ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.9.10 (snapshot)

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Good news, everyone!

 

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

 

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.9/

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.9/

 

SHA256 Checksum:

 

1ac6154db41e5eab9ef23f5388ee3694be3d2c3b43bbd49e03110801445d0421 clutter-1.9.10.tar.xz

 

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

 

will include a signed 1.9.10 tag which points to a commit named:

0d7ec670f1fccddc2666b53b0947a2ff77805634

 

which can be verified with:

git verify-tag 1.9.10

 

and can be checked out with a command such as:

git checkout -b build 1.9.10

 

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 ≥ 2.31.10

JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0

Cogl ≥ 1.9.4

Cairo ≥ 1.10

Pango ≥ 1.20

Atk ≥ 2.1.5

 

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/1.9/

Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.9/

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 1.9.8

 

- Provide symbolic names for pointer buttons

The primary, middle, and secondary pointer buttons now have simple and

easy to remember constants that can be used in place of the "magic"

numbers.

 

- Add ClutterActorIter

A simple API, using a stack allocated opaque structure, for safely and

efficiently traverse the children of a ClutterActor.

 

- Fix regression introduced by the default FixedLayout layout manager

Existing ClutterActor subclasses using their own layout management should

now work exactly like in Clutter 1.8.

 

- Documentation fixes

Including introspection annotations fixes.

 

- Updates to the Wayland backend

The Wayland client backend is now up to date with the 0.85 release of

the Wayland protocol.

 

• Bugs fixed since Clutter 1.9.8

 

[bugzilla.gnome.org]

#668692 - Add symbolic names for left, right and middle buttons

#668669 - Add iterator API for ClutterActor

#667840 - Add annotations from Vala bindings

#669360 - clutter-backend-eglnative.h missing in disted tarball

#668951 - Fix warnings when weak_unreffing a finalized object

 

Many thanks to:

 

Rob Bradford, Tristan Van Berkom, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Evan Nemerson,

Kerrick Staley, Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ

 

 

Have fun with Clutter!

 

ciao,

Emmanuele.

 

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Emmanuele Bassi,

Intel Open Source Technology Center

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