ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.7.6 (snapshot)

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Good news, everyone!

 

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

 

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

 

SHA256 Checksum:

 

eed511daf54d684086c3f503bac94160ab512f15054998d823e38e88f2020b61 clutter-1.7.6.tar.xz

 

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

 

will include a signed 1.7.6 tag which points to a commit named:

0a008b98e7f72b9741ddbc3e2773153dafe302a1

 

which can be verified with:

git verify-tag 1.7.6

 

and can be checked out with a command such as:

git checkout -b build 1.7.6

 

Clutter is a library for creating compelling, dynamic and portable graphical

user interfaces. Clutter is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser

General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

 

Clutter depends on:

GLib ≥ 2.26.0

JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0

Cairo ≥ 1.10

Pango ≥ 1.20

Atk ≥ 1.17

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

GLX, WGL, Quartz, or an EGL implementation

 

Clutter also has platform-specific dependencies; for more information, see

the README file included in the release.

 

Documentation:

Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter/1.7/

Cogl: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cogl/1.7/

Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.7/

Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

 

Release Notes:

- This is an unstable snapshot of Clutter; there are no compatibility

guarantees for API added during a development 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 release of Clutter.

- Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Bugzilla product, at:

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

 

 

• List of changes since Clutter 1.7.4

 

- Accessibility fixes in Cally

Fix the implementation of the AtkText interface for ClutterText.

 

- Depend on the new Cogl windowing system API.

 

- Add functions for retrieving the clip boundaries on the Stage

The clutter_stage_get_redraw_clip_bounds() function is useful for

window managers (like Mutter) that need to retrieve the clipped

region used on the Stage.

 

- Auto-detect the default flavour when building

The default flavour used when building should be set depending

on the platform.

 

- Mark the OSX backend as non-experimental

The OSX backend is being developed, and maintained, so it should

not be considered experimental.

 

- Make sure that Gestures are cancelled when missing release events

 

- Correct the rounding for paint volumes

Try to provide stable results against potential floating point rounding

margins when projecting 3D paint volumes into screen bounding boxes;

this should avoid re-creating FBOs and always correctly handle clipped

redraws.

 

- Do not clobber XI2 events data

This allows to play along with other toolkits using XI2.

 

- Fix ClutterSnapConstraint's right edge snapping

 

- Deprecations

ClutterScore, clutter_texture_new_from_actor(),

clutter_cairo_texture_create*()

 

• List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.7.4

 

[bugzilla.gnome.org]

 

#653959 - clutter-actor: Don't apply shaders during picking

#654361 - uprof: Rename timers to remove the EGL specific bits

#654363 - uprof: Add the units in the name of the "Per Frame"

timer attribute

#654103 - Fixed typo

#654656 - Improve XGenericEventCookie allocation wrt other toolkits

#654024 - snap-constraint: Fix allocation for CLUTTER_SNAP_EDGE_RIGHT

#654066 - ClutterTimeline new-frame signal not working correctly on

some platforms

#654718 - clutter-1.6.16 compile issues

#654726 - text: Fix the default value of "editable"

#654727 - alpha: Don't use the GClosure to compute the alpha when

possible

#655342 - memory leak in clutter_bin_layout_get_preferred_width/height

 

[bugzilla.clutter-project.org]

 

#1733 - AtkText implementation on CallyText is not complete

#2421 - Way to get current repaint bounds

 

Many thanks to:

 

Robert Bragg, Philippe Normand, Neil Roberts, Damien Lespiau, Tomeu Vizoso,

Gil Forcada, Alejandro Piñeiro, Bastian Winkler, Carlos Garnacho,

Christian Kirbach, Daniel Mustieles, Dinh Bowman, Kjartan Maraas,

Marek Černocký, Mario Blättermann, Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ, Piotr Drąg

 

 

Have fun with Clutter!

 

ciao,

Emmanuele.

 

--

Emmanuele Bassi,

Intel Open Source Technology Center

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