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Good news, everyone!

The new Clutter stable release is now available at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.8/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.8/

SHA256 Checksum:

dc899f26448f31cb31e72d80650b8c8ae05acacd5b5d5a44798eabaca0ddfa2f clutter-1.8.2.tar.xz

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.

Release Notes

• This version of Clutter is the second stable release of the 1.8 release.
• 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 1.8.0

Plug memory leaks in ClutterBoxLayout

The list of children retrieved from the container was not being freed in each size negotiation cycle.

Fix the handling of out-of-stage actors in OffscreenEffect

The expansion of the viewport needed for out-of-stage actors when computing the size and position of the offscreen buffer was failing with nested effects.

Do not complete a PaintVolume multiple times

A missing guard was causing the lazily computed vertices of the cube to be trampled over; this caused visual artefacts as the stage-relative bounding box became unstable, leading to the wrong clip region to be used when painting.

Update the MingW cross-compilation script

Updated translations

Danish, Brazilian, Serbian, Punjabi, Telugu, Assamese, German, Oriya, Esperanto, Tamil, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), Catalan, French.

List of bug fixes since Clutter 1.8.0

[bugzilla.gnome.org]

• 659625 - mingw32: Update the build script to compile 1.8.0
• 659893 - clutter-main: Reword translator comment for default:LTR
• 659601 - offscreen effects on children of containers also with an offscreen effect get a wrong viewport
• 660985 - memory leak in clutter_box_layout.
• 661022 - Mark clutter_state_set_key() source_state_name as nullable

Many thanks to

Bruno Brouard, Neil Roberts, Carles Ferrando, Chao-Hsiung Liao, Colin Walters, Damien Lespiau, Daniel Korostil, Duarte Loreto, I Felix, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Manoj Kumar Giri, Marc-André Lureau, Mario Blättermann, Nilamdyuti Goswami, Sunjin Yang, krishnababu k, A S Alam, Мирослав Николић, Adorilson Bezerra, Ask H. Larsen.

Have fun with Clutter!

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.7/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

SHA256 Checksum:

36b98d400ce9397e66e7b4f6f424a7185dadba0350651ae20964f494ec40b190 clutter-1.7.90.tar.xz

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.

Release Notes

• This version of Clutter is the first release candidate for the 1.8 release.
• The API added during the 1.7 development cycle should be considered frozen.
• 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 1.7.14

Make sure that setting :use-markup does not depend on the order

Setting the :use-markup property should yield the same results regardless of whether the :text property is also set before or after. This applies to ClutterText defined using ClutterScript as well.

Protect against multiple unrealize call on ClutterStage

This should fix a segmentation fault in clutter-gtk when unrealize() is called multiple times on an already unrealized stage.

Fortify ATK event listener

Make sure that we subscribe only to the events we want to, and avoid warnings caused by AT-SPI, as well as a leak.

Documentation fixes

Translation updates

Indonesian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Oriya, Polish, Latvian, Hindi, Danish, Chinese (Simplified), Lithuanian, Turkish, Russian, Spanish, Asturian.

List of bug fixes since Clutter 1.7.14

[bugzilla.gnome.org]

• #651940 - "use-markup" is ignored when set after "text"
• #658721 - cally: Fix up event listener registration minimally

[buzgilla.clutter-project.org]

• #2629 - ClutterText thinks priv->text can be NULL, but it can't

Many thanks to

Muhammet Kara, Andika Triwidada, Manoj Kumar Giri, Piotr Drąg, Aurimas Černius, Bruce Cowan, Edvaldo de Souza Cruz, Jorge González, Kenneth Nielsen, Matthias Clasen, Neil Roberts, Og B. Maciel, Rajesh Ranjan, Ray Wang, Rudolfs Mazurs, Xandru Armesto, Yuri Myasoedov

Have fun with Clutter!

Good news, everyone!

