Overview of Changes in 4.7.1, 12-07-2022 ======================================== * GtkInscription: - A new label-like widget for use in list views * GtkColorChooser: - Style improvements * GtkFontChooser: - Improve support for OpenType features a bit * GtkLabel: - Allow selectable labels to be activated via mnemonic * GtkTextView: - Implement GetCharacterExtents for accessibility * GtkStack: - Fix a poblem with stack page accessibility * GtkListView: - Cull listitems that are out of view - Make all our list models implement ::n-items and ::item-type properties * Translations: - Stop translating property nicks and blurbs - Fix extracting translations from ui files * Debugging: - Support GTK_DEBUG=invert-text-dir - Allow inspecting inspectors - Replace GTK_USE_PORTAL with GDK_DEBUG=portals - Improve responsiveness of the inspector * CSS: - Allow fractional letterspacing * Theme: - Improve legibility of selectable labels * Demos: - Improve the font features demo - Add demos for GtkInscription * Wayland: - Freeze popups when hidden - Only send smooth scroll events for tablet tools - Make scaled cursor image have the right size - Fix problems with the activation protocol - Don't force the HighContrast icon theme - Support xdg_toplevel.bounds * X11: - Always update the shadoe size * Windows: - Improve touchpad support by using DirectManipulation - Add more directories to the builtin hicolor icon theme * Translation updates: Basque Catalan Chinese (China) Galician German Lithuanian Nepali Occitan Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.7.0, 07-05-2022 ======================================== * GtkTextView: - Reduce overdraws * GtkViewport: - Default scroll-to-focus to TRUE * GtkText: - Stop blinking when we lose focus * GtkSearchEntry: - Make search delay configurable * GtkPopoverMenu: - Fix RTL positioning of buttons * GtkLabel: - Fix focus keynav with links * GtkFileChooser: - Prevent undesirable completion popups - Fix a corner case in save mode - Keep the portal filechooser alive long enough * GtkCheckButton: - Allow setting a custom child * GtkEditableLabel: - Make the :editing property writable * GtkColumnView: - Various optimizations to improve scrolling performance * GtkTreeStore: - Allow populating tree stores from ui files * GtkBoxLayout: - Avoid infinite loops * CSS: - Optimize reordering within the same parent * Emoji: - Update to CLDR v40 / Unicode 14 - Add more locales * Input: - Add scroll unit handling - Handle display changes in GtkIMMultiContext - Always populate GDK_AXIS_X/Y in event history - Don't crash for large compose tables * Accessibility: - Fix a crash at start when orca is running * Theme: - Refresh icons - Fix selection in vertical spin buttons - Fix selection in editable labels * gdk: - Optimize pixel format conversions - Use EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage for NVidia * gsk: - Handle large viewports - Prepare texture libraries for glyphy rendering - Don't leak big glyphs in the glyph cache - Align offscreen rendering with th pixel grid - Check for half-float support before using it * Wayland: - Use xdg-activation protocol - Fix text caret coordinates - Fix on-screen keyboard activation * MacOS: - Fix sluggish and reversed scrolling - Improve monitor detection - Event handling fixes - Fix keyboard input on popovers - Support OpenGL-based video playback - Suport fullscreen - Improve native filechoooser size allocation - Use CALayer and IOSurface for rendering - Use a per-monitor CVDisplayLink - Fix kinetic scrolling - Improve window placement - Improve multi-monitor handling - Start applications in the foreground - Fix cursor blink time * Windows: - Fix preedit window placement on HiDPI * Tools: - gtk4-builder-tool: Don't require a display for all commands - gtk4-builder-tool: Add a screenshot command - gtk4-node-editor: Install this utility * Debugging: - inspector: Show more application data - inspector: Allow viewing PangoAttrList properties * Documentation: - Use the gtk-builder-tool to generate screenshots * Build: - Fix cross-compilation - Fix build on aarch64 - Fix build with gcc 12 * Translation updates Basque Brazilian Portuguese British English Catalan Chinese (China) Chinese (Taiwan) Croatian Czech Danish