[el5_latest] vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5_5.4.x86_64

The VNC system allows you to access the same desktop from a wide
variety of platforms.  This package is a VNC server, allowing others
to access the desktop on your machine.

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• Thu Jun 24 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-14.el5_5.4

  - fix minor typo in previous fix for vncserver script (#494750)

• Thu Jun 24 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-14.el5_5.3

  - vncserver script: accept <+optname> option when specified as the first one
    (#494750)
  - libvnc.so: wake up from DPMS sleep state when receive mouse/keyboard event
    (#581478)

• Thu Mar 25 2010 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-14.el5_5.2

  - make "tab" key working in the Java client

• Mon Jan 26 2009 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-14.el5_3.1

  - CVE-2008-4770

• Tue Oct 21 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-14

  - disable XKB, it causes too many problems (#464783)

• Fri Oct 17 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-13

  - initialize XKB correctly (#464783)

• Mon Aug 11 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-12

  - return nonzero number when Xvnc fails to start (#458651)

• Mon Jul 21 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-11

  - validate framebuffer bounds before dump (#282661)

• Mon Jul 21 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-10.2

  - updated X to RHEL 5.2 codebase
  - enabled GLX extension

• Mon Jul 21 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-10.1

  - vncserver prints error when Xvnc fails to start
  - enabled RENDER on all archs
  - initialize visuals correctly
  - remove wrong vnc-render-sigfault.patch

• Mon Jul 21 2008 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-10

  - build cleanup
    - vnc-maint.patch
  - removed unused patches
    - vnc-def.patch
    - vnc-s390.patch
    - vnc-fontpath.patch
    - vnc-ppc64.patch
    - vnc-build.patch

• Mon Jan 15 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-9.el5

  - fixed render segfaults in 8bpp server mode

• Mon Jan 08 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-8.el5

  - fixed black-screen problems on zSeries (#203304, enabled RENDER)

• Wed Dec 13 2006 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-7.el5

  - added xorg-x11-fonts-base + xorg-x11-xauth dependencies
  - only ppc+ppc64 has enabled render extension by default

• Wed Dec 06 2006 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 4.1.2-6.el5

  - vnc is IPv6 ready now. (#218422)

• Tue Nov 28 2006 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat.com> 4.1.2-5.el5

  - fixed gtk applications problems on 64bit big-endian machines

• Wed Oct 25 2006 Adam Tkac <atkac@redhat.com> 4.1.2-4

  - fixed vncconfig crashes (#205176)

• Tue Jul 18 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> - 4.1.2-3

  - vncviewer now supports NewFBSize pseudoencoding (#180939)
  - do not BuildRequire libdrm-devel on s390, s390x, ppc64 it is not available there

• Tue Jun 13 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.2-2

  - update xorg-x11-server to 1.1.0 to fix crashes in anaconda

• Fri May 26 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.2-1

  - enable OpenGL support

• Thu May 25 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.2-0.1

  - fixed building on ppc64

• Thu May 18 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.2-0

  - update to version 4.1.2

• Wed May 10 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.1-38

  - fixed crash of Xnvc caused by a NULL pointer in interfaces (bug #187607)
  - This also fixes crash of Xvnc when vpnc is running (bug #187069)
  - don't build on ppc64 due to intermittent build problems

• Fri Apr 21 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.1-37

  - removed liblbxutil-devel from BuildRequires

• Tue Feb 28 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.1-36

  - with default cofiguration, /etc/init.d/vncserver start will say 
    "no displays configured" (bug #182161)

• Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.1.1-35.1

  - bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)

• Wed Feb 08 2006 Jitka Kudrnacova <jkudrnac@redhat.com> 4.1.1-35

  - Add a test for existence of index.theme before calling
    gtk-update-icon-cache in post-(un)installation script,
    bug #179704

• Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 4.1.1-34.1

  - rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes

• Tue Jan 31 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-34

  - Updated xorg-x11-server to 1.0.1-1.

• Tue Jan 03 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-33

  - Use VNC-provided Xregion (bug #176435).
  - Prevent restorecon error message when not present (bug #176654).

• Fri Dec 23 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-32

  - Use system libtool to fix libvnc.so build (bug #176435).

• Wed Dec 21 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-31

  - Rebase on xorg-x11-server-1.0.0-2.

• Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Thu Dec 08 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-30

  - Enable Xdmcp (bug #175298).

• Thu Dec 08 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-29

  - Fix x0vncserver (bug #172410).

• Tue Dec 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-28

  - Enable all the extensions, which were accidentally disabled.

