This is the release candidate for the upcoming 1.10 release. Changes since the beta are just a few cosmetic fixups.
As mentioned in the alpha release note, the upcoming 1.10 is a big release with a bunch of new functionality. Drag and drop actions are now added to the Wayland API, to facilitate negotiation of content type when dragging between a source and destination, and provision is made to communicate the completion (or cancellation) of the drag action back to the source. This is designed a bit differently than the XDND protocol in X11, in that the drag destination is allowed more control to decide the action to use. Frame events group pointer events together, to allow things like diagonal scrolling (which combines horizontal and vertical scroll events). New events are also added to more precisely track wheel click counts, termination of scroll sequences, and how axis events were generated. A buffer damage request, wl_surface.damage_buffer, allows applications a more convenient way to communicate portions of a surface needing to be re-rendered. Shared memory buffers now do reference counting to allow compositors to delay releasing the memory pools until they're no longer in use. Enlightenment uses this for doing asynchronous rendering. There are now provisions for deleting wl_seat objects. This is useful in compositors that handle multiple seats such as for remote desktops. Specific version numbers can be associated with protocol objects client-side. For backwards compatibility, version 0 is recognized as indicating an unversioned API. New APIs are provided for getting and setting the socket file descriptor Wayland servers use to communicate with their clients. This functionality can be used in SELinux or SMACK environments for improved security. This release introduces the enum and bitfield attributes, which allow protocol designers to refer to the specific enum that is expected in an argument. Enums can also be specified as bitfields, as opposed to just ordinary numerical sequences. Quite a few clarifications to protocols and API are added; many of these arose as various desktop environments implemented their own Wayland support. And of course a rich assortment of bug fixes, code cleanups, and test code enhancements are included. Of particular note, the scanner now validates the protocol XML using a wayland.dtd. Our release schedule is: √ Alpha (1.9.91) on Tuesday, January 19th √ Beta (1.9.92) on Tuesday, February 2nd √ RC1 (1.9.93) on Tuesday, February 9th - 1.10 on Tuesday, February 16th Changes since 1.9.92: --------------------- Bryce Harrington (1): configure.ac: bump to version 1.9.93 for the RC1 release Derek Foreman (1): scanner: Fix oddities in copyright printing Sergi Granell (2): cosmetic: use tabs instead of spaces cosmetic: add an space after if For a full listing of changes since the 1.9.0 release, please see the 1.9.91 and 1.9.92 release notes. git tag: 1.9.93 http://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases/wayland-1.9.93.tar.xz MD5: afc5b7aedf1d16c015a033a511a267c2 wayland-1.9.93.tar.xz SHA1: 2b709cf1b0b6cee5512b03cf187f5b58687277d2 wayland-1.9.93.tar.xz SHA256: 6059809e5da892645d74277de3258a9b8b8dbb92e8b012eccde4407d29d20377 wayland-1.9.93.tar.xz PGP: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases/wayland-1.9.93.tar.xz.sig _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel