ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.11.4 (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/1.11/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.11/

SHA256 Checksum:

8280de847227fae26c9662f408e766207ba5c5b57766a4dcc09d3eb8d7f6117d  clutter-1.11.4.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.11.4 tag which points to a commit named:
  1d1cac02c0d57a568583a671cf0a6e5d4da17df9

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.11.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.11.4

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 ≥ 2.31.19
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.9.6
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.30
  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/1.11/
     Cally: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs//cally/1.11/
  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 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 1.11.2

    - Multi-touch support fixes
    The clutter_event_copy() code was copying the wrong axis data; the correct
    touch device was not used when translating axis data from XInput2 to the
    ClutterInputDevice; touch events were not delivered to the correct actors.

    - Add ClutterDropAction::drop-cancel signal
    The ::drop-cancel does what it says on the tin: it allows handling a
    cancelled drop action, instead of relying on the drag end signal on
    the ClutterDragAction.

    - Add examples in the repository
    Clutter has been using some interactive tests as examples of idiomatic
    usage, both as standalone code and for inclusion inside the API reference
    documentation; this is sub-optimal, as the interactive tests are meant to
    exercise the API and its behaviour, not as an example of how to write
    proper Clutter code. For this reason, we now have an examples/ directory
    that contains example code that can be used to learn Clutter.

    - Allow disabling the tests and examples when building Clutter
    This should help cross-compilation and testing.

    - Fix the preferred size to always include the actor's margin

    - Fix picking of the ClutterScrollActor

    - Add implicit animations for the color properties of ClutterText
    Changing any color-related properties of a ClutterText actor will result
    in a transition, if the easing state has a non-zero duration.

    - Layout managers should respect the child expand and align properties
    ClutterBinLayout, ClutterBoxLayout, and ClutterTableLayout should use the
    ClutterActor [xy]-expand and [xy]-align properties, and deprecate their
    own.

    - Make all layout managers respect the child easing state when allocating
    ClutterLayoutManager also has properties that can be set to control all
    the children's default easing state.

    - Add ClutterTimeline::stopped signal
    The ::stopped signal is emitted either when a Timeline reaches full
    completion, including eventual repeats; or when the Timeline has been
    stopped through clutter_timeline_stop(). A boolean argument passed to
    the signal handlers should be used to distinguish the two cases.

    - Add ClutterGridLayout
    This layout manager implements the same layout policy of GtkGrid.

    - Fixes for ClutterKeyframeTransition

    - Documentation fixes

    - Fixes for building Clutter with Visual Studio
    Including the GDK backend.

    - Fixes for the Mac backend
    Chain up to get a Cogl context after creating a GL context; this seems
    to be enough to make the interactive tests run.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.11.2

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]
    #675336 - ClutterDropAction needs a ::drop-cancel signal
    #675371 - Asserts when getting touch events
    #676088 - Fixing picking in scroll-actor "breaks" gnome-control-center
    #676032 - keyframe-transition: Documentation fixes
    #676031 - keyframe-transition: Create a new interval if necessary
    #676158 - table-layout: Remove unused animation helpers
    #676334 - scroll-actor: Fix ->transition not being reset
    #675890 - Passing NULL buffer to clutter_text_set_text() will not reset
              the buffer and segfault
    #676367 - actor: Add a custom scriptable "margin" property
    #676068 - Setting size on ClutterFlowLayout container crashes
    #676963 - text: Enable implicit color animations
    #675396 - Possible bug in _clutter_paint_volume_axis_align
    #674365 - Race during parallel build in tests/interactive/
    #676827 - layout-manager: Add a new animation API
    #677085 - examples: Allow optional animations in flow-layout
    #677086 - box-layout: Remove unused BoxChild members
    #677098 - Ensure we stop transitions on remove_child()
    #676854 - timeline: Add a new "finished" signal
    #677039 - Wrong allocation for WIDTH_FOR_HEIGHT actors
    #675998 - Example 4.2 mixes up height and width
    #677384 - doc: Add ClutterLayoutManagerPrivate to doc sections
    #677284 - table-layout: Honor actors expand and alignment settings
    #677283 - box-layout: Honor actor expand and alignment
    #677372 - Add ClutterGridLayout
    #677390 - events: Deliver touch events to actors

Many thanks to:

  Bastian Winkler, Chun-wei Fan, Bastien Nocera, Daniel Mustieles, Fran
  Diéguez, Tomeu Vizoso, Tristan Van Berkom, Alexander Larsson, Alexandre
  Franke, Bruno Brouard, Debarshi Ray, Dominique Bureau, Emanuele Aina, Matej
  Urbančič, Mike Ruprecht, Piotr Drąg


Have fun with Clutter!

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

-- 
Emmanuele Bassi,
Intel Open Source Technology Center