Finnish Galician Georgian German Hebrew Hungarian Indonesian Italian Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Bokmål Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.6.1, 11-02-2022 ======================================== * GtkFontChooser: - Stop using PangoFc api - Fix a crash - Use new HarfBuzz api * GtkMenuButton: - Update accessible description * GtkTextView: - Fix intra-widget dnd * Printing: - Fix an fd leak * Input: - Make sure input methods get focus-in events - Always flush events to avoid scroll event pileup - Support hold events - Update keysyms from libxkbcommon * Theme: - Improve text selection legibility * Introspection: - Add missing nullable annotations everywhere * Build: - Make stack noexec again - Avoid symbol leaks - Drop unneeded script data * Windows: - Stop using WM_SYNCPAINT - Relax check for GL 3.x legacy contexts - Use native apis for language names - Rewrite the keymap code - Use the GL renderer by default * Wayland: - Fix support for the new high-contrast setting - Avoid redundant scale changes - Fix DND hotspot handling - Don't always restore the saved size when floating * MacOS: - Various performance improvements * Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese Catalan Chinese (China) Galician Hebrew Japanese Lithuanian Persian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spanish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.6.0, 30-12-2021 ======================================== * GtkProgressBar: - Fix handling of "inverted" * GtkLabel: - Add a "natural wrap mode" property to influence how natural width is determined * GtkTextView - Scroll insertion on-screen after undo / redo * gsk: - Abort region diffing when changes are too complex * gdk: - Avoid compressing discrete scroll events - Fix problems with hiding windows - Improve GL and GLES version checks * Wayland: - Support new high-contrast setting * Inspector: - Add DND inspection support * build: - Avoid deprecated meson apis * Translation updates Galician Portuguese Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.5.1, 16-12-2021 ======================================== * GtkWidget sizing has been rewritten to implement width-for-height more properly. This had some fallout, and some widgets may still not react kindly to the new way of doing things. See https://blog.gtk.org/2021/12/03/sizable-news/ for details, and please file issues if you notice fallout. * Rename git `master` branch to `main` * Css: - Fully support font-variant-caps - Fix a crash with gradients * Make various widgets activatable: - GtkComboBox - GtkDropDown * GtkPopover: - Make focus indicators not disappear * GtkTextView: - Don't leave embedded children stranded when scrolling - Don't insert Emoji into non-editable textviews - Fix Emoji chooser positioning - Fix problems with pasting text - Improve scroll-to-mark behavior - Support right-aligned, centered and decimal tabs - Make child anchor replacement character settable - Provide more context to input methods * GtkDragIcon: - Provide default icons for paintables and files * GtkBuilder: - Speed up template precompilation * Actions: - Reduce allocations during signal emissions - Avoid duplication and unnecessary recursion * Inspector: - Show the selected im-module in the General tab - Add a clipboard viewer - Make the recorder record events too - Add a graph visualizing gtk_widget_measure() * Gsk: - Fix hexbox rendering - Fix transformed linear gradient rendering * Printing: - Fix dialog-less printing * Windows: - Use the common EGL setup code - Respect GDK_DEBUG=gl-egl - Fix AeroSnap indicator and positioning * X11: - Improve behavior of windows drags on headerbar controls - Trap errors for RANDR changes - Fix problems with drag icons * Wayland: - Ensure we prefer the Wayland im-module over others * Translation updates Basque Catalan Croatian Friulian Galician Hebrew Icelandic Italian Latvian Lithuanian Occitan Persian Portuguese Spanish Swedish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.5.0 ============================ * gsk: - Drop the GL renderer in favor of NGL - Rename NGL to GL - Fix some coordinate overflow issues - Reimplement texture upload and download for better support of image formats and color spaces - New api: