RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

Added support for the following GPU:

Tesla X2090

Fixed a bug that caused black areas to appear on the back faces of some models in Maya.

Fixed a bug that resulted in the printing of spurious loader error messages.

Fixed a bug that could cause X to crash after hotplugging displays.

Fixed a bug which caused face selections to be misrendered in Maya when using the paint selection tool.

Improved performance for interactive tools in Mudbox.

Added a "--no-opengl-files" option to nvidia-installer to allow installation of the driver without OpenGL files that might conflict with already installed OpenGL implementations.

Split the DFP configuration page in nvidia-settings into multiple tabs, allowing the controls to be displayed on smaller screens.

Fixed a bug that could cause some OpenGL applications (including desktop environments like KDE and GNOME Shell) to hang.

Fixed a bug that prevented the internal panel from working on some laptops with GeForce 7 series GPUs.

Fixed an OpenGL bug where using display lists on Fermi-based GPUs could result in missing rendering in some cases.

Fixed an OpenGL bug that caused incorrect rendering when using framebuffer objects to render to 16-bit color textures with alpha.

Fixed two bugs that caused sporadic application crashes in some multi-threaded OpenGL applications.

Fixed a bug that caused creating OpenGL 4.2 contexts with glXCreateContextAttribsARB to fail.

Fixed a bug that caused OpenGL to print

Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0". when used with a non-NVIDIA implementation of the GLX X extension.

Implemented color depth 30 (10 bits per component) support for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.

Implemented support for constraining cursors to the visible regions of connected displays; see the "ConstrainCursor" X Option in the README for details.

Berlin, February 14, 2012 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5, the third major release of “the best free office suite ever”, which shows to end users the improvements derived from the development strategy adopted since September 2010. LibreOffice 3.5 derives from the combined effort of full time hackers – the largest group of experienced OOo code developers – and volunteer hackers, coordinated by the Engineering Steering Committee.

During 16 months, an average of 80 developers each month have provided a total of over thirty thousand code commits, introducing new and interesting features:

Writer

- a new built-in Grammar checker for English and several other languages
- improved typographical features, for professional looking documents
- an interactive word count window, which updates in real time
- a new header, footer and page break user interface

Impress / Draw

- an improved importer of custom shapes and Smart Art from PPT/PPTX
- a feature for embedding multimedia/colour palettes into ODF documents
- a new display switch for the presenter’s console
- new line ends for improved diagrams
- Microsoft Visio import filter

Calc

- support for up to 10,000 sheets
- a new multi-line input area
- new Calc functions conforming to the ODF OpenFormula specifications
- better performances when importing files from other office suites
- multiple selections in autofilter
- unlimited number of rules for conditional formatting

Base

- a new integrated PostgreSQL native driver

xine-lib (1.2.1) 2012-02-04

* The "I'm at Tyneside LUG" release.
* Enable PulseAudio, JACK and VDPAU on the Hurd.
* Rewrite of VDPAU OSD handling.
* sndio plugin is now buildable.
* Various bug fixes.

New features at a glance:

KDE 4.7.4
Hybrid ISO images
Search engines
Upstream components

GIMP 2.6.12 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Its purpose is mostly to wrap up all fixes that have piled up since 2.6.11 into a last release in the stable 2.6 series before we switch to 2.8. Please have a look at the NEWS file for a detailed list of changes.

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.11 to GIMP 2.6.12
===================================================

* Bugs fixed:

627328 - GIMP 2.6.10 segfaults when CTRL-left click on a layer mask
631885 - GIMP fails to import a path from SVG
631728 - Crash or Gtk-CRITICAL on File->Open
641259 - [abrt] gimp-2:2.6.11-1.fc14: py-slice.py:172:slice:TypeError: integer argument expected, got float
640219 - gimp(1) manpage fixes
640612 - Sample Colorize does not function non-interactively
646947 - file-pdf-load: Don't use deprecated API
639203 - file-psp: fix for bogus input data
639203 - Fixes for some buffer overflow problems
652280 - Guard against crash due to quitting while DND is processed
660305 - fails to build with -Werror=format-security
623045 - script-fu: make server IPv6 aware

... plus a ton of others.

