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Changed the parsing of X authority entries in + order to handle the case where the hostname includes white spaces. + +- Fixed TR02H02325. Bug in PNG decompression on 16bpp displays. + +nxcomp-3.4.0-1 + +- Opened the 3.4.0 branch based on nxcomp-3.3.0-4. + +- Changed version number. + +- Updated copyright to year 2009. + +nxcomp-3.3.0-4 + +- Check if the variable storing the ping time exceeded the maximum + integer value. + +- Recover incorrect sequence number when the proxy is not connected + to an agent. + +nxcomp-3.3.0-3 + +- Removed a condition in ClientChannel that caused a loss in event + sequence numbers. + +nxcomp-3.3.0-2 + +- Updated VERSION. + +nxcomp-3.3.0-1 + +- Opened the 3.3.0 branch based on nxcomp-3.2.0-7. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-7 + +- Solved a compilation problem on GCC 4.3. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-6 + +- Changes considering that unsetenv() returns void on Mac OS X. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-5 + +- Fixed TR03F02024. Assume the launchd unix socket as X socket. + +- Changed the authorization cookie retrieval when using the launchd + socket on MacOSX, in order to wait for the X server start. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-4 + +- Fixed TR03F02026. Unset environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH before + calling the exec function running nxclient. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-3 + +- Fix addMsTimestamp() and subMsTimestamp(). Remove the check for + a valid input in diffTimestamp() and diffUsTimestamp(). + +nxcomp-3.2.0-2 + +- Fixed TR12E01973. Now the correct number of bits are used for the + number of points in a X_FillPoly request. + +nxcomp-3.2.0-1 + +- Opened the 3.2.0 branch based on nxcomp-3.1.0-6. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-6 + +- Always use a timeout of 50 ms to update the congestion counter. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-5 + +- Solve the possible deadlock caused by both proxies running out of + tokens at the same time. + +- In ServerProxy::handleCheckDrop() copy the list since the function + can delete the elements. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-4 + +- Classes ProxyReadBuffer and ServerReadBuffer returned an invalid + number of characters to read in the case of a readable() failure. + +- Connections to proxy versions newer than 3.0.0 were not accepted. + +- Reading options from file could fail if options contained spaces + or other characters interrupting the fscanf()'s matching of input. + +- The proxy link could not be flushed if a ping request was replied + after the end of the read loop. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-3 + +- Fixed a compilation warning on GCC 2.95. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-2 + +- Solved TR09E01852. Modified the encoding of the number of rects + in the XSetClipRectangles request. + +nxcomp-3.1.0-1 + +- Opened the 3.1.0 branch based on nxcomp-3.0.0-46. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-46 + +- Fixed TR09E01865 and TR08E01831. Assume the old behavior of compr- + essing the CUPS, SMB, HTTP and Font channels when connected to an + old proxy version. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-45 + +- Retry the fork() 30 times, but only on Cygwin (Sob!). + +nxcomp-3.0.0-44 + +- In the case of an error, try again to fork() after a second, for + a maximum of 5 times. This seems to constitute a valid workaround + to the intermittent fork() failures observed on Windows. + +- Fixed NXTransDestroy() to show the 'broken connection' dialog in + the case of a link failure on the client. + +- Handled the 'terminating' and 'terminated' messages as new proxy + stages. + +- Force all the directories and files created by the library to be + readable only by the user. + +- Don't complain if the shared memory segment can't be initialized + on Windows. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-43 + +- Prevent the reallocation of the read buffer in the proxy and the + agent transport if the buffer was borrowed by an upper layer. + +- Let the house-keeping process remove the cache directories that + are empty and have not be used since more than 30 days. + +- Added the missing destruction of the ZLIB stream used for image + decompression at proxy shutdown. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-42 + +- In handleFastWriteReply(), moved the initialization of the 'next' + pointer inside the '#ifndef __sun' block. This should fix the re- + maining encoding problems on SPARCs. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-41 + +- VMWare virtual machines can have the system timer deadly broken. + In the case of timeout, try to send a ping regardless we are the + client or the server proxy to force a write by the remote. + +- Removed the messages 'Info: Using image cache parameters...' and + 'Info: Using image streaming parameters...' from the session log + if the image cache is not enabled. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-40 + +- Removed the messages 'Info: Shutting down the NX transport' and + 'Info: End of NX transport requested by...' at the session tear + down. + +- Removed the remaining log output. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-39 + +- Don't reset the timer on proxy shutdown. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-38 + +- Don't reinstall the signal handler if the signal was enabled and + the NXTransSignal() action is NX_SIGNAL_FORWARD. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-37 + +- Return a congestion level 9 if the agent channel is in congestion + state. + +- Set the idle timeout (used to update the congestion state) based + on the link type. The timeout is 0 ms with link LAN and 50 ms in + the case of MODEM, with the other values in the between. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-36 + +- Changed the encoding of the RenderCompositeGlyphs requests. Use + a separate cache for X and Y. Send a single bit for offset X and + offset Y if they match the source coordinates. + +- Always use the memcpy() in the handleFastWrite*() on Sun, as the + alternative code doesn't work on SPARC if the buffer is not word + aligned. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-35 + +- Ensure a smooth transition between different congestion states. + If the current congestion counter is greater than the previous, + ramp up the value quickly by taking the current counter. If the + new congestion counter is less than the previous, ramp down the + reported value slowly by calculating the average of the last 8 + updates. Reset the congestion counter to 0 if no token reply is + pending and the proxy is idle until a timeout. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-34 + +- Calculate the current congestion as the average of the last 3 + frames sent. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-33 + +- When sending a X_RenderCompositeGlyph update, send a single bit + if the source X and Y match the values in cache. + +- Save the check on the bytes readable from the proxy descriptor + after the select. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-32 + +- Send the X_GetImage replies uncompressed to better leverage the + stream compression. + +- Before entering in congestion state, force a read to see whether + the remote proxy aborted the connection. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-31 + +- Try to avoid using memcpy() in the channels' handleFastWrite*(). + +- Changed the copyright notices at the beginning of the files that + were referring to NXPROXY to refer to NXCOMP. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-30 + +- Set the agent and proxy descriptors as ready, when appropriate, + also in the case of an interrupt. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-29 + +- On the X server side, read more events from the X server just be- + fore and just after having written some data. On the X client si- + de, apply the same to the proxy link. + +- X11 channels originate a congestion control code as soon as the- + re is some data left from the previous write. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-28 + +- Displaced automatically the "channel unresponsive" and "no data + received from remote" dialogs if the error condition is ceased. + +- Rewritten the channel drain procedure. + +- Tried a different approach to the channel congestion handling. + The X11 channels are not drained after a blocking write but only + if a further write is requested and the channel is still in con- + gestion state. Benchmarks show that this is still sub-optimal, + compared to sending the congestion code immediately also for X11 + channels. See the next version. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-27 + +- Ignored the agent option 'defer'. + +- Dropped support for the 1.4.0 versions. + +- More fixes to support the 1.5.0. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-26 + +- The channel read buffer can inherit the data to be encoded from + the caller, instead of taking it from the transport. This is le- + veraged by the agent channel to save the copy. + +- Ignored the agent option 'clients'. + +- Removed the deprecated code checking the CPU limits. + +- Removed the counters that were duplicated in the Statistics and + the Control classes. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-25 + +- Improved the effectiveness of the caching of the RenderComposite- + Glyphs by using a differential encoding for the length, delta x + and delta y of the first string. + +- Better handle the compatibility between different formats of the + cache files. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-24 + +- Fixed the compatibility problem with the 1.5.0 versions. + +- Removed the constants NXDisplayReadable, NXDisplayFlushable and + NXDisplayCongestion. Now nxcompext has three distinct functions. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-23 + +- Removed support for Rdp, Tight and Hextile packed images decod- + ing since they have been made obsolete by the new NX server. + +- Use the value 0 for the action is_hit and 1 for is_added. This + increases the frequency of zeroes in the encode buffer, giving + better compression. + +- Changed the copyright attribution from Medialogic to NoMachine. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-22 + +- Implemented an alternate encoding reducing the size of the int + caches to 16 elements and transmitting the values in blocks of + 4 bits. Although this encoding reduces the effectiveness of + the differential compression, it allows better compression of + the final stream, resulting in a 10% to 20% gain in all condi- + tions. The new encoding is experimental, as it would make the + 3.0.0 incompatible with all the previous NX versions. Use this + package as a reference for future implementations. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-21 + +- Encode the first two coordinates of a FillPoly message by using + a differential encoding, thus the origin of the polygon is not + included in the checksum. This is aimed to work in combination + with the agent converting all the FillPoly requests to the rela- + tive coordinate mode. + +- Add the coordinate mode to the checksum of the PolyPoint and Po- + lyLine messages so that it doesn't need to be encoded separately. + +- Disable the streaming for all messages. This saves the encoding + of a boolean for each message that could potentially be streamed. + +- Don't try to match the block size when encoding a value based on + an IntCache. This saves the additional bool in 90% of the cases. + +- Removed support for the former RDP and RFB session types. + +- Due to the above changes, this version is incompatible with the + previous 3.0.0 releases. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-20 + +- Added support for the 'lossy', 'lossless' and 'adaptive' pack me- + thod literals. These values activate the dynamic selection of the + pack method by the agent. + +- Made the 'adaptive' pack method the default for all link types. + +- The default stream compression level is now 6 for link type ISDN, + 4 for ADSL and 1 for WAN. The default data compression level is + always 1, except for LAN that is 0. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-19 + +- Print in the session log the X11 display that the proxy is imper- + sonating or where it is forwarding the connections. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-18 + +- Implemented decoding of the PACK_BITMAP_16M_COLORS pack method. + This is a very simple encoder removing the 4th byte in 32 bits- + per-plane images. This encoder is intended to better leverage + the stream compression on low bandwidth links. + +- Removed the code cleaning the padding bytes in RenderAddGlyphs + and RenderCompositeGlyphs as the operation is now performed in + Xrender. + +- Removed the "Info: Synchronizing local and remote caches." and + "Info: Using remote server '...'." lines from the session log. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-17 + +- Determine the CPU endianess at compile time only on Linux and + Cygwin. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-16 + +- Optimized the memory allocation of the ReadBuffer classes. The + buffers from the Transport classes are used, when possible, to + avoid the copy. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-15 + +- Reworked the code dealing with the channel congestion control + messages for increased efficiency. + +- Removed the pending_ flag from the proxy and channel class mem- + bers. If needed, the classes will query the transport buffers + to see whether there is data pending. + +- Removed the additional parameter from NXTransFlush(). + +- The proxy doesn't issue anymore a sync control message on a X + reply. Anyway it will respond to the request for compatibility + with older versions. + +- Removed the dynamic selection of the encoding method for the + X_QueryColors request and X_ListFonts, X_QueryColors, X_Query- + Font replies. Now all of them use the differential encoding to + better leverage the stream compression. + +- Fixed to build on SUNs where we don't have endian.h. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-14 + +- When handling partial proxy messages, don't try to determine how + many bytes still need to be read if the ZLIB stream compression + is enabled. + +- If a message can't be located, the ReadBuffer class checks if it + is possible to consume the data already in the transport buffer. + +- Optimize the MD5 routines by determining the CPU endianess at + compile time. + +- Force Drawable and GContext to be CARD32 in NXproto.h. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-13 + +- Changed the semantic of the NXDisplayFlushHandler callback. The + function is called when new data is sent to the remote proxy or, + with a 0 length, upon receiving a new token reply, so that the + agent can update its congestion state. + +- Added the NXTransCongestion() function. It returns a value bet- + ween 0 and 9 indicating the congestion level based on the tokens + remaining. A value of 9 means that the link is congested and no + further data can be sent. + +- Removed the congestion and synchronization callbacks. They are + superseded by the new NXTransCongestion() implementation. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-12 + +- Send the token replies at the end of the encode loop instead of + flushing the buffer immediately. + +- Fixed TR05E01687. Correctly detect CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-ESC keystrokes. + +- Renamed the option 'block' as 'tile'. + +- Ignored the option 'menu', targeting the X11 agent. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-11 + +- Removed the 'interactive' attribute from generic channels. We now + use the 'prioritized' attribute which yields the same result. + +- Simplified the channels' read loop by always reading only once. + +- The channels flush the link as soon as the token is exceeded even + if the flush policy is set to deferred. + +- Reserved more cache memory for the images when running a shadow + session. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-10 + +- Added the NXDisplayWriteHandler callback definition. + +- Removed the code that forced the proxy to retain in the cache the + images referenced at session startup. + +- Disabled the persistent image cache since this is not supported + by the current agent. This will save the overhead caused by the + image house-keeping process. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-9 + +- Fixed a cast problem in GetBytesReadable(). + +nxcomp-3.0.0-8 + +- Added the NXTransTime() utility. It return the time in milliseconds + elapsed since the last call to the same function. Useful for bench- + marking the Xlib layer. + +- Ignored the option 'block' targeting the X11 agent. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-7 + +- Ignored the options 'shadow', 'shadowmode' targeting the X11 agent. + +- Added the session type 'shadow'. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-6 + +- Fixed TR08D01484. Fixed a bug in the cleanup of the RenderAddGlyphs + messages. We clean up only the glyphs with depth 8, width greater + than 1 and pixmap byte pad 4. + +- Added file COPYING. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-5 + +- Updated the copyright notices to the current year. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-4 + +- Imported changes up to nxcomp-2.1.0-6. + +- Fixed TR12D01563. Changed the configure script to always build the + library with the -fPIC option. This is related to the way SELinux + works. + +- Fixed the dependency from local endianess for 16-bit color RDP un- + packing functions. This caused wrong colors to be displayed when the + proxy and the X server were running on two separate machines having + different endianess. + +- Fixed TR10D01523. The Channel::handleDrain() method now accounts + for the fact that agent connections can't be drained. + +- Changed the Tight and Hextile decoding functions to use the X ser- + ver's byte order. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-3 + +- Changed the main loop to handle the 3.0.0 version. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-2 + +- Updated the file VERSION. + +nxcomp-3.0.0-1 + +- Opened the 3.0.0 branch based on nxcomp-2.0.0-81. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-81 + +- Fixed the dependency from local endianess for JPEG and PNG decomp- + ression functions. This caused wrong colors to be displayed when + the proxy and the X server were running on two separate machines + having different endianess. + +- Fixed the number of entries in the handleColormap() function. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-80 + +- Fixed TR06D01404. Removed the warning issued when calling the + AgentTransport::drain() method. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-79 + +- Updated copyright to year 2006. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-78 + +- Fixed a bug in the cleanup of the RenderAddGlyphs messages. + +- Minor improvements to the encoding of the RenderCompositeGlyphs + and RenderComposite requests. + +- Added 'client' to the list of the ignored options. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-77 + +- Added cleanup of the padding bytes in the RenderCompositeGlyphs + and RenderAddGlyphs requests. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-76 + +- Before adding the frame's bytes to the tokens, the frame length + is normalized based on the stream compression ratio of the last + frame sent. This avoids entering the drain loop too early when + the data is highly compressible. + +- Moved the render messages' private data in a union to reduce the + footprint of the render store. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-75 + +- The action performed on the remote message store and the affected + position are encoded as a single value. This saves approximately + 1 bit per each message. + +- Created more Compat classes to handle the backward compatibility + with the 1.4.0 and 1.5.0 versions. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-74 + +- Added support for the RLE pack method and made it the default if + the selected link type is LAN. + +- Removed the legacy support for the 'render' option provided at X + server side. + +- When defining LAME in ClientChannel.h, the channel has the chance + of suppressing more opcodes by the handleTaintLameRequest() call. + This is for test purposes. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-73 + +- The X_NXSetUnpackColormap and X_NXSetUnpackAlpha now carry their + data in compressed form. The alpha data is compressed using the + ZLIB RLE encoding, while the colormap data is compressed using + the default ZLIB deflate. + +- Thanks to the above changes, ZLIB data compression of all messa- + ges which do not have a specific encoding is turned off, so that + we can make better use of the final stream compression. + +- Created new message structures to handle the compatibility with + the old proxy versions. When connected to an old proxy version + the agent should use the NXSetUnpackColormapCompat() and NXSet- + UnpackAlpha() interfaces. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-72 + +- Solved a compatibility problem with the 1.X.X versions due to the + new render encodings. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-71 + +- Improvements to X_RenderSetPictureClipRectangles. + +- Fixed handleUnpack() to pass the correct byte order parameter to + to the unpack alpha function. + +- Added the --parent parameter to the client even in pulldown mode. + +- Fixed a deallocation bug in StaticCompressor. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-70 + +- Added compression of X_RenderSetPictureFilter, X_RenderSetPicture- + Transform, X_RenderTrapezoids and X_RenderTriangles. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-69 + +- Changed the format of the persistent cache to accommodate the new + encoding of the render opcodes. Caches from the 1.4.0 and 1.5.0 + should be still loaded and saved correctly when connected to and + old version of the library. + +- Improved the encoding of the X_CreatePixmap, X_ChangeGC, X_Render- + CompositeGlyphs, X_RenderComposite, X_RenderCreateGlyphSet, X_Rend- + erFreePicture and X_RenderCreatePicture messages. Added new classes + to handle the backward compatibility. + +- Made the static compression and decompression code reside in the + same class. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-68 + +- Improved the encoding of the X_RenderCreateGlyphSet and X_Render- + FreeGlyphSet requests. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-67 + +- Modified the following session messages: + + From: "Session: Session starting at..." + To: "Session: Starting session at..." + + From: "Session: Session terminating at..." + To: "Session: Terminating session at..." + +- Improved the encoding of the requests creating or freeing an XID. + This affects X_CreateGC, X_CreateWindow, X_CreatePixmap, X_Render- + CreatePicture, X_FreeGC, X_DestroyWindow, X_FreePixmap, X_Render- + FreePicture. + +- Added 'streaming' and 'backingstore' to the list of options used + by agents. + +- Modified the info messages to print the ZLIB compression paramet- + ers to be more compact and only use two lines. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-66 + +- When part of an agent, the proxy will wait for the NXTransDestroy() + function to initiate the shutdown. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-65 + +- Starting from this version the NX client can control the behaviour + of the client proxy by monitoring the messages marked as "Session". + + At the early initialization the proxy will print: + + "Session: Session starting at '...'. + + The ellipsis here represent the current timestamp, as reported by + the POSIX function ctime(): + + Once the session is running, the proxy will print: + + "Session: Session started at '...'. + + At the time the session is being shut down, the proxy will print: + + "Session: Session terminating at '...'. + + Followed by: + + Session: Session terminated at '...'. + + The message "Info: Starting X protocol compression." is removed, + replaced by the message 'Session started at...' with the same + meaning. + + Once the message 'Session: Session terminated at..." is read from + the output, the client can optionally wait for the proxy process + to complete and terminate with an exit code 0. + +- The "Session" messages are not printed when the proxy is running + on the NX server side, as part of an agent. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-64 + +- Reduced the default token limit from 32 to 24. The synchronizat- + ion callback is triggered by the tokens going below half the li- + mit. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-63 + +- Added -I/usr/include/c++ to makedepend. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-62 + +- The house-keeping process is now started upon the initialization, + if the memory cache is enabled, and, on the X server side, when + the remote actually requested access to the image cache. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-61 + +- Added a NX_HANDLER_SYNCHRONIZATION callback to NXTransHandler(). + The handler is called when the agent can use the available band- + width to synchronize X objects that are corrupted or incomplete. + + The reason can be: + + NX_SYNCHRONIZATION_BEGIN: The synchronizationis is allowed. + + NX_SYNCHRONIZATION_END: The synchronizationis must stop. + + The reason can be determined by agents by using the NXBeginSynch- + ronization and NXEndSynchronization values defined in NXvars.h. + +- Bytes from 14 to 24 in the X_NXGetControlParameters reply report, + respectively, the frame timeout, the ping timeout, the preferred + image split mode and the split size threshold. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-60 + +- The following messages used by the NX client and server have been + changed. The NX client and server should be modified accordingly. + + From: "Info: Shutting down the link and exiting." + To: "Info: Shutting down the NX transport." + + From: "Info: End of session requested by remote proxy." + To: "Info: End of NX transport requested by remote" + + From: "Info: End of session requested by agent termination." + To: "Info: End of NX transport requested by agent." + + From: "Info: End of session requested by signal '...'." + To: "Info: End of NX transport requested by signal '...'." + + From: "Info: Shutting down the link and exiting." + To: "Info: Shutting down the NX transport." + + From: "Info: Waiting for cleanup timeout to complete." + To: "Info: Waiting the cleanup timeout to complete." + + From: "Info: Waiting for watchdog process to complete." + To: "Info: Waiting the watchdog process to complete." + +nxcomp-2.0.0-59 + +- Added more debug information regarding the timing of packets sent + and received. + +- Added the possibility to redirect the log output to a file that can + be later shared with nxssh running in "binder" mode. This is useful + when testing the forwarding of the SSHD connection by nxssh to the + agent. Activated by defining BINDER in Loop.cpp. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-58 + +- Fixed the unpack alpha procedure to only rely on the image's byte + order. + +- Solved the X_PutImage encoding problem introduced in the 2.0.0-56 + version and restored the compatibility with the 1.5.0 version. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-57 + +- Added a NXTransFile() function. It returns the name of the files + used by the proxy for the current session. + + The type parameter can be: + + NX_FILE_SESSION: Usually the file 'session' in the user's session + directory. + + NX_FILE_ERRORS: The file used for the diagnostic output. Usually + the file 'errors' in the session directory. + + NX_FILE_OPTIONS: The file containing the NX options, if any. + + NX_FILE_STATS: The file used for the statistics output. + + The returned string is allocated in static memory. The caller must + copy the string upon returning from the function, without freeing + the pointer. + +- Fixed the PANIC in the handling of the abort split messages. + +- The encode and decode routines may write one byte past the nominal + end of the encode buffer. This additional byte is now included in + the payload. This is actually a bug, but harmless. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-56 + +- Added the X_NXAbortSplit request. It can be used to interrupt the + streaming of all the messages currently in the split store for + the specified resource. Depending if the split store did or did + not contain split messages, the client will receive an immediate + end-split or no-split notification. + +- Removed the split modes NXSplitModeEager and NXSplitModeLazy. The + available modes are now NXSplitModeSync and NXSplitModeAsync. The + mode NXSplitModeAsync replaces the two old modes and is now the + default. Similarly to NXSplitModeEager, it makes the proxy split + only messages that exceed a size threshold, but the threshold is + generally smaller than in the previous versions. + + #define NXSplitModeDefault 0 + #define NXSplitModeAsync 1 + #define NXSplitModeSync 2 + +- Renamed X_NXSplit to X_NXSplitData, X_NXAbortSplit to X_NXSplitEv- + ent. + +- The proxy now enters a drain loop, when in congestion state, and + waits until the decongestion. Also the X channels are drained if + blocked. + +- The select is restarted immediately if only the proxy is selected + and the data read doesn't make a complete message. + +- The size of the shared memory segment used by the X server proxy + is now negotiated at startup and the selected value is printed in + the session log. + +- Added the option 'encrypted'. It tells the local proxy if it is + running as part of a program providing encryption of the point to + point communication. This is useful to determine if the proxy can + block waiting for data or needs to yield to the client to let it + handle the remote connection. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-55 + +- Fixed handleRestart() to correctly send the end-split event only + after the split sequence has been closed by the client. + +- Fixed a possible memory error in the Keeper class occurring if the + image caches were erased while in the middle of a loop. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-54 + +- Added a '--parent' option when running the client in dialog mode. + This is the process id that needs to be signaled in the case the + user chooses to do so. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-53 + +- Solved a bug in the abort split procedure. The procedure assumed + that the split had to be at the head of the list. This may not be + the case if the split was loaded from disk asynchronously, after + a different split with the same checksum was recomposed. + +- By defining STRICT in Loop.cpp, the number of available tokens is + set to 1. This can be used to trigger the congestion more often + than it would possible when testing the software with the default + settings. + +- Added more debug output to the procedures handling the streaming + of the images. + +- Reset the channel's split pending and congestion flags in the fin- + ish procedure. Not doing so caused some additional loops at chan- + nel shutdown. + +- Fixed a bug on Cygwin that prevented the log files to be succes- + sfully reopened when the size limit was exceeded. + +- Failures to write to the agent transport are reported sooner when + the channel is finished. This saves a few more loops at session + shutdown. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-52 + +- Started implementing a new handler to let the agent include arbit- + rary data in the transport statistics. The parameter, in this case, + is a pointer to a pointer to a null terminated string. The pointer + is set at the time the handler is registered. The pointed string + will have to be filled by the agent with its statistics data. For + now, only the interfaces and the stubs exist. + +- Disabled the timestamp cache as it still causes rounding problems + when calculating the current bitrate. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-51 + +- Removed SelectPackMethod(), not used anymore, from Pack.c. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-50 + +- Added the X_NXFinishSplit request. It forces the proxy to comple- + tely transfer all the split messages for the given resource, and + then notify the agent. + +- Fixed the statistics to not account the split bits to the control + token. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-49 + +- Fixed a bug that caused the split timeout to be reset even if a + different channel had splits to send. + +- Removed an error condition that arose when a split operation was + requested by a different channel than the first to connect. The + reason is that an auxiliary channel (like the one created by the + server to store the keyboard configuration) can be the first to + open a connection to the X server, then can come the agent, that + is actually using the NX opcodes. The proxy will now simply print + a debug message. + +- Removed a further error condition that was assumed by the proxy + if a pending flush was detected while no channel was selected for + output. This can actually happen if the channel was dropped and, + in the meanwhile, the user requested the proxy statistics. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-48 + +- Added a 'type' parameter to NXTransFlush(). The new NX_FLUSH_IDLE + type should be used by agents when they have finished handling all + their clients and are going to wait for more input. This is the + case, for example, of the X agent returning from WaitForSomething() + after having set a small timeout to find out if there are clients + ready, or the case of a RDP agent finding that there are no opcodes + to read from the RDP server. The 'idle' flush should be requested + also when the X11 agent is waiting for a split to complete. When + the flag is used, the proxy uses the available bandwidth to encode + more low-priority data, like the payload of images being streamed. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-47 + +- Added a new RGB image encoder. For now the encoder uses a static + Z stream to compress the image data in the destination buffer and + allows the agent to use the simplest encoding by still separating + the alpha channel from the image data. The new encoder can be the + the base for implementing color reduction by dithering or a color- + mapped translation of the image similar to PNG, but without the + PNG overhead and with the colormap being sent to the client using + the NXSetUnpackColormap() opcode. + +- Put the routines implementing static deflating and inflating of + a ZLIB buffer from the Compressor and Decompressor classes to Z.h + and Z.cpp, so that they can be reused by the new RGB encoder. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-46 + +- Fixed a segfault arising when trying to start a child without the + NX transport. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-45 + +- Undefined the MATCH directive. