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

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 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.


But those were not regressions, so I think it's fine to keep fixing after the release and backport eventually important fixes.

However, we can't easily backport all the fixes in git to 0.31, due to large changes and API/ABI break.

> 
> > 
> > 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"

+1

> 
> > +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..."

Ok

Is there anything else to add regarding gstreamer support? I haven't looked in details recently.