= Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.14 and Friends are Out = After three months of development work we are proud to announce the release of version 1.14 of the EFL, Elementary, Evas Generic Loaders and Emotion Generic Players. In these 12 weeks we got over 1200 commits from 77 authors in EFL alone. The commit count almost doubled from last time (700). Elementary has another 313 commits by 51 authors. Great job everyone! Some highlights are listed below.
== Download == http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.14.0.tar.gz 30a8a239449e0d068a39787b5a4769dd26ddf0476f58f094c85e65b108086269 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/elementary/elementary-1.14.0.tar.gz aa06ca1b332b3cd29ffd136c1f10edf08a06906b3532785ce7e390c1cad6090e http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/emotion_generic_players/emotion_generic_players-1.14.0.tar.gz 8345c7d8c3cdf062b5df4500c0d4c557b6109c67667ac2e5431699c8852d2ad8 http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/evas_generic_loaders/evas_generic_loaders-1.14.0.tar.gz 943b25427c4e77a3aeae72811557a0b1b7ec4c61aa53922a4c4faf17b3dea812 ---- = What's New = Even if we had only three months a lot has happened during the 1.14 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. == Build & Distribution == While we have supported parallel building a la make -j X for a long time we had problems with supporting it for the install target. Finally this is solved and you can use -j X for all your make calls now. == Emile == Emile provides a library to bring together serialization, compression and ciphering. It is a low-level library and can be used by anything above Eina. It came along with a lot re-factoring of our current code base to make use of it and de-duplicate a lot of existing code. More refactoring is expected in ecore_con_ssl ciphering and general image compression. == Ector and Evas_Object_VG (BETA) == Ector provides a new retained rendering library that is used by Evas to provide Evas_Object_VG. This is a new Evas_Object that provides a vector graphics scene graph following the SVG specification. It will be considered a bug if some behaviour does not follow the SVG standard. Evas_Object_VG provides 3 kind of objects for now: shape, as well as linear and radial gradients. Apart from the authors you will see with git, two big thanks need to be mentioned here. First special thanks goes to Jorge Luis "turran" Zapata who has been developing his own vector stack: http://enesim.org/ since a long time now and shared his technical advice and also strongly influenced the design. We evaluated the possibility to include enesim in the EFL, but that wasn't really possible, sadly. Another thanks goes to Jose O Gonzalez who supported and answered a lot of my questions and helped me a lot, too. == EModel (BETA)== Efl.Model is an attempt to provide a data model as in the M of MVC to the EFL core. A first implementation and example is provided as a Eio.Model. This, together with some patches in Elementary, should provide a fully asynchronous and fast modern MVC system for the EFL. The API has been in review since last summer, but will still only be accessible with EFL BETA API and EO for now. More data models should come in the future. == Eo / Eolian == Eolian now supports parsing of @nullable and @optional args on function parameters and is able return the class from a function and determine if a function is implemented. Eo remove some GCCism and make it more portable to work with other compilers. == EvasGL == Together with a lot bug fixes Evas GL got support for 3.0 and automatic fallback to indirect rendering when the scene has not changed. == Evas == The gl_x11 Evas engines gained support for the TBM native surface type (for Tizen) as well as support for bitmap embedded color fonts. == Ecore_Evas == With eetpack we added a small utility for packing files (images) into eet files. == Edje == Edje received many updates for its edit capabilities, especially around box and table. It also received 3D camera properties in edje_cc, colorclass updates, zoom effects for map and more. == Ecore DRM == Many new features and bug fixes have been put into ecore_drm this cycle while its usage in the Enlightenment Wayland compositor is progressing. Functionality as been added to support DPMS on outputs, setting output, marking framebuffers as dirty, disabling an output, ouput EDID parsing as well as support for libinput 0.8 and higher. == Unit Testing == We improved out test coverage from 38.5% to 39.3% during the 1.14 release cycle. This does not sound much but given the size of our code base and the amount of new code added even a small increase of 0.8% coverage is a good step forward. == Elementary == Elementary got mostly fixes but also some new things all over the place. New features including animated and accelerated wheel in scroller, enhanced Drag and Drop support with Wayland, a colorclass editor, async image loading, improved atspi support in widgets, long pressed support in multibuttonentry and a config option to automatically show/hide focus. For more details please have a look at the Elementary NEWS file or the git log. ==Portability== Windows and MacOS X fixes all over the place. Besides build and runtime fixes we also improved the cocoa Evas enignes and switched the Windows specific thread implementation to rely on posix compliant library instead. ---- = Statistics = == EFL == (git log --pretty=oneline v1.13.0..v1.14.0 | wc -l) Number of commits: 1269 (git shortlog -ns v1.13.0..v1.14.0 | wc -l) Number of authors: 77 (git diff --stat v1.13.0..v1.14.0) 953 files changed, 77227 insertions(+), 99641 deletions(-) (git shortlog -nse v1.14.0-beta1..v1.14.0) Top 5 committers in the stabilization phase: 54 Jean-Philippe ANDRÉ <j...@videolan.org> 29 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> 27 Christopher Michael <devilho...@comcast.net> 16 Mike Blumenkrantz <zm...@osg.samsung.com> 9 Tom Hacohen <t...@stosb.com> == Elementary == (git log --pretty=oneline v1.13.0..v1.14.0 | wc -l) Number of commits: 313 (git shortlog -ns v1.13.0..v1.14.0 | wc -l) Number of authors: 51 (git diff --stat v1.13.0..v1.14.0) 224 files changed, 11870 insertions(+), 3366 deletions(-) (git shortlog -nse v1.14.0-beta1..v1.14.0) Top 5 committers in the stabilization phase: 7 Stefan Schmidt <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> 6 Mike Blumenkrantz <zm...@osg.samsung.com> 5 Amitesh Singh <amitesh...@samsung.com> 5 ChunEon Park <her...@hermet.pe.kr> 4 Andrii Kroitor <an.kroi...@samsung.com> ---- =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.) 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 the 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Enlightenment-release mailing list Enlightenment-release@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-release