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-44 + +- Changed the encoding of the X_CreatePixmap, X_CreateGC, X_Render- + CreatePicture, X_CreateWindow, RenderCreateGlyphSet.cpp. The Xid + of the drawable is included in the checksum of the X_CreateGC and + X_CreatePixmap message. This leverages the way GC and Pixmaps are + allocated in the X agent to obtain better compression. + +- Removed the code handling the reset of the proxy connection. This + functionality was unused since when the persistence is handled by + the agent. + +- Added a specific section in the statistics output for the render + extension. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-43 + +- Fixed a bug that could have caused the sending of multiple 'end + split' messages for the same split sequence. + +- Added handling of the option 'strict'. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-42 + +- Added a missing channel switch directive when encoding abort split + messages at the server side. This could cause a decoding error on + the client. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-41 + +- Ensured that the link is flushed immediately on the X server side + when important keyboard or mouse activity is detected in input. + +- Implemented a timestamp cache to avoid calling gettimeofday() when + it is enough to use the last timestamp gotten from the system. The + cache can be disabled by undefining CACHE_TIMESTAMP in Timestamp.h. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-40 + +- Added the karma delay field to the X_NXGetControlParameters reply. + +- Solved a bug with the decoding of split messages likely to happen + only when using link type LAN. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-39 + +- Implemented separate flow control for the generic channels and the + image streaming data. + +- Improved the split procedure to load a message from the disk cache + if found after it was originally discarded because locked. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-38 + +- Renamed the 'shmem' option as 'shseg'. The 'shmem' option becomes + specific to the agent and will be used together with 'shpix' option + to indicate if, respectively, the shared memory extension and the + use of the shared pixmaps must be enabled in the agent server. The + new option will be instead used by the proxy to determine the size + of the memory segment shared between the proxy and the X server. + +- Added the 'shmem', 'shpix', 'keyboard' and 'clipboard' to the list + of ignored options. The 'keyboard' option should become a synonym + of 'kbtype'. The 'clipboard' option will tell the NX agent if the + clipboard support should be disabled for security reasons. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-37 + +- Ensured that, when running a raw session, the persistent cache is + loaded and saved only once in the session lifetime. + +- Added the 'product' keyword to the list of recognized options. The + option is ignored by the proxy, but can be used by the client or + server to facilitate the support. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-36 + +- Added the remote version number in the X_NXGetControlParameters + reply. + +- Solved a bug related to the removal of the split stores. + +- Removed the unused code dealing with the flush timeouts. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-35 + +- Added an alert to notify the user about the failure of the XDMCP + session. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-34 + +- The active channels and the agent resources are now stored in a + list container. + +- Added the X_NXFreeSplit request. The request is currently unused + because the split store is freed automatically when it becomes + empty, but can be useful in future if we want to implement other + otpimizations. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-33 + +- There is now a split store for each agent resource. This allows + the proxy to divide the bandwidth among the agent resources. + +- A simple round-robin load-balancing is implemented, dividing the + bandwidth equally among all the split stores. + +- If there is a previous request being streamed for the same res- + ource, cached messages are appended to the split store and then + committed in the original order. This makes possible to stream + the colormap and the alpha channel data even if the split invol- + ves multiple PutImage or PutPackedImage operations in a single + start-split/end-split sequence. + +- Implemented the commit store class. Made the commit store expand + the message in the final buffer, instead of leveraging the mes- + sage store. + +- Channels having a drop command pending are checked before trying + to load or save the cache. This prevents a potential problem with + the protocol violation error that could be reported by the client + side proxy. + +- The current bitrate is now calculated at the time the transport + actually writes the data to the network, not at the time the data + is appended to the transport by the upper layers. The reason is + that the data can be compressed by the stream compressor and so + we can calculate the real bitrate only after having flushed the + ZLIB stream. This fixes the wrong numbers that could be reported + by the statistics in the previous versions. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-32 + +- More progress in the implementation of the new image streaming. + This version has been tested to work when connecting to an 1.5.0 + server. Due to the significant changes in the way the streaming + works in the newer versions, split is never activated by a 2.0.0 + server connecting to a 1.5.0 client. + +- Fixed the NXTransClose() function to check if the fd matches the + NX agent connection. + +- Fixed the includes in Socket.h to compile on Solaris and MacOSX. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-31 + +- Changed the NX transport functions that didn't require a NX fd + parameter to include one. The value can be NX_FD_ANY to signify + any running NX transport. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-30 + +- More progress in the new implementation of image streaming. + +- This version is apparently compatible with the 1.5.0 client but + needs further testing. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-29 + +- Implemented the NXTransHandler() interface and made the proxy + use the callback, when it is installed, instead of the notifi- + cation events. + +- Modified the agent transport to report an EOF condition as soon + as the channel is dropped, instead of reporting the error only + after the proxy shutdown. This allows the agent to handle its + clients while the proxy is handling the grace timeout. + +- Added a test facility to verify if the client and server caches + match at shutdown. + +- More advances in the new implementation of streaming. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-28 + +- Made the session shutdown faster, normally below 1 second. The + grace time is now 500 ms once all channels have been dropped. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-27 + +- The house-keeping process will now run a number of iterations + (currently 100) and then will exit. The proxy will check the + exit code and, if it was requested by the child, will restart + it. This is intended to keep the memory consumption low, as I + noted that after a big number of iterations the performance of + the allocator start to degrade quickly. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-26 + +- Started implementing the NXTransHandler() interface to let the X + application hook a callback and be notified by the proxy when an + event occurs. At the moment only congestion events are supported. + The interface makes possible for the caller to provide a generic + parameter. This parameter is passed back to the handler function. + The parameter is expected to be the Xlib display pointer, given + that the proxy doesn't have access to the Xlib structures. + +- Moved all the internal variables shared between Xlib, nxcompext + and the X server in nxcomp. Declarations and function prototypes + moved to NXvars.h. + +- Removed the NXGetCleanupParameters() and NXGetImageParameters() + interfaces and the remaining references to the unused display + buffer and image cleanup functions. + +- In this version the images streaming functionality is disabled. + Because of that, expect compatibility problems when connecting + to a different nxcomp version. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-25 + +- Forced the end of the session earlier if a shutdown has been re- + quested by the local side but the remote proxy is not responding. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-24 + +- Changed the loop deleting the file items in Keeper to pick the + first element instead of looping through the iterator. + +- More problems with the libstdc++ allocators. During the tests, I + found that the Keeper class can leak industrial amounts of memory. + Valgrind says that the objects that are not freed are the File + items we allocate in collect(). As this looked suspicious, I log- + ged the constructors and destructors and can say that everything + is OK on our side. Unfortunately, by removing the spleeps used + to let the program work silently in background, one can find that + the memory occupation still grows by a MB every few seconds. This + is less a problem on Windows, where the memory occupation remains + almost constant. See the comment on __USE_MALLOC below. + +- Increased the maximum size of a message that the proxy is allo- + wed to cache to 4MB. This makes possible to cache many replies + (like the X_QueryFont replies) that often exceeded the previous + limit. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-23 + +- Fixed a compatibility problem with the 1.5.0 that arose when + encoding an image with caching and streaming temporarily disa- + bled. + +- Removed the __USE_MALLOC define in Types.h because this is what + the g++ developers want. I'll try to avoid flames and will not + comment on this. + +- Added a --with-use-malloc configure option. This option should + be used when building the release packages on GCC versions that + support it. + +- Started fixing the commit procedure to be able to deal with the + alpha channel. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-22 + +- Prevented channels from being dropped while in the middle of a + read loop. + +- Added a small utility ensuring that the SIGCHLD we receive in + the main loop can be always identified as pertaining to an our + child. + +- Increased the space available for the control messages at the + beginning of the encode buffer and ensured that there is always + enough space for adding a token message, in the case this is + required by the flush procedure. + +- Made all cache files readable only by the user. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-21 + +- Solved a bug in the streaming of images that caused the agent's + clients to never resume when connected to an old proxy version. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-20 + +- Disabled again streaming of the alpha channel data. By enabling + it, the agent randomly fails to repaint the exposed regions. The + reason is to be investigated. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-19 + +- Implemented the split mode NXSplitModeSync. When this mode is + selected, the proxy will not send data for the split at the head + of the list until the remote peer has confirmed that the message + is not available in the image cache. This is going to be useful + in combination with the lazy encoding. + +- Improved the error detection in the case of failure when saving + a recomposed split on disk. + +- Added X_NXSetUnpackAlpha to the set of requests that is possible + to stream. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-18 + +- Enabled the 2.0.0 features that were disabled for test purposes. + +- Changed the LICENSE file to state that the software is only made + available under the version 2 of the GPL. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-17 + +- Introduced a new channel of type 'slave'. Opening a slave channel + should let the proxy fork a new NX client instance (or whatever + is in the NX_SLAVE environment) and pass to it the channel's desc- + riptors. This client instance should authenticate the peer, for + example using the proxy cookie (see how this is implemented in + nxsensor) and then negotiate the service to be used on the channel. + This can be used to implement forwarding of arbitrary ports or ad- + ditional services, like a simple file transfer protocol. For now + the implementation is incomplete. Opening a slave channel will + result in the remote proxy just dropping the channel connection. + +- The proxy is forcibly flushed at the end of each loop. This is a + temporary fix until the agents are updated to flush the proxy link + on demand. + +- Added a new alert to be used in the case the RDP session is closed + and replaced with a new session using the same Windows account. + +- Added a forward declaration of class RenderMinorExtensionStore in + file RenderExtension.h to compile using gcc 4.0.X. + +- Added removal of all .orig file when running a 'make clean'. + +- The code uses again the 2.0.0 style shutdown (the one waiting for + the watchdog process to terminate). + +nxcomp-2.0.0-16 + +- Added the NXTransChannel() interface to allow agents to create + new channels connected to the port that will be forwarded by the + remote proxy. The function returns 1 on success, 0 if the NX + transport is not running, or -1 in the case of error. On success, + the descriptor provided by the caller can be used for all the + subsequent I/O, including selecting the descriptor to check if + I/O is possible. The type parameter not only tells to the proxy + the remote port where the channel has to be connected, but gives + a hint about the type of data that will be carried by the channel, + so that the proxy can optimize the compression and schedule the + traffic on the slow link. + + The type can be: + + NX_CHANNEL_X: The channel will carry X traffic and it + will be connected to the remote X display. + + NX_CHANNEL_CUPS: The channel will carry CUPS/IPP protocol. + + NX_CHANNEL_SMB: The channel will carry SMB/CIFS protocol. + + NX_CHANNEL_MEDIA: The channel will transport audio or other + multimedia data. + + NX_CHANNEL_HTTP: The channel will carry HTTP protocol. + + NX_CHANNEL_FONT: The channel will forward a X font server + connection. + + Only the proxy running at the NX server/X client side will be + able to create a X, CUPS, SMB, MEDIA and HTTP channel. A proxy + running at the NX client/X server side can create font server + connections. The channel creation will also fail if the remote + end was not set up to forward the connection. + + To create a new channel the agent will have to set up a socket- + pair and pass to the proxy one of the socket descriptors. + + Example: + + #include <sys/types.h> + #include <sys/socket.h> + + int fds[2]; + + if (socketpair(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds) < 0) + { + ... + } + else + { + // + // Use fds[0] locally and let the + // proxy use fds[1]. + // + + if (NXTransChannel(fds[1], NX_CHANNEL_X) <= 0) + { + ... + } + + // + // The agent can now use fds[0] in + // read(), write() and select() + // system calls. + // + + ... + } + + Note that all the I/O on the descriptor should be non-blocking, + to give a chance to the NX transport to run in the background + and handle the data that will be fed to the agent's side of the + socketpair. This will happen automatically, as long as the agent + uses the XSelect() version of the select() function (as it is + normal whenever performing Xlib I/O). In all the other cases, + like presumably in the agent's main loop, the agent will have + to loop through NXTransPrepare(), NXTransSelect() and NXTrans- + Execute() functions explicitly, adding to the sets the descript- + ors that are awaited by the agent. Please check the implementa- + tion of _XSelect() in nx-X11/lib/X11/XlibInt.c for an example. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-15 + +- Some changes aimed at finding a workaround to the unreliability + of the font server connections. The X server seems to be really + picky about the network latency, so we try to read immediately + from the channel just being created, instead of waiting for a + new loop. Additionally the proxy will keep reading from the font + server connections even after the maximum length of the frame + is exceeded, in the hope that it will be able to send a complete + message in a single frame. + +- updated the various internal consistency tests run when the TEST + or INFO flags are enabled. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-14 + +- It seems that the closure of the socket sometimes takes several + seconds, on Windows, after the connection is broken, with the + result that the alert can be shown long after the user has gone + after the failed session. We now skip the closure of the proxy + link on Windows if we are about to exit. + +- The code uses the 1.5.0 style shutdown (the one waiting for the + term signal in the main process) to be able to test the library + with the old server. To activate the new shutdown procedure be + sure the define SHUTDOWN_COMPATIBLE_1_5_0 is unset. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-13 + +- Ensured that static members in channels are reset at the time a + new proxy is created. + +- Adjusted the token parameters for link modes other than modem. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-12 + +- Handled compatibility with 1.X.X versions not sending the count + field in the token. + +- The proxy link is now flushed automatically if the agent has not + set the deferred flush mode. