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Enlightenment 0.26.0 Release

  • 2023-12-23 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.

Hilights:

  • Lots of minor bug fixes (see git log)
  • Add DDC option to backlight settings
  • Bigger task previews
  • Added watermark to wl mode so you know E is in experimental wl mode
  • Support new eet disk sync API to ensure config it stored
  • Support action desktop files in EFM to add file actions
  • Added org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver inhibit support
  • Added support for logind's lock/unlock dbus apis
  • Added and enabled watchdog thread by default to detect mainloop hangs
  • Added API to play sound samples and support in notifications
  • Add option to Randr X11 support to use xrandr cmdline not direct API
  • Be agressive about forcing E's blank settings if apps override them
  • Add params to mixer actions to allow to set amount up/down
  • Added option for input settings for flat accel + hires scrolling
  • Added option to set hidden state in netwm or not
LINK SHA256
enlightenment-0.26.0.tar.xz 11b6ef0671be5fead688bf554c30a2a1c683493ad10c5fe3115ffb4655424e84
Building and Dependencies
  1. libexif
  2. libpam (Linux only)

Highly recommended to ensure proper functionality (though you can live without these):

  1. connman (For network configuration support)
  2. bluez5 (For bluetooth configuration and control)
  3. bc (For the everything module calculator mode)
  4. pulseaudio (For proper audio device control and redirection)
  5. acpid (For systems with ACPI for lid events, AC/Battery plug in/out etc.)
  6. packagekit (For the built in system updates monitoring and updater)
  7. udisks2 (For removable storage mounting/unmounting)
  8. ddcutil (specifically libddcutil.so.2 for backlight control)
  9. gdb (If you want automatic backtraces on a crash in ~/.e-crashdump.txt - don't forget to build EFL and E with gdb debugging to make this useful)

Note: Enlightenment 0.26.0 depends on EFL v1.27.0 or newer.


Enlightenment 0.26.0 Release

  • 2023-12-23 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features.

Hilights:

  • Lots of minor bug fixes (see git log)
  • Add DDC option to backlight settings
  • Bigger task previews
  • Added watermark to wl mode so you know E is in experimental wl mode
  • Support new eet disk sync API to ensure config it stored
  • Support action desktop files in EFM to add file actions
  • Added org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver inhibit support
  • Added support for logind's lock/unlock dbus apis
  • Added and enabled watchdog thread by default to detect mainloop hangs
  • Added API to play sound samples and support in notifications
  • Add option to Randr X11 support to use xrandr cmdline not direct API
  • Be agressive about forcing E's blank settings if apps override them
  • Add params to mixer actions to allow to set amount up/down
  • Added option for input settings for flat accel + hires scrolling
  • Added option to set hidden state in netwm or not
LINK SHA256
enlightenment-0.26.0.tar.xz 11b6ef0671be5fead688bf554c30a2a1c683493ad10c5fe3115ffb4655424e84
Building and Dependencies
  1. libexif
  2. libpam (Linux only)

Highly recommended to ensure proper functionality (though you can live without these):

  1. connman (For network configuration support)
  2. bluez5 (For bluetooth configuration and control)
  3. bc (For the everything module calculator mode)
  4. pulseaudio (For proper audio device control and redirection)
  5. acpid (For systems with ACPI for lid events, AC/Battery plug in/out etc.)
  6. packagekit (For the built in system updates monitoring and updater)
  7. udisks2 (For removable storage mounting/unmounting)
  8. ddcutil (specifically libddcutil.so.2 for backlight control)
  9. gdb (If you want automatic backtraces on a crash in ~/.e-crashdump.txt - don't forget to build EFL and E with gdb debugging to make this useful)

Note: Enlightenment 0.26.0 depends on EFL v1.27.0 or newer.


Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.27 Release

  • 2023-12-23 - by Carsten Haitzler

It's been a while since the last main EFL release (1.26.0) so this now updates EFL to 1.27.0.

Download
LINK SHA256
efl-1.27.0.tar.xz 3dfb99fbcc268c0bc797e2f83e8c503ef9de66284f40b381bb597a08185c00f4

What's New
  • Lots of minor bug fixes (too many to summarize here - see git log)
  • New eina APIS (releative path and sha1)
  • Support ecore exe terminate with parent on windows
  • Add URI List to elm cnp
  • Add JXL Evas loader/saver
  • Add Eet fs sync call to force writes to disk
  • Add support for LibreSSL 3.5.x
  • Removed GNUTLS support now openssl3 is out
  • Elementary icons - policy change to use theme icons for std icons
  • Elementary entry - allow past into password entries
  • Add QOI Evas image loader/saver

Terminology 1.13.0 Release

  • 2022-12-01 - by Boris Faure
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

This year is coming to an end and it is time again for a new release of Terminology.

