ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.11.8 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.11/

SHA256 Checksum:

68988fdf9f95563e79072702ee1c4bebe96e5abd6277105759e64f1d787cb3d5
clutter-1.11.8.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.11.8 tag which points to a commit named:
  46694f6c61563eb5c920e1e13c05f4d68426f075

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.11.8

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.11.8

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 ≥ 2.31.19
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.9.6
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.30
  Atk ≥ 2.5.3

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

Documentation:
   Clutter: http://developer.gnome.org/clutter/unstable/
  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 1.11.6

    - Bump the dependency of ATK
    Use the newly released 2.5.3 to rely on the generci event listeners
    that have been added to ATK; this avoids reimplementing our own.

    - Ensure validity of iterators
    Even when they are copied.

    - Rounding error fixes for allocations
    Constraints and other code adjusting the allocation of an actor should
    round the origin and size of the ClutterActorBox in a consistent way.

    - Updates for the VisualStudio build files

    - Add ClutterDragAction::drag-progress
    The ::drag-progress signal allows controlling the emission of the
    ::drag-motion signal. Overriding the default behaviour of a DragAction
    is now possible without calling g_signal_stop_emission_by_name().

    - Add ClutterActor:pivot-point
    The pivot point of ClutterActor provides a center, in normalized
    coordinate space, for the transformations of an actor (scaling, rotation,
    translation).

    - Deprecations
    ClutterText:position has been deprecated by ClutterText:cursor-position,
    for consistency with other ClutterText properties, as well as to avoid
    shadowing the ClutterActor:position property. ClutterActor:depth has
    been deprecated by ClutterActor:z-position. ClutterTexture has been
    deprecated in favour of ClutterImage. ClutterActor:anchor-[xy] and the
    transformation centers for rotation and scaling have been deprecated
    in favour of the ClutterActor:pivot-point. The clutter_threads_enter()
    and clutter_threads_leave() functions have been deprecated.

    - Removal of the experimental ClutterLayoutManager easing state API
    The easing state API for ClutterLayoutManager was added in 1.11.2, but
    with the introduction of a default easing state for ClutterActor it is
    now redundant and not necessary; to animate the allocation of an actor
    during layout it's simply necessary to set its easing state. All layout
    managers provided by Clutter have been updated.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.11.6

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]
    #679451 - Add ::drag-progress signal
    #679457 - Add :cursor-position and deprecate :position
    #679465 - Add :z-position and deprecate :depth
    #677853 - Use a single transformation center for rotation and scaling

Many thanks to:

  Chun-wei Fan, Alejandro Piñeiro, Alexander Shopov, Andika Triwidada,
  Chao-Hsiung Liao, Daniel Mustieles, Fran Diéguez, Ihar Hrachyshka,
  Kjartan Maraas, Piotr Drąg, Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli.


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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