GTK+ 2.21.6

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

GTK+ 2.21.6 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.21/
 http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/2.21/


8b04df957bed1621fbc09976e4fab38cfe68011825d481070db825adc7ba6467  gtk
+-2.21.6.tar.bz2
094f77d8606ea0ba76f2376fbd9174c29bbdffda8bc007dfee401d92a50e96c4  gtk
+-2.21.6.tar.gz

This is a development release leading toward 2.22.

Notes:

 * GTK+ 2.22 is planned to be the last stable GTK+ 2.x release,
   to be released in parallel with GTK+ 3. It will not receive
   major feature work beyond API additions that are required
   to facilitate porting to GTK+ 3.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
   copy of GTK+ 2.20. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall GTK+ 2.20.

 * GTK+ 2.22 will be source and binary compatible with
   the GTK+ 2.20 series; however, the new API additions
   are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities
   between this release and the final 2.22 release.

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.


What is GTK+
============

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
developers, including those developing proprietary software, without
any license fees or royalties.


Where to get more information about GTK+
========================================

Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:

http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for GTK+ 2.x is found at:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Common questions:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html
http://www.gtk.org/faq/


Contributing
============

GTK+ is a large project and relies on voluntary contributions.
We are actively searching for new contributors in various areas
and invite everyone to help project development.
If you are willing to participate, please subscribe to the project
mailing lists to offer your help and read over our list of vacant
project tasks:
   http://live.gnome.org/GtkTasks


Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.21.5 to 2.21.6
==============================================

* Most drawing done by GTK+ itself has been ported from
  GDK drawing APIs to cairo

* GtkExpander gained a ::label-fill property to make the label
  fill the entire horizontal space

* Deprecations:
 - GtkNotebookPage
 - The GtkRecenManager::limit property
 - All GDK drawing functions, ie gdk_draw_*. Use cairo instead
 - All GdkGC functions. Use cairo instead
 - All of GdkImage. Use cairo instead
 - All of GdkRGB. Use cairo instead
 - gdk_{bit,pix}map_create_from_data

* New accessors:
 - gdk_cursor_get_cursor_type
 - gdk_device_get_n_axes
 - gdk_display_is_closed
 - gtk_notebook_get_tab_[hv]border

* New cairo-related APIs:
 - gdk_window_create_similar_surface
 - gdk_window_get_background_pattern

* Accessiblity:
 - Make Gail work with custom treemodels
 - Implement GailAdjustment::get_minimum_increment

* Bugs fixed:
 599574 Crash in _cairo_surface_set_error
 604391 ...assertion `ancestor != NULL' when switching between tab
 618327 GtkNotebookPage should be deprecated
 623603 meld built with pygtk-2.16.0 giving warnings
 623865 gtkdnd: pointer grab may never finish (ungrab before grab)
 624087 Missing accessor for GdkCursor.type
 624221 Gtk-2.21 Missing accessor for GdkDevice.num_axis
 624224 Missing accessor for GdkDisplay.closed
 624333 Deprecate GtkRecentManager:limit
 624687 switch-page bug when activated from menu
 624779 GtkCalendar padding/margin/spacing/border/whatever is too
hard...
 625491 Generate GdkX11-2.0.typelib (backported from HEAD)
 625650 Add annotations to gtk_tree_model_iter_next() and
gtk_tree_sel...

* Translation updates:
 Norwegian bokmål

Thanks to the people who contributed to this release:
Christian Dywan
Javier Jardón
Emmanuele Bassi
Christian Persch
Stanislav Brabec
Federico Mena Quintero
John Stowers
Szilárd Pfeiffer
Benjamin Otte
Tomeu Vizoso
Fridrich Štrba
Cody Russell
Paolo Borelli
Philip Withnall
Sam Thursfield
Hiroyuki Ikezoe
Sven Herzberg
Kristian Rietveld


August 16, 2010
Matthias Clasen