[ANNOUNCE] Clutter 0.7.2 (core) - developers snapshot

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi o-hand com>]

hi everyone;

Clutter 0.7.0 is now available for download at:

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.7/

MD5 Checksums:

  4a0ab6a496e64d10a91cf1cc213c37c8  clutter-0.7.2.tar.gz
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Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually
rich and animated graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Clutter currently requires:

  * GLib >= 2.14.0
  * GdkPixbuf
  * Pango 1.x
  * OpenGL >= 1.2 or OpenGL ES 1.1
  * GLX, SDL (Unix and Win32), Win32, Cocoa or an EGL Implementation

The official website is: http://www.clutter-project.org
The Clutter blog is at:  http://www.clutter-project.org/blog
To subscribe to the Clutter mailing list, send mail to: clutter+subscribe o-hand com 
The official mailing list archive is: http://lists.o-hand.com/clutter/
API reference: http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/0.7/

* Notes

   o This is a development release of Clutter 0.7 leading towards the
     0.8 stable cycle.

   o This version is fully API and ABI incompatible with the previous
     0.6 releases.

   o This version is parallel installable with Clutter 0.6.

   o Installing this version will overwrite the files from the
     installation of Clutter 0.7.0 or the installation of a SVN
     checkout of the current development branch (trunk).

   o Bugs should be reported to: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com

What's new in Clutter 0.7.2
---------------------------

   o ClutterTexture has a new :keep-aspect-ratio property; when it is set
     to TRUE the texture will return a preferred width maintaining the
     aspect ratio with the given height and a preferred height maintaining
     the aspect ratio with the given width. This allows to set the width or
     the height and have the texture automatically request the height or the
     width respectively while maintaining the aspect ratio of the original
     image.

   o Added XINPUT support on the X11 backends; this provides an initial
     support for multiple input devices. The API is X11-specific, and
     provides support for querying at run-time support for XINPUT, for
     getting a list of input devices and for getting the type of each
     input device.

List of bugs fixed since 0.7.0
------------------------------

   o #816 - clutter_actor_request_coords() should take a const box.
   o #836 - Optimize clutter_label_query_coords()
   o #905 - Paint cursor directly
   o #918 - Group doesn't clip if it's children are clipped
   o #953 - Actors are not hidden before unrealized or disposed
   o #960 - PangoContext creation code should not be duplicated
   o #970 - clutter_actor_get_paint_area confusion
   o #971 - Minor ClutterActor cleanups
   o #972 - Better parenting
   o #973 - unreffing ClutterScore may segfault
   o #981 - clutter_stage_read_pixels temprow fix
   o #982 - __COGL_GET_CONTEXT MS compiler issue
   o #984 - pango_clutter_render_layout() declared void

Special thanks to all the contributors:
---------------------------------------
Neil Roberts
Robert Bragg
Chris Lord
Haakon Sporsheim
Xan López
Jussi Kukkonen
Armin Burgmeier

Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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