Bump version to 0.9.17, update NEWS and lastmod

Added release notes

Author: gordug

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+x11vnc 0.9.17 2025-04-11
+
+Release Notes
+
+New Features:
+
+ Added option for sending multi-touch commands in uinput.
+ Introduced mousewheel support in uinput.
+ Support for up to 8 mouse buttons and XK_Super_L/R mapping to Meta keys during pipeinput/uinput.
+ Experimental support for double-buffered framebuffer and rawfb DRM/shm key options.
+ Support for OpenBSD in shm_clear.
+
+Bug Fixes:
+ Fixed TLS handshake errors with OpenSSL 1.1.x and LibreSSL compatibility issues.
+ Addressed snprintf null destination pointer issue and xfc NULL pointer dereference in cursor.
+ Resolved various allocation and multiplication overflow bugs.
+ Fixed format string issues with size_t arguments and corrected acute accents in man pages.
+ Limited access to shared memory segments to the current user and addressed overly long Unix socket names.
+
+Documentation & Maintenance:
+
+ Refactored and updated README with clearer notes on maintainership, Intel quirks, and FAQs about driver lags.
+ Removed executable bit from text files, fixed typos, and clarified password limit/error messages.
+ Updated issue templates and added FUNDING.yml for community contributions.
+ Keywords added to x11vnc.desktop file.
+
+Other Changes:
+
+ Fixed build issues on 32-bit architectures with 64-bit time_t and support for builds using -fno-common.
+ Addressed gcc -no-common build compatibility.
+
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 x11vnc 0.9.16 2019-01-05
 
 New in the 0.9.16 x11vnc release:

configure.ac

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(x11vnc, 0.9.16, https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc)
+AC_INIT(x11vnc, 0.9.17, https://github.com/LibVNC/x11vnc)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)

src/x11vnc_defs.c

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int xtrap_base_event_type = 0;
 intxdamage_base_event_type=0;
 
 /* date +'lastmod: %Y-%m-%d' */
-charlastmod[] =VERSION" lastmod: 2019-01-05";
+charlastmod[] =VERSION" lastmod: 2025-04-11";
 
 /* X display info */
 

x11vnc.1

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .TH X11VNC "1" "February 2018" "x11vnc " "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 x11vnc - allow VNC connections to real X11 displays
- version: 0.9.16, lastmod: 2019-01-05
+ version: 0.9.17, lastmod: 2025-04-11
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .Bx11vnc
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