2008-02-21  Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>

Fifth alpha release of Gnash (0.8.2).
Improvements since 0.8.1 release are:

    - Improved timeline redesign.
    - Action execution order fixes.
    - Keyboard handling improved [1].
    - New classes implemented: System.capabilities (partial),
      SharedObject, LocalConnection.
    - New opcodes implemented: ActionImplements, Try/Throw.
    - Movieclip.beginGradientFill completes drawing API support.
    - MovieClip._lockroot support added.
    - Implement GET/POST for MovieClip.loadVariables and
      MovieClip.loadMovie
    - Textfield support improved.
    - Security: configurable sandbox restricts filesystem access by movies.
    - Better support for SWF8.
    - Streaming OGG-contained multimedia (e.g. vorbis/theora or vorbis/dirac),
      and other free formats.
    - OGL and Cairo renderers much improved.
    - Improvements of the Framebuffer GUI (hide text messages, support Linux
      events system, built-in touchscreen calibration, simple keyboard support,
      better architecture support).
    - SOLdumper utility for reading SOL files ('flash cookies').
    - DumpShm utility finds and dumps Local Connection memory segments.
    - Fullscreen display possible.
    - Extensions for LIRC and DBus.
    - High quality, cross-platform psuedo-randomness using boost random.
    - NPAPI (Mozilla) plugin: keyboard events work, navigation and javascript
      from within movies.
    - Set and save preferences from the GUI (GTK).
    - Improved stability and robustness with malformed SWFs.
    - Many other bugfixes. 

2007-08-29  Sandro Santilli <strk@keybit.net>

Fourth alpha release of Gnash (0.8.1).
Improvements since 0.8.0 release are:

	- Garbage Collector
	- Support for device fonts
	- Support for dynamic text fields
	- Better key handling
	- Support for FFMPEG SVN
	- Support for on-demand install of needed Gstreamer codec plugins.
	- Debugger off by default (improves performance and memory use)
	- AGG renderer by default 
	- Support for KDE/AGG combination
	- Layout change : we'll now build <gui>-gnash and 'gnash' is a shell
	  script with gui selection capabilities (-G)
	- More robust parser 
	- Better support for flash player detection
	- Fix for 'debugLog' directive in gnashrc

07-06-XX  Rob Savoye  <rob@darkstar.welcomehome.org>

The third alpha release of Gnash. Improvements since the 0.7.2 release
are: 

* Streaming video works with YouTube and Lulu.tv! This has been the
focus for the majority of the time since the last release.
* Many core improvments in the VM as our understanding of Flash
improves. These all improve both the correctness of a movie that is
being played, but enebles more movies to play that used to not work.
* New FLTK2 gui.
* Simple Flash debugger added.
* Improved Darwin support that can use the system OpenGL.
* Flash extensions, direct support for file handling, MySQL access,
etc.. through plugins to the Gnash VM. Wrappers for any C/C++ API
libraries can be exported into ActionScript, and used as native
commands in a Flash movie.
* Updated manuals.
* Many new testcases! Support for testing with ming, swfmill, amd
mtasc compilers.
* New drawing API for MovieClips..

2006-09-10  Rob Savoye  <rob@bertha.welcomehome.org>

The second alpha release of Gnash is coming soon. Improvements since
the 0.7.1 alpha release are:

* Polling main loop replaced with event driven framework.
* New GUI abstraction layer supporting GTK2, KDE, SDL, and just a
framebuffer. 
* Movies are parsed by a background thread, so they start playing
while still loading.
* Plugin supports web navigation and starts playing while the stream
is loading.
* New AntiGrain (AGG) 2D backend added for framebuffer devices.
* Sound now works.
* Supports cross configuration and cross compiling for embedded targets.
* A whole slew of minor bugs that kept various movies from playing.

2006-04-20  Rob Savoye  <rob@bertha.welcomehome.org>

The first alpha release of Gnash! Version 0.7.1 is released with a
working browser plugin.

2005-12-10  Rob Savoye  <rob@bertha.welcomehome.org>

GameSWF has been turned into Gnash! Gnash's goals are to turn this
into a free flash movie player plugin for Firefox.