This new release comes with the following changes:

Additions
  • Colorshemes: add Fir Dark, Selenized Dark, Selenized Black, Selenized Light and Selenized White schemes
  • New translation: Indonesian
Improvements
  • Translation updates for Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Handle scale changes on the fly
  • Better named option to enable/disable typing sounds
  • Improved README file
  • The tyls tool now supports .pls files
  • Fade the background of the terminal with the background color defined in the color scheme
  • Update the default theme to customize selection arrows
  • Update color schemes about selection arrows
  • Better documentation of the tyalpha tool
Fixes
  • Fix issue when restoring the cursor state
  • Fix issue preventing some red color from being displayed
Internal improvements
  • Cleanup the code base about C reserved identifiers
  • Code analyzed with Coverity 2022.06
  • Test code with some Coccinelle scripts in GitHub's CI
  • Update the ChangeLog.theme file
Download
LINK SHA256
Terminology 1.13.0 XZ 16a37fecd7bbd63ec9de3ec6c0af331cee77d6dfda838a1b1573d6f298474da5

Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.26.3 Release

  • 2022-09-16 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is a bug-fix release.

Download
LINK SHA256
efl-1.26.3.tar.xz d9f83aa0fd9334f44deeb4e4952dc0e5144683afac786feebce6030951617d15

What's New
  • Fix theme issues
  • Fix edje calc internal return values in some cases
  • Fix ecore-x netwm moveresize request handling
  • Fix ecore-x xkb handling to not leak
  • Fix new xkb event handling
  • Fix evas smart object to null out fields for safety
  • Fix elm null cnp object handling to not crash in odd cases
  • Fix ecore evas x11 dnd handling to not null out xdnd props
  • Fix data checkme file so relocation at runtime works again
  • Fix eina bt output to always have spaces between fields
  • Fix png loader on arm to not have rgb values when a is 0
  • Fix textgrid to guard against null glyphs
  • Fix ecore-x vblank to use current time not vlbank time
  • Fix emile to handle invalid compress types more gracefully
  • Fix compile warnings
  • Fix evas psd loader crash
  • Fix osx sample compile conf script options
  • Fix wl vsync timer to use current time not vblank time
  • Work around xwayland issue where synthetic events are not sent

Enlightenment 0.25.4 Release

  • 2022-09-15 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is a bugfix release of Enlightenment

Hilights:

  • Fix shape handling in various cases that affected apps with shaped input
  • Fix procstats popup and dangling icon for fullscreen windows
  • Fix a vianishing pointer in some cases
  • Workaround Qt issue where it does not remove WM_STATE on withdraw
  • Fix fullscreen focus toggle flicker
  • Fix pointer sticking case
  • Fix tap-to-click props
  • Fix gadgcon disabled items
  • Fix config fallback handling that means no fallback happened
  • Fix gtk frame prop handling
  • Fix first map handling that affected energyxt
  • Fix CVE-2022-37706
  • Hanrde enlightenment_sys when mis-packaged without sysactions.conf
LINK SHA256
enlightenment-0.25.4.tar.xz 56db5d206b821b9a8831d26e713e410ac70b2255a6f43fcdf7c01eefde23b7a2
Building and Dependencies
  1. libexif
  2. libpam (Linux only)

Highly recommended to ensure proper functionality (though you can live without these):

  1. connman (For network configuration support)
  2. bluez5 (For bluetooth configuration and control)
  3. bc (For the everything module calculator mode)
  4. pulseaudio (For proper audio device control and redirection)
  5. acpid (For systems with ACPI for lid events, AC/Battery plug in/out etc.)
  6. packagekit (For the built in system updates monitoring and updater)
  7. udisks2 (For removable storage mounting/unmounting)
  8. ddcutil (specifically libddcutil.so.2 for backlight control)
  9. gdb (If you want automatic backtraces on a crash in ~/.e-crashdump.txt - don't forget to build EFL and E with gdb debugging to make this useful)

Note: Enlightenment 0.25.4 depends on EFL v1.26.0 or newer.


