[e-users] Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.19 Release

[Stefan S. <st...@os...>]

After eight months of development work we are proud to announce the 
release of
version 1.19 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. In these eight 
months we got
over 3400 commits from 98 authors. Great job everyone! Some highlights 
are listed below.

== Download ==

http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.19.0.tar.gz
8b672a2f5751aed6c910e7d48e8594f16fc5b7f69b1158f03354e8bce2fafe6f

http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.19.0.tar.xz
a4e0341081778007db414f8cd4e3b77b9d5398870292cab67e6b40cc1445eadf

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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.

== XCB support removed ==
After many years of having XCB support in ecore_x and the evas engine 
without a
real user base we decided to drop it from this release onwards.

== Multiseat support ==
This release saw the first work on multiseat support in evas and edje.

== Evas Image Loaders ==
In the evas image loader BMP got support for region set and PNG for 
region load.
The PNG saver was extended with support for GRY8/AGRY88 as well and our
async image loading now allows loading the header of an image file 
async, too.

== Wayland, DRM and Input ==
Our libinput support in elput does now supports new libinput features like
tap-and-drag, drag-log and dwt on touch pads and more. The XDG shell v6
support was added and ecore-drm does now support retrieving the screen
dpi and its rotation and setting gamma of a given output.

== Eolian ==
Eolian support for documentation in EO files has been extended by a large
margin, including a documentation tokenizer and maybe other things to
generate our documentation from the EO files.

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== Statistics ==

(git log --pretty=oneline v1.18.0..v1.19.0 | wc -l)
Number of commits in 1.19: 3475
Number of commits in 1.18: 3364

(git shortlog -ns v1.18.0..v1.19.0 | wc -l)
Number of authors in 1.19: 98
Number of authors in 1.18: 105

(git diff --stat v1.18.0..v1.19.0 | tail -1)
2491 files changed, 207951 insertions(+), 151443 deletions(-) in 1.19
5072 files changed, 1149591 insertions(+), 87002 deletions(-) in 1.18

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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
   * systemd
   * libwebp
   * liblz4
   * vlc (libvlc)

Enable these with configure options:

--enable-xinput22 \
--enable-systemd \
--enable-image-loader-webp \
--enable-harfbuzz \
--enable-multisense \
--enable-liblz4

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 \
--enable-elput \
--enable-drm

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