[kmscon-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kmscon-8 release

[David Herrmann]

kmscon-8 is now available on freedesktop.org. It is mainly a bug-fix
release and a lot of obsolete code was dropped. We also simplified the
build-tools. Please adjust your scripts accordingly.

Cheers,
  David


CHANGES WITH 8:
* Several build-tools changes. Please adjust your build-scripts
 accoringly:
   - xz instead of bz2 tarballs
   - tarballs moved to: www.freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases
   - linking with ld.gold now supported
   - libtsm was extracted into a separate library, available at:
       www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
   - Several dependencies are mandatory now. See README.
   - --prefix=/usr is no longer the default. You need to pass it
     yourself!

* Removed wlterm. A GTK+ variant of wlterm is now available at:
   www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/wlterm

* Removed uvtd and uvt. They were unused.

* Removed cdev-sessions

* Removed freetype2 font-backend

* Removed cairo text renderer

* eloop and uterm are now linked statically

* Dynamic font resizing is now supported. Use ctrl+'+' and ctrl+'-' as
 default shortcuts to resize your font on-the-fly.

* Lots of bug-fixes!

kmscon website:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon

Release tarballs:
  http://freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases/

Git repository:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/kmscon

git tag: kmscon-8
tarball: http://freedesktop.org/software/kmscon/releases/kmscon-8.tar.xz

MD5:     90d39c4ef53a11c53f27be4a7e9acee4
SHA1:    ea9b6378822181ad9fa6c4d451911dfb5872bb24
SHA256:  0ab01c1cdc4fbd692ce765e80478bc2d9663a7c55a5c75cc7ac421366ee6ae2b