A new Cogl snapshot is now available at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/cogl/1.7/
http://download.gnome.org/sources/cogl/1.7/

Cogl is a small open source library for using 3D graphics hardware to draw pretty pictures. The API departs from the flat state machine style of OpenGL and is designed to make it easy to write orthogonal components that can render without stepping on each others toes.

As well as aiming for a nice API, we think having a single library as opposed to an API specification like OpenGL has a few advantages too; like being able to paper over the inconsistencies/bugs of different OpenGL implementations in a centralized place, not to mention the myriad of OpenGL extensions. It also means we are in a better position to provide utility APIs that help software developers since they only need to be implemented once and there is no risk of inconsistency between implementations.

Having other backends, besides OpenGL, such as drm, Gallium or D3D are options we are interested in for the future.

REQUIREMENTS

Cogl currently only requires:

• GLib ≥ 2.26.0
• OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multitexturing), or OpenGL ES 2.0 (or 1.1)
• GLX, AGL, WGL or an EGL implementation

Cogl also has optional dependencies:

• GDK-Pixbuf ≥ 2.0 — for image loading
• Cairo ≥ 1.10 — for debugging texture atlasing (debug builds only)

The optional Cogl Pango library requires:

• Cairo ≥ 1.10
• PangoCairo ≥ 1.20

On X11, Cogl depends on the following extensions

• XComposite ≥ 0.4
• XDamage
• XExt
• XFixes ≥ 3

When running with OpenGL, Cogl requires at least version 1.3 or 1.2 with the multitexturing extension. However to build Cogl
you will need the latest GL headers which can be obtained from the Khronos website.

DOCUMENTATION

The 1.x API is documented here: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/1.7
The experimental 2.0 API is documented here: http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl-2.0-experimental/1.7

RELEASE NOTES

• This is a development snapshot release so there are not API or ABI stability guarantees at this point for new APIs since the last stable release.
• This Cogl release exports a 1.x API (For third-party Clutter developers to write custom actors) and an experimental 2.0 API which allows standalone application development.
• Internally Clutter depends on the Cogl 2.0 experimental API so we maintain runtime compatibility between the 1.x API and experimental 2.0 APIs, which means developers can mix-and-match their use of the APIs in the same process. API selection is done per-file by including a line like: #define COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_2_0_API before including cogl.h or clutter.h.
• We recommend using the 2.0 API if you don't mind updating your code once in a while as this API evolves and stabilizes. We promise not to break the 2.0 API during a 1.x stable cycle and hope that will encourage people to experiment with it and give critical feedback! For example after releasing 1.8, the 2.0 API will be stable for 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3 etc, but may update for 1.9/1.10.
• Because we export the 1.x and 2.0 APIs from one libcogl.so the library versioning, and thus ABI, can only be considered as stable as our 2.0 API — i.e. during a stable release 1.x cycle.
• Please report bugs using the Cogl Bugzilla product.

Good news, everyone!

A new Clutter snapshot is now available at:

  http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.7/
  http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.7/

SHA256 Checksum:

7b9b24d82ccb28fdb94b7ee879d8f102e810ae00364f9071d46b0aca0d562ce7  clutter-1.7.2.tar.bz2

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.

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 1.6.0

Cogl moved out of tree

The Clutter OpenGL abstraction library has been moved to a separate repository and can be used as a stand-alone shared library. Clutter has been modified to depend on Cogl's experimental API.

Correctly composite non fully opaque children

Non fully opauqe actors with non fully opaque children will automatically redirect children paint operations to offscreen buffers, which allows correct composition taking into account the overall opacity of the scene's sub-graph. The same mechanism can be used to create a paint cache, and paint that cache when the actor or its children do not change, instead of painting the whole sub-graph again.

Allow connecting signals to ClutterState states in ClutterScript

When defining a scene using ClutterScript it's possible to directly connect a state inside a ClutterState object (both defined in ClutterScript or in code) to an object's signal, without using an explicit signal handler in the code.

