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Finally, the non-Windows binaries for release 1.2a have been uploaded. A wide variety of platforms have been included, thanks to the SourceForge compile farm:
* A number of Linux x86 flavours, including a statically lined version
* Several BSD versions
* A Mac OS X PPC version
* Two Solaris versions: one for Sparc, and one for x86
* An IA64 (AMD 64) Linux version
* An Alpha version

1.2a has been released; this contains a fix for a significant bug in verison 1.2. Only binaries for Win32 are available at this time, as the SourceForge compile farm is not available.

UPDATE: This version contains a significant bug: snapshots crop out the top 60 pixels of the screen unless the -rect option is used. An updated version will be available shortly.

New in this release is the ability to get multiple snapshots, using the
-count and -fps options.

This release also includes a version of vncpasswd usable on Windows.
vncpasswd is also built on Unix/Linux systems to allow you to use it without
a full VNC installation.... read more

This release moves vncsnapshot from beta to production. With this release, vncsnapshot is brought up-to-date with RealVNC 3.3.7 and TightVNC 1.2.8. Also included are improvements to snapshots of portions of the screen, improved mouse cursor handling when the remote system is a recent TightVNC server, and minor bug fixes.

Beta2 now has binary releases available for Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.5 on UltraSparc. All have been statically linked with zlib 1.1.4.

This new release contains only documentation updates. Added documentation is a Unix style manual ("man") page. Documentation updates include, in particular, warnings to users to use only zlib 1.1.4 or later, as previous versions have a security loophole.

Currently only a binary for Linux is available; other platforms will follow shortly.

The binary releases - precomiled versions for Linux, Solaris, and Windows - have been deleted from the available files, as these versions use zlib 1.1.3, which contains a security vunerability. 1.0 Beta 2 will contain instructions on getting the proper version of zlib and binaries linked with zlib 1.1.4.