Gnash 0.8.5 Released! The fourth beta release of Gnash has just been made at version 0.8.5. Gnash is a GPLv3'd SWF movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript 2 classes. with growing support for SWF v8 and v9. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit architectures. There are also standalone players for GNOME or KDE based desktops. Improvements since the 0.8.4 release are: * Cygnal media server alpha release! * New MIT-SHM and XVideo support for better performance. * Due to better XML parsing compatibility and a minor fix to NetConnection, many more video sites work than in the last release. * Support for saving all streamed (FLV, H264, MP3 etc) and loaded (JPEG, SWF, PNG, GIF) media to disk. * Basic GUI warning messages when media decoding fails (usually missing codecs). * Support for new codecs keeps YouTube support up to date. * Added support for FLV parsing and decoding of H.264 video and AAC audio. * Scaled video smoothing implemented in AS and in default renderer (AGG). YouTube video looks better when Gnash is running with high quality or better. * Support for _quality implemented with user-specified override. (Presently only affects video smoothing in the default renderer). * Made NPAPI plugin quiet, except on plugin-specific errors (to reduce .xsession-errors pollution). * New GUI for KDE4 / Qt4 with SWF properties and Gnash preferences dialog boxes. * Added support for parsing and decoding Speex audio in FLV files using libspeex. * Fix decoding of RAW and UNCOMPRESSED audio with gstreamer media handler * Remoting support generally improved. * Support for Mixed SWF Versions added. * Fixed bugs found since since the 0.8.4 release. See the NEWS file for more improvements. You can grab the Gnash sources from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.5, or from Gnash Bzr from the branch release_0_8_5 . Binary packages for Debian or RPM based systems will be available from your GNU/Linux distribution, and from whatever BSD variant you are using. Experimental binary packages built by the Gnash team are also available at http://www.getgnash.org, along with source snapshots. Please report packaging bugs upstream to your distribution. If you think you have found a bug in Gnash, then you should file as complete a report as possible at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash. Patches are always preferred to bug reports, as this is a community project. You can submit patches at https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=gnash, or email them to gnash-dev@gnu.org. Please include the operating system name and version, compiler version, and the output of `gnash --version`, in your bug reports. good detailed bug reports are alway appreciated. Questions about Gnash or offers of help can go to the developers email list at gnash-dev@gnu.org. 366f703c2eb1747e4109602b75439ff4 gnash-0.8.5.tar.bz2 47d638ef0e20577aaf849436e14da5bd gnash-0.8.5.tar.bz2.sig b54a72a52d2477e65d9029be572789ff gnash-0.8.5.tar.gz 5be2c6ca07d1e8d5dcb1b82df3a52107 gnash-0.8.5.tar.gz.sig