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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -NX development by ArticaProject, X2Go and TheQVD ------------------------------------------------- +# NX development by ArticaProject, X2Go and TheQVD This source tree started as a re-distribution of those NX packages needed to setup FreeNX and/or X2Go on a Linux server. @@ -11,12 +10,12 @@ In 2014, TheQVD project run by the Spanish company "The Quindel Group" joined the group of people being interested in NX maintenance and improvement. -Since 2015, the Arctica Project has joined in the NX development. The -core devs of X2Go and Arctica have agreed on stopping to redistribute -NX and instead of that: continue the development of NX 3.x as new -upstream (starting with NX 3.5.99). +Since 2015, the Arctica Project has joined in the NX development. The core devs +of X2Go, Arctica and TheQVD have agreed on stopping to redistribute NX and to +continue the development of NX 3.x as the new upstream instead. The package +will see a slight name change to **nx-libs** starting with version 3.5.99.0. -Our goal is: +Our intentions for nx-libs are: * provide _one_ tarball that builds NX projects via a common Makefile * provide _one_ tarball for distribution packagers @@ -28,22 +27,41 @@ This source tree is maintained on Github: https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs (3.6.x branch) -Release goals for the post-NoMachine nx-libs release series 3.6.x: +For the the post-NoMachine era of nx-libs, we will focus on two release +phases for the upcoming year (06/2015 - 06/2016). + +## Release series 3.6.0.x + +Scheduled for Q3/2015. + +Release goals (phase 1) for nx-libs release series 3.6.0.x: * CVE security audit (complete) * remove unused code (+/- complete) -* no bundled libraries anymore (work in progress) +* no bundled non-X11 libraries anymore (done) +* no bundled Mesa library anymore (todo) * complete imake cleanup (work in progress) * replace as many liNX_X* libraries by X.org's libX* libraries (work in progress) +* support for iOS (nxproxy) + +## Release series 3.7.0.x + +Scheduled for Q1/2016. + +Release goals (phase 2) for nx-libs release series 3.7.0.x (not branched-off, yet): + +* provide support for latest X11 extensions * socket communication for nxproxy -C <-> nxproxy -S connections (todo) * event FIFO sockets for attaching external applications (todo) +* allow embedding of nxproxy into other windows +* support for multimedia -If you have any questions about this NX development or want to file a -bug, then please contact the Arctica or the X2Go developers via the -Github issue tracker. +If you have any questions about this NX development or want to file a bug +report, please contact the Arctica developers, the X2Go developers or the +TheQVD developers via the project's Github issue tracker. -thanks+light+love, 20150313 +thanks+light+love, 20150515 Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> |