ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.2 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/clutter-1.6.4.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

d9b69553f9f1100ff9c3842a2cf42bd71f78d13a3b70f7096a2a8b38db62d702  clutter-1.6.4.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

  git clone git://git.clutter-project.org/clutter

will include a signed 1.6.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  c9b87435d563b9497d1570be5d007e710bf83881

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.4

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 OpenGL|ES
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 third 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

• What's new in Clutter 1.6.4 since Clutter 1.6.2

    » Fix handling of opacity in ClutterOffscreenEffect.

    » Fix partially off-stage actors in ClutterOffscreenEffect.

    » Add a recipe in the Cookbook for animating an actor on a path.

    » Refresh key mapping when notified by X11.

    » Clean up the ClutterStageWindow redraw implementations.

    » Update the Wayland backend to match upstream API changes:
      • allow using shared buffers if DRM fails;
      • improve checks for the required extensions.

    » Documentation fixes.

    » Introspection annotations fixes.

    » Fix setting the matrix for a pipeline layer.

    » Fix flushing the framebuffer when switching to it.

    » Make sure to call glFlush when blitting a stage region to the
      front buffer, to avoid the driver batching the command for an
      undefined amount of time.

    » Fix the windowing system defines for non-X11 platforms.

    » Fix the location of the shared objects in the Cally pkg-config
      file.

• Bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.2

    #1024 - test-multistage.c assertion failure
    #1025 - test-paint-wrapper.c assertion failure
    #1028 - test-random-text.c hangs with spinning beach ball
    #1029 - test-cogl-primitives.c hangs with spinning beach ball
    #1358 - scroll events not handled
    #2373 - OSX Backend fix
    #2525 - [PATCH] x11: Handle key map changes
    #2541 - ClutterOffscreenEffect with multiply the actor's opacity
    #2546 - [PATCH, git branch] update wayland backend
    #2549 - Fix lib locations in *.pc.in
    #2550 - offscreen effects are always clipped to stage boundaries
    #2551 - Slight drawing lag with larger windows on Intel x3100 (i965)
    #2554 - Add recipe per animating an actor on a curved path
    #2555 - Per-framebuffer journal causes corruptions
    #2558 - backend-glx: Remove redundant glFlush()
    #2559 - x11: segfault on closing non-default stage window

Many thanks to:

  nobled, Chris Lord, Neil Roberts, Robert Bragg, Adel Gadllah,
  Elliot Smith

have fun with Clutter!

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, Open Source Software Engineer
Intel Open Source Technology Center