ANNOUNCE: Clutter 1.19.8 (snapshot)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.19/

SHA256 Checksum:

d68786bba6af230176b5aaaf255d64ee27a7293e85ed2e064c1005939779b88c
clutter-1.19.8.tar.xz

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

will include a signed 1.19.8 tag which points to a commit named:
  0ed53b629068aebbf23890abd20bf31128bbd64c

which can be verified with:
  git verify-tag 1.19.8

and can be checked out with a command such as:
  git checkout -b build 1.19.8

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 ≥ 1.17.5
  Cairo ≥ 1.12.0
  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 1.19.6

    - Improve the GDK backend
    The GDK backend is now reporting touch events, as well as supporting
    foreign Wayland surfaces for the Stage window. The goal is to make the
    GDK backend the preferred one in the next development cycle.

    - Fix drawing transparent Canvas content inside transparent actors

    - Translation updates
    German, Assamese

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.19.6

    #733202 - evdev: Add API to set the xkb layout index
    #734934 - Add touch event translation code to GDK backend
    #734935 - Add support for wayland foreign windows in GDK backend
    #734761 - Memory leak in implicit transition

Many thanks to:

  Lionel Landwerlin Christian Kirbach, Rui Matos, Tom Beckmann, ngoswami,
  Sunjin Yang


Have fun with Clutter!

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