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ChangeLog:

nxcompext-3.5.0-1

- Opened the 3.5.0 branch based on nxcompext-3.4.0-1.

- Updated copyright to year 2011. 

nxcompext-3.4.0-1

- Opened the 3.4.0 branch based on nxcompext-3.3.0-4.

- Updated version number.

- Updated copyright to year 2009.

nxcompext-3.3.0-4

- Fixed TR03G02199. The color palette allocated for encoding an image
  having 256 colors or less was not freed.

nxcompext-3.3.0-3

- Now setting the correct event serial number when sending collect
  notifies back.

nxcompext-3.3.0-2

- Updated VERSION.

nxcompext-3.3.0-1

- Opened the 3.3.0 branch based on nxcompext-3.2.0-1.

nxcompext-3.2.0-1

- Opened the 3.2.0 branch based on nxcompext-3.1.0-2.

nxcompext-3.1.0-2

- Updated file VERSION to match the current release version.

nxcompext-3.1.0-1

- Opened the 3.1.0 branch based on nxcompext-3.0.0-18.

nxcompext-3.0.0-18

- Removed the remaining debug output.

nxcompext-3.0.0-17

- Changed the copyright notices at the beginning of the files that
  were referring to NXPROXY to refer to NXCOMPEXT.

nxcompext-3.0.0-16

- Handle the reply failure in NXGetShmemParameters().

nxcompext-3.0.0-15

- Separated the functionalities made available by NXQueryDisplay()
  in three distinct functions:

  NXDisplayReadable()  Query the number of bytes readable from
                       the display connection.

  NXDisplayFlushable() Query the number of the outstanding bytes
                       to flush to the display connection.

  NXDisplayCongestion() Return a value between 0 and 9 indicating
                        the congestion level of the NX transport.

- Renamed NXQueryDisplayError() to NXDisplayError().

nxcompext-3.0.0-14

- Removed support for Rdp, Tight and Hextile packed images encod-
  ing since they have been made obsolete by the new NX server.

- Changed the copyright attribution from Medialogic to NoMachine.

nxcompext-3.0.0-13

- Allocate 1024 additional bytes for the Jpeg compression, instead
  of 512, to avoid failures on very tiny images.

- Removed support for the special *PNG_JPEG* pack method.

nxcompext-3.0.0-12

- Implemented the NXEncodeBitmap() method. This is a very simple
  encoder removing the 4th byte in 32 bits-per-plane images. For
  the other pixmap depths it simply returns a pointer to the orig-
  inal image data, saving the copy. This encoding is intended to
  better leverage the stream compression on low bandwidth links.

- Removed the quality parameter from the RGB/RLE encoding function.

nxcompext-3.0.0-11

- Removed the additional parameter in the call to NXTransFlush().

nxcompext-3.0.0-10

- Moved the _NXRDPGlyph and _NXRDPText declarations from NXlib.h
  to NXproto.h to force fields to be CARD32.

- Fixed a typo in NXSetDisplayBuffer() that could cause a double
  free.

- Fixed a compilation error with old GCC versions.

- Removed the warning issued on AMD64 when compiling with the logs
  enabled.

nxcompext-3.0.0-9

- Added the NXDisplayCongestion query type to NXQueryDisplay(). It
  returns a value between 0 and 9, with 9 meaning that the link is
  congested and no further data can be sent.

- Added the NXSetDisplayBuffer() function. It allows the caller to
  set the display output buffer size at runtime.

- Removed the congestion and synchronization callbacks.

nxcompext-3.0.0-8

- Removed the warnings issued when purging the collected data at
  display reset.

nxcompext-3.0.0-7

- Added the NXSetDisplayWriteHandler() interface. The function
  registers a callback that will be invoked every time more data
  is written to the display socket.

nxcompext-3.0.0-6

- Made NXQueryDisplay() take into account the bytes in the display
  buffer when queried for the bytes flushable.

nxcompext-3.0.0-5

- Added file COPYING.

nxcompext-3.0.0-4

- Updated copyright notices to the current year.

nxcompext-3.0.0-3

- Imported changes up to nxcompext-2.1.0-4.

- Fixed TR12D01564. Changed configure script to build library with
  -fPIC option.