Enlightenment 0.25.3 Release

  • 2022-02-10 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is a bugfix release of Enlightenment

Hilights:

  • Fix notification double-shadow on multi-screen notifications
  • Add option to gesture to turn off entirely to avoid xserver vt bugs
  • Add option to backlight to disable ddc support in case it's broken
  • Fix ibar left/right emit for alignment
LINK SHA256
enlightenment-0.25.3.tar.xz 37fd49ebb537216a18efe69d5c5511e118f9cdacb5652807769331707be4cff6
Building and Dependencies
  1. libexif
  2. libpam (Linux only)

Highly recommended to ensure proper functionality (though you can live without these):

  1. connman (For network configuration support)
  2. bluez5 (For bluetooth configuration and control)
  3. bc (For the everything module calculator mode)
  4. pulseaudio (For proper audio device control and redirection)
  5. acpid (For systems with ACPI for lid events, AC/Battery plug in/out etc.)
  6. packagekit (For the built in system updates monitoring and updater)
  7. udisks2 (For removable storage mounting/unmounting)
  8. ddcutil (specifically libddcutil.so.2 for backlight control)
  9. gdb (If you want automatic backtraces on a crash in ~/.e-crashdump.txt - don't forget to build EFL and E with gdb debugging to make this useful)

Note: Enlightenment 0.25.2 depends on EFL v1.26.0 or newer.


Enlightenment 0.25.2 Release

  • 2022-02-07 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is a bugfix release of Enlightenment

Hilights:

  • Fix e_icon reset between edje and image file - fixes some systray icons
  • Fix focus reverting issues in several apps and situations
  • Fix bluez5 module to deregister gadcon class so gadget goes away
  • Fix bluez5 module to not have force connect as it's not needed
  • Fix scaling of fileman favorites pane to scale
  • Fix bluez5 to not ping devices when adaptor unpowered
  • Fix crash on closing xkb settings when opening advanced stuff
  • Fix shot module cnp flag so it thnks its still cnp-ing
  • Fix desklock settings list of keyboard layouts to be taller
  • Fix recent files sorting weirdness
  • Fix pager popup to stop stacking on top of itself again and again
  • Fix BSD linking for link flag detect in meson
  • Fix deskmirror to hide iconified windows
  • Fix pkgkit update pakcgae count in gadget for non-typed packages
LINK SHA256
enlightenment-0.25.2.tar.xz 123a06815e41453deddf22ad8373c72e652b3c6553385d16fe27e51ede5e3811
Building and Dependencies
  1. libexif
  2. libpam (Linux only)

Highly recommended to ensure proper functionality (though you can live without these):

  1. connman (For network configuration support)
  2. bluez5 (For bluetooth configuration and control)
  3. bc (For the everything module calculator mode)
  4. pulseaudio (For proper audio device control and redirection)
  5. acpid (For systems with ACPI for lid events, AC/Battery plug in/out etc.)
  6. packagekit (For the built in system updates monitoring and updater)
  7. udisks2 (For removable storage mounting/unmounting)
  8. ddcutil (specifically libddcutil.so.2 for backlight control)
  9. gdb (If you want automatic backtraces on a crash in ~/.e-crashdump.txt - don't forget to build EFL and E with gdb debugging to make this useful)

Note: Enlightenment 0.25.2 depends on EFL v1.26.0 or newer.


Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.26.2 Release

  • 2022-02-07 - by Carsten Haitzler

This is a bug-fix release.

Download
LINK SHA256
efl-1.26.2.tar.xz 2979cfbc728a1a1f72ad86c2467d861ed91e664d3f17ef03190fb5c5f405301c

What's New
  • Fix crash when doing wierd combinations of eet_write and eet_read
  • Fix elementary tests to pass
  • Fix portability of putenv/setenv for niche OS's
  • Fix ecore input to build on BSD
  • Fix svg decoding crashes for vector decode
  • Fix theme - ibar label overlay
  • Fix theme - pointer scaling and sizing
  • Fix ecore x - ensure pointer on screen when setting bounds

Terminology 1.12.1 release

  • 2022-01-03 - by Boris Faure
“Oops” ― Boris Faure

Yesterday's release was not done correctly. This is now fixed, as seen in the change log below:

Fixes
  • Build and install Default colorscheme
  • Correctly set the version
Download
LINK SHA256
Terminology 1.12.1 XZ f8ced9584c2e9ae87452ce7425fd25b2d3e122c7489785d2917890215c6b5aa9

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