This enables setting the DSCP/Traffic Class field of
76       IP/IPv6 packets sent by a client. For example starting a client with
77       -qosdscp 184 marks all outgoing traffic for expedited forwarding.
78       Implementation for Win32 is still a TODO, though.
79     * Fixed hostname resolution problems under Windows.
80
81   - SDLvncviewer
82     * Is now resizable and can do key repeat, mouse wheel scrolling
83       and clipboard copy and paste.
84
85   - LinuxVNC:
86     * Fix for no input possible because of ctrl key being stuck.
87       Issue was reported as Debian bug #555988.
88
89
900.9.7
91   Mark sent me patches to no longer need C++ for ZRLE encoding!
92   added --disable-cxx Option for configure
93   x11vnc changes from Karl Runge:
94      - Changed all those whimpy printf(...)'s into manly fprintf(stdxxx,...)'s.
95
96      - Added -q switch (quiet) to suppress printing all the debug-looking output.
97
98      - Added -bg switch to fork into background after everything is set up.
99        (checks for LIBVNCSERVER_HAVE_FORK and LIBVNCSERVER_HAVE_SETSID)
100
101      - Print this string out to stdout:  'PORT=XXXX' (usually XXXX = 5900).
102        Combining with -bg, easy to write a ssh/rsh wrapper with something like:
103        port=`ssh $host "x11vnc -bg .."` then run vncviewer based on $port output.
104        (tunneling the vnc traffic thru ssh a bit more messy, but doable)
105
106      - Quite a bit of code to be more careful when doing 8bpp indexed color, e.g.
107        not assuming NCOLORS is 256, handling 8bit TrueColor and Direct Color, etc
108        (I did all this probably in April, not quite clear in my mind now, but
109        I did test it out a fair amount on my old Sparcstation 20 wrt a user's
110        questions).
111   introduce rfbErr for Errors (Erik)
112   make rfbLog overridable (suggested by Erik)
113   don't reutrn on EINTR in WriteExact()/ReadExact() (suggested by Erik)
114   use AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H to prefix constants in config.h to avoid
115	name clashes (also suggested by Erik)
116   transformed Bool, KeySym, Pixel to rfbBool, rfbKeySym, rfbPixel
117	(as suggested by Erik)
118   purged exit() calls (suggested by Erik)
119   fixed bug with maxRectsPerUpdate and Tight Encoding (these are incompatible)
120   checked sync with TightVNC 1.2.8:
121	viewonly/full passwords; if given a list, only the first is a full one
122	vncRandomBytes is a little more secure now
123	new weights for tight encoding
124   checked sync with RealVNC 3.3.7
125	introduced maxRectsPerUpdate
126   added first alpha version of LibVNCClient
127   added simple and simple15 example (really simple examples)
128   finally got around to fix configure in CVS
129   long standing http bug (.jar was sent twice) fixed by a friend of Karl named Mike
130   http options in cargs
131   when closing a client and no longer listening for new ones, don't crash
132   fixed a bug with ClientConnectionGone
133   endianness is checked at configure time
134   fixed a bug that prevented the first client from being closed
135   fixed that annoying "libvncserver-config --link" bug
136   make rfbReverseByte public (for rdp2vnc)
137   fixed compilation on OS X, IRIX, Solaris
138   install target for headers is now ${prefix}/include/rfb ("#include <rfb/rfb.h>")
139   renamed "sraRegion.h" to "rfbregion.h"
140   CARD{8,16,32} are more standard uint{8,16,32}_t now
141   fixed LinuxVNC colour handling
142   fixed a bug with pthreads where the connection was not closed
143   moved vncterm to main package (LinuxVNC included)
144   portability fixes (IRIX, OSX, Solaris)
145   more portable way to determine endianness and types of a given size
146	through autoconf based methods
1470.5
148   rpm packaging through autoconf
149   autoconf'ed the whole package (including optional support for zlib,
150	pthreads and libjpeg as well as zrle/c++)
151   moved appropriate files to contrib/ and examples/ respectively
152   fixed long standing cargs bug (Justin "Zippy" Dearing)
153   Even better x11vnc from Karl J. Runge! (supports different kbd layouts of
154	client/server)
