Great stuff, congratulations for the release! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > this is the Wayland and Weston release 1.6.0. The SHA1s are: > > 6183108a3bffb204c05b7f37b763b6278760572d wayland-1.6.0.tar.xz > 339e83aa579569711cd14623ca4b2db46256b766 wayland 1.6.0 tag > > f3c801f0610b605cda45a017b475c10f2d3b7dbb weston-1.6.0.tar.xz > 2858cc2a50854685b44eee72994dea57f5aa4246 weston 1.6.0 tag > > Website update with download links will follow soon. > > Here are some notable changes. > > Wayland > > - Add error enums to wl_surface. > > - Add keyboard repeat information to wl_keyboard protocol. > > - Error handling additions in libwayland-client: when a protocol error > happens, the program can query more detailed information about the > error. This is mostly useful for tests to ensure correct errors. > > - New wl_display_add_socket_auto() in libwayland-server: automatically > find a free socket name. > > - Many added tests to the 'make check' suite, including a framework for > testing server-client interactions more easily. > > - Threading and blocking related bug fixes. > > - Add wl_display_roundtrip_queue(): blocking round-trip on a custom > queue. > > - Stop exposing wl_display global. Turns out binding to the global > would have triggered bugs, and there was no proper use for it. > > > Weston > > - Xdg-shell protocol changes. Yes, we broke it again since 1.5.0. > > - Add weston_layer masking mechanism. > > - DRM-backend: fetch cursor size from the kernel > > - keyboard repeat rate support, sent from compositor to clients, > configurable. > > - Use wl_display_add_socket_auto(): no need to specify the socket > anymore when running Weston under Weston, it just works now. > > - Use libinput by default. The non-libinput input backend is still > there right now, but it will be removed for 1.7. > > - A few more desktop-shell configuration bits. > > - 'make distcheck' actually works OOTB without custom tweaks (by > disabling the xwayland test for distcheck for now). > > - Exit Weston, if weston-desktop-shell dies too early. Should help with > one class of "just black screen" problems. > > - Option to force numlock on at start on DRM and fbdev backends. > > - Many bug fixes, of course. > > > The 1.7 development cycle starts next week. The schedule up to 1.7.0 > release is: > > - 1.7-alpha release in mid-January 2015, around January 16th, so people > have a couple of weeks after holidays to push the last minute stuff. > This is the deadline for any big features. > > - 1.7-rc1 around January 30th. Only bug fixes after this. > > - 1.7-rc2 around February 6th. > > - 1.7.0 release around February 13th, Friday. Oops! ;-) > > > Enjoy. :-) > > > Thanks, > pq > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >
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