ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.16.4 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.16/

SHA256 Checksum:

cf50836ec5503577b73f75f984577610881b3e2ff7a327bb5b6918b431b51b65
clutter-1.16.4.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.16.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  440edcda76b6b7a9a7b021d681930d484c394939

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.16.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.16.4

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 ≥ 2.37.3
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.15.9
  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/stable/
  Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

Release Notes:
  - 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 1.16.2

    - Performance improvements
    Avoid using hardware picking as much as possible; do not queue redraws
    when not needed, and rely on clipped redraws more.

    - Accessibility fixes

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.16.2

    #710227 - ClutterGestureAction memory corruption
    #719747 - ClutterStage: Don't add empty actors to the stage clip
    #712563 - Fixes for cogl journal usage when picking
    #722220 - Incorrect string reported in accessible text-changed events
              when text is removed
    #722188 - atk_text_get_n_selections() should return 0 when no text is
              selected
    #719901 - ClutterStageCogl: Ignore a clip the size of the stage
    #719563 - input-device: Guard against double free
    #719367 - Bind constraints: Don't force redraws on source relayout
    #719368 - Don't queue redraws when reallocating actor that haven't moved

Many thanks to:

  Owen W. Taylor, Alejandro Piñeiro, Jasper St. Pierre, Florian Müllner,
  Lionel Landwerlin, Sphinx Jiang, Wylmer Wang.


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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