[X2go-dev] test version of baikal and some further informations

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 22:35 +0200, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:
> Hello x2gousers,
> 
> let's start this mail with the good news. After reading the next lines,
> you'll be able to test the new features of our new release. You'll just
> have to add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
> deb http://x2go.obviously-nice.de/deb/ heuler main
> 
> Please don't remove the main x2go repository. After doing an apt-get
> update you'll be able to access new versions of x2goclient, x2goserver
> and the new packages x2godesktopsharing and x2goplasmoid. The new
> packages are not yet named 3.1 (planned version number of baikal).
> Little baby seals a called "Heuler" in german, so this is a preview and
> not the new release. Please keep in mind, that there are still some
> things need to be done before we can do the "real" release.
> 
> The new features/changelog:
> 
> x2goclient
> old 3.01-5 new 3.01-11
> New features:
>   * plugin config options sound, exportfs, adsl, compression, quality,
> dpi, kbdlayout, kbdtype
>   * embeded mode for firefox plugin
>   * updated interface
>   * support for fs encodings
>   * shadow sessions
>   * xdmcp sessions
>   * commandline option for printing in LDAP mode
> 
> x2goserver
> old 3.01-5 new 3.01-9
> New features:
>   * support for kde4 plasmoid
>   * support for fs encodings
>   * support for session sharing
> 
> new packages:
> x2godesktopsharing
> x2goplasmoid
> 
> not updated:
> x2goclient-gtk
> 
> Following issues are known:
> Connections to localhost are known to be problematic. We'll work on this
> issue.
> On some distros (with a different zip application to debian) the plugin
> content is unzipped without the applied user rights. In this case
> firefox crashes during the visit of a site containing the plugin. You
> can avoid this by running following command inside the users home directory:
> 
> chmod +x
> .mozilla/firefox/[profile]/extensions/x2goplugin at obviously-nice.de/x2goclient/x2goclient
> 
> Don't use the x2goldaptools for generating a LDAP config on top of
> debian squeeze (debian made a change to gnutls).
> 
> We'll work on those and on the reported bugs.
> 
> Please keep in mind, that those packages are meant for testing. In the
> next days we'll add documentation of the new features to the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.x2go.org
> 
<snip>
Great news! Any chance fixes for the clipboard and full screen problems
with the Windows client will make into the release? Thanks - John