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     <h3>Entries from April 2014.</h3>
     
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title">
+        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html">Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</a>
+      </div>
+      <div class="date">
+        29th April 2014
+      </div>
+      <div class="body">
+        <p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
+project</a> for quite a while now.  It is a free software
+implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
+plugin.  Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
+newer AVM2 format - see
+<a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
+allowing several flash based sites to work.  Thanks to the friendly
+developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
+Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
+those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
+support, but it has not happened yet.  If you install both Lightspark
+and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
+so you can get both handled as free software.  Unfortunately,
+Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
+sites do not work yet.</p>
+
+<p>A few months ago, I started looking at
+<a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
+checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
+to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
+company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
+the projects I decided to check out.  Coverity is able to find lock
+errors, memory errors, dead code and more.  A few days ago they even
+extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
+There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
+amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
+code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
+
+<p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
+developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity.  I was quite happy
+today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
+detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed.  This make me confident that
+the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
+the previous one.  Most of the reported issues were and are in the
+test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help out, you find us on
+<a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
+gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
+irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
+
+      </div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title">
         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html">Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</a>
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 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (8)</a></li>
 
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/04/">April (6)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 
 </ul></li>
 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (245)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (246)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network (8)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (26)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (27)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (245)</a></li>
 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (40)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (41)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (30)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (31)</a></li>
 
 </ul>