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

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.17.7

• Client-side windows
  • – various fixes to expose handlings
  • fix memory leaks
• Minor API additions
  • New setter as part of the GSEAL effort: gtk_widget_set_allocation

11 bugs fixed in this 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.

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.

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.

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.