ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.8 (stable)

[Emmanuele Bassi <emmanuele bassi intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter release is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/clutter-1.6.8.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

  cc147b8e7e62ed4b9b8a83df3db9788cf37db0c83970ba876228433f32bda442  clutter-1.6.8.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

will include a signed 1.6.8 tag which points to a commit named:
  8f50966c7242c4cf5bea71b2f72c7a3360b4154e

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.8

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.8

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 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 fifth 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 1.6.8 since Clutter 1.6.6

    » Documentation fixes.

    » Let ClutterBox report its paint volume.

    » Add an "Effects" chapter to the Clutter Cookbook.

    » Queue a redraw and/or a relayout whenever a ClutterActorMeta that
      changes the appearances or the allocation of an actor is enabled
      or disabled.

    » Fix the error reporting of the initialization sequence; this change
      makes Clutter abort early and with a meaningful message on backend
      initialization errors, instead going ahead and printing less than
      useful error messages.

    » Disable blending when using a texture render during a blit.

    » Fix handling of opacity when using an OffscreenEffect.

    » Tune the point-in-poly checks for the software-based picking.

• Bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.6

    #2541 - ClutterOffscreenEffect will multiply the actor's opacity twice
    #2589 - clutter-box does not set default paint volume
    #2598 - clutter_init() return value useless

Many thanks to:

  Dioselin, Elliot Smith, Neil Roberts, nobled

have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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