[ANNOUNCE] Clutter Core 1.1.2 - Developers snapshot

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi everyone;

less than 3 months after the 1.0.0 release here's a new development
snapshot for Clutter.

Clutter 1.1.2 is now available for download at: 

  http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.1/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.1/

MD5 Checksums:

  20d37870ed0db4aaf8404d78b89b0d71  clutter-1.1.2.tar.bz2
  dc4cc91e721be887d5469ec7edde8f8c  clutter-1.1.2.tar.gz

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast, visually 
rich, portable 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 >= 2.16.0 
  • Cairo >= 1.6 
  • Pango >= 1.20 
  • OpenGL >= 1.4, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 
  • GLX, SDL, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation 

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also
depends on:

  • GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
  • JSON-GLib >= 0.8

Notes:

  • This is the first developers snapshot of the 1.1 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 stable release
    of Clutter
  • Bugs should be reported to: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com

What's new in Clutter 1.1.2:

  • List of changes since Clutter 1.0

    o Add ClutterLayoutManager, an abstract proxy class for easily
      writing layout management policies; also add ClutterLayoutMeta,
      a class for storing layout properties.

    o Add ClutterBox, a generic container actor that relies on a
      ClutterLayoutManager instance to manage the layout of its
      children.

    o Add the following layout managers:

      - ClutterFixedLayout - a layout manager implementing the
        policy used by ClutterGroup

      - ClutterBinLayout - a layout manager for packing actors
        as layers inside the same area, with per-actor alignment

      - ClutterFlowLayout - a layout manager arranging actors as
        a reflowing grid

      - ClutterBoxLayout - a layout manager arranging actors as
        a single line

    o Remove the requirement for the backend-specific implementation
      of ClutterStage to be a ClutterActor: a Stage implementation must
      only implement the ClutterStageWindow interface. This cleans up
      the backend code.

    o COGL source tree clean up and rationalization; COGL now
      knows the platform, and not only the driver (GL or GLES) so
      we can migrate part of the low-level backend code from Clutter
      to COGL where it makes sense.

    o Remove code duplication across whole COGL.

    o The GLES 2.0 driver for COGL, and the EGLX backend for Clutter
      have been fixed and confirmed working.

    o Add "dump-pick-buffer" to CLUTTER_DEBUG: this debug options
      dumps the contents of each pick() buffer into a PNG file, for
      debugging purposes.

    o Allow interpolating intervals of ClutterUnits for animating
      unit-based properties.

    o Increase strictness and correctness of the ClutterUnits
      grammar parser.

    o Add GValue transformation functions for ClutterPath to and
      from a string.

    o Fix word movement in ClutterText; implement GObject getter for
      :use-markup; emit notification for :position; decouple the
      :text property from the :use-markup property.

    o Do not queue redraws or relayouts on actors currently being
      destroyed. 

    o Support #rrggbb and #rgb notations for ClutterColor.

    o Multiple bug fixes.

    o Provide _NET_WM_PID on the X11 stage implementation.

    o Documentation and Introspection annotation fixes.

    o Add test units for the ClutterActor size requesition.

    o Build fixes.

    o Use AM_SILENT_RULES if Automake 1.11 is detected, and fall
      back to Shave on older Automake versions.

Many thanks to:

  Robert Bragg
  Damien Lespiau
  Neil Roberts
  Thomas Wood
  Owen W. Taylor
  Øyvind Kolås
  Götz Waschk
  Zhou Jiangwei
  Colin Walters
  Jonas Bonn
  Joshua Lock
  Jussi Kukkonen
  Samuel Degrande
  Vladimir Nadvornik
  Xu Li

Have fun with Clutter!