155   Better x11vnc from Karl J. Runge!
156   fixed severe bug (Const Kaplinsky)
157   got patch from Const Kaplisnky with CursorPosUpdate encoding and some Docs
158   sync'ed with newest RealVNC (ZRLE encoding)
159   a HTTP request for tunnelling was added (to fool strict web proxies)
160   sync'ed with TightVNC 1.2.5
1610.4
162   support for NewFB from Const Kaplinsky
163   memory leaks squashed (localtime pseudo leak is still there :-)
164   small improvements for OSXvnc (still not working correctly)
165   synced with TightVNC 1.2.3
166   solaris compile cleanups
167   many x11vnc improvements
168   added backchannel, an encoding which needs special clients to pass
169	arbitrary data to the client
170   changes from Tim Jansen regarding multi threading and client blocking
171	as well as C++ compliancy
172   x11vnc can be controlled by starting again with special options if compiling
173	with LOCAL_CONTROL defined
1740.3
175   added x11vnc, a x0rfbserver clone
176   regard deferUpdateTime in processEvents, if usec<0
177   initialize deferUpdateTime (memory "leak"!)
178   changed command line handling (arguments are parsed and then removed)
179   added very simple example: zippy
180   added rfbDrawLine, rfbDrawPixel
1810.2
182   inserted a deferUpdate mechanism (X11 independent).
183   removed deletion of requestedRegion
184   added rfbLoadConsoleFont
185   fixed font colour handling.
186   added rfbSelectBox
187   added rfbDrawCharWithClip to allow for clipping and a background colour.
188   fixed font colours
189   added rfbFillRect
190   added IO function to check password.
191   rfbNewClient now sets the socket in the fd_set (for the select() call)
192   when compiling the library with HAVE_PTHREADS and an application
193	which includes "rfb.h" without, the structures got mixed up.
194	So, the pthreads section is now always at the end, and also
195	you get a linker error for rfbInitServer when using two different
196	pthread setups.
197   fixed two deadlocks: when setting a cursor and when using CopyRect
198   fixed CopyRect when copying modified regions (they lost the modified
199	 property)
200   WIN32 target compiles and works for example :-)
201   fixed CopyRect (was using the wrong order of rectangles...)
202   	 should also work with pthreads, because copyrects are
203	 always sent immediately (so that two consecutive copy rects
204	 cannot conflict).
205   changed rfbUndrawCursor(rfbClientPtr) to (rfbScreenInfoPtr), because
206   	   this makes more sense!
207   flag backgroundLoop in rfbScreenInfo (if having pthreads)
208   CopyRect & CopyRegion were implemented.
209	if you use a rfbDoCopyR* function, it copies the data in the
210	framebuffer. If you prefer to do that yourself, use rfbScheduleCopyR*
211	instead; this doesn't modify the frameBuffer.
212   added flag to optionally not send XCursor updates, but only RichCursor,
213	or if that is not possible, fall back to server side cursor.
214	This is useful if your cursor has many nice colours.
215   fixed java viewer on server side:
216	SendCursorUpdate would send data even before the client pixel format
217	was set, but the java applet doesn't like the server's format.
218   fixed two pthread issues:
219	rfbSendFramebuffer was sent by a ProcessClientMessage function
220	(unprotected by updateMutex).
221	cursor coordinates were set without protection by cursorMutex
222   source is now equivalent to TridiaVNC 1.2.1
223   pthreads now work (use iterators!)
224   cursors are supported (rfbSetCursor automatically undraws cursor)
225   support for 3 bytes/pixel (slow!)
226   server side colourmap support
227   fixed rfbCloseClient not to close the connection (pthreads!)
228	this is done lazily (and with proper signalling).
229   cleaned up mac.c (from original OSXvnc); now compiles (untested!)
230   compiles cleanly on Linux, IRIX, BSD, Apple (Darwin)
231   fixed prototypes
2320.1
233   rewrote API to use pseudo-methods instead of required functions.
234   lots of clean up.
235   Example can show symbols now.
236   All encodings
237   HTTP
238