* Updated translations:

Asturian (ast)
Catalan (Valencian) (ca@valencia)
Danish (da)
Greek (el)
Esperanto (eo)
Spanish (es)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Kazakh (kk)
Latvian (la)
Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese (pt)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
Russian (ru)
Turkish (tr)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

Highlights of 1.4.1:

New 3D animation (wireframe text)

New Titles (gold)

New Effects (fish eye)

New Animation Presets

Support for Blender 2.6.X

Localization fixes (seg faults, audio volume, rotation effect)

UI bugs (disappearing icons using some GTK themes)

Improved Help Manual

Improved Title UI (interactive font list)

Improved Precision (clip length, default image length)

Tons of bug fixes! (view all bug reports)

2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair"

Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.

- Upgrading:

This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most applications.

- Enhancements:

This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder, of particular interest to real time streaming applications.

Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targetting for each substream.

Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios.

Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them separately.

- Speed:

Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real-time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3 improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved 1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the Cayuga release.

- Quality:

Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga release.

- Bug Fixes:

This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7 related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting decoding from a P-frame.

We have made a new major release (0.10) It contains all features and bugfixes of the git master branch. A partial list of new stuff is below:

Fixes:

CVE-2011-3929, CVE-2011-3934, CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3936,
CVE-2011-3937, CVE-2011-3940, CVE-2011-3941, CVE-2011-3944,
CVE-2011-3945, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2011-3947, CVE-2011-3949,
CVE-2011-3950, CVE-2011-3951, CVE-2011-3952

v410 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 10-bit encoder and decoder
SBaGen (SBG) binaural beats script demuxer
OpenMG Audio muxer
Timecode extraction in DV and MOV
thumbnail video filter
XML output in ffprobe
asplit audio filter
tinterlace video filter
astreamsync audio filter
amerge audio filter
ISMV (Smooth Streaming) muxer
GSM audio parser
SMJPEG muxer
XWD encoder and decoder
Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_error option
Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer codec
v308 Quicktime Uncompressed 4:4:4 encoder and decoder
yuv4 libquicktime packed 4:2:0 encoder and decoder
ffprobe -show_frames option
silencedetect audio filter
ffprobe -show_program_version, -show_library_versions, -show_versions options
rv34: frame-level multi-threading
optimized iMDCT transform on x86 using SSE for for mpegaudiodec
Improved PGS subtitle decoder
dumpgraph option to lavfi device
r210 and r10k encoders
ffwavesynth decoder
aviocat tool
ffeval tool
all features from avconv merged into ffmpeg

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Linux driver:

This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
SLED 11 SP2 early look support
Ubuntu 11.10 production level support

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:

Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.

Fully modularized sound drivers.

SMP and thread-safe design.

User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.

Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

Detailed changelog between 1.0.24 and 1.0.25 releases

This release offers a triple-pack of new features:

* ~10% performance improvement using the new LLVM-based CUDA compiler.

* Over 1000 new imaging and signal processing functions added to the NVIDIA Performance Primitives library. If you do image processing, NPP has a GPU accelerated function for you.

* Completely re-designed Visual Profiler with a new automated expert system to give you step-by-step performance optimizations.

Changes since 1.3.2-test2

Added wheel texture for car1-ow1 for simple wheel rendering mode (Bernhard).
Fixed simuv2 Makefile, parallel builds are now possible in Posix systems (e.g. MAKE="make -j 8" make). Because libsolid is a static library it must be built before simuv2, defined explicit dependency (Bernhard).
Fixed missing dependency in VS 2008 solution (human requires client for input handling) (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.3.2-test1

