[ANNOUNCE] GNU HaliFAX Viewer 0.21.0 (ghfaxviewer) released

[Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang contre com>]

The GNU HaliFAX Viewer 0.21.0, codenamed "stand up against FTAA!", has
been released

The GNU HaliFAX Viewer (ghfaxviewer) is the viewer of the GNU HaliFAX
Project, which is a GNU project dedicated to provide a free software
client-suite of applications for free fax systems, with HylaFAX(tm) as
its first target.

This release is a bug-fix against 0.20 which was not announced
publicly.

The GNU HaliFAX project comprises another component, GFax, which acts
as a sender agent for the HylaFAX and the mgetty+sendfax systems.

Changes since version 0.10 are various:
- the "standard" BSD LPR system is now detected and used properly;
- a FreeBSD port has been started by Dominik Brettnacher;
- images appears with some anti-aliasing, with yet another new
  display algorithm that is faster than before;
- the display is progressive, which gives a better feedback to the
  user about what is going on;
- integration with GNOME has been completed, and GNOME is now
  considered as the main flavour of ghfaxviewer, as opposed to
  previous versions which were more adapted to GTK+;
- ghfaxviewer can now save the window position and dimensions between
  sessions on systems which support it as well as the last directory;
- a gnome-print backend has been added;
- the gnome version is using native gnome icons, with some taken from
  the Eye of Gnome;
- a Polish translation was added, thanks to Zbigniew Baniewski;
- a couple of bugfixes;
- a couple of new bugs;

The official distribution site for the GNU HaliFAX project is now
located at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/halifax/

A webpage is currently under construction. A preliminary and temporary
version is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/halifax/

A development page is available on Savannah, the GNU project's clone
of SourceForge. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/halifax/

Binaries won't be provided anymore as there were problems with my
cross-distribution packages. That program is however ready to be built
for the Debian GNU/Linux and the RedHat GNU/Linux distributions.


Happy Faxing!



Wolfgang