ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.90.5

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

*** gtkmm 2.90:

gtkmm 2.90 wraps GTK+ 2.90. It is the gtkmm-3.0 ABI and installs in parallel 
with the gtkmm-2.4 ABI, of which gtkmm 2.20 is currently the latest stable version.
This allows application developers to start using it when they choose to, 
without being forced, and without breaking existing installed applications.

gtkmm-3.0 will be mostly API-compatible with gtkmm-2.4, though some small 
changes will be needed in application source code.

The decision to do this ABI-break was not ours. We are forced to do it by GTK+'s 
decision to do a ABI-breaking GTK+ 3.0. However, we will take the 
opportunity to fix some small issues.

Note that there are also gtkmm 2.21 (to become 2.22) version, which have small API additions.

gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also 
API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

2.90.5 (unstable):

Gdk:
* Remove Gdk::Region, using Cairo::Region instead.
  This requires the latest cairomm.
* DragContext: Added get_source_window() and get_selected_action().
  (Murray Cumming)

*** Development 

There is active discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org


-- 
Murray Cumming
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