Long-press handling in ClutterClickAction

ClutterClickAction will detect a long-press gesture and emit signals to query, activation and cancellation.

Added ClutterGestureAction and ClutterSwipeAction

ClutterGestureAction is a generic "pointer gesture" action; it doesn't provide an implementation: it's up to the developer to add the gesture recognition code. ClutterSwipeAction is a GestureAction sub-class that implement the "swipe" gesture. The GestureAction API is already future proof for multi-device/multi-touch, even though the multi-touch isn't currently implemented.

Allow Effects to influence picking

Effects that change the geometry of a ClutterActor should also be allowed to change the picking code to make sure that event handling keeps working. ClutterEffect has a new pick() virtual function for these cases.

List of bugs fixes since Clutter 1.6.0

    [bugzilla.clutter-project.org]
    #2257 - clutter fails to link on OS X (10.6)
    #2447 - atkevents example crashes is the accessibility is disabled
    #2482 - Cally should avoid to provide a default name and description
    #2484 - It would be nice to have the old cally Changelog
    #2553 - new ClutterText API to access the Pango layout offsets
    #2555 - Per-framebuffer journal causes corruptions
    #2562 - Crash upon running Clutter-based programs
    #2585 - add ClutterAction for slide gestures
    #2588 - Assertion failure in _cogl_pipeline_set_layer_texture_target
    #2595 - clutter-text: Add a selected-text-color
    #2597 - CallyStage doesn't have a proper parent
    #2599 - The paint volume for ClutterText is wrong
    #2602 - Expose events ignored when doing clipped redraws
    #2610 - Add recipe about implementing a ClutterEffect
    #2619 - Removes the addition of the .exe extension to unit-test scripts, on win32.
    #2620 - _cogl_offscreen_new_to_texture_full() leaks reference when failing
    #2621 - Clutter segfaults if you queue a redraw of an unmapped actor inside the notify::mapped callback
    #2631 - [PATCH] Enable evdev ClutterInputDevice objects on creation, as the other backends do
    #2632 - [PATCH] GL_IMG_TEXTURE_NPOT enables non-power-of-two features
    #2633 - Make the pick id pool a per-Stage resource
    #2640 - [patch] allow single-bit imprecision in some conformance tests
    #2644 - Quartz backend: "Bare" modifier keypresses not generating events
    #2652 - clutter_actor_queue_redraw() on destroyed stage
    #2655 - segfault when disposing a slave device without a master
    #2656 - Clutter can crash when destroying a stage from an event
    #2667 - git head won't build under Win32

    [bugzilla.gnome.org]
    #650665 - CallyActor shouldn't add by default "press", "release" and "click"
    #647875 - Use Cairo to dump the pick buffers
    #647876 - Make the pick if pool a per-Stage resource
    #650487 - Sync allocation in ClutterBoxLayout with the one in GtkBox
    #650597 - clutter-id-pool: fix warning on bad pick
    #650650 - clutter-offscreen-effect: use target size when setting up the viewport
    #651700 - Give a chance to effects for running when picking
    #652129 - Use "const" instead of G_CONST_RETURN

Many thanks to

Neil Roberts, Robert Bragg, nobled, Daniel Mustieles, Elliot Smith, Matej Urbančič, Alejandro Piñeiro, Chris Lord, Marek Černocký, Tomeu Vizoso, Jasper St. Pierre, James Athey, Piotr Drąg, Øyvind Kolås, Adam Jackson, Andrej Žnidaršič, Kjartan Maraas, Adel Gadllah, Alexandre Franke, Christian Kirbach, Craig R. Hughes, Dan Winship, Dioselin, Kristjan SCHMIDT, Mario Blättermann, Miguel Bouzada, Peter Ward, Philippe Normand, Samuel Degrande, Viatcheslav Gachkaylo

Have fun with Clutter!

hi all;

as you might have been aware, for the past couple of weeks the Git repositories at clutter-project.org have had issues with the anongit protocol (git:// URIs) support. we've had some help from the MeeGo infrastructure team, but they advised moving the repositories to another hosting for various reasons (resources and unresolved hw and sw issues at the top).

