ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.2 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/clutter-1.6.2.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

  55583104a7039e32cd70307db5e1dde553f80ced54de8b9dddee7b9afe1e30ec  clutter-1.6.2.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

  git clone git://git.clutter-project.org/clutter

will include a signed 1.6.2 tag which points to a commit named:
  bb5608532eb49d51b2f7d92260403806da5c0d80

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.2

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating fast,
compelling, portable, and dynamic graphical user interfaces.

• Requirements

  GLib ≥ 2.26.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 1.7
  OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 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/1.6/
  ‣ Cogl:    http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/1.6/
  ‣ Cally:   http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cally/1.6/

• Release Notes

  - This is the second stable release of the 1.6 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 on the Clutter Project bugzilla, at:
    http://bugzilla.clutter-project.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

• What's new in Clutter 1.6.2 since Clutter 1.6.0

    » Fix building the Clutter Cookbook from the released tarballs.

    » Set the input device field in ClutterEvent even when they
      have been allocated by Clutter.

    » Fix the color comparison when setting the layer combine constant.

    » Fix memory corruption when removing the last reference on a
      Cogl vertex buffer object.

    » Fixes for the OSX backend.

• Bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.0

    #2540 - coobook examples do not build from tarball
    #2544 - Using vertex buffers causes memory corruption when you unref
            the CoglHandle
    #2545 - Broken event handling in OS X backend
    #2549 - Fix lib locations in *.pc.in

Many thanks to:

  Neil Roberts, Viatcheslav Gachkaylo

have fun with Clutter!

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