ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.21.6 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.21/

SHA256 Checksum:

4546561d88b7a53128025307786c040eb5dbfe6e08dd237652317f8e832f1879
clutter-1.21.6.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.21.6 tag which points to a commit named:
  9b4a7a9964796150240f8b19fe4f47a769b94b83

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.21.6

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.21.6

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 ≥ 2.39.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.20.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.14.0
  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: https://developer.gnome.org/clutter-cookbook/1.21.6/

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:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter


  • List of changes since Clutter 1.21.4

    - Support quad-buffer stereo displays on X11/GLX
    This allows using Clutter to draw on GLX framebuffers with the stereo
    bit set.

    - Add a Mir windowing system backend
    This allows using Clutter applications natively on systems using the
    Mir display server.

    - Depend on Cogl ≥ 1.19 and Cairo ≥ 1.12
    Cogl 1.19 is needed for the newly added Mir windowing system backend,
    as well as the quad-buffer stereo display on X11. Cairo 1.12 is needed
    for dropping the ad hoc check for the device scale parameter used with
    ClutterStage implementations as well as the ClutterCanvas content.

    - Improvements in the evdev input backend

    - Use the GdkFrameClock to drive the ClutterMasterClock
    When using the GDK backend, we want the ClutterMasterClock to be driven
    by the GdkFrameClock, as the latter is automatically frame limited by
    the compositor, which gives better results for client applications.

    - Updated translations
    Spanish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Czech, Basque, Russian, Slovenian, Galician,
    Chinese (Taiwan), French, Brazilian Portuguese, Lithuanian, Serbian.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.21.4

    #743355 - gdk: report an error when initialization fails
    #743615 - evdev: Ignore non seat wide button or key events
    #744058 - gdk: Disable cogl wayland event dispatching if requested
    #743865 - MetaSurfaceActorWayland: unset the surface when it goes away
    #744604 - stage: Process state update event immediately
    #744668 - GDK: integrate the MasterClock mechanism with GdkFrameClock
    #732706 - Allow setting up quad-buffer stereo output

Many thanks to:

  Lionel Landwerlin, Jonas Ådahl, Alexandre Franke, Aurimas Černius,
  Balázs Úr, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Daniel Mustieles, Fran Dieguez,
  Giovanni Campagna, Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio, Jasper St. Pierre,
  Marco Trevisan (Treviño), Marek Černocký, Matej Urbančič, Owen W. Taylor,
  Rafael Ferreira, Rui Matos, Yosef Or Boczko, Yuri Myasoedov,
  Мирослав Николић


Have fun with Clutter!

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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