Boxes 3.7.91

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Hi everybody,

 

Announcing another release in the 3.7.x unstable cycle. Changes since 3.7.90:

 

- Allow drag to unfullscreen Boxes.

- Align the spinner that is shown when connecting to and restoring saved Boxes.

- Don't allow smaller window than the UI requires.

- Ensure all potentially long labels are ellipsized.

- Fix current memory size display in properties.

- Show correct max. memory in diagnostics log.

- Allow ignoring saved state if restore fails.

- Change category in desktop file from 'Network;RemoteAccess' to 'System'.

- Use more appr. icon for properties.

- Forgotten (from last release) adaptations for media detection code against

latest udev and libosinfo.

- Fix launching of multiple installation from same media in the menu.

- Fix the ungrab label sometimes rendering wrong.

- Fix sidebar width on non-english locales.

- Change mnemonic for 'Done' as it conflicts with 'Delete' button in selection

view.

- List favorite boxes and most recently used boxes before others.

- Hide USB devices from properties when usbredir is disabled.

- Refresh USB devices in properties when devices are added/removed.

- Fix a crash in notification bar.

- Better error messages on failure to change box properties.

- Add preliminary user documentation.

- Validate desktop file during build.

- Add memory units to diagnostics log.

- Added/updated/fixed translations:

- Brazilian Portuguese

- Galician

- Greek

- Gujarati

- Hebrew

- Italian

- Lithuanian

- Norwegian bokmål

- Polish

- Punjabi

- Russian

- Serbian

- Slovak

- Slovenian

- Spanish

- Uyghur

- Vietnamese

- Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes.

 

All contributors to this release:

 

Adelino Afonso

Alexander Larsson

A S Alam

Aurimas Černius

Baptiste Mille-Mathias

Christophe Fergeau

Daniel Mustieles

Dimitris Spingos

Dušan Kazik

Ekaterina Gerasimova

Enrico Nicoletto

Enrico Nicoletto

Fran Diéguez

Gheyret Kenji

Kjartan Maraas

Luca Ferretti

Marc-André Lureau

Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ

Michael Hill

Michael Hill

Nguyễn Thái Ngá»Âc Duy

Piotr Drąg

Sweta Kothari

Tom Tryfonidis

Yaron Shahrabani

Yuri Myasoedov

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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Tarball: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes/3.7/gnome-boxes-3.7.91.tar.xz

sha256 checksum:

5a195f69b6d8829f260e522cc567fe92d5b10e906b00d23281821941acd82e95

 

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Regards,

 

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

FSF member#5124

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