Release Notes

Mir 2.27.0~dev

  • New upstream release 2.27.0

    • ABI summary:

      • miral ABI unchanged at 7

      • mircommon ABI unchanged at 12

      • mircore ABI unchanged at 2

      • miroil ABI unchanged at 8

      • mirplatform ABI unchanged at 34

      • mirserver ABI unchanged at 67

      • mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5

      • mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 23

      • mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 10

Mir 2.26.0

  • New upstream release 2.26.0

    • ABI summary:

      • miral ABI unchanged at 7

      • mircommon ABI bumped to 12

      • mircore ABI unchanged at 2

      • miroil ABI unchanged at 8

      • mirplatform ABI unchanged at 34

      • mirserver ABI bumped to 67

      • mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5

      • mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 23

      • mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 10

    • Enhancements:

      • [evdev-rs] Implementing touch events in the evdev-rs platform #4671

      • [evdev-rs] Fix missing initial events in evdev-rs #4780

      • [evdev-rs] Add input event reporting to the evdev-rs input platform #4769

      • [evdev-rs] Cleanup of the device module in evdev-rs #4722

      • [evdev-rs] Fix evdev-rs pointer events by moving button state to per-device storage #4680

      • [evdev-rs] Refactor the event processing logic in evdev-rs to increase clarity #4740

      • [wayland-rs] Started implementing Wayland frontend in Rust

      • Allow CursorObservers to monitor when the cursor image changes #4579

      • Add requires clauses to libmiral templates #4764

      • [Wayland] ext-input-triggers - MVP (V1) #4328

      • [Wayland] Implement ext-input-triggers #4410

      • [Wayland] Update ext-input-trigger-action-v1.xml to add more details about token validity and availability #4770

      • [Wayland] Partial implementation of ext_image_copy_capture_v1 cursor sessions #4632

      • [Wayland] Send the cursor image via ext_image_copy_capture_v1 #4685

      • feature: replace strerror() with thread safe version(strerror_r()) #4590

      • feature: Move logging APIs (and defaults) to mircore #4644

      • CursorObserverMultiplexer sends the initial state to newly registered CursorObservers #4662

      • Refactor MinimalWindowManager for better specialization #4666

      • Add the ability to set the alpha of a Window and retrieve it via WindowInfo #4704

    • Bugs fixed:

      • BasicXCBConnection::destroy_window calls xcb_map_window instead of xcb_destroy_window #4560

      • XCB replies not always freed #4559

      • Making videos fullscreen in Google Chrome fails if the window isn’t already fullscreen #4688

      • [X11] Set _NET_CLIENT_LIST_STACKING #2023

      • Fatal signal handling is wildly unsafe #2658

      • DRM_CLIENT_CAP_ATOMIC check is performed with wrong ioctl call #4774

      • Clean up and improve mgk::find_crtc_with_primary_plane #3972

      • If a surface has an opaque region BUT the alpha is not 1.0, then we shouldn’t use it as an occlusion #4696

    • New Contributors

Mir 2.25.2

  • Bugs fixed:

    • PkgConf isn’t finding xkbcommon.h on openSUSE Tumbleweed #4544

    • libmirplatform-dev does not upgrade if mir-renderer-gl-dev is installed #4563

Mir 2.25.1

  • Bug fix for PkgConf files missing versions #4544

Mir 2.25.0

  • New upstream release 2.25.0

    • ABI summary:

      • miral ABI unchanged at 7

      • mircommon ABI unchanged at 11

      • mircore ABI unchanged at 2

      • miroil ABI unchanged at 8

      • mirplatform ABI bumped to 34

      • mirserver ABI bumped to 66

      • mirwayland ABI unchanged at 5

      • mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 23

      • mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 10

    • Enhancements:

      • [Wayland] Add support for the ext_foreign_toplevel_list_v1 extension

      • [Wayland] Implement ext-data-control

      • [Wayland] Partial implementation of ext-image-capture-source and ext-image-copy-capture Wayland extensions

      • Rework wayland extension management so that connections originating from the server can always use the required extensions

      • Implementation of an evdev platform in rust

      • Added copilot instructions

      • Roll mir-renderer-gl (et alia) into mirplatform

      • Publish the mirplatform headers used outside mirplatform

      • Improve Cursor Scale animation

      • Implement LocatePointer

      • Implement ApplicationSwitcher

      • Implement the StandardApplicationSwitcher for ease of use

      • New FloatingWindowManager and deprecate MinimalWindowManager

      • Handle opaque regions of transparent surfaces

      • Log security events according to OWASP format

      • Add geometry::Value generic accessors for type-safe value conversion

      • Move mir::report_exception() to mircore

    • Bugs fixed:

      • Cursor icons don’t change with XTerm (#4134)

      • Fix magnifier filter not consuming events when magnifications is greater/less than the max/min (#4386)

      • If no specified cursor theme loads, then internal theme (#439)

      • Renderer: Ensure current EGL context when destroying GL resources (#4460)

      • Fix XWayland menu positioning by initializing spec from cached geometry (#4512)

      • [Wayland] Implement wl_subsurface.place_above and place_below with parent z-ordering (#4332)

      • WindowInfo::clip_area is incorrect if the output is scaled (#4484)

      • Check DRM_CAP_SYNCOBJ_TIMELINE in platform layer before providing DRMRenderingProvider

      • Fix cursor size getting truncated after scaling leading to crash (#4377)

      • Intermittent crash (#4323)

    • Documentation:

      • Add Release Notes template

      • Update the input platform explanation to include information about threading

      • Refresh some links