ANNOUNCE: clutter core 1.5.4 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.5/clutter-1.5.4.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

6134d534184724648ee7aa5eba5ea7b35994185eee579bf136460a88e341bd02  clutter-1.5.4.tar.bz2

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

will include a signed 1.5.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  cba230400a4d92f6c97f029326d68fa5798b1214

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.5.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.5.4

• Requirements

  GLib ≥ 2.26.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 1.7
  OpenGL ≥ 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
  GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

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

  GDK-Pixbuf ≥ 2.0
  UProf ≥ 0.3

• Documentation

API Reference:
  ‣ Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/1.5/
  ‣ Cogl:    http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/1.5/
  ‣ Cally:   http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cally/1.5/

• Release Notes

  - This is the first snapshot of the 1.5 cycle leading to the next 1.6
    stable release
  - 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 on the Clutter Project bugzilla, at:
    http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

• What's new in Clutter 1.5.4

    » Add a backend for Wayland.

    » Depend on GLib ≥ 2.26, Cairo ≥ 1.10.

    » Do not generate the conformance tests list using the test-conformance
      binary.

    » Implement interval progress functions for ActorBox, Vertex, Geometry,
      Color and Units.

    » Allow overriding the surface creation in Clutter.CairoTexture.

    » Add interpolate() method to Clutter.Color.

    » Add ClutterPathConstraint, a simple constraint that sets the origin
      of an actor's allocation to follow a ClutterPath.

    » Fixes for ClutterState.

    » Plug some memory leaks.

    » Fix build of the CEx100 and EGL backends.

    » Fixes for the OSX backend.

    » Documentation consistency and spell checking fixes.

    » Build fixes.

Translation updates:

  Andika Triwidada (id), Damien Lespiau (fr), Piotr Drąg (po)

Many thanks to:

  Damien Lespiau, Chris Lord, Neil Roberts, Kristian Høgsberg,
  Andika Triwidada, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, Robert Bragg,
  Owen W. Taylor, Piotr Drąg, Roland Peffer

have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi, Open Source Software Engineer
Intel Open Source Technology Center