[ANNOUNCE] Clutter 0.8.4 (core) - Stable release

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

hi everyone;

Clutter 0.8.4 is now available for download at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.8/

MD5 Checksums:

  84bb05824d9b9724c33f5e64493ab169  clutter-0.8.4.tar.gz
  7992b48c5b3a86509903175c2fe0cf1c  clutter-0.8.4.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually
rich and animated graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Clutter currently requires:

  * GLib >= 2.14.0
  * Pango 1.18
  * OpenGL >= 1.4, OpenGL ES 1.1 or OpenGL ES 2.0
  * GLX, SDL, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

The official website is: http://www.clutter-project.org
The Clutter blog is at:  http://www.clutter-project.org/blog
To subscribe to the Clutter mailing list, send mail to: clutter+subscribe o-hand com 
The official mailing list archive is: http://lists.o-hand.com/clutter/
API reference: http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/stable/

* Notes

   o This is a stable release of Clutter's 0.8 cycle

   o This version is fully API and ABI compatible with the previous
     0.8.0 release and further 0.8 releases.

   o This version is parallel installable with Clutter 0.6.

   o Installing this version will overwrite the files from the
     installation of a release of the 0.8 series or the installation
     of a SVN checkout of the clutter-0-8 branch.

   o Bugs should be reported to: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com

What's new in Clutter 0.8.4
---------------------------

   o Documentation improvements
   o Add clutter_actor_get_paint_visibility(), for checking the visibility
     of an actor taking into account the visibility of its parents
   o Texture-from-pixmap actor improvements
   o Add support for ClutterColor-based properties
   o Remove a stray dependency on gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0
   o ClutterGroup will queue a repaint when raising/lowering children

List of bugs fixed since 0.8.2
------------------------------

   o #1043 - COGL calls glTexSubImage2D() with out-of-bounds values (SIGSEGV)
   o #1057 - cogl_texture_rectangle doesn't support backward coordinates
   o #1074 - FBOs on GLES
   o #1195 - ClutterBehaviourBspline only works for very short paths
   o #1196 - Texture border drawing problems
   o #1197 - Missing const for clutter_init_with_args *
   o #1200 - Crash with invalid DISPLAY
   o #1201 - test-depth.c:14: error: ‘raise’ redeclared as different
             kind of symbol
   o #1206 - Picking disabled dithering
   o #1207 - Timelines sometime miss markers
   o #1230 - Pick fails on low precision color buffers
   o #1237 - clutter_texture_set_filter_quality calls
             clutter_texture_[un]realize
   o #1238 - [PATCH] Pack bitfields in ClutterTexturePrivate
   o #1265 - ClutterScore doesn't emit 'started' signal.
   o #1280 - clutter_score_append_at_marker lead to segfault
   o #1291 - file name not given when invalid external json structure loaded
   o #1299 - clutter_score_remove will segfault if timelines are
             more than 52 and continue to remove them

Special thanks to all the contributors:
---------------------------------------
Zang Wei
Kai Wei
Bastian Winkler
Owen Taylor
Guy Zadickario
Thomas Wood
Mihail Naydenov
Michael Boccara
Ross Burton
Laurent Bigonville
Gwenole Beauchesne

Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center