I want to personally apologize for the issues this service outage has caused to all Clutter users. we've been having these issues for the best part of these three months, and I'd like to personally thank the OTC infrastructure team for their help.

even though since the beginning Clutter has been catering for different platforms, we always considered ourselves to be a part of the GNOME project: the technologies we use, and the contributions we receive are a proof of that. on top of that, as soon as we started having issues, the GNOME infrastructure team graciously offered their help and support.

for these reasons, we decided to move the Git repositories and the Bugzilla products over to the gnome.org infrastructure.

the authoritative repository for the Core Clutter API becomes, as of today git.gnome.org. the URIs change to:

read-only: git://git.gnome.org/clutter
read-write: ssh://USERNAME@git.gnome.org/git/clutter

if you have a clone of the repository, you can point it to the new URI simply by doing:

# read-only
git remote set-url origin git://git.gnome.org/clutter

# read-write:
git remote set-url origin ssh://USERNAME@git.gnome.org/git/clutter

the Bugzilla migration is in progress; we're moving all the bugs filed on clutter-project.org, and it will take some time. I'll do another
announcement as soon as the products are available, and I'll close bugzilla.clutter-project.org once that happens.

while this obviously holds for Clutter Core, we are hosting other modules on clutter-project.org; we've already started migrating some of them to git.gnome.org and other hosting services. the authoritative repositories are listed on the wiki.

the wiki page will be updated during the migration, and it will be the authoritative source for the repositories.

again, I'd like to apologize for the issues, and would like to thank the OTC team for their support over the past couple of years, and the GNOME infrastructure team for the assistance.

now, hopefully, you'll be able to resume having fun with Clutter. :-)

good news, everyone!

here's to you the first stable release of Clutter 1.6:

Download

Clutter 1.6.0 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.6/

SHA256 Checksums:

7e956fad7b8f7aa78500c155c824584201e2b8c4117da61a1f7ec2c120945400 clutter-1.6.0.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

• GLib >= 2.26.0
• JSON-GLib >= 0.12
• Cairo >= 1.10
• Pango >= 1.20
• Atk >= 1.7
• OpenGL >= 1.3 (or 1.2 + multi-texturing), OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
• GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

• GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
• UProf >= 0.3

Release Notes

• This is the first stable release of the 1.6 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 stable release of Clutter.
• Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.6 since Clutter 1.4

For individual developers snapshot announcements, see the clutter-announce archives: 1.5.2, 1.5.4, 1.5.6, 1.5.8, 1.5.10, 1.5.12, 1.5.14.

• ClutterActor implementations can now define the 3D volume they occupy during paint. This allows Clutter to correctly size FBOs and to perform clipped updates of the stage, along with client-side culling, to improve performance while painting a scene.
• Add ClutterPathConstraint and ClutterSnapConstraint, two constraints that can be used to simplify building user interfaces.
• Deprecate ClutterBehaviour and its sub-classes; all functionality should now be available through the animation framework API.
• Provide a ClutterTimeline:auto-reverse property, for automatically reverse the direction of a timeline when it's complete.
• Add an experimental Wayland backend.
• Parse CSS3 color definitions for ClutterColor, and provide a list of globally allocated color definitions.
• Provide a software-based fast path for picking.
• Implement generation of GLSL shaders for describing the state of the pipeline; this is the default backend for GLES 2.0, but it can also be used instead of the ARBfp default backend for GL.
• Allow the full description of column types and row values of ClutterListModel in ClutterScript definitions.
• Allow using XI2 for event handling on X11, and fill out per-event axis data on pointer devices.
• Enable VBO on GLES 2.0, and clipped redraws on EGL.

