Clutter 1.9.2                                                        2011-11-22
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  • List of changes since Clutter 1.8

    - Multi-backend build, and run-time backend selection
    Clutter can be built with support for multiple backends in the same
    shared library; the backend singleton is determined at run-time,
    either with the default backend for the platform, or using the value
    of the CLUTTER_BACKEND environment variable.

    - GDK windowing system backend
    A new backend has been added, which uses the GDK API for creating the
    drawing surface, as well as receiving the windowing system and input
    events.

    - Show a hint when ClutterText is in password mode
    If the password-hint-time ClutterSettings property is set to a non
    zero value, the last character entered inside a ClutterText actor when
    in password mode will be shown in plain for the duration of the timeout,
    before being replaced by the glyph chosen as the password character.

    - Improve Windows build support
    Clutter now provides project files to build the library using Visual
    Studio 9 and Visual Studio 10. Also, the scripts to build Clutter using
    MinGW have been improved.

    - Remove the requirement for using clutter_threads_init()
    Threads are initialized by default (depending on the platform), so there
    is no need to call clutter_threads_init().

    - Deprecate the default ClutterStage
    The semantics of the default Stage were not obvious, and had the tendency
    to confuse the user.

    - Move the deprecated headers into their own directory
    This should help developers identify the deprecated API.

    - Change deprecation policy
    Deprecated functions are now marked using compiler annotations, instead
    of being forcibly disabled through pre-processor directives from the
    headers. Deprecations will cause compiler warnings, and thus are enabled
    by default. If you're building your project with compiler flags that
    consider every warning a fatal error, you can use the symbol
    CLUTTER_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS to disable the deprecation warnings.

    - Translation updates
    Portuguese, Assamese, Punjabi, Tamil, Oriya, Telugu, French, German,
    Danish, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), Catalan, Esperanto,
    Lithuanian, Galician, Norwegian bokmål, Slovenian, Hebrew, Bulgarian.

  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.8

    652588 - add support for password hint in ClutterText
    659625 - mingw32: Update the build script to compile 1.8.0
    659601 - offscreen effects on children of containers also with an
             offscreen effect get a wrong viewport
    659928 - Two strings are not marked as translatable
    659893 - clutter-main: Reword translator comment for default:LTR
    656663 - Remove internal usage of ClutterGeometry in StageWindow
    660354 - Add paint-deform-tiles option to CLUTTER_DEBUG
    660471 - ClutterActor: Add clutter_actor_has_effects
    660512 - ClutterShaderEffect recompiles the shader for every instance
    660623 - clutter-actor-meta: Fix _clutter_meta_group_has_metas_no_internal
    660985 - memory leak in clutter_box_layout.c
    661015 - Add clutter_unicode_to_keyval function
    660786 - Deprecate clutter_[sg]et_font_flags()
    661887 - auto-resize of ClutterCairoTexture does not work correctly
    657434 - Add a GDK backend to Clutter
    663332 - orca reads my password in gnome-shell policykit dialogs
    663594 - Minor whitespace parsing bug in clutter_color_from_string
    663733 - clutter-stage-x11: Make sure to set geometry x and y
    651718 - Make tests work on platforms supporting only a single stage
    663999 - The removal of per-backend CLUTTER_VBLANK envvar had unwanted
             cruft in the Win32 backend
    663720 - DeformEffect: Avoid redrawing actors on vertices invalidation
    663636 - Use newer Cogl API in ClutterDeformEffect

Special thanks to

  Chun-wei Fan, for building, testing, and keeping up to date the Visual
  Studio project files.

Many thanks to:

  Neil Roberts, Rico Tzschichholz, Robert Bragg, Adel Gadllah,
  Lionel Landwerlin, Alexandre Franke, Colin Walters, Daniel Mustieles,
  Giovanni Campagna, Piotr Drąg, krishnababu k, A S Alam, Alexander Shopov,
  Algimantas Margevičius, Ask H. Larsen, Bruno Brouard, Carles Ferrando,
  Chao-Hsiung Liao, Craig R. Hughes, Damien Lespiau, Duarte Loreto,
  Florian Müllner, Fran Dieguez, Fran Diéguez, Håkon Løvdal, I Felix,
  Jasper St. Pierre, Jorge González, Joseph Scheuhammer, Kjartan Maraas,
  Kristjan SCHMIDT, Manoj Kumar Giri, Marc-André Lureau, Mario Blättermann,
  Matej Urbančič, Matthias Clasen, Nilamdyuti Goswami, Sunjin Yang,
  Tomeu Vizoso, Yaron Shahrabani, Zan Dobersek, Мирослав Николић.