Clutter Weekly Report - week 49

I sent this to the mailing list, but I guess it'll make the blog readers happy as well

one of the things I'd like to start is writing a short report on what happened over the week in Clutter-land - both in bugzilla and in the repository.

I'll try and keep doing this every week, in the hope that people will find it useful to keep up with the state of clutter while we approach the 1.0 milestone.

releases

• clutter-0.8.4, the third stable release of the core library, has been pushed on the server at clutter-project.org. lots of bug fixes and some small new feature backported from trunk.

svn: stable branch (clutter-0-8)

• fixed for bug 1309, bug 1297, bug 1303, bug 1305 have been backported from trunk to the stable branch. users of mutter and gnome-shell on GPUs that only support ARB_texture_rectangle will be able to see some improvements.

svn: development branch (trunk)

• Neil merged the ClutterBehaviourPath and ClutterBehaviourBspline behaviours into a single class; this new behaviour will take a Path object that can be described using a set of nodes; a Path can also be described using a notation compatible with the SVG description of a path. this was a 1.0 roadmap item.
• the disjoint paths and clip-to-path features have landed; it allows you to use cogl to draw multiple paths at the same time, and also to have non-rectangular shaped clips. this was a 1.0 roadmap item.
• support for using cogl with native textures using ARB_texture_rectangle, and allow the texture-from-pixmap actor to use them if needed.
• avoid artifacts with non-pixel-aligned NPOT textures
• more units for the test suite:
  • backface culling

bugzilla

• 91 bugs opened against Clutter core
  • 30 are marked as enhancements
  • 10 bugs with 0.8 target milestone (bugs that can, or may be fixed in trunk and backported to the current stable branch)
  • 15 bugs with 1.0 target milestone (bugs that should be fixed in trunk before 1.0.0 is released)