What's new in Clutter 1.6.0 since Clutter 1.5.14

• Remove more private symbols from the X11 backend.
• Add CLUTTER_BIND_POSITION and CLUTTER_BIND_SIZE values to the ClutterBindCoordinate enumeration; these are short-hand values for binding both X and Y, or width and height, instead of requiring two ClutterBindConstraint instances.
• Clean up in the X11 backend to reduce indirection.
• Small clean ups in the Win32 backend.
• Make Shift+Backspace behave like Backspace in ClutterText.
• Emit the ::new-frame signal even on the first frame of ClutterTimeline, to allow setting up the initial state of an animation.
• Fix an invalid memory access in ClutterAnimator.
• Flush the per-framebuffer journal when switching between framebuffers.
• Generalize updating GLES2 uniforms.
• Add debug code for tracing clipping in Cogl.
• Improve the OSX event loop, re-using the same implementation as GDK. Also, provide simple, core-like device support.

List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.5.12

• #2490 - OS X backend event loop improved
• #2530 - animator: Animator uses key after freeing it
• #2534 - Incorrect description of function 'clutter_actor_pop_internal'

Many thanks to all contributors to Clutter 1.6:

Robert Bragg, Neil Roberts, Damien Lespiau, Elliot Smith, Chris Lord, Owen W. Taylor, Bastian Winkler, Tomeu Vizoso, Kristian Høgsberg, nobled, Lucas Rocha, Ole André Vadla Ravnås, Adel Gadllah, Alexandre Quessy, Andika Triwidada, Johan Bilien, Jussi Kukkonen, Piotr Drąg, Alejandro Piñeiro, Aron Xu, Colin Walters, Evan Nemerson, Giovanni Campagna, Maxim Ermilov, Mike Owens, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Ray Strode, Rob Bradford, Roland Peffer, Stephen Kennedy, Viatcheslav Gachkaylo, muflone.

Have fun with Clutter!

good news, everyone!

here's to you the sixth developers snapshot of Clutter 1.5

Download

Clutter 1.5.12 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

SHA256 Checksums:

9dbb6fc8b4c68100384a7eba775db6680025c930db5b2d0ce423cdaf83630e79 clutter-1.5.12.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

• GLib >= 2.26.0
• JSON-GLib >= 0.12
• Cairo >= 1.10
• Pango >= 1.20
• Atk >= 1.7
• OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
• GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

• GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
• UProf >= 0.3

Release Notes

• This is the sixth developers snapshot of the 1.5 cycle leading to the 1.6 stable release
• 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 stable release of Clutter.
• Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.5.12

• Allow disabling the focus when showing a ClutterStage; this also makes Clutter more compliant to the X11 window manager specifications.
• Avoid state corruption in relayout cycles.
• Do not crash when destroying actors during CLUTTER_LEAVE events.
• Remove signal handlers when disposing constraints.
• Keep the pixel alignment for ClutterAlignConstraint.
• Do not release compiled ClutterShader during their finalization to avoid a warning.
• Revert an ABI break on the ClutterContainer pre-requisites.
• Fix the name of the cogl_normal_in attribute.
• Do not assume CoglBitmaps are allocated to height * rowstride.
• Fix the core device list creation on X11.
• Avoid enabling blending in the Cogl journal, if possible.
• Documentation fixes.
• Build fixes for mixed autotools version environment.
• Improve the performance of getting the number of rows of a ClutterListModel.
• Don't use obsolete API internally.
• Build fix for compiling EGL backend with OpenGL under X11.
• Parse GType object properties in ClutterScript.

