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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
- !42 - Fix crash on startup of session agent
- !40 - Handle side mouse buttons
- !39 - Set retry limit to connect to vdagentd and improve logging error
- !35 - Fix deprecation warning
- !37 - Provide systemd spice-vdagent.service
- Security fixes: CVE-2020-25650, CVE-2020-25651, CVE-2020-25652, CVE-2020-25653
- Fix shutdown issue due to incompatible thread/fork uses with GLib
- Fix mouse pointer issues under Wayland
- Fix a crash when running without dbus (e.g: within containers)
- !9 - Introduce optional GTK4 support for monitor management
- !13 - Enable copying files from client using webdav
- Bump spice-protocol dependency to v0.14.3
- Add gio-unix and gobject dependency >= 2.50
- Bump gtk+ >= 3.22 (optional dependency)
- Last release with gtk+ being optional
- !4 - Race fixes between client and guest clipboard
- !2 - Fix session lookup for new GNOME versions
- !3 - Now using GMainLoop and GIO to handle I/O of messages
- Several minor covscan fixes
- Add libdrm dependency
- Fix file descriptor leak on failed connections
- Handle new VD_AGENT_GRAPHICS_DEVICE_INFO message advertised by VD_AGENT_CAP_GRAPHICS_DEVICE_INFO capability
- Session agent autostart changed to WindowManager (rhbz#1623947) This fixes possible race with xdg-user-dirs
- Fix of sending empty screen resolution messages (rhbz#1641723)
- Fix 'Dependency failed for Activation socket' with systemd (rhbz#1545212)
- Fix error messages about on selecting text on host (rhbz#1594876) this was also fixed with Gtk backend
- Update paths from /var/run → /run
- Fix Session agent restart
- Add test for file creation
- Prefer GLib memory functions stdlib.h ones
- Several code and logs improvements
- Add GTK+ framework to handle x11 backend such as clipboard
- Deprecate X11 backend in favor of GTK+ framework
- Ask pkg-config to appropriate directory to install udev rules
- Fix leak of udscs's file descriptor
- Better quote directory path when calling xdg-open to save file transfer
- Bump GLib to 2.34
- Add systemd socket activation (rhbz#1340160)
- Add support to detailed errors on file transfers
- Add check for available free space in guest before starting a file transfer
- Use better names for duplicated files on file transfer
- Improve support on big endian guests (#5)
- Use IdleHint to check if a session is locked over console-kit (rhbz#1412673)
- Fixes double free on errors over udscs by improving memory ownership
- Hide autostart file on Unity
- Improve command line messages for vdagentd
- Fix typo in --enable-static-uinput configure option
- Code repository moved to gitlab.freedesktop.org
- Denies file-transfer in locked sessions
- systems under systemd (rhbz#1323623)
- systems under console-kit (rhbz#1323630)
- Denies file-transfer in login screen
- systems under systemd (rhbz#1328761)
- systems under console-kit (rhbz#1323640)
- Bump glib version to 2.28
- Set exit code to 1 instead of 0 when virtio device cannot be opened
- Fix double-free on uinput->screen_info (rhbz#1262635)
- Code improvement over unix domain client server support (udcs)
- Fix build compatibility with different libsystemd versions (fdo#94209)
- Add audio volume synchronization support
- Add support for maximum clipboard size
- Add support for more clipboard targets (STRING and TIMESTAMP)
- Improve handling of transfers of multiple files
- Fix transfer of >2GB files on 32 bit systems
- XSpice improvements
- Various bug fixes related to resolution changes
- Xspice support
- Release clipboard on client disconnect if owned by client (rhbz#1003977)
- Turn some error messages into debugging messages (rhbz#918310)
- Not having the virtio channel is not an error; instead silently do nothing
- More multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support bugfixes
- Add support for file transfers from client to guest
- Add support for setups with multiple Screens (multiple qxl devices each
mapped to their own screen), limitations:
- Max one monitor per Screen / qxl device
- All monitors / Screens must have the same resolution
- No client -> guest resolution syncing
- Add spice-vdagent -X cmdline option, which runtime disables console-kit / systemd-logind integration for setups where these are not used
- Add manpages for spice-vdagent and spice-vdagentd
- Various bugfixes for multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support
- Requires libXrandr >= 1.3, Note 0.12.0 also required this, but did not check for it. For older distributions use 0.10.1
- Full multi-monitor and arbitrary resolution support, this requires a new enough xorg-x11-drv-qxl driver, as well as a new enough host
- systemd service support, using systemd hardware activation
- Use syslog for logging, rather then logging to private log files
- Fix a race condition when opening the vdagent virtio serial port, which caused it to get opened / closed in rapid succession a number of times on vm boot
- Add limited support for multiple displays, see README
- Add support for RHEL-5 (and other distributions with a non hotplug capable Xorg and/or no console-kit), see README.RHEL-5
- Add support for using libsystemd-logind as session information source instead of console-kit
- In daemon mode the session vdagent now retries connecting to the system vdagentd every second, once a connection is made a version check is done, if the version differs (which only happens on an upgrade from one version to the next) the session vdagent re-execs itself (Marc-André Lureau)
- Add support for copy and paste using the primary selection, to use this you need a spice-gtk widget based client and the latest spice-gtk code (Marc-André Lureau and Hans de Goede)
- Autotoolized (Christophe Fergeau)
- Allow building without consolekit, for systems which don't have ck, such as RHEL-5 (Christophe Fergeau)
- Various small bugfixes (Hans de Goede)
- Initial release, starting with version nr 0.6.3, to indicate that it more or less supports all parts of the cdagent protocol in spice-protocol and spice 0.6.3