- Added 256 byte to the size of Jpeg destination buffer. 

nxcompext-3.0.0-2

- Updated the file VERSION.

nxcompext-3.0.0-1

- Opened the 3.0.0 branch based on nxcompext-2.0.0-33.

nxcompext-2.0.0-33

- Placed the inclusion of jpeglib.h after the X includes to fix a
  possible compilation error.

nxcompext-2.0.0-32

- Avoid to copy the data to the scratch buffer and yield the task
  of padding the output to _XSend() in the NXPutPackedImage(), NX-
  SetUnpackAlpha() and NXSetUnpackColormap() requests.

- Added support for the RLE pack method.

nxcompext-2.0.0-31

- 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.

- 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.

nxcompext-2.0.0-30

- Removed the unfriendly warning printed if a client tried to reset
  the library multiple times.

nxcompext-2.0.0-29

- Made possible to compile even if makedepend is not found.

nxcompext-2.0.0-28

- Added the NXSetDisplaySynchronizationHandler() interface. The NX
  transport will use the callback to report when the agent can use
  the available bandwidth to synchronize the X objects that are
  corrupted or incomplete.

- Bytes from 14 to 24 in the NXGetControlParameters() reply report,
  respectively, the frame timeout, the ping timeout, the preferred
  image split mode and the split size threshold.

nxcompext-2.0.0-27

- Changed the image cleanup functions and the Png and Jpeg encoders
  to be independent from the host endianess.

- Enabled again the image cleanup on big endian machines.

nxcompext-2.0.0-26

- Added the NXAbortSplit() request.

- Added information about the size of the shared memory segment used
  by the remote proxy in the NXGetShmemParameters() reply.

nxcompext-2.0.0-25

- Renamed the NXGetSplitResource() and NXGetUnpackResource() utili-
  ties to NXAllocSplit() and NXAllocUnpack(). They can be called
  with a NXAnyResource parameter to get the first available id or
  requre a specific resource. From this version the resource must
  be explicitly reserved. NXFreeUnpack() and NXFreeSplit() check
  if the resource was allocated and don't do anything if it is not
  the case. NXAllocSplit() and NXAllocUnpack() return NXNoResource
  if the resource can't be reserved.

nxcompext-2.0.0-24

- NXFlushDisplay() now verifies whether the XlibDisplayWriting flag
  is set before flushing the display buffer. in this case, it only
  flushes the NX link.

nxcompext-2.0.0-23

- Implemented a move-to-front strategy for the image cache, to mi-
  nimize the number of lookups.

- Fixed the problems imtroduced by the new cache implementation by
  modifying the memory allocation routines in Jpeg.c and Pgn.c.

- Temporarily fixed the cleanup problems on big-endian machines by
  skipping the operation.

- Added a NXSetDisplayStatisticsHandler() to let the agent include
  arbitrary data in the transport statistics. The parameter 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 can
  be filled by the agent with its statistics data.

nxcompext-2.0.0-22

- The NXCacheFindImage() returns a pointer to the checksum, if the
  image is found.

- The image cache uses the data passed to NXCacheAddImage() instead
  of making a copy.

- The Z stream used by the RGB encoder is allocated at initializat-
  ion and freed at reset.

nxcompext-2.0.0-21

- Removed the reliance on the local byte order in the image cleanup
  functions.

nxcompext-2.0.0-20

- Added the NXFinishSplit() request. It forces the proxy to comple-
  tely transfer all the split messages for the given resource, and
  then notify the agent.

nxcompext-2.0.0-19

- Enabled again the cleanup of images.

- Updated to comply with the new NXTransFlush() interface.

nxcompext-2.0.0-18

- Moved all the declarations in Rgb.c at the beginning of the block
  to avoid the possible compilation errors with old compilers.

nxcompext-2.0.0-17

- 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.

- Created a new NXCleanImage() function that takes a XImage pointer
  and uses either the CleanXYImage() or the CleanZImage() routines
  to cleanup the padding bits.

nxcompext-2.0.0-16

- Added a parameter to NXFlushDisplay() to specify what needs to be
  flushed. The parameter can be one the following values, defined
  in NXvars.h:

  NXFlushBuffer   Only the Xlib buffer is to be flushed.

  NXFlushLink     Flush both the Xlib buffer and any pending
                  data encoded by the NX transport.

  NXFlushIdle     Inform the NX transport that the agent is
                  idle. This will let the NX transport encode
                  more low-priority data, and then flush the
                  link.