• Tue Dec 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-27

  - Fix 64-bit server (bug #174702).
  - Build requires freetype-devel.
  - Build requires libXext-devel, libXtst-devel, automake, libtool, pkgconfig,
    libfontenc-devel, xorg-x11-util-macros.

• Thu Dec 01 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-26

  - Apply patch to allow vncviewer window reparenting (bug #174640).
  - Build again on s390/s390x (bug #174569).

• Thu Dec 01 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-25

  - Actually initialise the vnc extension in Xvnc.
  - Disable lbx.

• Thu Dec 01 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-24

  - Build X extension module again.
  - Install X extension module into modules/ directory.
  - Remove xscreensaver patch, since it causes badness.

• Fri Nov 25 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-23

  - ExcludeArch s390 s390x (see bug #174569).
  - Re-base on modular xorg-x11 (bug #173323).
  - Build requires modular X things.

• Fri Nov 18 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-22

  - Extension module is not available on all architectures.

• Fri Nov 18 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-21

  - Install extension module into the correct directory.

• Fri Nov 18 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-20

  - Fix font path correctly (bug #173160).

• Wed Nov 16 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-19

  - Remove xorg-x11-devel build requirement to see what breaks.
  - Hack font paths (bug #173160).

• Tue Nov 15 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-18

  - Build requires xorg-x11-devel not XFree86-devel.

• Tue Sep 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-17

  - Make vncviewer prevent xscreensaver from blanking screen (bug #106552).

• Thu Aug 11 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-16

  - Added -nohttpd option to vncserver, based on patch from bug #161288.
  - Included -nohttpd, -nolisten tcp, and -localhost options in example
    sysconfig file (bug #165334).

• Mon Aug 08 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-15

  - Fixed xorg-x11 build (__SSP__ gets set by -fstack-protector).
  - Fixed desktop file again (bug #63689).

• Thu Jul 14 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-14

  - Pulled RENDER support altogether.  It can cause Xvnc to get into a busy
    loop somehow.

• Wed Jul 13 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-13

  - RENDER clipping fix from Mark McLoughlin.

• Mon Jun 27 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-12

  - Fixed vncpasswd crash (bug #160471).

• Wed Jun 22 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Updated URL in vncservers file (bug #161334).

• Tue Jun 21 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-11

  - Don't ship vncconfig.py any more.
  - Enable render by default for further testing.

• Mon Jun 20 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Build requires expat-devel (bug #160982).

• Wed Apr 27 2005 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.1.1-10

  - silence %post

• Fri Apr 15 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-9

  - Disable render by default.  There are still screen artifacts from it.

• Fri Apr 01 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-8

  - Further render patch fix for Peter Åstrand.

• Thu Mar 31 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-7

  - Render patch fix from Peter Åstrand.  Enabled render by default again.

• Mon Mar 28 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 4.1.1-6

  - rebuilt

• Fri Mar 25 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon@redhat.com> 4.1.1-5

  - Update the GTK+ theme icon cache on (un)install

• Thu Mar 24 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-4

  - Upgraded base package to xorg-x11-6.8.2-13.

• Thu Mar 17 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-3

  - Disable render by default (+render turns it back on).

• Fri Mar 11 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1.1-2

  - 4.1.1 (with 4.1 Java viewer).
  - No longer need module patch.

• Thu Mar 10 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1-0.2

  - Improved render patch from Peter Åstrand.

• Thu Mar 03 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.1-0.1

  - 4.1 (but still 4.0 Java viewer for the moment).
  - Removed sparc patch.
  - Fixed VNC module link line (from upstream).

• Wed Mar 02 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-15

  - Upgraded base package to xorg-x11-6.8.2-6.
  - Rebuild for new GCC.

• Wed Feb 23 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-14

  - Render support from Peter Åstrand.

• Thu Feb 03 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Don't restart the vncserver service on upgrade.

• Tue Feb 01 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-13

  - Upgraded base package to xorg-x11-6.8.1.903-2.

• Fri Jan 07 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Build requires patchutils (bug #144450).

• Wed Jan 05 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-12

  - Don't use initlog in the initscript.

• Fri Dec 31 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Cookie generation improvement from Jon Peatfield.

• Mon Dec 13 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-11

  - Create /tmp/.X11-unix if it doesn't already exist.

• Wed Nov 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-10

  - Use fastjar, not jar, so that the package rebuilds (bug #140671).

