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Gnash 0.8.7 released

From:  Rob Savoye <rob-AT-welcomehome.org>
To:  Gnash-AT-gnu.org, gnash-dev Mailing List <gnash-dev-AT-gnu.org>
Subject:  Gnash 0.8.7 Released
Date:  Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:22:45 -0700
Message-ID:  <4B78BE05.6060204@welcomehome.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

 The 0.8.7 release Gnash is now out. It's available from ftp.gnu.org,
and getgnash.org, and soon in your distribution of choice. More
information about how to get Gnash is at these links:
	http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Gnash#Obtaining_Source_Code
	http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Gnash#Obtaining_Pre-built_Packages

Improvements since the 0.8.6 release are:

 * Automatic and spontaneous screenshots support in all GUIs
 * Significant memory savings in parsing large XML trees and in
   some function calls
 * Enhancements in video streaming
 * Non blocking load of bitmaps, movies, data
 * Refactoring to eliminate most static data and get closer to
   re-entrant VM
 * Cygnal now supports multiple network connections, handling multiple
   video streams
 * Cygnal now supports plugins for server side scripting in C/C++
 * Improved packaging support for deb and rpm

See the NEWS file for more improvements.

	- rob -


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