Virt Viewer News

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8.0: Mar  1, 2019

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  - Fix warnings with latest GCC versions

  - More strictly filter out non-ISO images in ovirt menu

  - Require libgovirt >= 0.3.3

  - Require librest >= 0.8

  - Support UNIX and TLS URI schemes for spice

  - Fix full screen monitor placement under wayland

  - Fix command line encoding on Windows

  - Ensure VM name is set in window title

  - Support unix-path in .vv files

  - Support text console windows via VTE

  - Add machine power control menu options

  - Record full build env in MSI installer

7.0: Jul 27, 2018

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  - Require spice-gtk >= 0.35

  - Clarify error message when no running VM is found

  - Improve check for libgovirt requirements

  - Support "-" as a URI for input connection file

  - Remove support for spice controller interface

  - Misc man page fixes

  - Lookup win32 translations relative to install dir

  - Position connect window in center not top-left

  - Misc fixes for ovirt foreign menu support

6.0: Aug 15, 2017

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  - Mention use of ssh-agent in man page

  - Display connection issue warnings in main window

  - Switch to GTask API

  - Add support changing CD ISO with oVirt foreign menu

  - Update various outdated links in README

  - Avoid printing password in debug logs

  - Pass hostname to authentication dialog

  - Fix example URLs in man page

  - Add args to virt-viewer to specify whether to

    resolve VM based on ID, UUID or name

  - Fix misc runtime warnings

  - Improve support for extracting listening info from XML

  - Enable connecting to SPICE over UNIX socket

  - Fix warnings with newer GCCs

  - Allow controlling zoom level with keypad

  - Don't close app during seemless migration

  - Don't show toolbar in kiosk mode

  - Re-show auth dialog in kiosk mode

  - Don't show error when cancelling auth

  - Change default screenshot name to 'Screenshot.png'

  - Report errors when saving screenshot

  - Fix build with latest glib-mkenums

5.0: Nov 24, 2016

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  - Don't retry authentication when credentials

    are provided via vvfile

  - Fix display of guest name in title for VNC

  - Fix detection of domain stop when tunnelling

    over SSH

  - Fix problem resizing with GTK client side

    decorations

  - Fix leak on file transfer

  - Only include native spec file in dist to fix

    rpmbuild -ta

  - Check min required spice-glib version

  - Display errors to user if failing to open UNIX socket

  - Simplify file transfer UI to only display overall

    progress, rather than full list of files

  - Show list of files which failed to transfer

4.0: Jun 20, 2016

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  - Drop support for gtk2 builds

  - Require spice-gtk >= 0.31

  - Require glib2 >= 2.38

  - Require gtk3 >= 3.10

  - Require libvirt-glib >= 0.1.8

  - Increase minimum window size fo 320x200 instead of 50x50

  - Remove use of GSLice

  - Don't show usbredir button if not connected yet

  - Only compute monitor mapping in full screen

  - Don't ignore usb-filter in spiec vv-file

  - Port to use GtkApplication API

  - Don't leave window open after connection failure

  - Validate symbols from max glib/gdk versions

  - Don't use GtkStock

  - Don't use gtk_widget-modify_{fg,bg} APIs

  - Drop use of built-in eventloop in favour of libvirt-glib

  - Don't open X display while parsing command line

  - Fix window title

  - Use GResource for building ui files into binary

  - Fix crash with invalid spice monitor mapping

  - Add dialog to show file transfer progress and allow

    cancelling

  - Remove unused nsis installer support

  - Include adwaita icon theme in msi builds

  - Add more menu mnemonics

  - Fix support for windows consoles to allow I/O redirection

  - Add support for ovirt sso-token in vv-file

  - Fix crash with zooming window while not connected

  - Remove custom auto drawer widget with GtkRevealer

  - Add appdata file for gnome software

  - Misc other bug fixes

  - Refresh translations

3.0: Dec 3, 2015

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  - Last release to support GTK2 for Linux. The next

    4.0 release will be GTK3 only.

