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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Major changes in 0.5.2: +======================= + +This is the first release of the unstable 0.5.x series leading up to 0.6. +With this release the API of spice-server is considered stable, but +the network protocol and QXL PCI ABI are still unstable. + +The major changes compared to the 0.4 series are: + +* New, more efficient network protocol +* Support for offscreen surfaces in guest driver +* New spice-server API +* A marshalling/demarshalling system that isolates the network + protocol parsing from the internal types +* A PCI parsing and validation layer making it easier to + get backwards compatibility, cleaning up the internals ans + makes security review easier. +* WAN support, including lossy compression using jpeg and + zlib compression. +* Easier to build. No more dependencies on forked versions + of pixman and cairo. Separate module spice-protocol containing + headers used when building drivers and qemu. |