Clutter 1.5.12 - developers snapshot

Submitted by Emmanuele Bassi, posted on 24 Jan 2011 - 04:18 - 0 comments

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!