ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.18.4 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.18/

SHA256 Checksum:

4eea1015cd6d4b4945cb5d4a60e52275b0d70e13852d6d99c9abc0cd4deeb60c
clutter-1.18.4.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.18.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  40a71193220ab15e7cbeca53b41adeab2541a5d9

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.18.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.18.4

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 ≥ 1.17.5
  Cairo ≥ 1.12.0
  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 1.18.2

    - Improve touch events handling on X11

    - Fix opacity issues with canvas contents
    Actors using ClutterCanvas with content that is not fully opaque are now
    rendering correctly.

    - Documentation updates

    - Translation updates
    Basque, Indonesian, Slovenian, German, Catalan.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.18.2

    #728521 - Profiling with uprof does not work when clutter_main() is
              not used
    #729144 - Unnecessary calls to glTexImage2D cause performance degradation
    #730577 - Do not compress touch events so eagerly
    #731268 - Events being clamped to the pre-fullscreen window size when
              stage goes fullscreen
    #732143 - ClutterDropAction "drop" signal not emitted
    #732235 - clutter gesture actions may mistakenly handle enter/leave events
    #732234 - Touch events may leave a stage-less device, or happen on one
    #733385 - ClutterCanvas drawn too dark on low opacity values
    #733560 - Touch events trigger enter events on press, but no leave events
              on release
    #733300 - ClutterAnimation: fix memory leak
    #733062 - Evdev: set button state in input devices
    #732907 - Allow for calling clutter_gesture_action_cancel() within the
              ::gesture-end handler

Many thanks to:

  Carlos Garnacho, Emmanuele Bassi, Gustavo Noronha Silva, Chun-wei Fan, Matej
  Urbančič, Carles Ferrando, Christian Kirbach, Dirgita, Giovanni Campagna,
  Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio, Pau Iranzo, Tom Beckmann.


Have fun with Clutter!

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