Gnash Project

On December 15 the Linux Fund announced support for the Gnash/RTMP project.

See the Linux PR announce and the project details.

I'm keeping track of bugs in the 0.8.4 release. Obviously "fixed" cannot mean that they've been fixed in 0.8.4, which is immutable. Instead, it means that they've been fixed in bzr.

For those people that want to see what is actually stored in these files, Gnash includes a utility program called "soldumper", which will do this for you to make sure your privacy isn't being invaded. -- rob

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Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer
October 9th, 2008

There are hundreds of applications out there from spyware cleaners to built-in browser features that eliminate cookies on the spot, and even let you set cookie policies on your computer regarding what can be stored in your machine, and for how long.

Gnash 0.8.4 has been released! Get it from GetGnash.org or from the GNU Project's gnash repository.

We're expecting to do a new release of Gnash within a couple of days. Please fetch and compile gnash-trunk-9980 as it is very likely to be the release.

Firefox allows you to install extensions and plugins with a single click on an XPI file. We're working feverishly on getting this technology into Gnash. We have a technology demo for Ubuntu Hardy users. With one click you can install gnash into Firefox. Please give it a try and let us know how it works for you. You can uninstall using the Tools/Add-ons menu item.
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Due to Igor Žbül, owner of gnash.org, we now have a link from his site to gnashdev.org. Thanks, Igor!

So Google recently released a browser called Chrome, making it ever easier for them to deliver advertisements to your computer screen. But more interestingly, its components are released under various free licenses. They have opened up a rather sizeable repository littered with (third party) Windows binaries -- in case you might want to link against them, I guess (?) -- and a source code drop.

The interesting bit about the source code drop is that it also has various support libraries, among which is one called "Skia". Its main purpose appears to be graphics rendering. The good news does not end here, because the rendering appears to be a scanline-based system. Scanline based renderers are -- as of writing -- the fastest renderers around. The Antigrain library, which happens to be Gnash's default renderer, is also a scanline renderer.

Gnash 0.8.3 has been released! Get it from GetGnash.org or from the GNU Project's gnash repository.