Many thanks to:

Neil Roberts, Johan Bilien, nobled, Adel Gadllah, Damien Lespiau, Kristian Høgsberg, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Tomeu Vizoso, Bastian Winkler

Have fun with Clutter!

good news, everyone!

here's to you the fifth developers snapshot of Clutter 1.5

Download

Clutter 1.5.10 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

SHA256 Checksums:

21e68f4fc36f1d73e714fe6f873ef3e03e5b205872a2cfcdd8dcefa0e5fbf9ab clutter-1.5.10.tar.bz2

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

• GLib >= 2.26.0
• JSON-GLib >= 0.12
• Cairo >= 1.10
• Pango >= 1.20
• Atk >= 1.7
• OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
• GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

• GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
• UProf >= 0.3

Release Notes

• This is the fifth developers snapshot of the 1.5 cycle leading to the 1.6 stable release
• 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 stable release of Clutter.
• Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.5.10

• Add an evdev input backend; this adds support for input devices on Linux when using the EGL-based backends.
• Update the build scripts for compiling the Windows backend.
• Updates for the Cookbook and the API references.
• Fix ClutterModel::get_iter_at_row() for filtered ClutterListModels.
• Scores of fixes to the pipeline state object for GLES2.
• Add code that tries to perform manual clipping to avoid breaking up batches of primitives.
• Keep a cache of ARBfp programs indexed by the pipeline state that led to their generation.
• Accept G_TYPE_DOUBLE values in ClutterShaderEffect uniforms.
• Update the Wayland client backend.
• Update the build for Windows.
• Rename the ClutterTimeline:reverse property introduced in Clutter 1.5.6 to ClutterTimeline:auto-reverse.
• Clean up the interactive tests suite.

Many thanks to:

Neil Roberts, Damien Lespiau, Robert Bragg, Elliot Smith, Jussi Kukkonen, nobled, Alexandre Quessy, Mike Owens, Tomeu Vizoso.

Have fun with Clutter!

good news, everyone!

here's to you the third developers snapshot of Clutter 1.5

Download

Clutter 1.5.6 is now available for download at:

http://source.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.5/

SHA256 Checksums:

Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Requirements

• GLib >= 2.26.0
• JSON-GLib >= 0.12
• Cairo >= 1.10
• Pango >= 1.20
• Atk >= 1.7
• OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0
• GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation

Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on:

• GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0
• UProf >= 0.3

Release Notes

• This is the third developers snapshot of the 1.5 cycle leading to the 1.6 stable release
• 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 stable release of Clutter.
• Bugs should be reported on the Clutter Project bugzilla.

What's new in Clutter 1.5.6

• Deprecate ClutterBehaviour and its sub-classes: the same functionality is available using the animation framework.
• Add ClutterSnapConstraint, a constraint implementation that snaps together the edges of two actors.
• Add ClutterPathConstraint::node-reached.
• Deprecate ClutterTimeoutPool and ClutterFrameSource: this API is not used internally any more, and since it's not integrated with the master clock it's of relative use.
• Add a named, global color palette.
• Add the ClutterTimeline:reverse property, for automatically reversing the direction of a timeline after the emission of the ::completed signal.
• Performance improvements in the clip stack.
• Do not use pointer grabs in ClutterClickAction.
• Improve the internally used Cogl API for primitives, paths and buffers; this is the first step towards Cogl 2.0.
• Allow using the COGL_DEBUG environment variable to disable the NPOTs support.
• Plug a nasty infinite loop in the XSETTINGS implementation.
• Internally rename CoglMaterial to CoglPipeline; this should make it clearer that the API refers to the state of the GPU pipeline.
• Add support for clipped redraws on EGL using the NOK_swap_region extension.
• Build fixes.
• Use the monotonic clock API if compiling against GLib >= 2.27.3.
• Update examples in the Cookbook.
• Add a Cookbook recipe for looping animations.
• Add more documentation on Constraints.
• Documentation fixes.

Many thanks to:

Robert Bragg, Neil Roberts, Elliot Smith, Owen W. Taylor,
Damien Lespiau, Lucas Rocha, Maxim Ermilov, Piotr Drąg,
Tomeu Vizoso, muflone

Have fun with Clutter!