ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.8.4 (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/1.8/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.8/

SHA256 Checksum:

6fedb4c344b4cab37e249b8a5ffeccff2f384f11335dee25c6466927461e1345  clutter-1.8.4.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.8.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  44a02953335551f6ad03f13f05f58f0040748797

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.8.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.8.4

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 ≥ 2.28.0
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.8.0 ≤ 1.9.2
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.20
  Atk ≥ 2.1.5

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/1.8/
     Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.8/
  Cookbook: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//clutter-cookbook/1.0/

Release Notes:
  - 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 1.8.2

    - Restore support for non-ARGB visuals on X11
    The changes in the Cogl API for creating onscreen framebuffers led to
    a regression in the selection of visuals for the GLX context: Clutter
    started requesting only ARGB visuals, even though it's not strictly
    necessary. This regression has now been fixed.

    - Ensure that the OffscreenEffect uses the right size for the FBO
    Especially for subclasses that change the size of the target texture.

    - Fix build for Clutter on X11 without XI2 support

    - Introspection annotation fixes

    - Return the correct default value for the font resolution
    We should be returning 96.0 as the default value, not -1. This ensures
    that the code using font resolution, like the em-to-pixels conversion,
    always uses valid values.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.8.2

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]
    #665040 - The offscreen effect always recreates the texture if
              create_texture() is overridden to change the size
    #664996 - clutter_state_set_key (allow-none)
    #664336 - path: Fix introspection annotations

Many thanks to:

  Alexander Shopov, Bastian Winkler, Bastien Nocera, Jeremy Moles,
  Neil Roberts, Robert Bragg

Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center