4 Features! This release got some. And they even give you the long awaited
5 embedded Youtube support. At the cost of lost of API changes, but who cares?
6 - rewrite SwfdecLoader. Add SwfdecURL support structure in the process.
7 - implement AsBroadcaster actionscript object.
8 - implement Stage actionscript object. Movies can now do the scaling themselves.
9 - change the HTTP in swfdec-gtk from gnome-vfs to libsoup
10 - add an OSS backend for non-ALSA operating systems.
11 - various fixes to super and DefineFunction2 flags.
13 0.5.0 ("Meet Plan Party!")
15 Here's the long overdue update. Lots of backend stuff was rewritten. The only
16 thing that is missing now is more features. Expect them in the next releases.
17 - New and more correct script interpreter engine. The engine is even exported
18 for your coding pleasure.
19 - New instance placement handling algorithm. This one seems to produce much
20 better correctness results than the old one.
21 - More ActionScript bytecodes are supported, in particular CloneSprite and
23 - improve String reading in earlier Flash versions (Flash <=5 is Latin1, not
25 - implement some more Actionscript functions (most important is probably
26 createEmptyMovieClip ())
29 0.4.5 ("Death of the Desktop")
31 This is strictly a bugfix release. Have fun.
32 - fix linking issues on Solaris/BSD.
33 - fix various crashers.
35 0.4.4 ("Birthday Cards")
37 This is a stability release. The number of new supported Flash features
39 - add initial support for some tags from Flash 8 (in particular
40 DefineShape4 and PlaceObject3)
41 - audio and video can now be decoded with GStreamer
42 - add new API in the form of libswfdec-gtk for people that want to
43 include Swfdec in their applications
44 - improve the JPEG decoding code (less crashy, more JPEGs decoded)
45 - throw zzuf (http://sam.zoy.org/zzuf/) at Swfdec and fix exposed
47 - various fixes that make writing bindings simpler
48 - lots of bugs fixed, including: 10551, 10629
52 This release can play Youtube video. While this alone is enough for a
53 release, this was needed to make it possible:
54 - add lots of new features to the script interpreter, in particular
55 support for inheritance and the Object.registerClass function.
56 - rework the streaming and implement the NetStream, NetConnection and
57 XML script objects partially
58 - support passing variables to movies
59 - improvements to the JPEG decoder
60 - improvements to the debugging framework and the debugger
61 - support some more Flash 8 tags (in particular DefineFont3)
63 0.4.2 ("Two completely different numbers")
65 The main change for this release is changing script execution from
66 compiling to SpiderMonkey bytecode to executiong it manually. This made
67 it far easier and a lot more stable to run scripts. Other changes:
68 - Implement color transformations on images.
69 - Support some more ActionScript codes.
70 - Added swfdec_loader_get_filename() function to exported API.
71 - Allow compiling tests and tools without ALSA support
73 - Lots of new tests and debugging tools.
75 0.4.1 ("Dragostea din tei")
77 This release introduces video features. Quite a bit of internal
78 restructuring was necessary to achieve this. The API has been changed
80 - swfdec_player_iterate has been replaced by swfdec_player_advance
81 - some functions (like swfdec_player_set_audio_advance) have been
82 completely removed. The same effect can be achieved by using
83 swfdec_player_advance.
84 - Add support for video playback. This does not include scripting
86 - Add native FLV support to swfdec.
87 - Fix the caching layer. So SWF files with lots of images no longer
91 0.4.0 ("festivally plump")
93 This is the result of 3 months of refactoring, testing stuff and
94 generally playing around with swfdec. I'll try to list the big
96 - rip out support for outdated libart
97 - rip out included glib
98 - rework the object system to have a lot more objects
99 - split objects into "live" (SwfdecMovie, SwfdfecAudio), "static"
100 (SwfdecCharacter) and Javascript (JSObjects)
101 - compile Flash Actionscript codes into SpiderMonkey bytecode
103 - reverse engineer script execution order
104 - reverse engineer seeking in sprite movies
105 - implement lots of other Actionscript functions
106 - documentation for public API
107 - removal of all plugins (the Mozilla plugin exists as a seperate
109 - new small test application (not installed)
110 - slightly bigger script debugging application (not installed)
114 This is less of a release and more of a "toss a bunch of code into
115 the air". You're not going to like this release, really. So don't
116 bother compiling it. Don't even bother downloading it. It really
117 just differently buggy than the last release. Certain parts may
118 feel more solid, like the mozilla plugin, but the entire experience
119 will probably just be slower and less featureful. I already know
120 there are problems, don't bother reporting them, since it will
121 simply remind me of how crappy this release is. The only redeeming
122 factor of this release is that it doesn't crash. Ever. Well,
123 except for the bugs. Backtraces and media files welcome. You
124 could even use the handy new pop-up menu in the Mozilla plugin to
125 report a bug, except that I don't have the website backend running