  - Don't add URI scheme / path info to oVirt URIs

  - Require spice-gtk >= 0.30

  - Enable webdav folder sharing with spice

  - Add preferences UI dialog

  - Take --direct into account when checking if guest is

    reachable

  - Take SPICE proxy into account when connecting to oVirt

    instances

  - Fail gracefully when hostname is not returned by

    oVirt

  - Don't show empty foreign menu on secondary displays

  - Avoid accidentally trying to connect to port 0 when

    oVirt doesn't specify a port number

  - Correctly update geometry when enabling/disabling

    display heads

  - Avoid accidentally creating extra monitors when using

    configuration file monitor mapping

  - Exit normally when cancelling connect dialog

  - Don't wait for a guest that we know will never show up

  - Fix crash when using --reconnect with SPICE

  - Avoid zooming out if it would decrease window size

    below minimum required for top menu display

  - Fix crash when disabling last enabled display

  - Honour changes in display position from guest

  - Don't show error dialog twice for unknown graphics type

  - Allow to cancel oVirt auth without error

  - Set sensitivity of display menu based on whether it is

    usable or not

  - Set sensitivity of tool bar buttons based on whether they

    are usable or not

  - Set guest name reported by VNC

  - Fix crash when using gtk-vnc 0.3.8

  - Fix alt-tab behaviour in choose VM dialog

  - Don't allow missing display in monitor mapping config

  - Add --with-osid flag to configure to allow specifying

    the operating system build target. The values should

    be based on libosinfo OS short IDs.

  - Ensure windows installer places menu icon for all users

    not just admin. Requires manual uninstall of previous

    windows version

  - Require address in remote viewer connect dialog

  - Automatically retry VNC connection after auth failure

  - Drop GTK2 support for Windows builds

  - Enable keepalives on libvirt conncetion

  - Allow resize of window to arbitrary size

  - Fix thread safety handling event callbacks

  - Avoid deprecation warnings with newer glib

  - Pulled in multiple fixes for event loop from libvirt-glib

  - Fix misc bugs reported by coverity

  - Fix binary ID in MSI installer

  - Stop polling libvirt after reconnceting to libvirt

2.0: Jan 12, 2015

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  - Fix handling of zoom in/out accelerators

  - Fix warning going in/out of fullscreen

  - Add dialog showing info about the current guest

  - Change format of fullscreen config setting to

    allow for sparse guest displays

  - Write VM name to config file as a comment

  - Never use fallback CA certs when loading vv-file

  - Remove extraneous '/' from oVirt URIs

  - Support oVirt foreign menus

  - Allow using numapad for zoom in/out accelerators

  - Force geometry update when agent connects

  - Fix misc crash bugs

  - Fix misc memory leaks

  - Allow viewing of password entry characters

  - Don't fail when auth dialog is cancelled

  - Only create extra windows on demand

  - Use more sensible default window size

  - Improve docs for URIs and config files

  - Allow cancellation of SPICE auth dialog

  - Use new libvirt API for --attach to avoid SELinux AVC

  - Allow removable of CD images with oVirt connections

  - Show VM choose dialog when oVirt VM name is missing

  - Support usernames request with SASL auth

  - Use socat instead of nc if available

  - Use PNG instead of SVG for icons

  - Support connection to UNIX sockets instead of TCP

  - Honour zoom level from CLI args with VNC

  - Switch to GTK3 instead of GKT2 for Windows builds

  - Ensure dialogs have transient parent set

  - Switch to gstreamer 1.0 instead of 0.10 for Windows builds

  - Avoid accidentally connecting to localhost with VNC/SPICE

  - Use a versioned install directory for Windows builds

1.0: Jul 21, 2014

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  - Switched to 2-digit version numbering.

