Boxes 3.5.5

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Hi everyone,

 

We are pleased to announce a new (unstable) release of Boxes.

 

Changes since 3.5.4.1:

 

- Fix renaming of remote machine.

- Allow renaming virtual machines.

- Gracefully handle errors from text entries in properties.

- Notify user when properties changes are pending.

- Ensure changes to RAM and storage properties are not lost.

- Don't lose display connection when a machine reboots.

- More reliable virtual machine reboot/shutdown.

- Show the display in the right place of properties page depending on current UI

state.

- Properly update screenshot on machine shutdown.

- Added/updated translations:

- Galician

- German

- Greek

- Gujarati

- Hebrew

- Hungarian

- Japanese

- Lithuanian

- Norwegian bokmål

- Serbian

- Slovenian

- Spanish

 

Dependencies changed:

 

- libvirt-gobject >= 0.1.1

- spice-gtk >= 0.12.101

 

WARNING: Release tarball of libvirt-gobject 0.1.1 currently only

available at http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/libvirt-glib-0.1.1.tar.gz

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Aurimas Černius

Daniel Mustieles

Fran Diéguez

Gabor Kelemen

Jiro Matsuzawa

Kjartan Maraas

Marc-André Lureau

Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ

Sweta Kothari

Tobias Endrigkeit

Tom Tryfonidis

Yaron Shahrabani

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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What is Boxes?

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A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems.

 

Goals

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* View, access, and use:

* remote machines

* remote virtual machines

* local virtual machines

* When technology permits, set up access for applications on local

virtual machines

* View, access, and use virtual machines on removable media

* View, access, and use shared connection / machines

* Share connections?

* Upload / publish virtual machines

* Select favorites

* Search for connections

 

Non-Goals

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* Enterprise system management / administration

* Asset management

* Software distribution

* Automation

 

Use Cases

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* Connect to a local virtual machine for testing.

* Connecting to a work machine from home.

* Connect to a work machine over a low quality cellular network.

 

Homage page

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https://live.gnome.org/Boxes

 

Downloads

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http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes/3.5/

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

FSF member#5124

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