[ANNOUNCE] Clutter 0.7.0 (core) - developers snapshot

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi o-hand com>]

hi everyone;

Clutter 0.7.0 is now available for download at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.7/

MD5 Checksums:

  13cd5f13a9dbb4f0cfc94d8258e3139b  clutter-0.7.0.tar.gz
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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
  * GdkPixbuf
  * Pango 1.x
  * OpenGL >= 1.2 or OpenGL ES 1.1
  * GLX, SDL (Unix and Win32), Win32, Cocoa 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/0.7/

* Notes

   o This is a development release of Clutter 0.7 leading towards the
     0.8 stable cycle.

   o This version is fully API and ABI incompatible with the previous
     0.6 releases.

   o This version is parallel installable with Clutter 0.6.

   o Installing this version will overwrite the files from the
     installation of a SVN checkout of the current development
     branch (trunk).

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

   o For a funny issue with the install module script, the documentation
     for COGL has taken over the one for Clutter on the web site; it
     will be fixed as soon as possible.

What's new in Clutter 0.7.0
---------------------------

   o COGL, the underlying GL abstraction layer in Clutter, has been
     completely rewritten from the ground up. Its no longer a conceptual
     hack but a documented, fully featured library pretty much in its
     own right. COGL abstracts over Open GL, Open GL ES 1.1 and now
     OpenGL ES 2.0, providing a smart uniform API over these libraries
     with various utility features such as texture tiling abstractions,
     paths and primitive rendering, FBO, shaders, etc.

   o Clutter now provides an experimental backend for the Apple(tm)
     iPhone and iPod Touch families of products.

   o The Windows platform is now natively supported instead of
     relying on the SDL libraries. The win32 backend is still
     experimental.

   o The X11 based backends now feature support for Actors that wrap
     external X drawables (i.e the texture-from-pixmap extension and
     fallbacks)

   o Clutter now seamlessly supports multiple stages on the backends
     that allow this feature.

   o The custom Pango renderer has been completely rewritten, now using
     the more modern and maintained PangoCairo (instead of FT2), and
     avoids nasty subclassing hacks, supports smooth fast scaling of
     text, has many edge case issues fixed and it still is very
     efficient (using a texture glyph cache). It is even a little bit
     faster.

   o Better texture support, timeline improvements, ClutterLabel and
     ClutterEntry improvements, and container child properties are among
     the new features - too many to fit in the NEWS file.

List of bugs fixed since 0.6.0
------------------------------

   o #358 - "window resizing doesn't show scaled stage"
   o #425 - "COGL enhancements"
   o #439 - "timing related pong lockup due to timeline_rewind somtimes
            being ignored by timeline_timeout_func"
   o #450 - "ClutterScore API enhancements"
   o #641 - "add markers to timelines"
   o #666 - "Large font size leads to missing ""W"" and wrong ""J"" character"
   o #713 - "texture from pixmap"
   o #791 - "default actors to visible"
   o #800 - "CLUTTER_ALPHA_EXP_INC overflows"
   o #804 - "clutter_actor_get_opacity returns composited alpha"
   o #810 - "100 % CPU load with clutter_main()"
   o #815 - "Split up request
   o #816 - "clutter_actor_request_coords() should take a const box."
   o #822 - "Fix clutter_actor_lower()"
   o #823 - "Clean-up GLism's in clutter-core (below cogl)"
   o #824 - "ClutterEntry should handle its own key events"
   o #825 - "Removes GLisms from clutter-main.c"
   o #831 - "configure.ac missing osx flavour help"
   o #834 - "add ability to set anchor in json"
   o #836 - "Optimize clutter_label_query_coords()"
   o #839 - "Crash if put cursor over topmost pixel"
   o #840 - "Implement prepare-paint and finish-paint signals."
   o #848 - "Events dispatch doesn't work in GLX Xephyr"
   o #850 - "Impossible to set ClutterRectangle border opacity to a value
            different from the surface opacity"
   o #857 - "cogl_color doesn't work in PowerVR PC Viewer"
   o #860 - "ClutterAlpha leaks"
   o #864 - "Allow instantiating and subclassing of ClutterStage"
   o #871 - "Two problems with closing stages"
   o #873 - "clutter_x11/glx_texture_pixmap issues"
   o #874 - "Clipping on GL ES"
   o #875 - "Clutter Label Issues"
   o #881 - "Timelines require precise system timing"
   o #882 - "Allow child properties for containers implementing the
            ClutterContainer interface"
   o #884 - "Add clutter_alpha_set_closure"
   o #889 - "Error when building clutter-ivan with eglx"
   o #891 - "assertion failed when test-behave exits"
   o #892 - "Incorrect results using  rotation-[center|angle] properties"
   o #894 - "Artifacts with the pango renderer"
   o #900 - "clutter_actor_lower() and friends do not queue redraw"
   o #906 - "Implement timing of the events"
   o #908 - "Support transform from G_TYPE_INT to ClutterUnit"
   o #909 - "OSX: missing NULL pointer handling"
   o #910 - "OSX: missing memory pool"
   o #911 - "OSX: add multistage support"
   o #912 - "Invalid use of int* as parameter for glGetIntegerv"
   o #913 - "cogl fails to build on OSX"
   o #914 - "ClutterEntry is confused about characters vs. bytes"
   o #915 - "clutter_entry_set_max_length(-1) misbehaves"
   o #916 - "ClutterKeyEvent:unicode_value is ignored"
   o #919 - "Replacement pango renderer"
   o #927 - "Created ports for clutter
   o #928 - "Reparenting a child that itself is a container doesn't work"
   o #930 - "add support for quartz imagebackend"
   o #931 - "suspicious size allocation for pixel data"
   o #933 - ""X Error of failed request" when attempting to call
            clutter_actor_request_coords()"
   o #934 - "Update clutter-tutorial to build with clutter from svn trunk."
   o #947 - "Destroying a stage is messy"
   o #948 - "Remove texture rectangle support"
   o #950 - "AltGr not handled"
   o #951 - "Fix clutter_entry_init() in trunk"
   o #952 - "Fix test-textures in trunk"
   o #953 - "Actors are not hidden before unrealized or disposed"
   o #955 - "ClutterLabel is missing fallback resolution handling"
   o #959 - "Multiple minor improvements"
   o #960 - "PangoContext creation code should not be duplicated"
   o #961 - "Fails to build on OSX (query/request_coords is gone)"
   o #964 - """unrealized"" signal of ClutterActor wrongly named"

Special thanks to all the contributors:
---------------------------------------
Tommi Komulainen
Armin Burgmeier
Iain Holmes)
Neil Roberts
Havoc Pennington
Lucas Rocha
Johan Bilien
Chris Lord
Ivan Leben
Robert Bragg
Richard Purdie
Xàn Lopez
Gwenole Beauchesne
David Stanczak
Peter Enzerink

Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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