ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.15.90 (snapshot)

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Good news, everyone!

 

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

 

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.15/

 

SHA256 Checksum:

 

32a96217615d82d7be3e7acaf725bd40bb98cc970d2e1f50afdddd24c6fd1be2

clutter-1.15.90.tar.xz

 

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

 

will include a signed 1.15.90 tag which points to a commit named:

ee6be96a3b3b69e9f3e7cc4f5390fbc2b22c3732

 

which can be verified with:

git verify-tag 1.15.90

 

and can be checked out with a command such as:

git checkout -b build 1.15.90

 

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 ≥ 2.37.3

JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0

Cogl ≥ 1.15.1

Cairo ≥ 1.10

Pango ≥ 1.30

Atk ≥ 2.5.3

 

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

the README file included in the release.

 

Documentation:

Clutter: http://developer.gnome.org/clutter/unstable/

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 1.15.2

 

- Update the Wayland backend

Use the new 1.2 behaviour and API, and improve the coverage of windowing

system features, alongside a slew of bugs.

 

- Drop support for XInput 1.x

The XInput 1.x extension was never really used after the introduction of

the 2.x version.

 

- Fix event and device handling when using evdev

 

- Allow using ClutterContent on a ClutterStage

 

- Fixes for the Windows backend

The build script has also been updated with the required dependencies.

 

- Documentation fixes

 

- Translations updated

 

• List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.15.2

 

#703809 - Some LayoutManager fixes

#704625 - Cannot assign a ClutterContent to a stage

#698836 - Add interactive test for ClutterZoomAction/ClutterRotateAction

#705739 - Crash when removing a ClutterActor from a scene at the end of

an animation

#705710 - evdev: fix X11 to evdev keycode translation

#704269 - evdev: add a way for applications to tweak how devices are

opened

#704457 - Setting the size of the stage causes it to not be shown on

wayland

#699578 - Implement foreign surface support for stages

#704279 - wayland: Add API for disabling the event dispatching

#703336 - clutter-actor: Make clutter_actor_has_mapped_clones public

#701356 - Update the windows backend to work with latest Cogl

#703969 - Select for events with XIAllMasterDevices under XI2

#703878 - wayland: Don't pass the shell and compositor down to Cogl

#703608 - Update ClutterWaylandSurface to use a resource instead of

wl_buffer

#703877 - Bump the required Cogl version to 1.15.1

 

Many thanks to:

 

Giovanni Campagna, Neil Roberts, Florian Müllner, Jasper St. Pierre, Rob

Bradford, Matej UrbanÄÂiÄÂ, Adel Gadllah, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Chris Cummins,

Chun-wei Fan, Lionel Landwerlin, Rafael Ferreira

 

 

Have fun with Clutter!

 

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