  - Improve error reporting when failing to find

    the GtkBuilder UI files

  - Honour title provided by SPICE server if available

  - Don't hide main window when disconnecting in multi-monitor

    configurations

  - Don't show VNC widget until authentication has completed

  - Fix session handling when re-authenticating

  - Improve docs for --attach flag

  - Ask for credentials for SPICE proxy

  - Fix scaling of windows when resizing

  - Remove 'Automatically resize' menu, leaving the behaviour

    permanently enabled

  - Improve USB icon in full screen toolbar

  - Don't resize guest when changing zoom level

  - Don't create windows at startup if kiosk mode isn't enabled

  - Don't show quit confirmation dialog in kiosk mode

  - Misc typos / fixes in man pages

  - Fix race with metacity window manager in fullscreen mode

  - Avoid accidentally connecting to localhost with --direct flag

  - Use custom log handler to silence debug messages on old glib2

  - Fix tiny windows for secondary displays with gtk2 build

  - Take zoom into account when checkign display limits

  - Fix unshrinkable displays with windows guests

  - Allow  ctrl-[+-] to zoom in fullscreen mode

0.6.0: Jan 24, 2014

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  - Require govirt 0.3.0

  - Require spice-gtk 0.22

  - Show error dialog if password is wrong

  - Document application/x-virt-viewer file format

  - Remove unused '-d' option from remote-viewer

  - Add a kiosk mode

  - Add menu for sending Ctrl+Alt+Delete

  - Add Ctrl+Alt+End as accelerator for Ctrl+Alt+Delete

  - Send modifiers before the non-modifier key in send

    key menu

  - Fix GTK warning when disconnecting from VNC due to

    auth error

  - Make 'Cancel' default button in exit dialog

  - Make send key menu accelerators work in fullscreen

  - Remove insecure fetching of oVirt CA cert

  - Build for GTK 3 by default

  - Fix title bar after failed connection

  - Reshow remote-viewer connection dialog upon error

  - Hide all windows upon disconnect

  - Add ability to define custom monitor mapping

  - Ensure all windows obey command line zoom level

  - Add an icon to the desktop file

  - Fix event loop implementation on Win32 platforms

  - Misc other bug fixes

0.5.7: Jul 31, 2013

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  - Many fixes to full screen / window positioning handling

  - Reshow connect dialog if connection fails

  - Misc man page fixes

  - Mark RPM as obsoleting spice-client

  - Set the host subject to fix SSL connections with ovirt

  - Use -H as short variant of --hotkeys

  - Add missing trailing ';' in desktop file

  - Allow TLS only SPICE connections

  - Use dynamic key send menu

  - Enable smartcard shortcuts only when smartcard reader is present

  - Misc other bug fixes

0.5.6: Apr 12, 2013

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  - Add ovirt:// support to remote-viewer (needs libgovirt)

  - Many fullscreen and multi-monitor fixes

  - Add a minimum version check in connection file

  - Fix sending key combinations from "Send Key" menu when the key names are

    localized

  - Fix build with older glib and gtk+

  - Fix MSI x64 build

  - Clean-ups (remove browser plugin entirely)

0.5.5: Feb 13, 2013

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  - Improve screenshot saving dialog

  - remote-viewer learned to connect with a file of mime type

    application/x-virt-viewer, described in src/virt-viewer-file.c

  - Add a "do not ask me again" dialog checkbox when leaving

  - Add a MSI target, using https://live.gnome.org/msitools

  - Add windows debug helper, useful in Spice controller running context

  - Add remote-viewer --title STRING

  - Support for Spice proxy settings added

  - Numerous Spice display and multi-monitor fixes

  - win32, memory, build, and other misc fixes

  - Requires spice-gtk >= 0.16.26

0.5.4: Sep 17, 2012

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  - Fix host migration with Spice

  - Fix misc memory leaks

  - Fix build with newer glibc and -O0

  - Improve automatic fullscreen Spice configuration

  - Avoid crash when quiting application

  - Rebuild display men whenever a window is added/removed

  - Number displays starting from 1 instead of 0

  - Add support for handling multiple monitors with Spice

  - Menu display menu insensitive if no displays can be selected

  - Use real binary name in remote-viewer help message

  - Document -f=auto-conf in remote-viewer help

0.5.3: May 14, 2012

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  - Add support for raw IPv6 addresses

  - Add a remote-viewer.desktop file and register spice:// handling

  - Add a simple connection dialog to remote-viewer

  - Add remote-viewer --fullscreen=auto-conf option, to update guest

    monitors configuration to match client

  - Spice controller support for disable-effects, color-depth and

    usbredir

  - Spice controller interaction fixes

  - Windows version and nsis installer improvements

  - Import newer translations from transifex

  - Misc reference leak / crash bugs fixed

0.5.2: Mar 09, 2012

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  - Require libvirt >= 0.9.7, spice-gtk >= 0.11, spice-protocol >= 0.10.1

  - Import newer translations from transifex

  - remote-viewer learned Spice controller customizable key bindings,

    smartcard property, and foreign menu

  - Fix Spice crash on re-connection

  - Fix connecting via ssh to a password-protected server

  - Add a sendkey menu in fullscreen mode

  - Add USB device selection in fullscreen mode

  - Misc reference leak / crash bugs fixed

0.5.1: Feb 17, 2012

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  - Import newer translations from transifex

