[waffle] [ANNOUNCE] Waffle 1.4.0-rc1

[Chad Versace]

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Waffle 1.4.0-rc1 is now released and available for testing. This is
a testing preview of the upcoming 1.4.0 feature release.

It's been a loooooong time since the last release (Waffle 1.3.0 happened
in 2013!) and a lot has happened since then. Waffle now has a wflinfo
utility, supports Linux DRM render nodes through the GBM backend, is
packaged by several distributions, and has a proper issue tracker on
Github.  The most prominent change, in my opinion, as that Waffle has
more active contributors than last year (namely Jordan and Emil).

Since I've been out of practice of making releases, the release candidate will
cautiously bake for a full week before the final release.  If all goes
smoothly, I plan to publish the final 1.4.0 tarballs on Monday 15 September.

The next major release (2.0) will likely happen near the end of
September this month.  Emil has been working hard to add Windows support
to Waffle and Piglit, and that needs to be packaged up and shipped soon.

Tarballs and other release files are available at

    Release Page:       http://www.waffle-gl.org/release.html#1.4.0-rc1
    Source:             http://www.waffle-gl.org/files/release/waffle-1.4.0-rc1/waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.xz
    GPG Signature:      http://www.waffle-gl.org/files/release/waffle-1.4.0-rc1/waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.asc

    SHA256 83c62329751bf96159934d8eb062d9cc8230895e268ae6c5fb94ac00d3508af4  waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.xz

The signed git tag v1.4.0-rc1 is available in

    git://github.com/waffle-gl/waffle
    http://github.com/waffle-gl/waffle

You can verify the release files by:

    Verifying the tarball's signature:
      unxz waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.xz
      gpg --verify waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.asc

    Verifying the tag's signature:
      git fetch --tags origin
      git tag --verify v1.4.0-rc1

    Verifying the tarball's checksum (least secure method):
      echo '83c62329751bf96159934d8eb062d9cc8230895e268ae6c5fb94ac00d3508af4  waffle-1.4.0-rc1.tar.xz' | sha256sum -c
    
Please file bugs and issues at

    https://github.com/waffle-gl/waffle/issues

You can view the commit history for this release at

    https://github.com/waffle-gl/waffle/commits/refs/tags/v1.4.0-rc1

You can track the release status of the final 1.4.0 release in Waffle's
snazzy new Github tracker:

    https://github.com/waffle-gl/waffle/milestones


Waffle 1.4.0 Release Notes (draft)
==================================

Backwards compatibility notes
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Waffle 1.4.0 is backwards-compatible with Waffle 1.3.0, in ABI and API.


New Features
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* All platforms

    * wflinfo

      The new 'wflinfo' utility reports information about the system's OpenGL
      capabilities, similar to 'glxinfo'.  See the documentation at
      [man:wflinfo.1] or [http://www.waffle-gl.org/man/wflinfo.1.html].

      (Implemented by Jordan Justen. Chad Versace fixed some bugs and corner
      cases).

* Linux

    * GBM backend gains support for DRM render nodes.

      Waffle's GBM backend will now use render nodes (/dev/dri/render*) if
      available. Otherwise, it falls back to 1.3.0 behavior and will use a DRI
      card device (/dev/dri/card*). Render nodes require a recent kernel; you
      may need to add drm.rnodes=1 to the kernel cmdline.

      (Implemented by Jordan Justen).

    * Debian packaging support.

      Waffle now contains a toplevel 'debian' directory that supports creation
      of Debian packages.  Waffle packages are already available in Debian
      Unstable ("sid") as 'libwaffle-1.0', 'libwaffle-dev', 'libwaffle-doc',
      and 'waffle-utils'.

      (Debian packages are maintained by Jordan Justen).
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