[ANNOUNCE] libinput 1.9.0

[Peter Hutterer]

libinput 1.9 is now available. As expected, not a lot of changes since the
rc2: a few test fixes, a fix to stop excessive logging and an extra
assert so we fail early in case of a bug.

The rest of this email is a copy/paste from the rc1 announcements, all the
features were described there:

The autotools build system is no more, we are now using meson exclusively.
Building and installing libinput is now usually running
   meson builddir && ninja -C builddir install
More detailed build instructions are available here:
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/building_libinput.html

Touchpads can now use pressure-based palm detection if the hardware supports
it. A new tool "libinput measure touchpad-pressure" is available to measure
the presure values for your touchpad. This should be stored in a hwdb entry.
If your touchpad doesn't have an entry yet please file a bug with the
tool's output attached so we can make this work for everyone.

On touchpads with ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR/MINOR we can now use those for touch
detection (especially if per-touch pressure is not available). The Apple
touchpads already use this but unfortunately the values are basically random
and every touchpad needs a custom hwdb entry. Please use the
"libinput measure touch-size" tool to find out the right thresholds and file
the required bugs.

Touchpads now ignore extra fingers while the pointer-controlling finger
is moving. This avoids accidentally triggering two-finger scrolling when
lightly touching the touchpad or placing a thumb on the touchpad while
moving.

Trackpoints ("pointingsticks", "that red thing between g and h") have had
their pointer acceleration re-done. The new approach basically punts
most of the acceleration curve to the firmware to avoid unexpected
double-acceleration. libinput merely applies a more-or-less linear factor on
top of that curve based on a device-specific range. As the two items
above, the range is hardware specific and needs a per-device entry. The tool
to measure this is "libinput measure trackpoint-range".

Pointer devices now have button debouncing automagically enabled.
Ghost button release/press events due to worn out or bad-quality switches
are transparently discarded and the device should just work.

The tablet-mode switch on hybrid laptop/tablet devices (e.g. Lenovo Yoga)
now disables the touchpad, trackpoint and internal keyboard to avoid fake
touches when the tablet is placed on a lap or just held with the fingers
on those devices.

Aside from those main features, the usual bunch of fixes, cleanups,
unicycle-riding unicorns, etc.

As usual, the git shortlog is below

Peter Hutterer (5):
      test: fix a comment in the log_priority test
      test: unref the litest device *after* removing it from the path interface
      util: add an extra assert for list_insert()
      touchpad: cut down on excessive logging for palm size
      libinput 1.9.0

git tag: 1.9.0

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/libinput/libinput-1.9.0.tar.xz
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