Added menu music code (finally!!!) (Bernhard).
Composed and added a menu song (Bernhard).
Added menu music customization (currently just enable/disable) (Bernhard).
Replaced sprintf's with snprintf's in lib (Bernhard).
Fixed warnings regarding size_t in printf (Bernhard).
Rewrote handleEntities to avoid buffer size problems (Bernhard).
Changed handling of indentation when writing XML files to avoid buffer size problems (Bernhard).
Ported sound/sprintf changes to Windows version (Bernhard).
Report #3405193, added torcs.desktop file provided by Jakob Matthes (Jakob, Bernhard).
Report #3089384, applied/tested patch for CVE-2010-3384, reported/provided by Rudy Godoy (Rudy, Bernhard).
Report #2887013, applied/tested patch reported by paletta (paletta, Bernhard).
Report #2784518, applied/tested, provided by Hamid Homatash (Hamid, Bernhard).
Fixed possible buffer overflow reported by Andres Gomez (Andres, Bernhard).
Fixed libpng deprication warnings (Bernhard).
Updated windows libraries: libpng 1.5.7, zlib 1.2.5, plib 1.8.5 (Bernhard).
Switched Windows VS 6 build to link with the multithreaded crt (Bernhard).
Added libraries for VS2008 build (Bernhard).
Developed/added VS 2008 project files (Bernhard).
Applied patch for OpenSolaris 2009.06, created by Andrey Sokolov (Andrey, Bernhard).
Fixed various gcc compiler warnings (Bernhard).
Consider deadzone for analogue axis, e.g. wheels, joysticks, gamepads (Bernhard).
Fixed center calibration for steer axis (Bernhard).
Use plibjs instead of internal header (Bernhard).
Adopted available axis for controllers (Bernhard).
Just update view once per 2 seconds simulation time (in blind mode) to avoid slowdown with graphics cards which are bad in buffer switching (e.g. ATI fglrx driver on Linux), this speeds up blind practice sessions as well a lot on other graphics cards (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.3.1

Fixed remaining const char* gcc 4.3 warnings (Bernhard).
Just load ssggraph once to avoid weird crashes when going back to the options menu and coming back to the race (just Linux was affected, the Windows version does not work the same way regarding this) (Bernhard).
Applied corrections suggested by Kim Oldfield to the robot tutorial (Kim, Bernhard).
Adopted TRB result submission for 1.3.1 (Bernhard).
Adopted TRB result submission for new PHP DOM version (Bernhard).
Fixed minor TRB bug which showed/labeled links to signin/remove teams during the race phase (Bernhard).
Replaced hardcoded upload limit in TRB with configuration parameter (Bernhard).
Bumped TRB version number to 0.0.2 (Bernhard).
Commited TRB creation of indices (Bernhard).
Adjustments to car3-trb1 to make it more competitive (Bernhard).
Added new car8-trb1 (Bernhard).
Reduce front car advantage in slipstreaming scenarios (Bernhard).
Ground effect drop off more dramatic when airflow comes sideways, no ground effect anymore when driving reverse (Bernhard).
Increased Cd (drag coefficient) for car1-trb1 (Bernhard).
Improved efficiency of pit wall collision detection (Bernhard).
Applied Erics explicit wheel model code with some modifications: in the cars "Graphic Objects" section you can define "3d wheel directory" (e.g. "mywheel-1") and "3d wheel basename" (e.g. "mywheel"), then TORCS tries to load "wheels/mywheel-1/mywheel?.acc", where ? is 0..3 for different rotation rates. Later we could also move the wheel only specific simulation properties into an xml belonging to the wheel (Eric, Bernhard).
Do not try to load wheels when configuration is missing (Bernhard).
Added Erics wheels for sc-f1 with modified texture/configuration (Eric, Bernhard).
Fixed wrong scaling of steering input display (Bernhard).
Created new car category for trb1, moved initially trb1 cars into it (Bernhard).
Improved moment calculations for aerodynamic forces (Bernhard).
Default setup adjustments for trb1 cars (Bernhard).
Created new trb3 category, assigned car1-trb3 to it (Bernhard).
Created new category ow1, moved sc-f* to car1-ow1 (Bernhard).
Adopted Windows port to changes (car categories, wheels, etc.) (Bernhard).
Bumped version to 1.3.2-test1 (Bernhard).
Created 6 new wheels trb1-1 to trb1-6 (Bernhard).
Adopted new wheels to trb1/3 cars (Bernhard).
Added graphic option to switch off/on detailed wheels, they seem to use quite some performance (Bernhard).
Adjusted graphics defaults to higher levels (FOV, skidmarks) (Bernhard).