  - Fix build system to ensure we don't loose GNU_RELRO

    security feature

  - Don't link virt-viewer binary against spice controller

  - Add back compat for GObject 2.22 which lacks GBinding

0.5.0: Feb 14, 2012

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  - Add a remote-viewer binary for connecting to a SPICE/VNC

    server based on URI, instead of querying libvirt

  - Add ability to attach to a local VM via libvirt instead of

    connecting over UNIX sockets

  - Add support for SPICE controller

  - Allow build without libvirt, for remote-viewer only

  - Automatically resize guest desktop when resizing window with SPICE

  - Add support for redirecting host USB devices to remote guest

  - Grab focus when first showing the display

  - Register as a spice-xpi-client-remote alternative

  - Add pretty icon for virt-viewer app

  - Set transient window hints on all popups

  - Activate password 'Ok' button when pressing Enter

  - Support secure connections with SPICE

  - Don't hardcode 'localhost' for hostname

0.4.2: Nov  9, 2011

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  - Fix exports of signal functions for GTK UI builder on Windows

  - Avoid crash if xmlParseURI fails

  - Fix inverted test for SSH port that broke tunnelling

  - Don't hardcode port numbers for SSH if not requested by user

  - Fix deadlock in event handling

  - Fix initial zoom level for all windows

  - Fix window title to include domain name

  - Fix hostname used when XML gives a wildcard IP address

  - Fix window title when waiting for domain to appear

  - Fix key shortcust for F9-F12 menus

  - Always ask libvirt for its canonical URI

  - Allow build without GTK-VNC (ie spice only)

  - Require GTK-VNC >= 0.4.3

  - Require SPICE-GTK >= 0.6.0

0.4.1: Aug  4, 2011

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  - Remove bogus use of AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT macro to try to

    facilitate BSD builds

  - Support multiple monitors with SPICE and QXL drivers

  - Don't hardcode SSH port to 22 when tunnelling

0.4.0: Jul 12, 2011

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  - Require SPICE-GTK >= 0.6

  - Hide menu bar when going fullscreen

  - Support building against GTK2 or GTK3

  - Convert from Glade to GtkBuilder

  - Honour 'listen' attribute from <graphics> XML when connecting

  - Fix reconnection after authentication failure

  - Make --verbose flag actually do something

  - Enable scaling with SPICE to match VNC behaviour

  - Rewrite widget resizing code to (try to) be more reliable

  - Fill extra space outside guest display with black

  - Fix (null) in title bar while not connected

  - Fix multiple memory leaks

  - Fix reconnecting to display with SPICE

0.3.1: Feb 21, 2011

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  - Fix typo in configure script that broke SPICE

0.3.0: Feb 21, 2011

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  - Add support for SPICE graphics client

  - Allow connections to VNC server over UNIX sockets

  - Improve error messages on auth/connection failure

  - Add support for zoom levels

  - Many updated translations

0.2.1: Jan 15, 2010

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  - Add infrastructure for translation

  - Display dialog to user if authentication fails

  - Display dialog to user if domain cannot be found

  - GTK/GLib best practice cleanups

  - Add Polish translation

0.2.0: July 20, 2009

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  - Switch UI over to use Glade

  - Support graphical dialog for VNC and libvirt authentication

  - Resize window to match VNC desktop size where possible

  - Scale down VNC desktop if it cannot fit in host desktop space

  - Allow user to resize window to arbitrary size, scaling VNC

  - Fix blocking of accelerators

  - Allow automatic reconnect to a VM via --reconnect

  - Use libvirt events to detect when VM changes state

  - Wait for VM to appear if it does not exist

  - Fix plugin build with newer xulrunner

  - Port & build for Mingw32 target

0.0.3: March 10, 2008

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  - Block accelerators when grab is active

  - Enable smooth scaling of desktop to fill screen

  - Added an experimental firefox plugin (disabled by default)

  - Hide characters in password entry field

  - Use domain name in title bar instead of VNC desktop name

0.0.2: August 28, 2007

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  - Support connecting to remote libvirt servers

  - Support connecting to remote VNC consoles

  - Support tunneling VNC over SSH

  - Support TLS x509 certificate credentials

0.0.1: August 15, 2007

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  - Initial release