In follow up to Toman's font post, here is the build he promised you. For more details of how the fonts have changed on Linux and FreeBSD please read it first.

As the title above states this is also the last 10.70 build. Being a 10.70 build it does not include extensions. The first build with extensions will be an 11.00 build and we'll get it to you as soon as possible. In the mean time please keep all comments on extensions in Olli's extention blog post. It is not fair to those uses who have eagerly awaited these fixes to fill up their blog post with off topic comments.

Ok, with that out of the way, let the testing begin!

WARNING: This is a development snapshot: It contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

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Another round of UNIX fixes have been integrated in 10.70. Lots of love here, especially for those who select text to paste it with middle click.

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Another new snapshot just one day after the last one!

This snapshot is particularly good news for our FreeBSD and Linux users, since it includes fixes to a number of irritating issues. We'd encourage *nix users to scan through the change log below. We have also made builds available on Windows and Mac. Whilst not much has changes for you guys there is a cross platform fix on mail, so if you were experiencing mail crashes this might be a good build to test.

With regards to bigger outstanding issues on UNIX (Plugin performance improvements [including Java], IME, fixes to fonts), these issues are being worked on, however we still need more time before we can share with you the fruits of our labour. Thanks for your patience!

Remember to keep comments relevant, descriptive and brief, and avoid repetition of issues that have alread been reported. Your comments may be removed if they are off-topic.

UNIX Known Issues

• Java is not working
• IME is not working
• Some outstanding font issues

WARNING: This is a development snapshot with the latest changes. It may contain severe bugs and cause data loss. Or it may be all you have ever wanted.

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We couldn't help noticing a few of our UNIX users feeling left out after the previous Mac snapshot. Well, it turns you didn't have to wait too long for your own snapshot after all.

In addition to containing fixes from the previous Mac snapshot and Windows RCs the big change is that new packages have arrived for Opera 10.51 UNIX. So if you were waiting for an .rpm or .deb package before you start testing, you no longer have any excuses. Please note however, that this does not mean that every issue is fixed. It simply means that you can test the packages themselves if you are comfortable with that or if the outstanding issues are not ones that bother you, then you could choose to install Opera 10.51 UNIX and make it your primary browser. In either scenario we would recommend you backup your profile ('~/.opera') first to allow you to downgrade should you need to, because once installed Opera will use the default profile (rather than a testing profile). You can of course continue to use the 'opera' script included in the root directory of an extracted tarball package to run Opera in place with a test profile, as has been the case with all Opera 10.5x snapshots so far.

I have also written a complementary article to this one on my own blog. That posting is primarily aimed at our intermediate to advanced UNIX users. If you are new to UNIX you may find it to be too much detail. However, if you are interested in packaging or just want to know a little bit more about workarounds for minor issues please check it out! If you are a user of the install script bundled in the tarball packages, you should certainly read in as the changes are potentially biggest for you.

Highlights

• Completely New Packages

Known Issues

• Packaging: No desktop integration for users of old Desktop Environments on non deb/rpm distros
• Packaging: Extra unneeded GTK libraries get installed on some distros
• Packaging: Removal of 'prefix'/'DESTDIR' install script options
• Font problems
• Language input issues
• No KDE integration (yet)
• Problem with address field drop down position under non compositing Window Managers
• Black drop down menus for some KDE3 users
• Black border around Ctrl+Tab dialog when running under compositing Window Managers
• Some command line options don't work

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After creating the Gtk-enabled pluginwrapper for Kestrel Alpha, the second UNIX plugin milestone is reached. As the UNIX snapshot users have seen, plugins have been in a very unstable state the last few weeks - now the new work is in and we can reveal that we have added support for windowless plugins! Now this has been present on Windows and Mac for a while now, but the mixing of toolkits and the out of process plugins make this quite a breakthrough for us. Currently the windowless plugin can use Gtk to draw directly on the webpage of a Qt browser . There is still no real windowless plugin for UNIX - we are basing our implemetation on this proof-of-concept plugin - add this patch to the DiamondX plugin :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386144

We will add our own patch to this soon, to make dialogs always appear on top of the browser window. Any experimental plugins using this interface would be very interesting to us.

The second and long awaited feature is :

The FlashPlayer RC works!!

if you don't have it already - you can go get it here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

The problem was solved by spoofing the plugin We now say that we are Firefox - we have brought this to Adobe's attention and are looking forward to future versions of the FlashPlayer. This spoofing can be turned off by setting the OPERA_PLUGINWRAPPER_NO_SPOOF environment variable.

We have also worked out a lot of other minor bugs and look forward to getting even more reports from you.



WARNING: These are development snapshots: they contain the latest changes, but they also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, they may not work at all.

WARNING: Previous Kestrel builds will not be able to read your mail after updating to this (and subsequent) snapshot builds. Make a backup.


Known issues:

• There might be some crashes when running widgets.
• Unread count in mail might be wrong.
• [BUG 299767] Opera on UNIX might crash if you close a tab while flash is being initialized.
• [BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized.
• Just a few UNIX builds this time - and no, Sparc builds aren't among those...

Changelog:

• Fixed garbled subjects in mail.
• Changed mail database version.
• Fixed spacers in skin.
• Removed minch from UI.
• XHTML documents are now saved with correct extension.
• Nicknames for folders now work inaddress bar.
• MathML documents served with the correct MIME type application/mathml+xml can now be opened directly.
• Fixed issue where messages could appear in wrong views or could appear with no information in message lists.

UNIX-specific:

• Enabled windowless plugins on UNIX.
• Acrobat Reader plugin now accept key input.
• Opening telnet and news links in external programs now works.
• Some fixes to dialogs out of focus.
• Fixed high memory and cpu usage when downloading torrents.

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