Pipelight 0.1-4

Written for Pipelight by Michael Müller on 2013-09-16

We just released Pipelight v0.1-4 which mostly introduces experimental features and bug fixes.
The following text gives a short summary about the most important changes:

--[Experimental Flash support]--
It is now possible to use the Windows version of Flash with Pipelight, which is a mandatory step to get Widevine DRM working in future releases. You currently need to decide whether you want to use Flash or Silverlight since it's not yet possible to use both at the same time with Pipelight, but this will change in future. For this reason the support is only experimental and there are no ready to use installation packages, however here is a short guide how to switch to Flash:

1. Install Pipelight
2. Start your browser and test if Silverlight works (this will create the Wineprefix and other stuff that is required) and close it again
3. Execute:
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.8.800.168/install_flash_player.exe
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-pipelight/ /opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine install_flash_player.exe

cp /usr/share/pipelight/pipelight ~/.config/pipelight
sed -i 's|^[^#]*dllPath.*$|dllPath = C:\\windows\\system32\\Macromed\\Flash\\|g' ~/.config/pipelight
sed -i 's|^[^#]*dllName.*$|dllName = NPSWF32_11_8_800_168.dll|g' ~/.config/pipelight

4. Start your browser and enjoy the Windows version of Flash (you may have to disable other Flash plugins in some cases, so that your browser selects this one).

--[Experimental Sandbox support]--
We implemented the possibility to define a sandbox program which is currently not very useful since the corresponding sandbox program is still work in progress. It will be available as a separate program/package and should protect you against all possible attacks and viruses coming through the used browser plugins. More information will follow in a separate announcement.

--[Bug fixes]--
While working on the Flash support we discovered a bug in our handle management which also affects Silverlight and may prevent some Silverlight applications from shutting down clearly. If you had the problem that you got a crash warning on closing the tab, you should check if this error is gone with the current version of Pipelight.

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If you want to see all the changes in detail please take a look at the the full changelog:
https://bitbucket.org/mmueller2012/pipelight/raw/master/debian/changelog

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