gsk_transform_skew gsk_transform_to_2d_components * gdk: - Support HSL in gdk_rgba_parse - Use libpng, libjpeg and libtiff directly when loading textures, and support more image formats (including 16bit and float formats) - New apis: gdk_texture_new_from_bytes gdk_texture_new_from_filename gdk_texture_download_float gdk_texture_save_to_png_bytes gdk_texture_save_to_tiff gdk_texture_save_to_tiff_bytes gdk_display_create_gl_context - Implement GIcon and GLoadableIcon in GdkTexture - Move EGL initialization to the frontend - Use configless EGL contexts, if supported - Use >8bit pixel formats, if supported and requested * css: - Add support for line-height - Add support for text-transform * theme: - Fixes for buttons in toolbars * input: - Update compose sequences from libX11 1.7.2 - Accept replacement string longer than 20 characters * text: - Implement sloped caret drawing - Add a gtk-hint-font-metrics setting to switch font rendering to be more similar to GTK3 * GtkTextView: - Add support for line height - Add support for text transforms - Misc fixes for css->pango attribute translations - Invalidate pango contexts when font settings change - Improve undo grouping when overwriting * GtkListView: - Make tree indentation more flexible with GtkTreeExpander:indent-for-icon * GtkMenuButton: - Support custom children * GtkFlowBox: - Add prepend and append * GtkCalendar: - Fix handling of weeks starting on Monday * GtkWindow: - Add a titlebar property * GtkDropDown: - Add a show-arrow property * GtkPopoverMenu: - Support a use-markup attribute in menu models * Add GtkSymbolicPaintable * Tools: - Support DND in gtk4-node-editor and the inspector's recorder * Demos: - Improve the font rendering demo * Build: - Require Pango 1.49 - Require libpng, libtiff and libjpeg - Speed up handling of resources during build * X11: - Support touchpad gestures with XInput 2.4 * Windows: - Fix DND coordinates * Translation updates: Basque Brazilian Portuguese Catalan Chinese (China) Croatian Czech Dutch Finnish French Galician German Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Persian Portuguese Romanian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.4.0 ============================ * Input: - Match IBus for display of Compose sequences - Match IBus for handling of mismatches - Handle Escape in Compose sequences - Allow multiple dead keys - Support 32bit keysyms * GtkCheckButton: - Activate when moving focus * GtkLabel: - Propertly ignore double underscores for mnemonics * GtkPopoverMenu: - Fix focus cycling * GtkTextView: - Improve word selection - Fix block cursors on empty lines * GdkToplevel: - Support the gnome-shell titlebar gesture protocol * GdkDropTarget: - Allow creating drop targets in ui files * gsk: - Handle partial color fonts correctly - Use harfbuzz for color font information - Avoid pango for glyph cache rendering - Shrink shadow extents * Settings: - Change the default for gtk-split-cursor to FALSE * Demos: - Small improvements to widget-factory - gtk-demo: Improve the hypertext demo - gtk-dem: Improve the clipboard demo * X11: - Set WM_CLASS on toplevels * Wayland: - Support wl_seat v7 * Windows: - Drop the local DND protocol - Avoid WGL if shaders don't work - Use WinPointer API * Translation updates: Belarusian Friulian Hebrew Khmer Persian Polish Overview of Changes in 4.3.2 ============================ * GtkToggleButton: - Fix the actionable implementation * GtkCheckButton: - Fix the actionable implementation - Cancel activation on when the pointer leaves * GtkMenuButton: - Make activatable again - Add a way to have an icon + arrow * GtkColorButton: - Make activatable again * GtkFontButton: - Make activatable again * GtkAppChooserButton: - Make activatable again * GtkColumnView: - Fix double activation * GtkLabel: - Fix mnemonics without markup * GtkTreeView: - Clip header buttons * GtkTextView: - Add api to get the RTL and LTR contexts - Fix some errors in text history grouping * GtkText: - Don't show placeholder text on top of entry text - Add api to compute the cursor extents - Fix y coordinates for text selection * GtkFileChooser: - Don't show Trash in the side bar * GtkPopoverMenu: - Add scrollbars to long menus * GtkActionMuxer: - Fix propagation of accel changes * Introspection: - Annotate all filename arguments - Rename GtkMediaStream apis to avoid name collisions - Rename GtkDropTarget properties to avoid name collisions - Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer introspectable * Printing: - Remove the Google Cloud Print backend * Theme: - Sync included icons with the Adwaita icon theme * GSK: - Avoid overflowing the vertex counter - Handle negative scales correctly in the ngl renderer * GDK: - Cleanup and simplify OpenGL setup code - Add a GdkDisplay::init_gl vfunc and gdk_display_prepare_gl() api - Require EGL 1.4 - Fix EGL + NVidia * Build: - Enable gstreamer by default - Disable Vulkan by default - Remove the sassc option - Remove options and checks for X11 extensions * X11: - Stop using XComposite - Remove the Visual cache * Wayland: - Fix some DND corner cases - Work with version 2 of pointer-gestures-v1 - Look for cursor themes in $HOME/.icons * Windows: - Fix SIGILL on x64 due to popcnt - Fix popup placement - Fix drag icon placement - Clean up HiDPI and WGL support - Default to WGL * MacOs: - Fix input method support - Register known clipboard types for drop targets - Add initial DND support * Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese Portuguese Romanian Turkish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.3.1 ============================ * GtkEmojiChooser: - Update data from CLDR 39 - Load Emoji data for both language and territory * GtkCalendar: - Fix an off-by-one error in day numbers * GtkListView: - Add .activatable style class to activatable items * GtkCheckButton: - Don't allow unchecking grouped radio buttons *GtkToggleButton: - Fix mnemonic activation propagation * GtkLabel: - Make mnemonics work even when invisible - Fix mnemonic activation propagation * GtkMenuButton: - Add a property to mark primary menus and make F10 work * GtkApplication: - Fix initial screensaver state async * GtkEntry: - Apply xalign to placeholder text (as it was in GTK 3) * GtkSpinButton: - Fix swipe gestures * GtkStackSwitcher: - Implement GtkOrientable (as it was in GTK 3) - Fix a use-after-free problem with drag timeouts * GtkFileChooser: - Add support for (case-insensitive) suffix matches in GtkFileFilter * GtkPasswordEntry: - Make GtkPasswordEntryBuffer public, to make it easier to write your own password entry widget * Input: - Fix interference between various obscure XKB features (e.g. overlays) and Compose sequences * Action support: - Fix submenu-action handling * Theme: - Update icons from the Adwaita icon theme - Fix icon names for GtkSwitch - Fix switch-off icon * GSK: - Improve transformed offscreen rendering - Add padding between cached glyphs * Wayland: - Fix monitor sizes in the presence of transforms - Add a getter for the EGLDisplay - Fix click-drag-release sequences for popovers * X11: - Support EGL for X11. Fall back to GLX if EGL isn't available - Always fall back to GLX on NVidia - Add a getter for the EGLDisplay * Broadway: - Add a setter for display scale * Windows: - Add a getter for the EGLDisplay - Make GL work for media playback * MacOS: - Fix menubar appearance * Tools: - gtk4-builder-tool: Replace can-focus with focusable in 3-to-4 conversion * Introspection: - Add missing annotations in a few places (e.g. gtk_free_view_row_activated) * Build: - Only build one source file with -mf16c - Fix devel styling for ci flatpak builds - Generate appdata for demo flatpaks * Docs: - Numerous fixes and additions * Translation updates: Friulian Nepali Norwegian Bokmål Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.3.0 ============================ * GtkVideo: - Detect stream metadata when using gstreamer * GtkFileChooser: - Fix a crash * GtkButton: - Add back visual feedback for keynav activation * GtkFontChooser: - Fix initial font selection * Text widgets: - Replace squiggly error underlines by dotted lines - Support translucent selections * GtkTextView: - Various improvements to rendering performance * GtkScrolledWindow: - Stop using scroll cursors * GtkMenuButton: - Make focus-on-click work * GtkToggleButton: - Make grouped buttons mutually exclusive * GtkPasswordEntry: - Use MADV_DONTDUMP for secure memory * GtkListBox: - Allow repeated selection extension for MULTIPLE * Themes: - Reorganize and rename included themes. The theme is now called Default, with dark, hc and hc-dark variants. Visually, the themes are unchanged. - The theme variants are also available as standalone themes called Default-dark, etc. - The theme named Adwaita is moving to libadwaita - Fix resize border sizing - Fix solid-csd window decorations * Input: - Revert some Compose sequence changes (mainly around dead acute and apostrophe) - Consume all key events during preedit, to avoid unexpected interactions - Ignore more modifiers during preedit, to allow using 3rd and 5th level choosers - Fix handling of cursor positions in non-ASCII preedit text - Fix a problem with deferred focus setting * GdkClipboard: - Ensure strings are nul-terminated * GSK: - Improvements to the ngl renderer - Fix offscreen rendering with transforms - Fix downscaled textures - Avoid huge intermediate textures - Use fp16 for colors - Optimize handling of underlines in text - Fix corner cases of shadow rendering - Reorganize shader resources - Make shadow rendering match across renderers * Accessibility: - Various fixes to get Orca to speak (still a work in progress) * Wayland: - Improve font settings fallback - Avoid unintentional rendering freezes with popovers - Support the xdg_activation_v1 protocol * X11: - Don't beep on untrusted displays - Don't crash when popovers are outside the workarea * Windows: - Fix using GL rendering with Mesa drivers * Tools: - Add support for copy/paste in gtk4-node-editor - Make syntax highlighting work in the gtk4-demo flatpak * Inspector: - Enable the inspector by default, in all cases - Show keyboard layouts - Improve monitor information * Translation updates: Catalan Chinese (Taiwan) Dutch Nepali Polish Swedish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.2.0 ============================ * GtkFileChooser: Make the location entry work again * GtlLabel: Fix tooltips on links * GtkTextView: Make scrolling work better with renderers * X11: - Fix damage handling - Trap errors from the COW * Windows: - Use a visible scroll cursor - Include more icons for icon-theme-less situations * Wayland: Fix key event matching with mismatched layouts. This was causing keyboard accelerators to trigger unexpectedly * Inspector: Allow inspecting Unicode * Input: - Improve dead key handling - Regenerate compose sequence table * gsk: - Fix a crash in the ngl renderer - Fix a rounding error in subpixel glyph positioning - ngl: Implement glyph cache eviction - ngl: Improve the glyph cache effectiveness - ngl: Fix uniform key mapping on Windows - Make the ngl renderer the default * build: - Fix build with cairo as subproject - Disable g_assert in release builds - Include gi-docgen as subproject - Include generated docs * Translation updates: Hebrew Hungarian Italian Polish Portuguese Swedish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.1.2 ============================ * Input: - Ensure preedit-start and preedit-end are emitted properly - Support the Wayland text protocol better - Delete the selection when preedit starts * Label: Fix a small issue with markup parsing and mnemonics * Spinbutton: Interpret localized digits * Textview: Fix blinking block cursors * Tooltips: Don't pop up erroneous on popovers * Window: Add a way to disable F10 handling * Theme: - Use a regular focus ring for sidebar rows * GSK - ngl: Performance improvements - vulkan: Add visible fallback rendering - vukan: Handle simple transforms when clipping * Wayland: - Don't force a full redraw for every frame - Don't leak buffers when rendering with cairo * Demos: - iconbrowser: Make search more useful * Documentation: - Switch to building docs from gir files with gi-docgen * build: - Allow GTK to be used as meson subproject * Translation updates Catalan Czech Finnish French Indonesian Kazakh Latvian Norwegian Bokmål Polish Serbian Turkish Overview of Changes in 4.1.1 ============================ * Popover: - Support shadows on popover > contents * Input: - Show preedit for compose sequences - Support long compose sequences - Support compose sequences producing multiple characters * Themes: - Allow suggested and destructive actions in lists - Disable shadows on maximized, fullscreen and tiled windows - Fine-tune