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Major changes in 0.6.3:
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Major changes in this release:
* Foreign menu and controller support for the client for XPI / ActiveX
  browser plugin usage (same API as the 0.4 client)
* Copy and paste support in the client
* Image copy and paste support in the X client
* Fix fullscreen mode of the X client under compiz and KDE
* Various portability and bug fixes

Major changes in 0.6.2:
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0.6.2 was skipped because a small but nasty bug was found while preparing
the release (and it was already tagged as 0.6.2 in git).

Major changes in 0.6.1:
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Major changes in this release:
* New libspice API to handle backwards compatibility
* Fix X crash in X client
* Fix memory leaks and crashes
* Portability fixes

Major changes in 0.6.0:
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Major changes in this releas:
* Various bugfixes
* Make build work on arm7
* Fix build for python 2.5
* Don't allow video streams on non-primary surface
* Fix shared memory leaks in client
* Add some new libspice-server APIs for configuration options
* Convert SpiceVDIPort API to generic SpiceCharDevice API
* Add capabilities negotiation to agent

Major changes in 0.5.3:
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Major changes in this release:
* Various changes in the network protocol to make it more efficient.
* New commandline arguments to enable/disable jpeg and zlib-over-glz.
* Initial work on clipboard sharing added
* Fix color channel order for mjpegs when connecting to older spice
   server.

Major changes in 0.5.2:
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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.