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@@ -1,3 +1,44 @@ +Geode 2.11.14 (2012-11-??) +========================== +Better compatibility with xserver-1.13, cairo-1.12 and gtk3. + + * Fix building on Xservers without XAA (Maarten Lankhorst) + xserver-1.13 dropped XAA acceleration method, as it does not accel + anything important used on modern desktops. + The geode driver now supports configuring whether to include XAA + support - by default it is automatically disabled with newest + xservers that do not support it, but can be explicitly disabled for + older xservers as well if desired (particularly for LX deployments). + XAA support remains in place for the time being for older xservers, + as the EXA support for GX2 GPUs is of unknown quality and speed. + + * Fix building with new xserver-1.13 API (Maarten Lankhorst) + xserver-1.13 changed API, including moving various global symbols + behind function calls, to better support multiple switchable graphics + cards and hotplugged (USB) graphics cards. Work done to support both + pre-1.13 and 1.13+ APIs in other drivers is reused to bring the same + support to the Geode driver. + + * Implement solid source pictures acceleration (Mart Raudsepp) + cairo-1.12 uses these extensively for text rendering, instead of 1x1 + repeating images that cairo-1.10 used and we already accelerate. + Without acceleration, in addition to being slow, we'd hit a fallback + handling bug in EXA with xserver older than 1.13.1, which results in + very visible text corruption in many instances. + + * Handle negative srcX and srcY parameters better in EXA Composite + operations, used via the RENDER extension (Mart) + Handling of source picture coordinates outside actual source pixmap + area is still subpar and ignoring spec in some corner cases, but + a more specific case is improved to provide correct results in more + situations. In particular this fixes GtkTrayIcon drawing via cairo as + used by gtk3, specifically as seen in GNOME3 fallback desktop. + Previously no icon was drawn at all if the icon needed centering to the + drawing area, which in the end is achieved via a negative srcX/srcY. + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51360 + + * Various build fixes on exotic or non-target platforms. + Geode 2.11.13 (2011-12-26) ========================== This release mainly features a complete overhaul of the building scripts plus |