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-11 + +- Significant modifications to allow the proxy to keep data in the + encode buffer across multiple loops, until the data is flushed + because an explicit request by the agent or. Besides maximizing + the amount of data sent in a single frame, this makes it possi- + ble to move any packet coalescence strategy in the agent, while + still using an 'immediate' flush policy. + +- Modified the procedure handling the proxy congestion. Each token + now carries a counter which represents the multiple of TokenBytes + data bytes that need to be confirmed by the remote end. The ser- + ver side proxy will need to reply by including the value of the + counter. When sending a new token, the tokens are decremented by + the counter and the client side proxy enters in congestion when + the available tokens becomes zero or negative. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-10 + +- Implemented specific encoding of the X_NXSetCacheParameters + request. + +- Handled the compatibility with older versions not supporting the + new request. In this case the request is handled at the local si- + de, preventing the X requests to be cached or split, even without + the cooperation of the remote side. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-9 + +- Modified the shutdown procedure to not rely on the TERM signal + when the proxy needs to wait for the server to complete. We will + now print the following message in the session log: + + Info: Watchdog running with pid 'n'. + Info: Waiting for watchdog process to complete. + + The NX server will have to kill the process with the given pid + to mandate the proxy shutdown. This solves the TR11C01192. + +- Added the X_NXSetCacheParameters request. It tells to the proxy + how to handle caching of X requests, namely if requests should + be stored in the memory cache, split in smaller data chunks and, + in the case of images, saved on disk in the persistent image + cache. The request affects all the X messages until the proxy + is further configured. + +- Enabling and disabling loading and saving of persistent images + due to a X_NXSetCacheParameters is still to be implemented. + +- Implemented font channel compatibility with older versions. If + the font port is queried and the remote proxy doesn't support + the tunneling of font server connections, an empty string is + returned. + +- The option 'resize', used by agents, is now silently ignored. + This solves the TR10C01061. + +- Added the missing reference to TR08C000981. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-8 + +- Discarded the first idea of setting the font path implicitly in + the X server side proxy, by means of a multi-pass operation and + added the NXGetFontParameters() request and reply. If the proxy + has been configured accordingly, the request returns the X font + path that can be set by the agent to tunnel the font server con- + nections through the NX link. + +- Changed the parsing of the font server port to be able to handle + the defaults. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-7 + +- More work on tunneling of font server connections. + +- The synchronization requests are now replied at the same time + as a new request is received, by checking if the channel has + already gone past the awaited sequence number. This avoids the + delay caused by the previous versions in the case the expected + reply had been handled asynchronously, inside the write loop. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-6 + +- The display is again passed to the client using the -display + parameter. + +- The option 'type' is now ignored at X server side. Support at + the X server side had been left for compatibility with older + versions of the proxy. + +- Added direct support for more session types, namely 'unix-cde', + 'unix-xdm', 'unix-console', 'unix-default'. The 'unix-console' + and 'unix-default', similarly to 'unix-application', will now + trigger the 'raw' mode. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-5 + +- Renamed Png.h and Png.cpp to Pgn.h and Pgn.cpp to avoid name + clashes on Windows. + +- The distclean target now removes the autom4te.cache directory. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-4 + +- Added the 'kill=n' option to let the proxy add the process to + the list of daemons that must be terminated at session shutdown. + Multiple 'kill=n' options can be specified. The proxy will send + to each process a SIGTERM signal before exiting. + +- Removed the code that forcibly disabled the RENDER extension on + Solaris. Eventual compatibility problems will be now handled in + the NX agent. + +- The path to the client executable is now assumed to be in the + NX_CLIENT environment. If the variable is not set, the proxy + will guess the location based on the target platform. This is + part of the FR11C01215. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-3 + +- More code cleanup. Protocol step 5 and cache step 2 are assumed + by default. This allows us to remove the various channel caches + that are not used anymore. + +- Removed the outdated encodeBegin() and encodeEnd() methods. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-2 + +- Added compatibility with the 1.5.0 and 1.4.0 versions. Protocol + version older than the 1.4.0 will cause the proxy to drop the + connection. + +- Rewritten the version negotiatiation logic to better handle the + compatibility between the local and the remote version. + +- Removed the conditional code handling the compatibility with + the protocol encodings from 1 to 4. + +- Small adjustments to the session negotiation procedure to give + more hints in the case of errors. A dialog is now issued if the + remote proxy drops the connection due to a probable authentica- + tion failure or when the remote proxy version is not compatible + with our version. + +nxcomp-2.0.0-1 + +- Opened the 2.0.0 branch based on nxcomp-1.5.0-80. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-80 + +- Fixed a bug that prevented the Unix socket to be created in the + right directory. This affected the ability of the server to run + NX sessions without the agent encoding. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-79 + +- Solved a bug in the 15 to 16 bpp conversion for RDP sessions. + +- Corrected a typo in the PANIC message of Unpack16To24 function. + +- Optimized the 16 bpp RDP decompression routine. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-78 + +- Implemented the FR11C01215. The following environment variables + are checked to determine the location of the relevant NX direct- + ories: + + $NX_ROOT The root NX directory is the place where the session + directory and the cache files are created. This is + usually overridden by passing the 'root=' option. By + default, the root NX directory is assumed to be the + directory '.nx' in the user's home. + + $NX_SYSTEM The directory where NX programs and libraries reside. + If not set, the value is assumed to be '/usr/NX'. + Programs, libraries and data files are respectedly + searched in the 'bin', 'lib' and 'share' subdirecto- + ries. + + $NX_HOME The NX user's home directory. If $NX_ROOT is not set + or invalid, the user's NX directory is created here. + + $NX_TEMP The directory where the X11 Unix Domain Sockets and + all temporary files are to be created. + + $NX_CLIENT The full path to the nxclient executable. If the va- + riable is not set, the nxclient executable will be + run assuming that the program is in the system path. + This can be useful on platforms like Windows and the + Mac where nxclient is located in a different direct- + ory compared to the other programs, to make easier + for the user to execute the program from the shell. + + Other environment variables: + + $HOME The variable is checked in the case $NX_HOME is not + set, null or invalid. + + $TEMP The variable is checked whenever the $NX_TEMP direct- + ory is not set, null or invalid. + + $PATH The path where all executables are searched, except + nxclient. If $NX_CLIENT is not set, also the client + executable is searched in the system path. + + $XAUTHORITY + This is the file containing the X11 authorization + cookies. If not set, the file is assumed to be in + the user's home (either $NX_HOME or $HOME). + + $LD_LIBRARY_PATH + System-wide library search order. This should be set + by the program invoking the proxy. + +- Extended the usage message to document the relevant environment. + +- Made the WaitChild() function interruptible. This allows the user + to terminate the connection procedure immediately, by sending a + signal to the proxy process while an abort dialog is shown in the + foreground. This is part of the solution to the TR11C01216. + +- Implementation of the FR11C01215 is not yet complete. The client + program and the nxauth/xauth are still searched using the previ- + ous logic. In particular, the NX_CLIENT variable is ignored. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-77 + +- Corrected the typo in the alert dealing with VNC authentication + failures. This solves the TR11C01199. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-76 + +- Added the missing initialization in the client and server proxy + constructors. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-75 + +- Starting from this version the build procedure will automatically + create a DLL on Windows. + +- Disabled exceptions in the compiled code. + +- Disabled run-time type information to further reduce the size of + the executable. + +- Compiling with GCC 4.0.0 and -fno-exceptions produces a warning + in some files, due to control apparently reaching the end of a + non void function. This is bogus and has been confirmed to be a + GCC 4.0.0 bug solved in more recent versions. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-74 + +- Imported changes from nxcomp-1.6.0-4. + +- Solved a compilation error on Solaris and MacOSX platforms. + +- The 'font' option now accepts either a numeric value (for a TCP + port) or a 'unix/:port' or 'tcp/:port' specification. In the case + of Unix ports, we assume that a port specification "unix/:7100" + corresponds to the "/tmp/.font-unix/fs7100" socket and a port like + "unix/:-1" corresponds to "/tmp/.font-unix/fs-1". + +- An absolute file path is also accepted as a valid socket. This is + useful to test the forwarding of the font server connection, for + example by running a normal X client and pointing the socket to + the X server. + +- Protocol step 7 is now only assumed when connecting to a remote + proxy version 1.6.0 or later. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-73 + +- Use the include files from nx-X11 if the nx-X11/include directory + is found. The previous configure checked the presence of nx-X11/ + exports/include, that might not be built at the time this library + is compiled. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-72 + +- Fixed a problem on AMD64 due to the size of the area pointed by + the argument of NXTransReadable(). The ioctl() requires a pointer + to an int, at least on Linux. The original _X11TransBytesReadable() + function simply calls the ioctl() by passing the pointer that is + provided. Returning the value assuming a pointer to a long crashes + some applications, among them xterm. Now NXTransReadable() follows + the same schema of the ioctl() call and stores the result assuming + a pointer to an int. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-71 + +- Ensured that the NX trasport is destroyed on NXTransExit() even if + the parent has overridden our signal handlers. + +- Added attribute 'noreturn' to NXTransExit(). + +- Small change to the shutdown procedure to send the "Waiting for a + further signal" just after the watchdog is started. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-70 + +- Added the definition of protocol step 7. The new protocol step is + implicitly assumed when activating the font server channel, so that + NX clients and servers may decide what to do by verifying the patch + version of the peer software. This makes possible to activate the + feature without stepping up the 1.5.0 version of the software. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-69 + +- Added the -fPIC GCC flag when compiling on AMD64 architectures. + +- Small changes to configure.in to have specific CFLAGS. + +- Created a new configure using autoconf 2.59. + +- Added the 'mask=n' option to determine how channel ids are distri- + buted between client ans server. By default, channels whose ids are + multiple of 8 (starting from 0) are reserved for the client side. + All other channels can be allocated at the NX server side. + +- A check is missing on the protocol supported by the remote side, + so it is likely that mixing this version with older 1.5.0 will not + work. + +- The release has the debug logs enabled. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-68 + +- Added provision for opening new channels on both client and server + side. This required small changes to the way channel ids are mapped + and retrieved, so that both sides now support bidirectional mapping + of file descriptors to channels. + +- Made the code handling allocation of new generic channels to reside + in the base Proxy class. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-67 + +- Renamed the 'embedded keyboard' channels as 'aux' channel. + +- Renamed 'samba' channels as 'smb'. + +- The 'samba' and 'smb' options can now be used interchangeably. The + same applies to the 'keybd' and 'aux' options, used to set up the + auxiliary X channel. + +- Added a new font channel. The channel is used to forward X font + server connections from the X server on the NX client to the remote + NX server. The channel is not yet functional and requires change to + the channel allocation mechanism. + +- Added a common interface to create new listening sockets. This is + currently used for additional services, but not for the X display + sockets. + +- Simplified the interface used to accept new connections to channels + being forwarded. + +- Removed the -V option as nxproxy is not using dlopen() anymore. + +- Removed the inclusion of ClientChannel.h in Proxy.cpp that caused + test symbols to be reverted to undefined. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-66 + +- Made failures setting the IPTOS_LOWDELAY on the proxy socket to + cause a warning, instead of an error. + +- Made the clean target delete the Cygwin specific libraries. + +- Updated the configure and Message.h to deal with GCC 4. Solves the + TR08C000981. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-65 + +- Removed the warning issued on parsing the agent option 'rootless'. + Solves the TR08C00959. + +- MacOSX 10.4 defines socklen_t. Made the definition conditional so + that we can still support older versions. Solves the TR07C00926. + +- Updated the ChangeLog to include references to the solved TRs. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-64 + +- Imported the 1.6.0 changes in the maintenance 1.5.0. + +- Removed a wrong assertion that might cause the session to fail + when the software was compiled with TEST enabled in Proxy.cpp. + +- The nxclient dialog process is signaled with SIGKILL on Windows, + as the SIGTERM is ignored. This solves the TR07C00929. + +- Ensured the JPEG error flag is always set before jumping out of + the Jpeg decompression. + +- Skipped errors encontered setting the TCP_NODELAY flag on Mac. + Solves TR08C00940. + +- Few cosmetic changes. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-63 + +- Ensured that the parent is checked often in the keeper process, + so that, in the case of a premature death, the child is exited + earlier. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-62 + +- Some performance tuning of the LAN and WAN link modes. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-61 + +- Fixed the problems arisen with loading or saving the image files + on Windows by forcing the streams to be opened in binary mode. + These problems have been triggered by the recent Cygwin upgrade. + +- Removed the logs that had be left enabled for test purposes. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-60 + +- Made all errors encountered while unpacking an image just print + a warning in the session log. Such errors are not fatal but the + client monitors the state of the session at startup, so that by + marking image decompression errors as such may cause the session + to be aborted. + +- Marked as warnings also errors encountered by trying to load an + image from disk. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-59 + +- When detected, the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+ESC sequence is removed from + the event stream. + +- Also modified the message in the session log to issue a warning, + instead of an error. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-58 + +- Added a setjmp() before yielding the control to the JPEG library. + This makes possible to recover from the JPEG decompression errors + that were previously fatal. + +- In the commit split request, the client id is now encoded by the + client channel beside the propagate flag. The client id is igno- + red by the decoding party. As in the old protocol versions, the + committing client is taken from the client id that was originally + sent together with the packed image. + +- Fixed the compilation problem when defining OPCODES in Misc.cpp. + +- Skipped the synchronous flush of the proxy link when connecting + to a previous NX version. + +- Ensured that the new alerts are only requested when connected to + a compatible proxy. + +- Ignored the option 'fullscreen', targeting the agents. