After 12 months of development work we are proud to announce the release of
version 1.21 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. In these 12
months we got
almost 5000 commits from 96 authors. Great job everyone! Some highlights
are listed below.

== Download ==

http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.21.tar.xz
7e65be78a537aa67e447b945f01f4ecf9ddfa14d509bf6bbf53a60253ecbae4b

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== What's New ==

We only cover some highlights here. For the full list please look at the
NEWS file,
if you are interested in the details. As usual we have been working on
fixing bugs,
optimising our code for speed and memory footprint and adding new features.

== Wayland, DRM and Input ==
The wayland protocol implementations still remains a highly active area
in EFL. This cycle we have
seen the addition of an EFL specific hints protocol for setting aspect
on surfaces and the support of
xdg-shell vfinal. Our drm2 and libinput usage gained support for setting
pointer acceleration speed.

== Edje ==
To aid the, sometimes very hard, debugging of edje files an embryo echo
command was added.
It is now also possible to reference images from other edje files. The
biggest change however is the
possibility to have edje_cc verify namespace usage during compilation .
This also has been enabled in
tree (with the whitelisting of some exceptions we can not change). We
hope this will help to avoid
these kind of problems for the future.

== Evas ==
The Eavs subsystem added async canvas text layout functionality and
improvements on font
handling. A scale feature for embedded bitmap fonts and support for
different H/V font DPI
has been aded. Last but not least we added align=end in textblock for
putting a text at the
opposite side of LTR/RTL.

== Elementary ==
A new text on patch widget was introduced this cycle together with a
item pin feature in genlist.
Additionally elm_entry was enhanced with a prediction hints API.

== Eolian ==
Eolian improved its parsing in various areas. One being deferred parsing
of inherits as well
as better static checks of the given eo files. New API's have been added
for part
enumeration and to query information about objects.

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== Statistics ==

(git log --pretty=oneline v1.20.1..v1.21.0 | wc -l)
Number of commits in 1.21: 4954
Number of commits in 1.20: 1665

(git shortlog -ns v1.20.1..v1.21.0 | wc -l)
Number of authors in 1.21: 96
Number of authors in 1.20: 64

(git diff --stat v1.20.1..v1.21.0 | tail -1)
3217 files changed, 281935 insertions(+), 137611 deletions(-) in 1.21
1298 files changed, 69378 insertions(+), 31364 deletions(-) in 1.20

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==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. Please refer to the README
for a full list of dependencies, explanations on configure flags and
other relevant information. Default dependencies are:

  * bullet
  * libpng
  * libjpeg
  * gstreamer (1.x, 0.10 support optional. Ensure all codecs you want
are installed.)
  * zlib
  * luajit (lua 5.1 or 5.2 support optional)
  * 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
  * poppler / poppler-cpp
  * libraw
  * libspectre
  * librsvg

Recommended requirements (highly recommended):

  * harfbuzz
  * libwebp
  * libunwind (where available)

Enable these with configure options:

<file>
--enable-xinput22 \
--enable-systemd \
--enable-image-loader-webp \
--enable-harfbuzz \
--enable-multisense \
--enable-liblz4
</file>

On linux to get framebuffer support you may want to also do:

<file>
--enable-fb
--disable-tslib
</file>

If you want wayland support also add:

<file>
--enable-wayland \
--enable-elput \
--enable-drm
</file>

At runtime if you want thumbnailing for DOC/PPT/XLS etc. files also provide:
libreoffice



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