[ANNOUNCE] wayland 1.10.0
Bryce Harrington
bryce at osg.samsung.com
Wed Feb 17 00:11:46 UTC 2016
Welcome to the Wayland 1.10 release! This is a big release with a bunch
of new functionality:
Drag and drop actions are now added to the Wayland API, to facilitate
negotiation of content type when dragging between a source and
destination, and provision is made to communicate the completion (or
cancellation) of the drag action back to the source. This is designed a
bit differently than the XDND protocol in X11, in that the drag
destination is allowed more control to decide the action to use.
Frame events group pointer events together, to allow things like
diagonal scrolling (which combines horizontal and vertical scroll
events). New events are also added to more precisely track wheel click
counts, termination of scroll sequences, and how axis events were
generated.
A buffer damage request, wl_surface.damage_buffer, allows applications
a more convenient way to communicate portions of a surface needing to be
re-rendered.
Shared memory buffers now do reference counting to allow compositors to
delay releasing the memory pools until they're no longer in use.
Enlightenment uses this for doing asynchronous rendering.
There are now provisions for deleting wl_seat objects. This is useful
in compositors that handle multiple seats such as for remote desktops.
Specific version numbers can be associated with protocol objects
client-side. For backwards compatibility, version 0 is recognized as
indicating an unversioned API.
New APIs are provided for getting and setting the socket file descriptor
Wayland servers use to communicate with their clients. This
functionality can be used in SELinux or SMACK environments for improved
security.
This release introduces the enum and bitfield attributes, which allow
protocol designers to refer to the specific enum that is expected in an
argument. Enums can also be specified as bitfields, as opposed to just
ordinary numerical sequences.
Quite a few clarifications to protocols and API are added;
many of these arose as various desktop environments implemented their
own Wayland support. And of course a rich assortment of bug fixes, code
cleanups, and test code enhancements are included. Of particular note,
the scanner now validates the protocol XML using a wayland.dtd.
See also my blog post with a bit more discussion:
http://blogs.s-osg.org/whats-new-wayland-1-10/
Next Release:
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Here is a proposed schedule for the 1.11 release cycle:
- Development of the 1.11 cycle starts immediately.
- 1.11-alpha around May 3rd. Major features done by this point.
- 1.11-beta around May 17th.
- 1.11-rc1 around May 24th.
- 1.11.0 release around May 31st.
Perhaps we can target a 1.12.0 in late August, and squeeze in a 1.13
before the end of the year.
Changes since 1.9.93:
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Bryce Harrington (1):
configure.ac: bump to version 1.10.0 for the official release
Jonas Ådahl (1):
connection: Don't add uninitialized memory as 4 byte alignment padding
Full Changes since 1.9.0
------------------------
Auke Booij (5):
Remove protocol/wayland.dtd
doc: document the enum and bitfield attributes
protocol: specify enum and bitfield attributes
scanner: enforce correct argument type for enums
doc: output enum and bitfield attributes in the documentation
Bryce Harrington (10):
configure.ac: bump to version 1.9.90 for open development
scanner: Close input resource when done to prevent leak
server: Add a socket with an existing fd
socket-test: Fix some comment typos
socket-test: Refactor if check into the assert
configure.ac: bump to version 1.9.91 for the alpha release
configure.ac: re-bump to version 1.9.91 for the alpha release
configure.ac: bump to version 1.9.92 for the beta release
configure.ac: bump to version 1.9.93 for the RC1 release
configure.ac: bump to version 1.10.0 for the official release
Carlos Garnacho (2):
protocol: Improve data source notification around DnD progress
protocol: Add DnD actions
Derek Foreman (11):
shm: Add shm_buffer ref and shm_pool unref functions
shm: Deprecate wl_shm_buffer_create()
shm: Move deprecated function to the bottom of the file
shm: wl_shm_buffer_get_data() requires a valid pool.
protocol: Remove incorrect statement that attach must precede damage
protocol: Add wl_surface.damage_buffer
server: improve failure log message for wl_global_create()
server: Test for illegally low interface versions in wl_global_create()
tests: Test proxy versions
server: Fail to bind object when requested version is 0
scanner: Fix oddities in copyright printing
FORT David (1):
wayland: add a release request on wl_seat
Jaeyoon Jung (1):
server: Calculate remaining data size after a closure is processed
Jason Ekstrand (1):
Track protocol object versions inside wl_proxy.
Jon Cruz (3):
cosmetic: fix inconsistent code style with header prototypes.
scanner: stop adding trailing whitespace to copyright
cosmetic: fix incorrect whitespace.
Jonas Ådahl (22):
client: Fix minor grammar issue
client: Reword and add documentation about the marshal functions
client: Be more clear about when one must call wl_display_flush
client: Improve wl_display_roundtrip(_queue)() documentation
client: Move prepare read documentation to .._prepare_read_queue()
scanner: Generate 'since' macros for requests as well
scanner: Add missing brackets
scanner: Fail if 'since' is higher than the interface version
Use zalloc instead of malloc + memset
doc: Fix function membership
doc: Fix incorrect parameter name
client: Correct documentation regarding thread safeness
client: Remove misplaced documentation about main loop intergration
client: Don't make EPIPE fatal if triggered when flushing
client: Use read preparation API in wl_display_dispatch_queue()
client: Fully flush during blocking dispatch
tests: Synchronize client termination in idle callback
tests: Pass argument to client main
tests: Test that one can fetch the protocol error after EPIPE
protocol: Add note about per version requirements to wl_data_device_manager
scanner: Print filename on DTD validation error
connection: Don't add uninitialized memory as 4 byte alignment padding
Marek Chalupa (5):
event-loop: remove extra header
add wl_abort private function
server: remove redundant include
server: don't send an error to NULL display_resource
cosmetic: return NULL instead of 0
Pekka Paalanen (3):
Contributing: explain Patchwork
Makefile: use automake rule for compiling .S
scanner: drop altmacro from dtddata.S
Peter Hutterer (8):
doc: make the doxygen output dependent on scanner.c
Revert "Remove protocol/wayland.dtd"
protocol: allow for a <description> element below <protocol>
protocol: add the new bitfields to the dtd
Validate the protocol xml during scanning
protocol: fix a couple of whitespace issues
protocol: specify behavior of get_pointer when capabilities change
protocol: add wl_pointer.frame, axis_source, axis_stop, and axis_discrete
Sergi Granell (3):
server: Fix possible wl_display_add_socket_fd memleak
cosmetic: use tabs instead of spaces
cosmetic: add an space after if
Sung-Jin Park (1):
server: Add an API to get the file descriptor for a client
Victor Berger (1):
client: Add missing arg in a wl_log invocation
git tag: 1.10.0
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases/wayland-1.10.0.tar.xz
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SHA256: 4bf6e790aa6f50ab3825676282ecd75850ec9c4767af96ecb7127b1f3c3d60dc wayland-1.10.0.tar.xz
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