- Ensured that the padding bytes are cleaned when creating a new
  PNG image. It seems that some images are still missed. This is
  to be investigated.

nxcompext-2.0.0-15

- Ensured that the packed image cache is recreated only on a size
  change.

nxcompext-2.0.0-14

- Updated to get the karma delay field from the X_NXGetControlPara-
  meters reply.

nxcompext-2.0.0-13

- Added the NXSetDisplayPolicy() and NXSetDisplayFlushHandler() in-
  terfaces. The second function registers a callback that will be
  invoked by the NX transport when the number of bytes encoded by
  the proxy exceeds the threshold set for the scheduled write.

- Added the NXFlushDisplay() and NXQueryDisplay() interfaces. They
  are used to hide the corresponding NX transport functions to the
  application. NXQueryDisplay() can be called with the NXDisplay-
  Flushable or NXDisplayReadable parameters, to get, repectively,
  the number of bytes that are queued to the NX transport and the
  number of bytes that is possible to read.

- Included the remote proxy version in the NXGetControlParameter()
  reply.

nxcompext-2.0.0-12

- Added the NXGetSplitResource() and NXGetUnpackResource utilities.
  These can be used by the client to find out the first unused id
  available for a split or unpack operation.

- Added the NXFreeSplit() request function. It makes the resource
  available for the next operation and tells the proxy to destroy
  all the storage associated to the split.

- Renamed the NXNumberOfConnections constant to NXNumberOfResources.

nxcompext-2.0.0-11

- Changed NXForceDisplayError() to also shut down the NX transport
  by calling NXTransClose().

- Updated to comply with the new NX function prototypes introduced
  in nxcomp-2.0.0-31.

nxcompext-2.0.0-10

- NXQueryDisplayError() now checks the predicate function only if
  the I/O error was not encountered already.

nxcompext-2.0.0-9

- Added the NXSetDisplayErrorPredicate(), NXSetDisplayBlockHand-
  ler(), NXSetDisplayCongestionHandler(), NXSetLostSequenceHand-
  ler() interfaces to let the user set the values used internal-
  ly. All functions return the previous handler. See ChangeLog
  in nx-X11-2.0.0-16 and nx-X11-2.0.0-17.

- Moved all the internal variables shared between Xlib, nxcompext
  and the X server in nxcomp. Declarations and function prototypes
  moved to NXvars.h.

- Some name changes. In particular the NXContinueOnDisplayError()
  function iss renamed NXHandleDisplayError() and NXDisplayError()
  is now renamed NXQueryDisplayError(). To verify if the display
  is valid, NXQueryDisplayError() will now call the _NXDisplayEr-
  rorPredicate function, or, if the predicate function is not set,
  will simply check the value of the XlibDisplayIOError flag.

- Removed the NXGetCleanupParameters() and NXGetImageParameters()
  interfaces and the remaining references to the unused display
  buffer and image cleanup functions.

- Updated the NoMachine copyright notice to year 2006.

nxcompext-2.0.0-8

- Removed the unused screen parameter from XSetUnpackGeometry().

- NXSetUnpackGeometry() now fails if no visual is provided.

nxcompext-2.0.0-7

- Changed the LICENSE file to state that the software is only made
  available under the version 2 of the GPL.

- Removed the misplaced DXPC copyright notices from the license.
  They were copied from NXCOMP but they don't apply in any way to
  NXCOMPEXT.

nxcompext-2.0.0-6

- Added the NXSetCacheParameters() request. It tells to the local
  proxy how to handle the X requests, namely if the next requests
  have to be stored in the memory cache, split in smal data chunks,
  and in the case of images, saved on disk in the persistent image
  cache. The request will affect all X messages, including plain
  and packed images. It can be used to tell the proxy to discard
  images coming from some selected operations, like GLX or XVideo.

nxcompext-2.0.0-5

- 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.

nxcompext-2.0.0-4

- Initial work on font server tunneling.

nxcompext-2.0.0-3

- Renamed the NXSetExposeEvents request to NXSetExposeParameters.

nxcompext-2.0.0-2

- Modified the configure and the makefiles to support the Cygwin
  environment.

- Renamed Png.h to Pgn.h to avoid name clashes on Windows.

- The distclean target now removes the autom4te.cache directory.

nxcompext-2.0.0-1

- Opened the 2.0.0 branch based on nxcompext-1.5.0-20.

nxcompext-1.5.0-20

- Removed the code installing a SIGSEGV handler before trying to
  clean an image in NXCleanImageInPlace().

nxcompext-1.5.0-19

- Added the NXUnsetLibraryPath() function to specify the behaviour
  of the Popen() in the X server. If the _NXUnsetLibraryPath flag
  is set, the Popen() will remove the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable from
  the environment before running the child process. This will cause
  the X server to run the process (for example the keyboard initia-
  lization utilities) by using the native system libraries, instead
  of the libraries shipped with the NX environment.

nxcompext-1.5.0-18

- Moved the declarations of _NXEnable* and related structures from
  Xlibint.h to NXlibint.h.  