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-57 + +- Added more alerts and changed the name of those dealing with the + resume of a session. + +- Added the MIXED define. When set, the proxy will let all logs go + to the standard error. This is useful to interleave the Xlib log + output with the proxy output in a single file. + +- Added a new alert to report an I/O error at agent reconnection. + This is one of those alert that can't be actually shown, but are + included to offer a consistent view to the agent implementation. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-56 + +- Added the split mode NXSplitModeSync. By selecting this mode, + the proxy will try to empty the split store immediately, until + all messages marked in such mode will be synchronized. The im- + plementation is left to future versions. + + #define NXSplitModeSync 3 + +- Added the messages specific to RDP and VNC sessions in NXalert.h. + Included are also a few alerts related to changes to the color + depth and desktop geometry that may be eventually mandated by the + remote server. + +- Corrected a typo in NXalert.h + +nxcomp-1.5.0-55 + +- Added the 'mode' field in the X_NXStartSplit request. It determi- + nes the strategy that the proxy will adopt to handle the image. + If set to 'eager', the proxy will only split the messages whose + size exceeds the split threshold (the threshold can be found in + the X_NXGetControlParameters reply). If mode is set to lazy, the + proxy will split any image that it is not able to find in its + cache. + + The opcode and the two available modes are defined in NXproto.h, + currently: + + #define NXSplitModeDefault 0 + #define NXSplitModeEager 1 + #define NXSplitModeLazy 2 + +- All requests related to image streaming now carry a 'resource' id. + The id is currently ignored by the proxy in the case of X_NXCom- + mitSplit requests. + +- Added a new NXSetSplitMode() request. It determines the strategy + that the proxy will adopt to stream the images. If set to 'eager' + the proxy will only split the messages whose size exceeds the + split threshold, otherwise it will split all the images, regard- + less their size. This is in preparation of the lazy encoding in + agent. + +- Slightly decreased the startup timeout compared to the value it + had in the 1.4.0. This timeout is used to retain the images used + during session startup in the persistent cache. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-54 + +- Modified the text of the begin-reconnection alert to mention the + speed of the connection detected by the agent. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-53 + +- Reworked the handling of the abort-split events issued by the re- + remote proxy so that we now finalize the procedure and restart the + client asynchronously, in the middle of the write loop. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-52 + +- Rewritten the internal interface to the notification events. There + are now five different split notification events: + + NXNoSplitNotify The operation didn't cause any actual split. + The client can be immediately restarted. + + NXStartSplitNotify A split is ongoing. The client should be + suspended until the end of the split. + + NXCommitSplitNotify A complete request has been recomposed. The + client can commit the given request to the + X server. + + NXEndSplitNotify The split operation was duly completed. The + client can be restarted. + + NXEmptySplitNotify No more split operation are pending. The + agent can use this information to implement + specific strategies, requiring for example + that all messages have been recomposed at + the remote end. This can include updating + the drawables that were not synchronized + because of the lazy encoding. + +- Removed the X_NXSync and X_NXKarma operations, not used anymore by + the NX agents. + +- Increasing or decreasing a timeout makes it respectively equal to + the base timeout or to the base timeout / 4. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-51 + +- Improved the mechanism by which synchronization replies are sent + to the X client proxy. + +- Using the leftPad field as passed by the nxagent 1.5.0-58 doesn't + seem to work with the MIT-SHM. The workaround is to disable the + MIT-SHM operation in the case of 1 bpp images. + +- Removed the limitation on the size of the shared memory segment + that had been introduced for test purposes. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-50 + +- Solved compilation problem when --with-info was not given. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-49 + +- Improved support for color matching from 15 and 16 bpp to 24 and + 32 bpp in RDP sessions. + +- Solved TR05C00910. This was about "shadows" that might appear in + RDP sessions when small elements like tooltips were drawn. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-48 + +- Added a 'commit' field in X_NXCommitSplit request. When zero, the + X server side proxy will unlock the message in the message store, + without actually committing the image to the X server. The new + field required changes to the encoding. This means that this ver- + sion is not compatible with older 1.5.0 nxcomp releases. + +- Added a new control message. This is used by NXTransFlush() to for- + ce a roundtrip between the proxies and speed-up the handling of + the synchronous replies. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-47 + +- Made the timeouts dynamic, based on the user input and the current + bitrate. + +- Set the available tokens to 8. This allows for 16 KB to be sent on + a modem before having to wait for a reply. + +- Added provision for removing a dialog on the remote end. This can + be used, for example, to get rid of a message that was displayed + by the agent at the beginning of a lengthy operation. + +- Fixed a fault that arose when trying to run the proxy on a display + whose name began with the 'nx' string. + +- Running a client or server session on a display host beginning with + 'nx' should be now possible. + +- Flush is now always immediate when there is already data queued in + the TCP socket. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-46 + +- Created the NXalert.h header from Alert.h to share the alert codes + with the agents. The new NXTransAlert() interface can be used to + start an alert on the remote side. + +- Created the NXTransParse*() and NXTransCleanup() wrappers. + +- Temporarily using the single-dash style when passing parameters to + nxclient until the double-dash style is fixed. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-45 + +- Motion events are now flushed at the time the X server channel is + sending the token reply. + +- Renamed NXDialog() to NXTransDialog() and added a window ID parame- + ter, to be used by the agent when starting the "pulldown" dialogs. + +- Also renamed the other NX utility functions. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-44 + +- Solved a bug that prevented auxiliary X connections from working + with the agent. + +- Added the missing check on the proxy pointer in HandleTimer() as + it may be actually called before the proxy is created. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-43 + +- Started tuning the performance. For now, the available tokens are + set to an improbable value of 10000. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-42 + +- Disabled the X server side remote expose events for test purposes. + This is intended uncover the display problems introduced by the + new handling of exposures in the X11 agent. + +- Fixed some timestamp related functions to avoid rounding problems. + +- Moved the timestamps of split, frame and flush from the Control + to the Proxy class. + +- Made the X server side proxy to skip updating the counters related + to token management. + +- Made also the X server side use deferred flushes. + +- Modified handleFrame() to manage both pings and data frames and + send the token before the actual write operation. + +- Cleaned the pseudo-files used to load the control parameters. + +- Cleaned up the FIXME's in the lower layers. More FIXME's remain in + the frontend classes. + +- Added a further counter to the statistics tracking the number of + network writes performed on the proxy link. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-41 + +- Now the watchdog process doesn't kill the parent. The termination + event is determined by monitoring the child. This is advisable to + avoid interfering with the signal handling in agent. + +- The house-keeping process is not started if differential compres- + sion (and thus caching of images) is disabled. + +- Wait for the watchdog to terminate before starting the house-keep- + ing process. + +- Fixed the problem of gray stripes in white areas when using 15bpp + RDP compression. This solves the TR06C00916. + +- Added a log in Message.cpp to tell when an image is removed from + the memory cache. + +- Removed most of the logs. Only left the logs directly related to + the deferred flushes. + +- Removed a warning due to a missing definition in NX.h. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-40 + +- Added the signal '12' to the set of blocked signal on Cygwin. This + is what is delivered to the application when it tries to create a + shared memory segment when the cygserver is not running. The call + later returns "Operation not implemented", only useful if you have + survived to the signal. + +- Modified the configure script to not link against cygipc. + +- Improved error handling in the negotiation phase. + +- Reset the last signal received when aborting a connection attempt. + Not doing that might cause a warning. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-39 + +- Both channels and proxy can now deal with incomplete messages by + waiting for the full data to become available. This is not going + to work when the transport is connected to an agent that is run- + ning in-process, so the timeout must be really small. + +- Made the main loop more compact by letting a single function read + from proxy and channels. The same change applies to writing to + descriptors that are reported to be ready. + +- Optimized the loop to report as ready the agent descriptors that + have become available after the proxy execution phase. + +- Now the proxy will try to asynchronously read from its descriptor + after having read from the channel. + +- Unified the routine setting the routines setting the read and write + descriptors and the timeouts. + +- Unified the routine handling the channel events. + +- Reintroduced the last ping timestamp to avoid sending more than a + single ping every PingTimeout milliseconds. + +- The cleanup procedure now waits for the watchdog and house-keeping + processes to terminate. + +- Reverted the change occurred in 1.5.0-35 about the byte-ordering + problem in decompression of PNG and JPEG images. + +- More coding about deferred flushes. + +- Relevant debug logs are enabled in the main loop, in the proxy and + in the channel classes, so use only for testing. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-38 + +- Started the implementation of deferred writes based on the new NX + transport. + +- Solved a problem with the statistics file affecting the Windows + platform. Basically it seems that Cygwin or the stdc++ library + don't deal correctly with files that are reopened just after + having unlinked them. + +- Implemented support for 15 bpp RDP bitmaps. + +- Added "rdpcolors" and "rdpcache" to the list of parameters that + are ignored in ParseEnviromentOptions(). + +- This version has lot of logs enabled and some forced cleanups in + the case of unexpected conditions. Avoid to use it for long-last- + ing test sessions. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-37 + +- Now splitting of images is fully disabled when running with link + LAN. Previously the split was not executed by the proxy, but the + agent was configured to send the start/end sequence. + +- Added the check protecting the proxy from token underflow. In the + previous code the check was left out to verify the conditions un- + der which this event might be encountered. + +- NXTransWrite() and NXTransWriteVector() allocate a context before + calling handleRead(), so they can correctly return in the case of + a cleanup. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-36 + +- Modified the channel write loop to interleave abort split events + between the writes to the X server socket. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-35 + +- Solved a byte-ordering problem in decompression of PNG and JPEG + images. + +- Changed the handleToken() interface to make explicit if a token + must be issued because of a ping. + +- Small fix to prevent a warning in Jpeg.cpp when TEST is enabled. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-34 + +- Solved a few problems introduced by the rewrite of the read loops + in channels. + +- Added definition of NXCollectInputFocusNotify. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-33 + +- Implemented a new control flow system based on tokens exchanged bet- + ween the proxies. When the clint side runs out of tokens it stops + sending data until a new token is returned. Tokens are sent whenever + the data written to the socket exceeds the amount of data set for a + scheduled write, so the proxy is free to send a number of smaller + frames before running out of tokens. + +- The reason the new system is introduced is because the old method + had two outstanding problems: + + - It worked very well when the proxies were directly connected, + but couldn't reliably detect a link congestion when tunneled + over SSH. + + - In the attempt of reducing the data queued to the TCP layer, it + didn't leverage all the available bandwidth. + +- Moved the final check on the state of the session at the end of + execution stage, instead of the beginning. The signals sent by the + user to request the statistics could be reset before the proxy had + entered the right procedure. + +- Added the session type 'unix-rootless', to be used for single apps + run with the agent in rootless mode. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-32 + +- Modified the main loop to skip the select when I/O is possible on + any of the agent descriptors or the proxy link. + +- Now the house-keeping process is allocated in the heap instead of + the stack. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-31 + +- The server channel now performs asynchronous reads from the display + by interleaving them with data decoded from the remote proxy. + +- Improved the handling of the memory-to-memory transport. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-30 + +- Redesigned the handling of the congestion events to work more re- + liably and to report the events to the remote peer earlier. + +- Increased the size of the shared memory segment when the MIT-SHM + extension is activated. + +- Solved a bug that prevented the ping timeout to work as expected. + +- Ensured that, when entering the main select(), neither the chan- + nels or the proxy have pending messages in the read buffers. + +- There is now only a single case where we can have pending messa- + ges, namely in the handling of the MIT-SHM events. + +- Solved a bug introduced by the 1.5.0-29 that made the proxy en- + ter the select with a null timeout. + +- Renamed LINK_TYPE_AUTO to LINK_TYPE_NONE in NXproto.h. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-29 + +- Now encoding data from the agent descriptors happens in the same + context as data is written to the buffer. + +- Optimized the handling of the congestion events to avoid running + further unneeded loops. + +- Added timer handling utilities. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-28 + +- Added code providing information about the reason of the failure + encountered connecting to the local X server. This greatly helps + when troubleshooting X authorization problems. + +- On connection failure a warning message is printed in the session + log. + +- Removed the warning that was previously printed when the MIT-SHM + extension failed to be initialized on Windows. Shared memory has + problems on Cygwin and it currently doesn't work in NXWin. + +- Reworked the message printed in the case of link failure. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-27 + +- Solved a bug in the connection procedure introduced by 1.5.0-25. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-26 + +- Transformed the errors printed on failure of the fork() creating + the children into warnings. This can happen quite often on Win- + dows, due to well known Cygwin problems. See also the ChangeLog + entry for nxcomp 1.4.0-28. This patch closes the TRSL052278 but + it's obviously not a long-term solution. + +- Set the sticky bit when creating the '/tmp/.X11-unix' directory. + +- Modified the Makefile.in to remove the *.out.* files generated by + Valgrind. + +- Updated the README files. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-25 + +- Changed the directory where the client for the Mac is searched if + it is not found in the system path. + +- Modified Auth.cpp to use nxauth also on the Mac. + +- Reworked the procedure showing the alert dialog when a timeout is + encountered in the initial connection. + +- Removed the experimental code from the official 1.5.0 branch. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-24 + +- Implemented more experimental classes. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-23 + +- Added the NX_SIGNAL_FORWARD action to NXTransSignal(). This can + be used to let the proxy call the original signal handler of the + agent after having blocked the signal. