Mir 0.25 rilasciato: oltre 50 i bugfix

Ancora una volta il server grafico ci regala soddisfazioni con un nuovo rilascio, Mir 0.25, che a differenza delle release precedenti 0.19 e 0.20 include un quantitativo di fix considerevole, ben 50 bugfix per uno dei rilasci più grandi di sempre (che sia un regalo di fine anno? probabile).

Mir 0.25 integra la seguente lista dei cambiamenti:

– ABI summary:
. mirclient ABI unchanged at 9
. mirserver ABI bumped to 42
. mircommon ABI bumped to 7
. mirplatform ABI bumped to 14
. mirprotobuf ABI unchanged at 3
. mirplatformgraphics ABI bumped to 11
. mirclientplatform ABI unchanged at 5
. mirinputplatform ABI bumped to 6
. mircore ABI added, at version 1
– Enhancements:
. Added pointer confinement support
. Identify Raspberry Pi output types correctly
. Added dead key and compose key support
. Added gamma support for KMS hardware
. Added yakkety and zesty gcc-6 support
. Added surface passthrough support for fullscreen clients of nested
servers
. Introduced a new library `libmircore’
. Began migrating from Protobuf to Cap’n Proto starting with events
. Began support for VirtualBox (servers now start instead of crashing
but full support for GL clients is still missing)
. Began support for high precision frame timing, implemented for the
KMS, Android and X11 backends so far
. Added –display-report support for the X11 backend
. Improved reliability of `mirvanity’ latency test tool
. Moved to using the CSS cursor naming scheme internally, although
the old symbolic indentifiers remain unchanged and still work
. Added refresh rate to MirSurfaceOutputEvent
. Many improvements to automated test quality and coverage
. Smoother desktop zoom using mir_proving_server (Super + two fingers)
– Bugs fixed: See below.

Ricapitolando, tra i più importanti troviamo l’aggiunta di una nuova libreria di nome libmircore, migliorata l’identificazione dell’output del Raspberry Pi, aggiunto il supporto al confinamento del puntatore, aggiunti i tasti morti, aggiunto il supporto gamma per hardware KMS ed aggiornati i vari mircore, mirserver, mircommon e via dicendo. L’annuncio ufficiale, qui.