[compiz] [ANNOUNCE] compiz-0.6.0

Ioannis Nousias s0238762 at sms.ed.ac.uk
Tue Oct 2 05:41:19 PDT 2007


Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>   Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
>>
>>         git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/compiz
>>
>>     will include a signed compiz-0.6.0 tag which points to a commit
>> named:
>>         6218259ff6ec71a1eb6e9062646d63794947747e
>>
>>     which can be verified with:
>>         git verify-tag compiz-0.6.0
>>
>>     and can be checked out with a command such as:
>>         git checkout -b build compiz-0.6.0
>>     
>
> Unfortunately I noticed	today that release 0.6.0 contains a bad problem
> that allows e.g. desktop windows being stacked over normal windows when
> they are mapped. This results in normal windows and/or panels not being
> visible when compiz is launched with the Gnome or KDE session until the
> desktop window is restacked once (e.g. by clicking on it if the "Raise
> on click" option is enabled).
>
> I will release a 0.6.2 ASAP that fixes that problem, but until then,
> please either apply this commit to the release tarball:
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/app/compiz.git;a=commit;h=b6c6acc70261d0942977441914c23e7a1c99215e
> or continue to use the compiz-0.6 branch.
>
> My apologies for letting this bad mistake slip in the stable release and
> sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Regards,
>
> Danny
>
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>
>   

it's probably best to have 'release candidates'.


ioannis



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