ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.7.14 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi linux intel com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.7/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

SHA256 Checksum:

a2ad6f09df6dc6cf4c495446053fc0b48e9fc1d9b4d1a63a0a0003a3a92bcae1  clutter-1.7.14.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.7.14 tag which points to a commit named:
  d992c0cbff22c6e22eb03b6a926209ab436a832a
which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.7.14

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.7.14

Clutter is a library for creating compelling, dynamic and portable graphical
user interfaces. Clutter is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later.

Clutter depends on:
  GLib ≥ 2.26.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 2.1.5
  OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multi-texturing), OpenGL|ES 1.1 or 2.0
  GLX, WGL, Quartz, or an EGL implementation

Clutter also has platform-specific dependencies; for more information, see
the README file included in the release.

Documentation:
   Clutter: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter/1.7/
      Cogl: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cogl/1.7/
     Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.7/
  Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

Release Notes:
  - This is an unstable snapshot of Clutter; there are no compatibility
    guarantees for API added during a development cycle.
  - This version is API "slushy": the API added during this cycle is
    to be considered generally frozen, unless issues arise before the
    1.8.0 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 release of Clutter.
  - Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Bugzilla product, at:
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

  • List of changes since Clutter 1.7.12

    - Use newer version of ATK
    Cally now depends on the latest version of ATK, to reduce the amount of
    ad hoc code needed and to use newer features that simplify the
    implementation of accessible objects in Clutter.

    - Allow using Layout Managers with generic containers
    Layout managers should not assume that they are allocating the whole
    area available from the Actor using them; this allows actors that
    support concepts like padding or margin to use a LayoutManager internally
    for its children.

    - Cookbook updates
    Add a recipe on how to bind a ClutterState to the signals of objects
    defined in ClutterScript. We also install the cookbook examples inside
    the $datadir/clutter-1.0/cookbook/examples directory.

    - Improve examples in the API reference
    Some of the interactive test suite units are actually good examples of
    how to use the Clutter API; we can use the XInclude tags to include the
    source code inside the API reference.

    - Ensure thread safety of the repaint functions add/removal
    Fix a long standing issue where adding or removing repaint functions
    was not acquiring a lock; now it's safe to manipulate the repaint
    functions list from different threads.

    - Make the ClutterText:line-wrap property work again
    In 1.2 the :line-wrap property was broken, and ClutterText would paint
    a PangoLayout wrapping until it fit the height of the allocation
    regardless of whether the :line-wrap property was set to FALSE or
    TRUE. Now we clip the PangoLayout before rendering it, if the :line-wrap
    property is set to FALSE and there is no ellipsization policy set.

    - Disable redirection to offscreen buffer by default
    Whenever a ClutterActor with children was not fully opaque, the actor
    was redirected to an FBO, to perform correct opacity computations.
    Sadly, this can lead to 3x slowdowns, given the amount of framebuffer
    objects created and the state changes that have to be performed. We
    decided to turn off this feature by default, to avoid the performance
    hit. It is still possible to enable this feature on a per-actor basis,
    though, and will work to reduce the hit in future versions of Cogl,
    Clutter and the drivers.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.7.12

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]

    #657681 - Crash when destroying an actor while dragging it

    [bugzilla.clutter-project.org]

    #2339 - ClutterText in 1.4 line-wraps even if line-wrap is disabled

Many thanks to:

  Alejandro Piñeiro, Shankar Prasad, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Dan Winship,
  Daniel Mustieles, Daniel Nylander, Fran Dieguez, Marek Černocký,
  Robert Bragg


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center