ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.12 (stable release)

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Good news, everyone!

 

A new Clutter stable release is now available at:

 

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

 

SHA256 Checksum:

 

21c3eb0633f839a223192dbc26aaf924bed98caad302ee0bb3ee2b067d09462d clutter-1.6.12.tar.bz2

 

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

git clone git://git.gnome.org/clutter

 

will include a signed 1.6.12 tag which points to a commit named:

d9030f585eb549579e35660a2c48f3c20838369b

 

which can be verified with:

git verify-tag 1.6.12

 

and can be checked out with a command such as:

git checkout -b build 1.6.12

 

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast,

compelling, portable, and dynamic graphical user interfaces.

 

• Requirements

 

GLib ≥ 2.26.0

JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0

Cairo ≥ 1.10

Pango ≥ 1.20

Atk ≥ 1.7

OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multi-texturing), OpenGL|ES 1.1 or 2.0

GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

 

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also

depends on:

 

GDK-Pixbuf ≥ 2.0

UProf ≥ 0.3

 

• Documentation

 

API Reference:

‣ Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/1.6/

‣ Cogl: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/1.6/

‣ Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cally/1.6/

 

• Release Notes

 

- This is the seventh stable release of the 1.6 cycle.

- This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable

release of Clutter.

- Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files

from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter.

Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla, at:

http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

 

• List of changes since Clutter 1.6.10

 

» Use AC_CANONICAL_HOST in Clutter's configure, and fix cross-compilation

for Windows.

 

» Improve portability of Clutter by removing bashisms from its configure

script.

 

» Add safeties to avoid warning when generating paint volumes for actors

with a zero-sized allocations.

 

» Fix vertical aligned actors using ClutterAlignConstraint.

 

» Do not unrealize the Stage when hiding it on OSX.

 

» Throttle clipped redraws on GLX.

 

• List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.10

 

#2257 - clutter fails to link on OS X (10.6)

#2562 - Crush upon running Clutter-based programs

#2602 - Expose events ignore when doing clipped redraws

#2610 - Add recipe about implementing a ClutterEffect

#2619 - Removes the addition of the .exe extrension to unit-test

scripts, on win32

#2620 - _cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture_full() leaks reference when

failing

 

Many thanks to:

 

Piotr Drąg, Robert Bragg

 

have fun with Clutter!

 

ciao,

Emmanuele.

 

--

Emmanuele Bassi,

Intel Open Source Technology Center

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