scrollbar transitions and size * CSS: - Support drop-shadow filters - Correct blur filter spread interpretation * Documentation: - Improvements and updates for dialogs and native dialog * Printing: - Support Avahi-discovered printers better * GSK: - Add another OpenGL render. It is not the default yet. To try it, use GSK_RENDERER=ngl * Build: - Lots of static analysis fixes found by pvs - Add a -Dprofile=devel option for devel styling and use it for nightly flatpaks * X11: - Fix DND of X11-specific types * Wayland: - Fix lookup of font settings in flatpaks * Windows: - Fix window resizing - Avoid UAC for gtk-update-icon-cache * MacOs: - Use correct module file extension - Make OpenGL context opaque when possible - Fix window resizing * Translation updates: British English Czech Danish Galician Hungarian Turkish Overview of Changes in 4.1.0 ============================ * GtkCheckButton: - Add back an activate signal * GtkSearchBar, GtkSearchEntry: - Capture events in the bubble phase * GtkEmojiChooser: - Adapt to small screen sizes * GtkVideo: - Fix issues with GL support * Themes: - Set sort arrows in CSS - Set menu button arrows in CSS - Make scrollbars larger - Supprt circular menubuttons * CSS: - Implement transform-origin - Support overlines on text - Support colors in cross-fade() - More complete text-decoration-line support * Text layout: - Use subpixel positioning with new enough cairo * Inspector: - Fix slowness in navigation - Redo the controllers and shortcuts pages * Accessibility: - Create AT context objects lazily * Wayland: - Fix decoration negotiation under kwin * GSK: - Optimize gradient shaders - Implement repeating gradients in shaders * Translation updates - Czech - Greek - Hungarian - Persian - Punjabi - Romanian - Swedish - Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.0.2 ============================ * GtkAboutDialog: - Set icon size for the logo - Fix initial focus to be the same as in GTK 3 * GtkImage: - Update icons on scale change * Wayland: Fix crashes with touch and tablet events * Windows: - Fix surface and geometry computation - Remove layered window usage * MacOS: Support stylus devices * Themes: - Adwaita: Remove edge highlights - Adwaita: Update image assets - Make Adwaita-dark available as standalone theme - Make HighContrastInverse the dark variant of HighContrast * Docs: - Complete GtkAspectFrame docs - Clarify migration docs for widget signals * Inspector: - Fix a critical with the recorder - Fix a crash with treeviews - Show overlay layout properties - Add a legend for the layout overlay * Build: - Fix build with gcc 11 - Support building without sassc * Translation updates: Basque Czech Friulian Polish Romanian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian Overview of Changes in 4.0.1 ============================ * GtkPopover - Center titles - Fix menu item alignment with submenus * GtkVideo - Fix up autoplay semantics - Respect pixel aspect ratio - Get GL textures from gstreamer * GtkCenterLayout - Fix handling of expanding center child * GtkSettings - Change gtk-cursor-aspect-ratio to double - Fix the default value of gtk-print-backends * GtkGestureStylus - Convert motion history to surface coordinates * GL renderer - Various optimizations - Avoid leaking shader objects * Adwaita - Fine-tune flat buttons - Improve contrast of dim-label - Improve contrast of controls in headers * Docs - Add various missing types - Add DND examples - Correct css docs for several widgets - Improve GtkVideo docs - Update migration docs for GtkClipboard - Improve migration docs for event controllers - Add migration docs for GtkBuilder * gtk4-builder-tool - Remove GtkCheckButton::draw-indicator - Fix a buffer overrun - Remove GtkToolbar::toolbar-style * Demos - Don't put the search bar in the scroll area - Make the OpenGL demos work with OpenGL ES * X11 - Fix a possible crash * Build - Fix vulkan reference in pc file - Fix build with certain Vulkan versions * Windows: - Fix build with Visual Studio 2013 * OS X: - Fix build on OS X - Fix crash on Mojave - Fix a window sizing issue - Fix build on OS X 10.12 - Add a CI build * Translation updates: Basque Brazilian Portuguese Catalan Galician German Japanese Lithuanian Persian Punjabi Romanian Ukrainian