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Clutter 1.25.6 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 18 February 2016 at 02:55 PM EST. 5 Comments

The latest development release of Clutter graphics toolkit is now available.

With Clutter 1.25.6, swap throttling is now enabled for full-screen windows with the GDK back-end. This change is designed to avoid performance penalties with the GDK back-end for constrained devices where running fullscreen Clutter and Clutter-GTK applicatons.

Clutter 1.25.6 also adds support for platform-specific data to the libinput input back-end, which is necessitated for writing Wayland compositors based on Clutter and implementing higher-level functionality.

This Clutter update also has bug fixes and other changes. More details via the GNOME announce list.

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