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December 2010

Clutter 1.5.10 - developers snapshot

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!