Clutter 0.3 Released.

We at OHand towers are pleased to announce the release of Clutter 0.3!

This is an 'unstable' development release - what does that mean ? It means basically feature-wise it's complete for an upcoming 'stable' 0.4 release. What it's lacking is heavy testing (i.e. expect a few bugs) and it has some documentation holes. Don't be that scared of using it however - so far it seems pretty solid and has a number of improvements over 0.2 including:

• Clutter now supports both switchable windowing systems and GL backends.
  Window systems supported include GLX, EGL and SDL.GL support includes both OpenGL 1.2+ and now OpenGL ES 1.1.
• New ClutterEffect class provides a simplified (and thus less flexible) API wrapping around behaviours, alphas and timelines.
• New Behaviours - bspline, ellipsis, rotation.
• Many new built in Alpha functions.
• New Actors
  • ClutterContainer and ClutterVBox, ClutterHBox layout actors.
  • ClutterEntry, text entry actor
• ClutterTexture now handles BGRA, YUV and premultiplied alpha data.
• All internal math now fixed point based.
• Clutter now has it own internal event queue.
• ClutterStage new features;
  • Title property for naming in window decorations.
  • Perspective setting - The stages perspective can now be modified.
• New Clutter Actor API calls allow for querying of transformed
  actor vertices and points.
• New Clutter Feature checks.
• Initial ClutterUnit implementation for device indapendant positioning.
• Many other tweaks and minor improvements

See the NEWS and README files for more detailed information. As this is a new minor version release there is some API churn (detailed in README). It is however parallel installable with 0.2.

As usual, you can download the Clutter tarball from:

http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.3/

And you can check out the stable branch from SVN using:

svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter/trunk/clutter clutter

Also available are new clutter-gst, clutter-gtk and clutter-cairo releases dependant on the new release. Details as follows;

Clutter-gst

• Updated to new 0.3 API.
• Now features a clutter-gst-video-sink, improved to do 32Bpp textures.
• Download here.

Clutter-GTK

• Updated to new 0.3 API.
• New improved example code.
• Download here.

Clutter-Cairo

• Updated to new 0.3 API.
• Download here.

Expect debs and updated bindings to follow soon, as well as the stable 0.4 release.