Boxes 3.3.91



We are pleased to announce a new release of Boxes.

Changes since 3.3.90:

- Box creation wizard:
  - Correct architecture comparison so that all medias don't get presented as
    64-bit.
  - Present OS logos. Due to legal reasons, we are currently limited to Debian,
    Fedora, Ubuntu and openSUSE.
  - More reliable way to retrieve user's avatar.
  - Fedora express install: Correct commandline to add user to 'wheel' group.
- Instead of presenting a boring empty space on first launch, start the wizard.
- Allow changing of RAM allocation and storage capacity.
- Disable screenshots when machine is deleted.
- Added/updated translations:
  - Belarusian
  - Esperanto
  - French
  - Galician
  - German
  - Lithuanian
  - Polish
  - Serbian
  - Slovenian
  - Spanish
  - Swedish
  - Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
  - UK
  - Uyghur
- Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes.

Dependencies changed:

- libvirt-glib >= 0.0.6*

All bugs fixed in this release:

664774 - allow adjustment of vm settings
670003 - wizard: Present OS logos
670539 - Misc fixes
670573 - wizard: Correct architecture comparison
670994 - Make use of Libvirt.Domain.get_devices()
671253 - Include details about the "explicit permission from trademark owners"
671304 - broker: need translation comment

All contributors to this release:

Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 gmail com>
Daniel Korostil <ted korostiled gmail com>
Daniel Mustieles <daniel mustieles gmail com>
Daniel Nylander <po danielnylander se>
Fran Diéguez <fran dieguez mabishu com>
Gheyret Kenji <gheyret gmail com>
Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar hrachyshka gmail com>
Kristjan SCHMIDT <kristjan schmidt googlemail com>
Manu Gupta <manugupt1 gmail com>
Marc-André Lureau <marcandre lureau gmail com>
Mario Blättermann <mario blaettermann gmail com>
Martin Srebotnjak <miles filmsi net>
Matej Urbančič <mateju svn gnome org>
Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
Мирослав Николић <miroslavnikolic rocketmail com>
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What is Boxes?
============

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

Goals
====

* 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
========

* Enterprise system management / administration
* Asset management
* Software distribution
* Automation

Use Cases
========

* 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
==========

https://live.gnome.org/Boxes

Downloads
========

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

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

* libvirt-glib 0.0.6 tarball is not yet available in the canonical
location but temporarily available from here:

http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/libvirt-glib-0.0.6.tar.gz


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