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-22 + +- Ensured that we always have a context, even before creating the + transport. + +- Suppressed the error message printed when passing the -h option. + +- Added the experimental code that is currently under development. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-21 + +- Enabled the fake X cookie authentication. This requires checking + the remote proxy version to verify that the server supports the + new authorization mechanism. + +- It's worth noting that the X client side proxy doesn't care which + cookie is sent over the connection. The problem is that clients + connecting to 1.4.0 servers don't have a method to force the ser- + ver to use the fake cookie. This means that we have to solve the + problem by letting the proxy check the remote version so that it + can omit to replace the cookie when connecting to older servers. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-20 + +- Added the NXTransCongestion() function. It returns true if proxy + is in congestion state. + +- Removed an incorrect warning that was printed when calling force() + for the memory-to-memory transport. The agent could actually re- + quire multiple loops to read all data queued for it. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-19 + +- Small optimization in NXTransReadable() to run a new NXTransConti- + nue() loop only after at least RetryTimeout milliseconds are pas- + sed since the last call and still no data is available. This cuts + the number of unneeded loops to 1/4th of the total, probably more, + on faster machines. + +- Added NXCollectGrabPointerNotify to NXproto.h. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-18 + +- Minor changes to NXTransContinue(). + +nxcomp-1.5.0-17 + +- Moved respawning of a new nxclient instance in the cleanup procedu- + re. This ensures that the respawn is executed whatever is the rea- + son of the session shutdown. + +- Added a method to force closure of a given channel in proxy. + +- Removed code handling the special case triggered on Windows by the + presence of a NX_SESSION variable in the environment. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-16 + +- Added the NXTransSignal() function to let agents tell to the proxy + how to handle the standard POSIX signals. Given the SIGINT signal, + for example, the caller can specify any of the following actions. + + NX_SIGNAL_ENABLE: A signal handler will have to be installed by + the library, so that it can be intercepted by + the proxy. + + NX_SIGNAL_DISABLE: The signal will be handled by the caller and, + eventually, forwarded to the proxy by calling + NXTransSignal() explicitly. + + NX_SIGNAL_RAISE: The signal must be handled now, as if it had + been delivered by the operating system. This + function can be called by the agent with the + purpose of propagating a signal to the proxy. + + As a rule of thumb, agents should let the proxy handle SIGUSR1 and + SIGUSR2, used for producing the NX protocol statistics, and SIGHUP, + used for disconnecting the NX transport. + +- The following signals are blocked by default upon creation of the + NX transport: + + SIGCHLD These signals should be always put under the control + SIGUSR1 of the proxy. If agents are intercepting them, agents + SIGUSR2 should later call NXTransSignal(..., NX_SIGNAL_RAISE) + SIGHUP to forward the signal to the proxy. + + SIGINT These signals should be intercepted by agents. Agents + SIGTERM should ensure that NXTransDestroy() is called before + exiting, to give the proxy a chance to shut down the + NX transport. + + SIGPIPE This signal is blocked by the proxy, but not used to + implement any functionality. It can be handled by the + NX agent without affecting the proxy. + + SIGALRM This is not blocked by the proxy, but could be used + in future. + + SIGVTALRM These signals are not used and should not be used in + SIGWINCH future versions of the library. + SIGIO + SIGTSTP + SIGTTIN + SIGTTOU + +- By calling NXTransSignal(..., NX_SIGNAL_DISABLE) nxcomp will res- + tore the signal handler that was saved at the time the proxy hand- + ler was installed. This means that you should call the function + just after the XOpenDisplay() or any other function used to init- + ialize the NX transport. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-15 + +- In NXTransContinue(), if the transport is gone, return immediately, + that is without having to wait until the NXTransSelect() timeout. + +- Ensure that NXTransCreate() has a jump context, just in the case + a subsequent operation would cause a cleanup. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-14 + +- Solved a problem with requests left in the agent's buffer when run- + ning the NX transport. The agent could have enqueued data to our + side and checked the available events but requests could not be + written to the proxy because proxy might not have had a chance to + enter a new select. We found that this behaviour was triggered by + _XEventsQueued, so now a new loop is forced when agent is calling + _X11TransDataReadable. The procedure can be optimized, by avoiding + an expensive loop when no critical I/O is pending. + +- Added a few additional logs to ClientChannel and ServerChannel. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-13 + +- Added the code handling the special cases of an user not specifying + a proxy cookie or the case of the X authorization file not contain- + ing a value matching the display. In the first case we'll forward + the same cookie that was feeded to the proxy, in the second case we + will forward to the X server a random generated cookie, similarly to + what SSH does in this same condition. + +- Rewritten the command line parser. Removed all the command line + options parsed on behalf of nxproxy except: + + -C Specify that nxproxy has to run on the "X client" + side, listening for connections and impersonating + an X server.\n\ + + -S Specify that nxproxy has to run in "X server" mode, + thus forwarding the connections to daemons running + on the client.\n\ + + -V n.n.n Request nxproxy to load the given nxcomp version. + This option is only present on Solaris and Linux. + + -v Print version information. + + host:port Put at the end, specifies the host and port of the + listening proxy. + + value=name Set the NX option to the provided value. + + Multiple NX options can be specified in the DISPLAY environment or + on the command line, by using the nx/nx,name=value notation. + +- The above information is printed on the console when incurring in + a parse error, together with a list of the available option=value + parameters. + +- Renamed the 'log' option to 'errors'. This makes sense as the de- + fault name for the log file is actually 'errors'. + +- Now the "Established X server connection" message is printed to + the session log only after the X connection has passed the X auth- + entication phase. This means that the NX client should become able + to show the details of the session log whenever the session fails + due to a cookie problem. + +- When selecting the additional services without specifying a port, + the client proxy will now automatically forward the connections to + the corresponding well-known ports of the CUPS, SMB and HTTP servi- + ces. Embedded X keyboard connections will be automatically forward- + ed to the same display port used to connect to the X server. The + user will still have to specify the port to be used for the media + connections as we don't have a suitable well-known port. + +- Starting from this version, connections to the keybd port will cre- + ate real X connection channels. This is required to let connections + leverage the fake authorization cookie. + +- By testing the forwarding of keybd connections I found that, when + letting X clients connect to the port, it is required to provide + the X cookie for the unix display. Adding only the TCP cookie will + not work. For example, by creating a cookie as in: + + xauth add localhost:2009 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 6f...f4 + + And running: + + xterm xterm -display localhost:2009 + + You will get the following error: + + Xlib: connection to "localhost:2009.0" refused by server + Xlib: No protocol specified + + Adding also the unix cookie will fix it: + + xauth add localhost/unix:2009 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 6f...f4 + + This seems to be a Xlib problem, with Xlib trying to get the cookie + for the UDS port even if the TCP port was requested by the user. + +- Fixed a bug that prevented the nxclient dialog to be displayed when + the session was abruptedly shut down. + +- Fixed the compilation error on Apple MacOSX due to the sa_restorer + field in sigaction. As long as this field is present on Linux we + will keep following the safer route and will set it explicitly to + NULL. + +- Included what needs to be included in Process.cpp to compile with + older gcc. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-12 + +- Implemented a replacement for the popen() and pclose() that do not + rely on a shell to run the command. They were required on Windows, + where we don't ship a suitable shell in the install. + +- Removed code forcing the PATH to include the bin directory on + Windows. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-11 + +- Forced Auth.cpp on Windows to have the directory containing the + nxauth executable in the PATH. This is just for testing, until + nxclient is fixed. + +- Fixed compilation errors on Cygwin and Sun. + +- Removed the NX_FORCE_* stubs. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-10 + +- Modified the memory management policies in ReadBuffer to fit all + the available bytes in a single buffer allocation. + +- The locateMessage() methods now give hints on the amount of data + that has to be read. + +- The read loop in channel now doesn't yield in the case of prio- + ritized messages. This is experimental. + +- Removed the check on isTimeToYield() between encodings of multi- + ple messages. This is aimed at reducing the risk of leaving pen- + ding messages in channels. + +- Modified the channels' read loop to always read all the available + data. + +- Disabled the log output that was selected when compiling with the + configure option --with-info. This leaves space for other log out- + put to be selected for more up-to-date scopes. + +- Implemented the NXTransReadVector() and the NXTransWriteVector() + functions to replace READV() and WRITEV(). + +- Implemented memory-to-memory communication between the agent and + the NX proxy by making use of the NXTransAgent() interface in the + nx-X11/lib/X11/Xtranssock.c file. + +- Added a check in NXTransSelect() for the EBADF and, on Solaris, + the EINVAL errors. It can happen in the X11 code that a descript- + or has become invalid before it is removed from the managed set + +- Rewritten the signal handling functions to restore the old actions + and masks when the NX transport is destroyed. + +- Added a NXTransAgent() function to let agents tell the proxy which + descriptor must be used for the controlling connection. Setting a + controlling connection has the effect of disabling further X client + connections and makes the proxy terminate when the channel is shut + down. + +- Solved a problem with setting the initial timeout in the select(). + +- Modified the Makefile.in to not include -Wno-deprecated when compi- + ling C programs. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-9 + +- Fixed a problem that prevented the 1.5.0-8 to work on the NX server + side. + +- This version has NX_FORCE_NULL_LISTEN_OPTION and NX_FORCE_NEW_SES- + SION_OPTION undefined, so it should work in a way that is compati- + ble with the old nxcomp. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-8 + +- The new code comes with a preliminary integration of nxcomp with + SSH. It is now possible to create the NX transport by just calling + the "switch" command as in the following example: + + NX> 299 Switching connection to: NX options: ... + +- Other possible forms for the NX switch command are: + + NX> 299 Switching connection to: NX mode: ... + + NX> 299 Switching connection to: NX mode: ... options: ... + + Or just: + + NX> 299 Switching connection to: NX + + The "mode" parameter is there to provide a way to run both enc- + rypted and unencrypted connections. Possible values are "encrypt- + ed", "unencrypted" or "default", the latter being an alias for + "encrypted". Unfortunately I was not able to test unencrypted + connections, so this may or may not work. + +- The top-level process can create the NX transport layer by calling + NXTransCreate(). The user has to set up a socket pair and pass the + higher descriptor to nxcomp. nxcomp will later monitor its end, by + reading and writing NX-encoded traffic. The user has to call the + NXTransExecute() function as often as it is possible, by letting + first NXTransPrepare() combine the sets of NX descriptors with the + descriptors that are used inside its process. A custom NXTransSel- + ect() is provided to optionally replace the original select(). This + function saves the original error code and the number of selected + descriptors upon exit, so the user can call it, restore the original + values as they were returned by the select() and run the rest of + the loop unmodified. + +- Future versions of the library should provide appropriate methods + for passing data to and from the proxy by means of a memcpy(), so + that it will be possible to remove the even minimal TCP overhead. + +- Note that integration is far from complete. More work is required + especially to manage the shutdown cleanly, in a way that gives to + SSH a chance to free its resources, and on adding facilities for + handling SSH and NX signals in a single function. + +- Rewritten the initialization procedure to make possible to run the + proxy in-process in an arbitrary connection manager, like SSH or a + HTTP utility. The same functionality can be used to embed nxcomp in + the NX agents, so that nxcomp has not to run in a separate process. + +- A new state-machine handles the advances through the connection + stages until the remote proxy (or the forwarder process ) is auth- + enticated, options have been negotiated and the session is started. + +- The option "session" is now used to pass the name of the session + file to the proxy. The parameter was previously used to pass the + literal name of the session, as set by the user, and was ignored + by the proxy. By default the session log is the standard error of + the process. It is anyway required to set the option when running + inside SSH, otherwise output will go to the same file as the SSH + output. In the NX client this would be the 'sshlog' file. + +- This version can be easily crafted to test the new integration by + setting the following define: + + NX_FORCE_NULL_LISTEN_OPTION + + This makes possible to test the nxcomp/nxssh integration by using + any production 1.4.0 client. To run this version you are required + to use nxproxy 1.5.0-4 and nxssh-1.5.0-6. + +- New functions handling enabling and disabling signals, based on + sigprocmask(). + +- Improved error reporting when failures are encountered while ne- + gotiating the session. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-7 + +- Caches are saved with a version identifier 1.4.0 so that they are + not discarded after upgrading the software to the 1.5.0. + +- Made values of T_* enumerations to be all lower case. + +- Updated copyright to year 2005. + +- Started working on an interface for running nxcomp in-process, as + a additional transport layer of nxssh or nxagent. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-6 + +- Modified the configure script and the makefiles to not include the + -Wstrict-prototypes and -Wmissing-prototypes compilation flags. The + -Wnested-externs and -Wmissing-declarations flags are not included + when using GCC 3. + +- Removed the initial newline from string "NXPROXY - Version" printed + at program startup. + +- Made X authentication compatible with 1.4.0 clients. This is a tem- + porary solution while code is updated to handle the new X authori- + zation scheme. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-5 + +- Added an Auth class to handle the X authentication. The NX server + should now use the same proxie cookie that is passed by the client + at session startup. The X server side proxy will forward the autho- + rization credentials by replacing the fake cookie with the real co- + okie, as it is read from the auth file using the xauth utility. The + implementation is based on the corresponding code found in the SSH + client and comes with the same limitations: only MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 + cookies are checked and the authorization file is read only once, + at the time the instance is initialized. If the auth file changes + along the life of the session, the old cookie will still be used. + This works with X servers because of an undocumented "feature". + See also nx-X11. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-4 + +- Adjusted for alarm(0) returning an inconsistent value in ConnectTo- + Remote(). + +- Small changes to Types.h, Jpeg.cpp and Png.cpp to compile with gcc + 3.4.2. + +- Cosmetic changes to the ChangeLog file. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-3 + +- Removed test code from ServerChannel.cpp. + +- Small cosmetic change in Loop.cpp. + +- Tested for compatibility against 1.4.1-8. