ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.6.10 (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-1.6.10.tar.bz2

SHA256 Checksum:

3f8f0908f6a39b9f36a6cda6aab0b06ca4e2d95aa9fd4807cd865f20dbaad59e  clutter-1.6.10.tar.bz2

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

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

will include a signed 1.6.10 tag which points to a commit named:
  88b9d81b21f4d23a8ee5d43bd2eefab85e877fc1

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.6.10

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.6.10

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 sixth 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

  • List of changes since Clutter 1.6.8

    » Fix the event handling for the Windows backend, and prevent a
      segmentation fault.

    » Use the 'nearest' filter when painting the texture target for
      ClutterOffscreenEffect.

    » Correctly request the precision fo generated GLSL shaders on
      GLES 2.0.

    » Provide an implementation for ClutterStage:accept-focus, so that
      setting and getting the property using the GObject API works.

    » Fix accessing the ClutterCrossingEvent:device field through the
      ClutterEvent device accessors.

    » Fix the paint volume reported by ClutterBox.

    » Documentation fixes.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.6.8

    #2600 - ClutterBox implements the wrong paint volume

Many thanks to:

  Neil Roberts, Øyvind Kolås

have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center