ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.15.2 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.15/

SHA256 Checksum:

5d40c23afdd69a08b54d987a811da48db63c70f41484432a8d4ff14fa290ed08
clutter-1.15.2.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.15.2 tag which points to a commit named:
  88f6bcdf731915c9ff1a9644d85c2a696b5f63c6

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.15.2

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.15.2

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 ≥ 2.37.3
  JSON-GLib ≥ 0.12.0
  Cogl ≥ 1.14.0
  Cairo ≥ 1.10
  Pango ≥ 1.30
  Atk ≥ 2.5.3

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

Documentation:
   Clutter: http://developer.gnome.org/clutter/unstable/
  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 1.14

    - Improve state tracking and short circuiting
    ClutterActor now tracks clones and unmapped actors more aggressively, to
    reduce the amount of work necessary when updating the scene graph.

    - Wayland backend improvements and updates

    - Documentation updates
    Clean up the API reference for readability, and improve the comments in
    the inlined example code. Also, include the cookbook in the distribution
    tarball.

    - Allow installation of conformance tests
    Clutter now allows installing its conformance tests into a well-known
    location; this allows running the conformance test suite against an
    installed version of Clutter.

    - Add ClutterFlowLayout:snap-to-grid
    ClutterFlowLayout users can now ask the layout manager to not align the
    actors to a grid.

    - Improve gesture recognizers

    - Deprecations
    ClutterText::cursor-event has been replaced by ClutterText::cursor-changed;
    ClutterGeometry has been deprecated; ClutterActor::realize and ::unrealize,
    along with their virtual functions, have been deprecated.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.14

    #682789 - Deprecate ClutterGeometry (and remove it for 2.0)
    #698668 - A few improvements to ClutterGestureAction
    #698669 - Fix "trigger edge after" behavior with more than 1 touch point
    #698671 - Refactor event handling code in ClutterGestureAction
    #698674 - Improve ClutterZoomAction behavior
    #698783 - Add a paint callback for ClutterStage
    #698766 - Implicit transitions queued on invisible actors should be ignored
    #648873 - Feature request: ClutterFlowLayout not aligning on a grid
    #699675 - Offscreen effects allocating too much memory
    #692706 - Frequent crash in cally_stage_notify_key_focus_cb
    #701974 - x11: trap errors when calling XIQueryDevice
    #696813 - clutter_actor_set_child_above/below_sibling leaking a reference
              on the actor
    #701208 - deform-effect: correctly set the cull-face mode of the back
              pipeline
    #700980 - Tap action now longer works
    #702016 - ClutterText reset font when dpi changes and font was set using
              a pango description
    #702610 - text: relayout on cursor visibility change
    #702941 - Install conformance tests
    RH#975171 - gnome-shell: screen magnifier can cause crash with Cogl error
    #702202 - conform tests hang on wayland
    #703188 - Stage doesn't appear when running under Wayland
    #703476 - tests/actor-offscreen-redirect: Fix race condition
    #703566 - Need to be able to share Wayland display between GTK and Clutter
    #697285 - Inconsistent setting of the time member on the events
    #703882 - Prevent buffer/text/max-length properties notification in the
              allocation cycle

Many thanks to:

  Lionel Landwerlin, Chris Cummins, Matthias Clasen, Rob Bradford, Alejandro
  Piñeiro, Jasper St. Pierre, Bastian Winkler, Colin Walters, Craig R. Hughes,
  Daniel Mustieles, Marek Černocký, Adel Gadllah, Ask H. Larsen, Bastien
  Nocera, Cosimo Cecchi, Dimitris Spingos, Duarte Loreto, Emanuele Aina, Fran
  Diéguez, Gil Forcada, Matej Urbančič, Milo Casagrande, Neil Roberts, Rui
  Matos, Samuel Degrande, Sebastian Keller, Sjoerd Simons.


Have fun with Clutter!

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