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hi everyone;

here's to you the first 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter, in time for GNOME 2.31.2.

Download

Clutter 1.3.2 is now available for download at:

http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

A mirror is also available here:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/clutter/1.3/

SHA256 Checksums:

c128f8bd85897b78a053d0d856799d1feb277813324627ed5151dd5bfbf7ceb0 clutter-1.3.2.tar.bz2
83e783f217bde0663058c5a270df5c61c646bad232c88e6257479662da8c366c clutter-1.3.2.tar.gz

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

Requirements

• GLib >= 2.18.0
• Cairo >= 1.6
• 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
• JSON-GLib >= 0.8

Release Notes

• This is the first developers snapshot of the 1.3 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 here

What's new in Clutter 1.3.2

List of changes since Clutter 1.2

• Add ActorMeta, a class for run-time composition of actions and constraints on a ClutterActor:
  • Add ClutterAction, a class for implementing business logic related to event handling.
  • Add ClutterConstraint, a class for implementing business logic related to sizing and positioning.
  • ClutterDragAction is an Action sub-class that implements signals and properties for dragging actors.
  • ClutterAlignConstraint and ClutterBindConstraint are two Constraint sub-classes that allow relative positioning with fixed layout managers.
• Add ClutterState, an object for defining animated state transitions.
• Add ClutterBoxLayout:homogeneous property.
• Implement retained clip stacks.
• Support retained paths.
• Add an experimental vector3 API.
• Require GLib >= 2.18.
• Require Atk >= 1.7.
• Make ClutterActor implement AtkImplementor, and allow retrieving an AtkObject from a ClutterActor.
• Improve ClutterText's Pango layout caching mechanism.
• Fix EGLX backend.
• Documentation fixes for Clutter and COGL.
• Fix the conformance test suite by executing every test unit in a separate process.
• Add platform-dependent defines for Cogl.
• Update the MingW cross-compilation script.
• New recipe in the Cookbook.

Many thanks to:

Neil Roberts
Robert Bragg
Øyvind Kolås
Owen W. Taylor
Brian Tarricone
Damien Lespiau
Adel Gadllah
Alejandro Piñeiro
Chris Lord
Fridrich Strba
José Dapena Paz
Jussi Kukkonen
Rob Bradford
Elliott Smith

Have fun with Clutter!