GTK 2.17.6 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.5

  • Client-side windows:
    • Several optimizations, such as client-side tracking of viewable windows
    • Clipping for drawing pixbufs on windows has been fixed
    • Rendering to large subwindows has been fixed
  • Changes that are relevant for translators:
    • Markup has been removed from several strings

12 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.17.5 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.4

  • Client-side windows: Quite a few fixes have happened for the win32 and directfb backends
  • GSEAL: Accessors have been added for sealed members in GtkCellRenderer and GtkWidget
  • Changes that are relevant for distributors: The jpeg2000 pixbuf loader is now optional. Pass –with-libjasper to configure to build it

13 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.17.4 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.3

  • GtkEntry now has model-view separation, with GtkEntryBuffer. One intended use case for this is to support ‘secure memory’ for password entries.
  • The print dialog can now optionally include the page setup controls, avoiding the need for a separate page setup dialog in many applications.
  • Coloring of visited links in GtkLabel can now be turned off, with the ::track-visited-links property.
  • Support for clipmasks in gdk_draw_pixbuf now works, this will introduce visual changes in code that uses clipmasks when drawing pixbufs. However, since this never worked that is unlikely to happen. Old code using gdk_pixbuf_render_threshold_alpha masks when rendering pixbufs will now produce truncated results at the edges.
  • A number of regressions from the client-side window merge have been fixed.

4 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.17.3 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GTK+ 2.18.

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.2

  • GtkFileChooser: Shows the size column by default now
  • GtkStatusIcon: Has a title property, which can be used by ATs when they read status icons
  • GtkInfoBar:
    • The default theme now includes color definitions for infobars
    • The ::use-tooltip-style style property has been removed
  • GtkMountOperation now supports interaction during unmount operations.
  • The client-side windows branch has been merged; GDK now maintains its own window hierarchy client-side, and only uses X windows where unavoidable. Some of the benefits of this change are
    • Reduced flicker
    • The ability to do transformed and animated rendering of widgets
    • Easier embedding of GTK+ widgets e.g. into Clutter scene graphs

    This is a fundamental change to the way GDK works, so watch out for regressions.

12 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GLib 2.21.3 unstable release

This is a development release leading up to GLib 2.22.

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.21.2

  • GMappedFile is refcounted now
  • Mainloop: It is now possible to set per-thread default contexts, with g_main_context_push_thread_default.
  • glib-mkenums supports a @basename@ substitution, in addition to @filename
    • GIO:

    • Vfs implementations can support storing of per-file metadata.
    • GCancellable can now be subclassed.
    • Unmount and eject methods now optionally allow interaction, via variants that take a GMountOperation object.

11 bugs fixed in this release!

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.

GTK+ 2.16.4 stable release

This is a quick followup release to fix an unfortunate bug that was introduced in 2.16.3.
This fixes a side-effect introduced by the fix for bug 586330 that caused all stock buttons to loose their mnemonics.

See the original announcement for more info and downloads.