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-2 + +- Changed VERSION file according to TRCL052336. + +nxcomp-1.5.0-1 + +- Opened the 1.5.0 branch based on 1.4.1-9. + +nxcomp-1.4.1-9 + +- Implemented methods PACK_RDP_PLAIN_64K_COLORS and PACK_RDP_PLAIN_- + 16M_COLORS. It seems that 16 bpp plain bitmaps can be seldom recei- + ved. This doesn't seem to be the case of 24 bpp bitmaps. + +nxcomp-1.4.1-8 + +- The new code enables use of 16 bpp and 32 bpp RDP bitmaps. This re- + quired modifications to the following files: + + Misc.h + Misc.cpp + Loop.cpp + Control.cpp + ServerChannel.cpp + Unpack.h + Unpack.cpp + +- Lots of cosmetic changes compared to the original code in 1.4.1-7. + +- Merged the 1.4.0 and the 1.4.1 branches by importing changes up to + the 1.4.1-7. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-30 + +- Modified the function checking the Unix socket where X connections + will be forwarded. The function will not fail if the socket itself + doesn't exist yet. This solves the TRCL042203. + +- Moved the code checking for the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+ESC sequence to a + separate function. The implementation will now look for a different + sequence on the MacOS/X platform. This should solve the TRCL042182. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-29 + +- Solved a bug that could cause proxy to stop reading data from the + X channels due to an incorrect calculation of the bytes queued on + the proxy link. The bug only affected Linux kernels of the 2.0/2.2 + series. + +- Fixed a problem in the proxy class that could let the select time- + out to become zero. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-28 + +- Prevented the main proxy process from quitting when the fork() of + any of the children fails. This can actually happen on Windows due + to conflicts in reallocating any of the Cygwin DLLs. + +- Reworked handling of the priority flag in channels when dealing + with the X_InternAtoms and X_AllocColor requests to reduce the time + of session startup. Priority is never set in case of X_InternAtom + requests and replies as we assume that most clients use the appro- + priate Xlib function to pipeline multiple requests in a single net- + work operation. + +- The timeout after which proxy will abort the peer connection is + still 120 seconds. An alert dialog will be shown earlier, after 30 + seconds instead of 60. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-27 + +- Removed the code setting priority on channels on ButtonPress and + Button release events. It seems preferrable to delay the flush and + pack more events in a single frame. This makes possible to get the + ButtonRelease together with the ButtonPress. + +- Fixed error detection in SetNoDelay() where a positive result + could produce a 'not supported' message in debug mode. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-26 + +- Reworked the check aimed at detecting the clock drifts. The previ- + ous code, introduced in 1.3.2-2, had the undesired side-effect of + resetting the proxy timeout. This could cause the proxy to never + detect that the other end had been killed. + +- The default behaviour of proxy is now to terminate the session at + the time an error is encountered. This includes network failures. + +- Added a new dialog to be shown to the user whenever the session + is terminated abnormally. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-25 + +- Fixed a bug in handling of suppression of errors generated by + committing the image splits. Other errors, unrelated to the commit + of split, could be suppressed. This might cause the hangup of the + session when the suppressed error was matching a reply. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-24 + +- When killing the proxy process -9 the watchdog could remain alive. + This caused the SSH link to keep the stderr open, with the effect + that former proxy message were not flushed to the session log. + Now the watchdog checks every second if the parent is dead, so + that file descriptors can be closed as soon as possible. + +- SetupDisplaySocket() tried to force the connections to the X + server on the UNIX port whenever the display was set to localhost. + This patch was intended to fix a bug in nxclient, using the TCP + port even when the display was set to a UNIX socket. This beha- + viour caused problems when running nxclient on a remote host by + means of a ssh -X. Proxy will now adhere to the display setting. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-23 + +- Added the possibility to respawn nxclient at the end of session. + This is an useful feature when powering thin-clients where NX + is the only application made available. + +- This configuration applies system-wide to the local client ins- + tallation. By default it is disabled. It can be enabled by the + by creating a 'noexit' file in the directory '/usr/NX/share', + or at compile time, by setting ENABLE_RESTART_ON_SHUTDOWN to 1. + +- Note that the solution is not perfect yet, as there are cases + where session could die without going through HandleShutdown(), + for example if a decoding error is raised in the communication + with the remote peer and the subsequent restore of the proxy + link fails to succeed. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-22 + +- Corrected typos in Timestamp.h and Loop.cpp. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-21 + +- Tuned the handling of RenderCompositeGlyphs. Now compression of + RENDER shows an average ratio of 8:1. This is a steady increase + compared to the 5:1 of the 1.3.2 version. The overall advantage + when running clients displaying a large amount of text is 30%. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-20 + +- Added a new message store for the CreatePixmap request. + +- Fixed handleCopy() to only send the data part past the offset. + This fix can save a significant amount of traffic, especially + when sending many small images whose size doesn't reach the + threshold set for compressing them. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-19 + +- Added tuning of all the RENDER requests. RenderCompositeGlyphs + will require further work. + +- Completed porting of the RENDER requests to the new templates. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-18 + +- Tuned the handling of RenderCreatePicture and RenderFreePicture. + +- Created a new template system for writing new message encoders. + +- Renamed getBits() in EncodeBuffer with diffBits(). The getBits() + method now returns the bits actually allocated in the buffer and + can be called multiple times. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-17 + +- Provided specific encoding of the remaining RENDER requests and + added compression of RenderCreateGlyphSet. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-16 + +- Code underwent through 7 different patch versions but seems to + be stable now. It still needs to provide specific encoding for + RenderCreatePicture RenderChangePicture and RenderFreePicture. + Code will likely include incompatible changes at any new version + until the new encoding will stabilize, so be sure that you use + the same nxcomp version at both sides. + +- Created the infrastructure for compressing extension messages + based on the minor opcode. A new class, MinorMessageStore, has + to be inherited by stores requiring specific compression, so + that all the encoding methods of the parent can be redirected + to it. The RENDER extension is now compressed using this new + class. + +- Managed to maintain the compatibility with caches created by the + 1.3.X version. Caches will be saved using the old format if the + remote version is not a 1.4.x. When restoring a cache created + by the 1.3.x with both proxies being the newest version, RENDER + mesages will be discarded without having to discard the whole + cache. + +- Added a member to the message class to store the identity size. + This field is now used instead of the default data offset to + manage the message data, that is the part of message after the + identity. + +- Removed the warnings printed in the session log when passing the + 'kbtype' and the 'geometry' options to the proxy. These options + are actually used by agents. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-15 + +- Started implementation of the new framework for handling enco- + ding of X extensions. + +- Renamed the overloaded methods handleEncode() and handleDecode() + to handleEncodeCached(), handleEncodeIdentity() and handleDecode- + Cached(), handleDecodeIdentity(). + +- Updated the copyright notice to year 2004. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-14 + +- Added the new channel for HTTP connections. This channel can be + used to let applications running on the NX server get access to + data and applications made available by a HTTP daemon running at + the client side. + + This channel is not used at the moment by nxclient. It can be + activated by passing http=1 to the NX server side proxy and the + value http=80 to the NX client side. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-13 + +- Quick patch to run on MacOS/X where inet_addr("127.0.0.1") + alone seems to fail to return a valid interface. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-12 + +- Few cosmetic changes to logging. + +- Removed the debug output. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-11 + +- Removed code used for simulating the new forwarding function- + ality without client and server support. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-10 + +- Implemented authentication of the forwarder to the listening + proxy. If a session cookie is required, the forwarder must + provide the cookie upon connection. + + An authentication phase at the time the forwarder connects + to the NX client side is strongly suggested because it is usu- + ally this side that sends the authorization cookie. Without + such a forwarder authentication, the local peer would reveal + the cookie to the first process connecting to the port. + +- If no cookie is specified in the switch command, the forward- + er is required to skip the authentication phase. This can be + useful when running the programs on the command line. + +- The implementation required appropriate changes to session + negotiation in nxssh. This version requires nxssh-1.4.0-8. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-9 + +- Fixed the startup procedure to correctly negotiate the cookie + when the X server side proxy is listening for a forwarder. + +- When listening for a local forwarder (that is when the listen + option is enabled at X server side), proxy will listen for the + forwarder on the localhost interface. + +- This version has ports and and other parameters hardcoded for + testing purposes and is not intended for normal use. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-8 + +- Slightly modified the text of FAILED_PROXY_CONNECTION alert. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-7 + +- Added provision for leaving a running dialog showing an OK box + if proxy is exiting abnormally. This seems to fail to yield the + expected results as, at the present moment, client checks if + parent has exited. + +- Added a Binder class invoked when calling proxy with -B option. + It would serve as a replacement of the modifications I'm doing + in nxssh. The class is just a framework and the implementation + is unfinished. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-6 + +- Added a line in the session log if the connection procedure is + aborted due to a signal. + +- Fixed ParseHostOption() to let it take in account the proxy + port offset when passing 'host:port' as the last parameter at + X server side. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-5 + +- Lowered the default port offsets used for CUPS and SMB services + to 2000 and 3000. Arbitrary ports can be used by passing the ser- + vice's port at proxy startup. By default, anyway, the port is at + the same offset of the proxied display. Considering that the NX + server uses to start the first session at display 1000, we must + lower some of the defaults to avoid interference with the normal + X sessions run on the server. + + Session at display ":1000" will have: + + . Forwarding of CUPS connections at 3000. + + . Forwarding of SMB connections at 4000. + + . The listening proxy (at NX server side) at 5000. This + port is not used when enabling SSH tunneling + + . The proxied X display (NX agent or proxy) at 7000. + + . Forwarding of multimedia channels at 8000. + + . Forwarding of embedded keyboard connections at 9000. + +- Turned off the log output. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-4 + +- Managed to get the X client side proxy connect to the remote + peer. This means that some parameters that were implicitly + assumed based on the proxied port simulating the X display + must be now specified in the NX display string. + +- The 'port' parameter now specifies the remote TCP port where + the local proxy will connect to the remote peer. In previous + versions this parameter also affected the proxied port. This + was mainly a side effect, as the remote peer was always con- + tacted at port 4000 plus the proxied display offset. + +- Added the 'listen' parameter to tell to the proxy that is go- + ing to accept the peer connection on which port it will be + contacted. By default, similarly to the previous version, the + proxy will listen at the proxied display offset. + +- A check has been added in order to disallow passing both the + 'accept' and the 'connect' parameter at the same time. A simi- + lar check affects the 'listen' parameter. + +- Renamed the previously unused 'sync' channel as 'cups'. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-3 + +- Preserved the ability of version 1.3.2 to load caches generated + by this version. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-2 + +- Small fixes to compile under Solaris 8. + +nxcomp-1.4.0-1 + +- Opened the 1.4.0 branch. + +nxcomp-1.3.2-4 + +- Fixed a problem with shmget(). Code in ServerChannel checked + the return value for being greater then 0, while 0 can actual- + ly be a valid segment. + +- When memory cache is disabled, nxcomp will explicitly set the + appropriate control variables dealing with loading and saving + of the persistent cache. This can be considered a cosmetic + change as nxcomp will disable NX delta compression if memory + cache is not available and this has an implicit effect on the + ability to load and save such a cache. + +nxcomp-1.3.2-3 + +- Removed inclusion of zlib.h in Png.cpp. Conflicting symbols + with zlib.h from nx-X11 could cause compilation to fail. + +nxcomp-1.3.2-2 + +- Added a function to take into account the clock drifts at the + time we check the ping from the remote proxy. This can be + caused by the user changing the system time or by small adjust- + ments introduced by the operating system making the clock go + backward. Such events could cause the proxy link to be shut + down and reconnected. + +- Reduced the length of lines printed in statistics when showing + the details of X protocol's opcodes. This is intended to help + nxclient to keep the whole statistics in the 'details' window, + so that users don't have to use the scrollbars. + +nxcomp-1.3.2-1 + +- Opened the 1.3.2 branch. + +nxcomp-1.3.1-5 + +- It seems that Solaris can return an EINVAL error selecting a + shutdown descriptor even before we actually close the socket. + We now ignore the condition on Solaris. This is definitely a + Solaris bug. + +nxcomp-1.3.1-4 + +- Increased the timeout after which proxy will abort the peer + connection to 120 seconds. An alert dialog will now be shown + after 60 seconds, instead of the 30 seconds being the default + in the previous version. Some users reported the timeout to + be too short in the case of temporary network failures. + +nxcomp-1.3.1-3 + +- Some optimizations in the cache house-keeping process. Now it + runs at lower system priority in respect to the parent. Any 2 + iterations through directories and images, it also sleeps for + a tiny amount of time. This further decreases the system load. + +- Removed the underline characters and added a colon in the + title of this ChangeLog to fully comply with format used in + the release notices. + +nxcomp-1.3.1-2 + +- Fixed a crash when running both client and server on the SPARC + Solaris. An optimization used to avoid byte-swapping when both + hosts have the same endianess doesn't work on SPARC if buffer + is not aligned to word boundary. A better version of the code + should check the CPU, not the OS, as this probably applies to + other processors. + +nxcomp-1.3.1-1 + +- Opened the 1.3.1 branch. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-50 + +- Disabled the processor limit in X client side proxy. In previous + versions the processor load limit was set to an idle time ratio + of 2. This was likely to cause an unwanted slowdown on very old + hardware or when running the server as guest OS inside a VMWare + virtual machine. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-49 + +- Last minute update on proxy shutdown bug on Cygwin. A stack + trace reveals that faillure happens in the static destructor of + the BlockCacheSet class. It seems that problem appeared just + after having upgraded to the latest version of Cygwin DLL. Now + the destructor is skipped at shutdown. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-48 + +- Further fix to overcome the shutdown problem on Windows. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-47 + +- Used T_files::value_type() in Keeper.cpp. The form without the + explicit constructor fails to compile with GCC 2.91 on RH 6.2. + +- Fixed '==' -> '=' in configure.in to build under RH 6.2 and + probably other platforms. