= EFL 1.9 is Out = After three months of development work and only one day behind the set schedule we are proud to announce the release of version 1.9 of EFL, Elementary, Evas Generic Loaders and Emotion Generic Players.
== Download == http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.9.0.tar.gz fd4703edb56c01b713f92849fb15f6ca3d866227ce4abff2d90b08244cd99a99 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/elementary/elementary-1.9.0.tar.gz 95cb9ade6c1f135b673555d927d13b5e06986353047178125346abdf6c2b4d82 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/emotion_generic_players/emotion_generic_players-1.9.0.tar.gz 9447839047b087b0293b2ed6c453249919f66e5c4f62e252a7b7e4f996c2ac5f http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/evas_generic_loaders/evas_generic_loaders-1.9.0.tar.gz d26546adf61db7521f9d46f2baedcb645af72497fc259e93907026970d42d794 ---- = What's New = Even if we had only three months a lot has happened during the 1.9 release cycle. We only cover some highlights here for the full list please look at the NEWS files if you are interested in the details. As usual we have been working on fixing bugs, optimizing our code for speed and memory footprint and adding new features. Below we describe just some highlights and by no means provide a full list. == AT-SPI based accessibility features == New accessibility features based on AT-SPI2 interfaces enabling Elementary support for AT-SPI clients (e.g. Orca Screen Reader). AT-SPI support currently includes: * registering an application, * building an application's widget tree, * implementations for the Accessible and Component AT-SPI interfaces. For AT-SPI2 specification see http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/atk/at-spi/at-spi_on_d-bus == Evas Filters == The Evas filters are a combination of filters used to apply specific effects to an Evas Object. For the moment, these effects are specific to the Text Objects. The filters can be applied to an object using a simple script language specifically designed for these effects. Commands of these script language include blend, blur, grow, displace, transform and more. == Emotion Port to GStreamer 1.0 == A long due port from the GStreamer 0.10 API to 1.0 has happened in our emotion library. This port implements some missing features, clean up code a bit and fix some bugs on the way. Some highlighted changes: * Use GstVideoInfo to store the format details inside the sink * Add support for pixel-aspect-ratio * Store video format information in GstVideoInfo for the different * video streams * Use GstAudioInfo to store the audio format information * Implement initial support for GstNavigation interface * Implement setting of audio/video channel == Evas text improvements == A lot development time was spent on optimizing the evas text handling. Speed as well as memory improvements combined with many bug fixes to make the code more correct and handle corner cases. We also added ​support for 4bit and rel 4 bit compressed font glyphs as well as the long awaited font ​fallback for eet/edje and non-fontconfig queried fonts, fixing international text in Terminology. == Support for XPresent extension == Ecore_x gained support for the XPresent extension of X.org. The upcoming Enlightenment 0.19 release will make first use of this. == Edje Edit Enhancements == Another area with a lot of ongoing work was edje edit. From API additions over bug fixes and general improvements a lot was done here. Edje edit can be seen as some foundation work for graphical edc/edj editors. It is needed to access and change the theme files. We hope to build upon that to provide better tooling for efl development later. == Statistics == During this release cycle efl received 783 commits with 598 files changed, 33338 line insertions and 11352 line deletions. During this release cycle elementary received 576 commits with 637 files changed 29482 line insertions and 13469 line deletions. ==Changed Dependencies == * Emotion in efl now needs GStreamer 1.x (Evas generic loaders still * need Gstreamer 0.10 - sorry for this we hope to fix that at some * point) * EFL now needs luajit by default. If you want to stay with lua 5.1 or * 5.2 you can use --enable-lua-old during configure. ==Building and Dependencies== If you have an existing EFL or Elementary install, you may wish to delete its header files and libraries before compiling and installing to avoid possible conflicts during compilation. If you are compiling the above, please compile them in the following order: efl elementary emotion_generic_players evas_generic_loaders Please refer to the respective README files in each release for a full list of dependencies, explanations on configure flags and other relevant information (Just scroll down to see the README already displayed nicely). EFL Elementary Emotion Generic Players Evas Generic Loaders Recommended dependencies are for all of the above are: bullet libpng libjpeg gstreamer (1.x) (ensure you have all the gstreamer codecs you need/want. Evas generic loaders still need gstreamer 0.10) zlib luajit (optional lua 5.1 or 5.2) libtiff openssl curl dbus libc fontconfig freetype2 fribidi libpulse libsndfile libx11 libxau libxcomposite libxdamage libxdmcp libxext libxfixes libxinerama libxrandr libxrender libxss libxtst libxcursor libxp libxi (2.2 or newer) libgl (opengl/glx or opengl-es2/egl) giflib util-linux (limbount + libblkid) systemd / libudev harfbuzz systemd libwebp vlc (libvlc) poppler libraw libspectre librsvg It is suggested you add the following options when building EFL to get a better experience: --enable-xinput22 \ --enable-multisense \ --enable-systemd \ --enable-image-loader-webp \ --enable-harfbuzz On linux to get framebuffer support you may want to also do: --enable-fb --disable-tslib If you want wayland support also add: --enable-wayland At runtime if you want thumbnailing for DOC/PPT/XLS etc. files also provide: libreoffice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. 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