[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] RFC: update NEWS for 0.32 release

[Victor Toso]

Hi,

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:09:34AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 07:09:16PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It would be nice to release spice-gtk 0.32 with all the fixes for
> > virgl. Is there any known regression left or something good enough to
> > include before a release?
>
> I think Victor would have liked to include his file transfer work before
> the release, I don't know how much work there is left though.

Indeed. The v2 series has everything I could think of for improvements
but it still needs to be reviewed and I would not say that the priority
for it is high. It would be great to have that in the 0.32 release but
if we have some close deadlines we can definitely postpone it.

  toso

> Regarding "known regressions", Cole reported a few just last week which
> you promptly fixed, it's probably worth letting git settle for one or two
> more weeks in case more such issues are found.
>
>
> > 
> > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> > index 7e040bf..8b1595f 100644
> > --- a/NEWS
> > +++ b/NEWS
> > @@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
> > +v0.32
> > +=====
> > +
> > +libspice-client-gtk API/ABI break: library current version has been
>
> I would refer to "soname" rather than "current version"
>
> > +bumped, and deprecated symbols have been removed.  In practice, most
> > +of the API (in particular for language bindings) should be unchanged.
> > +
> > +- drop gtk+ 2.0 support
> > +- require gtk+ >= 3.10 and glib >= 2.36
> > +- a number of spice-gtk structures are now private
> > +- spice-gtk widget is no longer a GtkDrawingArea but an opaque type
> > +  with only guarantee to be a GtkWidget
> > +- virgl: use GtkGlArea if possible (on wayland only atm)
> > +- virgl: various fixes (multiple display, resize, canvas-less support)
> > +- win-usbredir: use UsbDk backend when available and various
> > +  improvements
> > +- ensure that dnd file copy get cancelled
> > +- some JP and KR keyboard handling fixes on Windows
> > +- allow smaller widget with scaling enabled
> > +- add spice_main_request_mouse_mode() to request mouse mode
> > +- add SpiceGtkSession:sync-modifiers to change modifiers sync behaviour
> > +- various video decoding improvements
> > +- learn GStreamer as a backend for mjpeg, vp8 & h264 decoding
> 
> "learn" ? I'd use "add GStreamer..."
> 
> 
> Christophe



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