ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.6 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/clutter-1.6.6.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

  8499fef3019c00bb06354ebe6d3277d26c84a8aa1d964b7edf6d327cd4d9d886  clutter-1.6.6.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

will include a signed 1.6.6 tag which points to a commit named:
  d5e6594ddd0d4ad3b9cf684526216900794f9ff5

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.6

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.6

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 fourth 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 1.6.6 since Clutter 1.6.4

    » Add four mechanisms for migrating textures inside a Cogl atlas; it
      is possible to change the default by using the environment variable
      COGL_ATLAS_DEFAULT_BLIT_MODE.

    » Use the offscreen buffer size to compute the vertices of
      ClutterDeformEffect.

    » Make the FPS counter displayed using CLUTTER_SHOW_FPS per-stage.

    » Documentation fixes.

    » Annotation fixes for introspection.

• Bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.4

    #2538 - crash in gnome-shell
    #2558 - backend-glx: Remove redundant glFlush()
    #2561 - Updates to COGL sources regarding non-standard code usage
    #2571 - DeformEffect should use the FBO size

Many thanks to:

  Neil Roberts

have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center