[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] NEWS: prepare v0.36 release

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:41 PM Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  NEWS | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> >
> > This is a preliminary patch for the v0.36 release notes, which should
> > happen after the spice-gtk patch queue on the ML is flushed.
> >
> > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > index 3f54f77..83ace29 100644
> > --- a/NEWS
> > +++ b/NEWS
> > @@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
> > +v0.36
> > +=====
> > +
> > +- Add meson build: autotools will be removed in a future release
> > +- Deprecate PulseAudio backend: it will be removed in a future
> > +  release, please use GStreamer instead and report issues
> > +- Add h265 stream support (requires GStreamer support)
>
> small, H265 (capital)

ok

>
> > +- Add SpiceQmpPort helper to interact with QEMU monitor over a Spice port
> > +- Display a message if EGL support is required (with dmabuf local rendering)
> > +- Many GstVideoOverlay improvements
> > +- Smooth-scrolling improvements
> > +- Fix accumulating output frames with GStreamer
>
> I think you mean Snir patches. They are targeting a specific case.

commit 8835e757922cb0342b6236997f5ef2ab61bac1a9
Author: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 13 21:14:56 2018 +0100

    channel-display-gst: Prevent accumulating output queue


Do you have a better wording to suggest?

> > +- Fix reconnection handling
> > +- Fix memory leaks due to bad refcount of images in the cache
>
> I would say "Fix small memory leaks" ...

ok, I am not sure how bad it is tbh, probably minor since it was
unnoticed. I guess REPLACE_ME is not being used that often by the
driver/server.

>
> > +- Fix build for newer LibreSSL
> > +- win32: fix crash with libusb 1.0.22 and UsbDk is not installed
>
> is -> if ??

no,  commit 3e23fff91ea15421a404fb8fc0cb5d86bfbeaa95

Do you have a better wording?

> It seems a copy&paste from a commit title, also all other
> points start with capital.
>
> > +- win32: do not try to connect to org.gnome.SessionManager
>
> Isn't this too technical? Also it affected Mac.
> Something like "Do not attempt Gnome desktop integration on Windows and Mac" ?

I can drop it from the NEWS, it can be considered quite minor indeed.

> > +- Require Gtk >= 3.22
> > +- Require GStreamer >= 1.0
> > +- Require spice-protocol >= 1.12.15
> > +- Require usbredir >= 0.5
> > +- Require libusb >= 1.0.16
> > +- Require libcacard >= 2.5.1
> > +- Require lz4 >= 1.7.3
>
> I don't think this was changed for this release, the commit
> in spice-common is from November 2016, I cannot find nothing
> in spice-gtk.

commit f494335bc34773f27bd9c519b8b383cc011e7528

We discussed with Christophe whether it make sense to support the old
version scheme (~129 etc), and decided it was ok to depend on 1.7.3
instead based on repology

>
> > +- Require json-glib >= 1.0
> > +
> >  v0.35
> >  =====
> >
>
> Frediano
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thanks!

-- 
Marc-André Lureau