ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.17.6 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.17/

SHA256 Checksum:

426df0701643c28abd81c01325ae22bb6d5e01358d76a7b461ffd0cf6e9294b5
clutter-1.17.6.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.17.6 tag which points to a commit named:
  3c2081fce45ce9363d167df0ef5093d272ca9c14

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.17.6

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.17.6

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 ≥ 1.17.3
  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/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 1.17.4

    - Use libinput instead of libevdev
    The evdev input backend is now based on libinput instead of directly
    using the evdev API; this allows for shared input behaviour with
    different toolkits.

    - Improvements in the X11 input handling
    Remove the chance of input devices going out of sync; avoid excessive
    round trips when asking for the client pointer; retrieve the text
    direction for the current keymap.

    - Improve RTL handling in ClutterText
    Try to use the correct text direction based on the contents, keymap,
    and actor's direction instead of just the latter.

    - Translation updates
    Brazilian Portuguese, Lithuanian, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish,
    Galician.

  • List of bugs fixed

    #
    #724788 - stage-cogl: Fix buffer_age code path
    #724971 - Avoid stale ClutterInputDevice pointers in the device list
    #720566 - [RFC] evdev: Port evdev input backend to libinput
    #725102 - Patches to rework the evdev backend's keymap handling
    #725103 - evdev: Set the initial core pointer coordinates to a sane value
    #705779 - The text in the search-entry isn't aligned to right in RTL text
    #725561 - DeviceManagerXi2: Cache the client pointer

Many thanks to:

  Rui Matos, Adel Gadllah, Jasper St. Pierre, Aurimas Černius, Balázs Úr,
  Carlos Garnacho, Fran Diéguez, Jonas Ådahl, Marek Černocký, Piotr Drąg,
  Rafael Ferreira, Мирослав Николић.


Have fun with Clutter!

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