ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.18 (release)

[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/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

SHA256 Checksum:

dc8dbe394a651278108d923c92f5881fa0136367179481368a05d2e8a35ac55f  clutter-1.6.18.tar.bz2

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

will include a signed 1.6.18 tag which points to a commit named:
  ff0e09bc25070be426e1d45c00f9766437c277c9

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.18

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.18

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/1.6/
      Cogl: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cogl/1.6/
     Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.6/
  Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

Release Notes:
  - This is the last 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 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 1.6.16

    - Fix the handling of the right edge in ClutterSnapConstraint.

    - Plug leaks in CoglMaterial.

    - Compilation fixes for the Sun C Compiler.

    - Documentation fixes.

    - Handle the destruction of actors correctly when using ClutterAnimation;
      this fix allows to destroy an actor inside the ::completed signal
      handler without idle sources or similar contortions.

    - Fix the default value of ClutterText:editable in the property definition
      and documentation.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.16

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]

    #652129 - Use "const" instead G_CONST_RETURN
    #654024 - snap-constraint: Fix allocation for CLUTTER_SNAP_EDGE_RIGHT
    #654718 - clutter 1.6.16 compile issues
    #654726 - text: Fix the default value of "editable"
    #654066 - ClutterTimeline new-frame signal not working correctly on some
              platforms
    #651717 - Enable evdev devices by default
    #652034 - Crash in clutter_stage_queue_actor_redraw at clutter-stage.c
              line 3311

    [bugzilla.clutter-project.org]

    #2621 - Clutter segfaults if you queue a redraw of an unmapped actor
            inside the notify::mapped callback

Many thanks to:

  Javier Jardón, Damien Lespiau, Neil Roberts, Bastian Winkler,
  Chris Lord, Lionel Landwerlin, Robert Bragg


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center