• 2016-04-26 - by zmike

Highlights:

• Greatly improved Wayland support
• New gadget infrastructure
• Wizard improvements
• Video backgrounds

Changes since alpha:

• Improvements to window placement when using multiple monitors
• Upgrade to v3 of Wayland DnD protocol
• Various crash fixes/additions

Tickets addressed:

• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1759
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T2735
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3157
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3432
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3435
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3444
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3455
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3461
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3475
• https://phab.enlightenment.org/T3507

As always, stay tuned to the latest infrequent E updates on the release blog.

Artisinally composited pixmaps for your desktop.

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 compile the dependencies in the following order (click for README):

1. EFL
2. Elementary
3. Emotion generic players
4. Evas generic loaders

Note: E21 depends on EFL v1.17 or newer for X11 compositing and 1.18 for Wayland support.