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-46 + +- The cleanup procedure now skips deletion of the IO streams + under Windows. This is intended to overcome a strange segfault + occurring at random time, at the time proxy is being shutdown. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-45 + +- Newer versions of the stdlibc++ do not seem to be able to deal + with NULL strings or non printable characters. This caused the + standard error stream to get sometimes corrupted in the case + TEST and DEBUG logs were enabled in Loop.cpp. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-44 + +- Disabled TEST and DEBUG logs in ServerChannel. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-43 + +- Fixed a crash when unpacking an image in server proxy in the + case the unpack state for the given channel had not been + previously created. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-42 + +- Small modification to setSchedule() to not account previous + data accumulated in the encode buffer. The new code seems to + allow better use of the available bandwidth. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-41 + +- Further fix in Tight decompression. Content of the main write + buffer was not removed before flushing the unpacked data to + the X server link. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-40 + +- Removed the code marked as FIXME in Loop and ServerChannel. + Code was used in previous version to override any pack method + other than NO_PACK and to disable initialization of the shared + memory. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-39 + +- Solved the problem with unpacking of RDP text on big-endian + architectures. The width field in PutPackedImage was put as + 16 bits and extracted as 32 bits at decoding side. + +- Moved the code checking if any of the children has exited in a + specific function. This function is now called any time signals + are newly enabled. This works even on Solaris. + +- Enabled use of shared memory with Tight image decompression. + +- Added event NXCollectPropertyNotify to NXproto.h. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-38 + +- Message locks are now checked before splitting a message. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-37 + +- Added a further counter to yield encoding data if the amount + of output bytes to be written to channels exceeds a threshold. + +- Modified proxy to write data immediately if the encoding loop + was interrupted. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-36 + +- Further fix required by Tight decompression. By handling mul- + tiple writes in the Tight class we may flush the main write + buffer in the wrong order. If Tight decompression is enabled, + the buffer is now flushed before decoding the packed image. + +- A SIGCHLD is raised any time signals are newly enabled. This + allows the main loop to wait() the pid of children that had + exited while signals were disabled. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-35 + +- Fixed Tight decompression by handling multiple writes to the + channel's transport inside the decompression function. + +- Made Tight decompressor in ServerChannel a pointer instead of + an instance of the class. Class is allocated the first time it + is referenced. + +- Rewritten handleUnpack() in ServerChannel to use a switch() + on the pack method instead of multiple if(). + +nxcomp-1.3.0-34 + +- Disabled RENDER extension when running X agent sessions on + the Solaris client. Problems seem to be caused by incompati- + bilities in the implementation of RENDER on the Sun X server + shipped by default. We did not test NX with the XFree86 X + server, but it seems that, when using the Sun X server, even + plain X clients don't make full use of the extension. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-33 + +- Added 4 new fields to the X_NXGetControlParameters reply. + A dialog should be shown by agent if proxy was not able to + negotiate a persistent cache or if a cache was selected but + not loaded because incompatible or corrupted. + +- Fixed a bug on Solaris where socket() must be recreated if + the first connect() fails. Not a problem. The strange thing + is that if you reuse the socket(), the subsequent connect() + is successful and the program fails as soon as you try to + write to it. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-32 + +- Added request X_NXFreeUnpack to free the resources allocated + by the remote proxy to unpack images for the given agent's + client + +- Added an alert at X server side if proxies were not able to + negotiate a persistent cache or if a cache was selected but + not loaded at X server side (that means that probably cache + was not compatible or corrupted). The alert is not enabled + at the moment. Before enabling it, we need to find a way to + deal with full-screen mode. + +- Tuning of MIT-SHM parameters. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-31 + +- Modified the following requests to carry the id of the + agent's client: + + - X_NXSetUnpackGeometry + - X_NXSetUnpackColormap + - X_NXSetUnpackAlpha + - X_NXPutPackedImage + + Now each agent's client has its own record pointing to the + geometry, colormap and alpha channel that will be used to + unpack the image. Code is not finished yet so it is advisable + that agents' writers keep using client id 0. Note also that + the final solution will require some changes to the way split + notifications are sent to agent that I plan to implement in + the next versions. + +- The X_NXSetUnpackGeometry request has now a message store. + This should reduce the overhead to the minimum even in the + case of dumb agents not checking if the current geometry + matches the image to be unpacked. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-30 + +- Improved handling of short-circuited replies at X client + side. Request opcodes are now pushed in the sequence queue + to determine if a reply is expected. In this case tainting + of reply is skipped to preserve the sequence ordering of + any event or error that could have generated by the reply. + This seems to solve all the problems reported by people + running a NX session in virtual desktop mode nested in an + existing session being run in single application mode. + +- Modified the cleanup procedure to print the 'Waiting for' + message in the session log only at the time all X channels + have been actually shut down. This message can be used by + the NX server to find out the appropriate time to close + the session. + +- Added the selected session type to the 'Using pack method' + message printed at startup. + +- Added the option to close down the proxy link and perform + a clean shutdown of the session, re-read the whole session + configuration or restart the proxy link when a SIGHUP is + delivered to the proxy process. The default behaviour is + to close down the session. The new default (the old one was + to restart the link) is a required feature to let users run + full sessions using single application mode f.e. in a LTSP + environment. I noted that when the controlling terminal of + the X session is closed, a SIGHUP is delivered to the X + server side proxy (probably it is delivered to all the con- + nected clients, and, thus for NX, only to the proxy). This + signal can be used to terminate the whole session. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-29 + +- Changed defaults to disable image masks when running proxy + in single application mode. The new configuration requires + changes in NX server and in NX X11 library. Users should + experience much better image quality when using NX on slow + links. This comes at the cost of slightly worse compression + ratios. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-28 + +- Opcode of request was not rewritten by server channel when + using link LAN. This caused problems with taint of replies. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-27 + +- Modified the split store and the split procedures in client + channel to always return the client id in the notification + events. The new field is added to event at byte offset 28 + to preserve compatibility with previous agent releases. The + modification permits to agent to match the commit of alpha + channel with the original image, if requests are split by + proxy. + +- Temporarily set the timeout used to poll MIT-SHM completion + events coming from X server to 0. More testing is required. + +- Fixed an inconsistent message generated in statistics due to + a division by 0. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-26 + +- Modified pending timeout from 1 to 0 milliseconds. This means + that both channels and proxy are now immediately restarted to + let them consume all data left in their read buffer. + +- When querying the X server for MIT-SHM support, size of name + in X_QueryExtension request was sent as 32 bits instead of 16. + This caused request to fail on big endian architectures. + +- Modified the MIT-SHM initialization procedure to always send + all the 3 protocol requests also in the case of early failures. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-25 + +- Implemented handling of the new X_NXSetUnpackAlpha message. + Performances are very satisfactory. Using most of the current + GNOME and KDE applications, caching reaches 90% of the total + messages. + +- Modified the persistent cache management routines to handle + backward compatibility with proxy versions prior of 1.3.0. + +- It has been made possible to send both X_NXSetUnpackColormap + and X_NXSetUnpackAlpha messages with 0 entries to temporarily + disable use of the colormap or the alpha channel and free the + resources allocated by the server channel class. + +- Added function UnpackAlpha() to Unpack.cpp. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-24 + +- Using WriteBuffer::registerPointer() to track growing of the + write buffer in handleFastWrite() functions. This problem + existed even in 1.2.2 but never shown up because we didn't + have to use the pointer after data had been written to the + write buffer. Now, instead, we have to post-process the write + buffer to copy data to the shared segment. + +- Optimized memory allocations running with link LAN to save a + memcpy() any time new data is allocated in the scratch buffer. + +- When running with link LAN the scratch buffer is now used only + when: + + - A further allocation would case growing of the write buffer + (and, thus, a memcpy() of the previous content). + + - When data to added is bigger than the write threshold. + + In previous versions the scratch buffer was used any time the + total amount of data to be written (write buffer + scratch + buffer) exceeded the scheduled write threshold. This caused + small writes to be appended even when a single write could + be obtained without reallocating the buffer. + +- Preliminary support for transporting the alpha channel in a + separate message in case of 32 bits displays using the RENDER + extension. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-23 + +- Modified the mask used to open the shared memory segment on + OS/X to 0777. We have to better investigate why the previous + 0600 mask doesn't work even if the user running the proxy is + the same user running the X server. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-22 + +- Implemented MIT-SHM support on LAN connections. + +- More MIT-SHM bug fixes. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-21 + +- Better use of the shared segment through an improved + algorithm leveraging the offset field of the X_ShmPutImage + request. The new algorithm greatly reduces the amount of + polls the proxy needs to perform to find if the completion + event has arrived. + +- Implemented MIT-SHM support for X_PutImage requests. + +- Implemented option shmem=value. Use of this option is anyway + discouraged. Proxy will allocate the shared memory segment + based on the size of the in-memory cache set by the user. + Use of MIT-SHM is disabled when user did set a memory cache + smaller than 2MB (for example on the embedded client). + +- Rewritten post-processing of images in server channel loop. + +- Improved error handling to ensure we intercept all MIT-SHM + X errors before they reach the NX agent. + +- Solved a problem that was causing channels to not reflect + shared memory support flags set in control. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-20 + +- Solved a compatibility problem when mixing proxy versions + 1.2.2 and 1.3.0. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-18 + +- Rewritten interfaces to shared memory initialization in + client and server channel. + +- Server channel checks for the completion event until a + timeout before reusing the shared memory segment. + +- Flush flag was not cleared after the write buffer had been + flushed in handleWrite() of both client and server channels. + This could lead to multiple fragmented writes, affecting + the performances. + +- Added -lcygipc to linking on Windows platform. + +- Added a check on GCC version to see if -Wnested-externs + -Wmissing-declarations are valid options. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-17 + +- Implemented initial support for MIT-SHM extension in the + network path between the X server proxy and the real X + server. Presently it works only for X_NXPutPackedImages. + +- Modified configure.in to compile under FreeBSD. + +- Small changes to sources due to FreeBSD support. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-16 + +- Fixed caching of RENDER extension on MacOS/X and Solaris. + +- Under Solaris an explicit call to EnableSignal() is needed + at the end of the signal handler as raising a signal seems + to reset the previous settings. + +- Can't find a way to get bytes queued for write on Solaris as + both FIONWRITE and TIOCOUTQ don't seem to be available. This + means that NX server on Solaris is only able to detect con- + gestions on proxy link at the time a write fails with error + EAGAIN. + +- Starting from this version, render extension messages are not + automatically discarded from cache when running agent based X + sessions. This is in preparation of render support introduced + in this release. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-15 + +- Changed default to force writes if X channels exceed buffer + limits. This change was suggested by benchmarks performed on + Win32. + +- Wrapped IO on cache files in functions performing better error + checking. + +- General cleanup in handling of socket options for MacOS/X and + Solaris. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-14 + +- Corrupted persistent caches were not deleted in case loading + of any of the message stores failed. To run further sessions + on the same host, user had to delete the cache file manually. + +- Improved error handling in JPEG decompression. Now connection + is reset in case of failure. + +- Before performing JPEG or PNG decompression, image is better + checked to verify if loading from disk failed. + +- Improved error handling in case of failure loading persistent + cache from disk. On MacOS/X istream -> fail() doesn't seem to + work properly. This needs further investigation. + +- The default installation path of nxclient is searched under + MacOS/X at the time nxclient is invoked in dialog mode. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-13 + +- Fixed a (further) compilation problem under Solaris. Now static + libraries are first searched under /usr/sfw/lib (in case Sun + would decide to include them in future releases). + +nxcomp-1.3.0-12 + +- Fixed parsing of command line when passing option -V. + +- Correctly detected ENOPROTOOPT when setting TCP_NODELAY socket + option on MacOS/X and Solaris. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-11 + +- Given option in configure to specify what needs to be built + statically: + + --with-static-png enable static linking of PNG library + --with-static-jpeg enable static linking of JPEG library + --with-static-z enable static linking of Z library + +nxcomp-1.3.0-10 + +- Fixed a problem in saving of persistent cache on big-endian + machines. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-9 + +- Testing with different settings to check if it's possible to + increase the performances under Windows. + +- Solved a problem in parsing of options that prevented proxy + to connect to a remote session running at port offset 0. + +- Fixed two warnings compiling on Solaris. + +- Changed configure.in to first check for nx-X11 includes + and libraries. Added "/usr/openwin/bin/makedepend" to path + searched for the executable. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-8 + +- Small cleanup in configure.in and files modified by Gregorz + Kryza to add support for Solaris. + +- A new configure script has been generated using autoconf-2.57-3. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-7 + +- Added support for detection of Solaris in configure script. + Now Makefile.in uses ranlib instead of ar. + +- Small changes in source and header files to support Solaris. + +nxcomp-1.3.0-4 + +- Corrected a bug that could cause priority on proxy and channels + to be not taken in account at the time proxy tries to determine + if it's time to flush the proxy link. + +- Better implementation of abort split notification by X server + proxy to its remote peer. The new implementation doesn't + need to set a timeout and permits notifications to be received + earlier. + +- Improved support for 'tainting' XSync() messages coming from + X clients in single application mode. Now a X_GetInputFocus + is sent to the real X server any n such messages received by + proxy. + +- Included support for 15 bpp displays. It seems that handling + them as 16 bpp it's OK. |