- 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.

nxcompext-1.5.0-17

- Added the -fPIC GCC flag when compiling on AMD64 architectures.

- Removed all warnings when compiling with GCC4.

- Small changes to configure.in to have specific CFLAGS.

- Created a new configure using autoconf 2.59.

nxcompext-1.5.0-16

- Added the 'mode' field in the 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 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 NXCommit-
  Split() requests.

nxcompext-1.5.0-15

- Removed the NXSync() and NXKarma() operations, not used anymore
  by the NX agents.

- Updated to comply with changes occurred in the numbering of the
  notification events and in the interface to the image streaming
  functions.

nxcompext-1.5.0-14

- Accounted for the missing xoffset field in clean-up of XYPixmaps.

nxcompext-1.5.0-13

- Added a 'commit' field in NXCommitSplit(). When zero, the remote
  proxy will remove the message from the split store, without send-
  ing the recomposed image to the X server.

nxcompext-1.5.0-12

- Added the NXContinueOnDisplayError() function to specify the be-
  haviour of the Xlib I/O error handler. If the flag is set to true,
  Xlib will simply return, instead of quitting the program. This
  leaves to the application the responsibility of checking the sta-
  te of the XlibDisplayIOError flag.

- Changed NXDisplayIsValid() to NXDisplayError() and inverted the
  logic. Now the function returns true if the display pointer is
  NULL or the XlibDisplayIOError flag is set.

- Added the NXForceDisplayError() function, to shutdown the display
  descriptor and force Xlib to set the I/O error flag.

nxcompext-1.5.0-11

- Added -I../nx-X11/exports/include to CCINCLUDES in Makefile.in.

nxcompext-1.5.0-10

- Added FindLSB() to replace ffs() that may be not present on some
  systems.

- Some cosmetic changes.

nxcompext-1.5.0-9

- Fixed a printf() that prevented the code to compile if TEST was
  enabled.

nxcompext-1.5.0-8

- Implemented the NXLib interface for asynchronous handling of the
  XGetInputFocus requests and replies.

nxcompext-1.5.0-7

- Removed the _NXFlushSize parameter. New agents run the NX trans-
  port in-process, so we don't get any benefit from increasing the
  display buffer size.

nxcompext-1.5.0-6

- Added a NXDisplayIsValid() to check that the display is not NULL
  and that the descriptor was not shut down after an IOError. The
  reason a function is needed for this is that the flags field is
  only in Xlibint and it is not visible to Xlib applications.

nxcompext-1.5.0-5

- Added the NXGetCollect*Resource utility functions, returning the
  first available small integer resource id that can be used in a
  subsequent collect request.

nxcompext-1.5.0-4

- Added the NXNumberOfConnections constant.

nxcompext-1.5.0-3

- Implemented the NXLib interface for the asynchronous handling of
  the XGrabPointer requests and replies.

- Solved an error in image cleaning that prevented the 8 bits-per-
  pixel images to be completely cleaned. Due to the bug, only half
  of the total lines were cleaned.

- Removed a bug that prevented the cleaning of XYPixmaps images of
  bitmap unit 32 and byte order LSB.

- Renamed the NXImageCache variables to show they are global. They
  are currently used in the nxagent code.

nxcompext-1.5.0-2

- Changed VERSION file.

nxcompext-1.5.0-1

- Opened the 1.5.0 branch.

nxcompext-1.4.1-1

- Removed the configure option --with-static. There are two options
  now, --with-static-png and --with-static-jpeg, to offer a greater
  degree of control on the resulting library.

- This version differs from the 1.4.0-3-KRY1 in the way that the con-
  figure script is generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57, the same version
  used for nxcomp.

- Opened the 1.4.1 branch.

nxcompext-1.4.0-3

- Updated the VERSION file to reflect the 1.4.0 status.

nxcompext-1.4.0-2

- Imported changes from the latest 1.3.2 development branch.

