ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.12 (stable release)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter stable release is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

SHA256 Checksum:

21c3eb0633f839a223192dbc26aaf924bed98caad302ee0bb3ee2b067d09462d  clutter-1.6.12.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
  git clone git://git.gnome.org/clutter

will include a signed 1.6.12 tag which points to a commit named:
  d9030f585eb549579e35660a2c48f3c20838369b

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.12

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.12

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast,
compelling, portable, and dynamic graphical user interfaces.

• Requirements

  GLib ≥ 2.26.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 1.7
  OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multi-texturing), OpenGL|ES 1.1 or 2.0
  GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also
depends on:

  GDK-Pixbuf ≥ 2.0
  UProf ≥ 0.3

• Documentation

API Reference:
  ‣ Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/1.6/
  ‣ Cogl:    http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/1.6/
  ‣ Cally:   http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cally/1.6/

• Release Notes

  - This is the seventh stable release of the 1.6 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 stable release of Clutter.
    Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla, at:
    http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

  • List of changes since Clutter 1.6.10

    » Use AC_CANONICAL_HOST in Clutter's configure, and fix cross-compilation
      for Windows.

    » Improve portability of Clutter by removing bashisms from its configure
      script.

    » Add safeties to avoid warning when generating paint volumes for actors
      with a zero-sized allocations.

    » Fix vertical aligned actors using ClutterAlignConstraint.

    » Do not unrealize the Stage when hiding it on OSX.

    » Throttle clipped redraws on GLX.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.10

    #2257 - clutter fails to link on OS X (10.6)
    #2562 - Crush upon running Clutter-based programs
    #2602 - Expose events ignore when doing clipped redraws
    #2610 - Add recipe about implementing a ClutterEffect
    #2619 - Removes the addition of the .exe extrension to unit-test
            scripts, on win32
    #2620 - _cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture_full() leaks reference when
            failing

Many thanks to:

  Piotr Drąg, Robert Bragg

have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center