• Wed Nov 17 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-9

  - Don't build hw/xfree86/etc.
  - Prevent xorg-x11 build failure in rman.
  - Build requires autoconf, flex, bison.
  - Use correct PATH setting when started from initscript (bug #84167).

• Wed Oct 06 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-8

  - Use runuser not su in initscript (bug #134594).

• Wed Sep 29 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-7

  - Upgraded base package to xorg-x11-6.8.1-4.

• Tue Aug 31 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-6

  - Upgraded base package to xorg-x11-6.7.99.903-1.

• Fri Aug 27 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-5

  - Built for Fedora Core 2.

• Wed Aug 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-4

  - Apply and enable Kristian Høgsberg's --use-fb patch.

• Mon Aug 02 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Fixed vnc-via patch (bug #128940).

• Thu Jun 24 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-3

  - 4.0.
  - No longer need hotspot patch.
  - Add sparc patch from bug #126382.

• Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Tue Jun 01 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.6

  - Turn ppc64 builds on again.

• Tue Jun 01 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.5

  - Exclude ppc64 until the build machine is fixed.
  - Undo last vnc.def change to get vnc.so back.

• Fri May 28 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.4

  - Further vnc.def fix.
  - Fix cursor handling for hotspots outside the bounding rectangle.

• Thu May 27 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.3

  - Fix ppc64 build.
  - Fix debuginfo package.
  - Another fix for REGION_INIT usage.

• Wed May 26 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.2

  - Switch to xorg-x11 (bug #119530).

• Thu May 20 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta5.1

  - 4.0beta5.
  - Removed compat, f8 and crash patches.
  - Fixed via patch now that NULL is not a valid parameter default.
  - Updated gcc34 patch.

• Wed Apr 14 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta4.11

  - Allow parameters to be specified in the init script (bug #60176).

• Wed Mar 31 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta4.10

  - Back down to XFree86 again, since the Xvnc binary in 4.0-1.beta4.9 doesn't
    work at all.

• Tue Mar 23 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-1.beta4.9

  - Build against xorg-x11.

• Tue Mar 02 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Sun Feb 01 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Build fixes for GCC 3.4.

• Fri Jan 23 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.8

  - Fix last fix (bug #114063).

• Thu Jan 22 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.7

  - Restart connect() if a signal interrupts it (bug #114063).

• Thu Nov 27 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Fixed -via parsing bug in vncviewer (bug #110919).

• Fri Nov 14 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.6

  - F8 fix (bug #109377).

• Mon Nov 10 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.5

  - Better fix for bug #107455.

• Sat Nov 08 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.4

  - Fixed zero-sized cursor problem (bug #107455).

• Thu Oct 02 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

  - Added icons (bug #105820).

• Fri Sep 19 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.3

  - Avoid a potential Xvnc crash (bug #104702).

• Fri Sep 05 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta4.2

  - 4.0beta4.
  - No longer need compile, dotvnc, norender patches.
  - Don't be so picky about which architectures to build on any more.
  - Build requires XFree86-devel.

• Thu Aug 28 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.10

  - Fixed SSH tunnelling support (bug #102213).

• Fri Aug 22 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.9

  - Add SSH tunnelling support (bug #102213).

• Wed Aug 20 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.8

  - Disable IdleTimeout by default.

• Mon Aug 18 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.7

  - Ship vncconfig(1) front-end.
  - In default xstartup, exec /etc/vnc/xstartup if it exists.
  - Track XFree86 package.
  - Fix compilation (bug #102547).
  - Fix vncpasswd (bug #102435).

• Tue Aug 12 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.6

  - Use patched tarball from XFree86 package.
  - Build Java VNC viewer.

• Wed Aug 06 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.5.1

  - Rebuilt.

• Wed Aug 06 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.5

  - Make default xclients file include instructions for 'normal' desktop.
  - Server subpackage doesn't require XFree86.
  - desktop file: add StartupWMClass tag
  - init script: set USER (bug #101674).
  - init script: pause when restarting to give the server a chance to stop
    (bug #84817).
  - vncpasswd: create ~/.vnc if it doesn't already exist.

• Tue Aug 05 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.4

  - Allow old -dontdisconnect option, and behave a bit more like Xvnc used to
    if it is given (default to no password, use RFB3.3 protocol).
  - Fixed DisconnectClients bug.

• Mon Aug 04 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.3

  - Disable RENDER altogether for Xvnc.

• Mon Aug 04 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.2

  - Reinstated init script.
  - Add work-around for Xcursor bug.

• Thu Jul 31 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.0-0.beta3.1

  - Initial package.