- The 1.4.0 branch already had a 1.4.0-1 version. The changes from
  the 1.4.0-1 were up to date with the 1.3.2-2 version.

nxcompext-1.3.2-6

- Fixed problem with icons in KDE and Mozilla on SPARC Solaris. The
  problem was related to cleaning of one-bit XYPixmaps on big-endian
  hosts, where shift of the cleaning mask executed in the wrong di-
  rection.

nxcompext-1.3.2-5

- Changes in Clean.c to compile on Solaris.

nxcompext-1.3.2-4

- Fixed a bug in clean image procedures for 1bit XYPixmaps. The bug
  caused Mozilla to trash some transparent icons in web pages and
  the toolbar.

- Added cleaning of the padding bytes at the end of the data chunk
  inside XImage structure

- Implemented handling of SIGSEGV during cleanup in case of static
  data.

- Moved image cleanup and masking code in new Clean.c and Mask.c
  sources.

- Corrected few typos in NXCollectImage code.

nxcompext-1.3.2-2

- Imported 1.4.0-1 changes from the 1.4.0 development branch.

- Modified NXAllocColors to handle errors generated allocating
  each requested color. A per-color result code is now returned 
  to the caller.

- Code cleanup in Png.h and Png.c.

nxcompext-1.3.2-1

- Opened the 1.3.2 branch.

nxcompext-1.3.1-2

- Removed the underline characters and added a colon in the
  title of this ChangeLog to fully comply with format used in
  the release notices.

nxcompext-1.3.1-1

- Opened the 1.3.1 branch.

nxcompext-1.3.0-18

- Added the _NXLostSequenceHandler function to let NX agents
  suppress the error message and modify the default Xlib
  behaviour when out-of-order sequence numbers are received.
  Pointer to function is assigned to _NXLostSequenceFunction
  in XlibInt.c.

- Original output buffer size in stock XFree86 is 2048. We try
  to reduce context switches and help stream compression by
  increasing the maximum size of the buffer 8192. _NXFlushSize
  determines when the display buffer is actually flushed. It is
  set by default to 4096 in XlibInt.c and set to 0 to use the
  maximum available size at the time NXGetControlParameters()
  is called.

nxcompext-1.3.0-17

- In handling of asynchronous GetProperty replies a warning
  message was printed in session log when a null property was
  stored in the state structure. This message is now printed
  only if TEST is defined.

nxcompext-1.3.0-16

- Added asynchronous handling of GetProperty request and reply
  by means of the NXCollectProperty and NXGetCollectedProperty
  requests and the NXCollectPropertyNotify event.

nxcompext-1.3.0-15

- Added 4 new fields to the X_NXGetControlParameters reply.

nxcompext-1.3.0-14

- Added request X_NXFreeUnpack to free the resources allocated
  by the remote proxy to unpack images for the given agent's
  client

nxcompext-1.3.0-13

- Modified the following requests to carry the id of the
  agent's client in the field resource:

  - X_NXSetUnpackGeometry
  - X_NXSetUnpackColormap
  - X_NXSetUnpackAlpha
  - X_NXPutPackedImage

nxcompext-1.3.0-11

- Modified the MIT-SHM initialization procedure to always send
  all the 3 protocol requests also in the case of early failures.

nxcompext-1.3.0-10

- Added handling of X_NXSetUnpackAlpha request.

- 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 remote proxy.

nxcompext-1.3.0-9

- Solved a compatibility problem when mixing proxy versions
  1.2.2 and 1.3.0 due to the missing X_NXGetShmemParameters
  request.

nxcompext-1.3.0-7

- Reduced the number of requests needed to setup the shared
  segment at X server proxy from 4 to 3.

- Small changes to the shared memory interface to support
  path X agent to X client proxy.

nxcompext-1.3.0-6

- Implemented initial support for MIT-SHM extension in the
  network path between the X server proxy and the real X
  server.

- Configure script now checks for the FreeBSD environment.

- New configure script generated using autoconf-2.57-3.

- Removed the XFree86 CCDEFINES from Makefile.in.

nxcompext-1.3.0-5

- Cosmetic changes.

- Started to convert configure.in to the new layout adopted
  for nxcomp.

- Created file CHANGELOG.

nxcompext-1.3.0-4

- More fixes in image clean-up.

nxcompext-1.3.0-3

- Many fixes in image clean-up functions to handle differences
  in endianess between client and X server.

nxcompext-1.3.0-2

- Modified configure.in to compile under Solaris.

nxcompext-1.3.0-1

- First 1.3.0 version based on nxcompext-1.2.2-12.