ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.7.4 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.7/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

SHA256 Checksum:

faab725d0e1d8908fc11abfe07cf48e08b19eec028e0d8909dc8e90c0fd2ef6f  clutter-1.7.4.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.7.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  79f21a9b50b4d2bd86fe604e3a400aa1d32904ab

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.7.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.7.4

Clutter is a library for creating compelling, dynamic and portable graphical
user interfaces. Clutter is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

Clutter depends on:
  GLib ≥ 2.26.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 1.17
  OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multi-texturing), OpenGL|ES 1.1 or 2.0
  GLX, WGL, Quartz, or an EGL implementation

Clutter also has platform-specific dependencies; for more information, see
the README file included in the release.

Documentation:
   Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter/1.7/
      Cogl: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cogl/1.7/
     Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.7/
  Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

Release Notes:
  - This is an unstable snapshot of Clutter; there are no compatibility
    guarantees for API added during a development 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 release of Clutter.
  - Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Bugzilla product, at:
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter


  • List of changes since Clutter 1.7.2

    - Unify the GLX and EGL backends to be a single code base
    The GLX and EGL backends shared most of their code, and with the split
    out Cogl, we can unify the code base into a single backend. The API as
    well as the ABI are preserved.

    - Restore a wider range of Z values for actors
    The computation for the near and far planes given the perspective
    transformation used to set up the viewport was broken in 1.7.2, and
    the distance from the focal point was greatly reduced. This has now
    been fixed.

    - Bump up the dependency of Cogl
    New windowing system API in Cogl required bumping the minimum version
    to the latest development snapshot, 1.7.2.

    - Add ClutterDropAction
    The ClutterDropAction is an action for allowing ClutterActors to react
    when an actor being dragged through ClutterDragAction crosses, or is
    dropped over, them.

    - Add a performance test suite
    This suite is an addition to our conformance and interactive test
    suites; the infrastructure can be used by buildbots and report tools
    to track performance regressions across various commits.

    - Documentation and annotation fixes

    - Build fixes

  • List of bug fixes since Clutter 1.7.2

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]

    #650329 - ClutterModifierType: Port fix from GDK to clutter's GDK copy
    #652566 - Clutter-CRITICAL **: _clutter_stage_get_window: assertion
              `CLUTTER_IS_STAGE (stage)' failed
    #651784 - transition=spin / transition=spin-text is broken in pinpoint
              with Clutter master
    #652842 - Add a Drop action
    #653066 - ClutterDragAction does not support multiple pointers
    #653307 - Change the signature of ClutterTexture::load-finished to give
              a GError, instead of a gpointer
    #653607 - Arrays not annotated as such for introspection bindings
    #651079 - ClutterText "blinks" when deleting text after going out of
              bounds
    #650675 - clutter-media: mention the asynchronous behavior of
              set_playing()

    [buzgilla.clutter-project.org]

    #2625 - The furthest visible z value is really low

Many thanks to:

  Robert Bragg, Neil Roberts, Peter Ward, Colin Walters, Daniel Mustieles,
  Jasper St. Pierre, Samuel Degrande, Øyvind Kolås


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center