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open-vm-tools 2011.03.28 changes:
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* HGFS mounter and vmusr's suid wrapper were changed to avoid
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issues with symlink attacks. A new mount utility for vmblock on
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Solaris and FreeBSD was added.
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* The VMCI driver was thoroughly reworked so that it can serve as
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both the host and guest VMCI driver. This is mostly targeted at
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* vmusr got better integration with X's session manager, including
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proper cleanup during session teardown.
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* Unity has been enhanced to better handle some desktop environments.
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* Many small bug fixes in other areas, including updates for newer
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open-vm-tools 2011.02.23 changes:
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* Some copy & paste issues with KDE were fixed.
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* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes, with a few build enhancements.
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open-vm-tools 2011.01.24 changes:
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* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes.
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* Install code fixed to handle translation catalogs correctly.
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open-vm-tools 2010.12.19 changes:
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* New version of DnD code lands in open-vm-tools. The host part
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of the new DnD protocol is not available yet in VMware products,
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* vmtoolsd gets some new functionality to support new features
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being developed internally.
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* vmxnet driver for FreeBSD fixed to allow changing the MAC address.
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* lots of bug fixes and other cleanups in various areas.
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open-vm-tools 2010.11.17 changes:
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* Mostly cleanups and bug fixes.
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* vmxnet3 on Solaris now supports jumbo frames.
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open-vm-tools 2010.10.18 changes:
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* The unity plugin has received some refactoring work, and the
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menu gathering code has been enhanced to be more DE-agnostic and
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support the new app icon code. It now needs glib 2.24 to compile.
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* Several bug fixes and enhancements to the VIX plugin.
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* Bug fixes to the guest info plugin so that it better supports
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VMs with several network interfaces.
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* Other minor enhancements and bug fixes in several areas, including
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vsock, vmmemctl and copy & paste.
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open-vm-tools 2010.09.19 changes:
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* Mostly cleanups and minor bug fixes.
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* VIX plugin has been updated with lots of new commands being added
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to the next VIX API release.
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open-vm-tools 2010.08.24 changes:
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* HGFS and VMCI kernel module bug fixes, and updates to compile
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in newer Linux kernels.
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* HGFS server interface refactoring was finished, now supports
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the transport abstraction available for the kernel interface.
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* VIX operations are now properly implemented on Solaris, plus
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new operations added to support features under development.
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* Other minor cleanups and bug fixes.
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open-vm-tools 2010.07.25 changes:
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* Features previously provided by vmware-user are now provided
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as vmtoolsd plugins. vmware-user has been removed and code that
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interacted with it changed to start the correct vmtoolsd instance.
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* Lots of cleanup: removed old compatibility headers not needed
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anymore, removed dead code, consolidated logging code.
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* Time synchronization now works more like NTP.
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* New code for features not yet exposed by VMware host software
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open-vm-tools 2010.06.16 changes:
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* VMCI moves towards unifying the guest and host driver APIs,
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and gets support for MSI/MSI-X.
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