[ANN] Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0

[Detlef_R]

Hi,

The Ruby-GNOME2 project released Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0:
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20131229_1

This release supports Ruby 2.1.0 that is released
2013/12/25.

This release improves Windows support! (Thanks Regis and
Masafumi for testing Ruby-GNOME2 2.0.3!)

Ruby-GNOME2 2.0.2 has problems on Windows. They are solved
in Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0!

Ruby-GNOME2 2.1.0 is a new release for the first time in
half a year. There are many improvements. Try it!

== Install

% gem install gtk2
% gem install gtk3

=== Changes

==== All

• Improvements
  • Removed Ruby 1.8 from supported Ruby in READMEs.
    [GitHub#166] [Reported by Markus Heiler] [Patch by Masafumi
    Yokoyama]
  • Supported Ruby 2.1.0. [GitHub#181] [cosmo0920][Masafumi Y.]
  • Made rcairo optional to required because we dropped old GTK+ that
    doesn’t use cairo. (Cairo isn’t used library such as GLib doesn’t
    require rcairo. But Ruby/GLib2 requires rcairo on Windows because
    it uses zlib bundled in rcairo.) [GitHub#193] [cosmo0920]
  • Updated LGPL 2.1 files. [GitHub#196] [Reported by ktdreyer]
  • Supported tests on Travis CI. [Masafumi Y.][cosmo0920]
  • Supported rake-compiler 0.9.1.
  • Set license information to gem.
• Fixes
  • [windows] Added missing binaries for Ruby 2.1.0.
    [GitHub#123] [Patch by Masafumi Y.]

==== Ruby/GLib2

• Improvements
  • Set UTF-8 encoding to exception message.
  • Added GLib::GetText.bindtextdomain.
  • Dropped GLib < 2.12 because CentOS 5 has GLib 2.12.3.
    [GitHub#190] [cosmo0920]
  • Added GValue#to_s.
  • [windows] Updated bundled GLib to 2.38.2 from 2.36.2.

==== Ruby/GObjectIntrospection

• Improvements
  • Supported GList return type.
  • Supported freeing UTF-8 return type.
  • Supported freeing array return type.
  • Supported NULL as array return value.
  • Supported freeing GObject return value.
  • Supported freeing structure return value.
  • Supported NULL character for gint8 array.
• Fixes
  • Fixed type conversion from VALUE to GType.
    [GitHub#186] [Patch by Hiroyuki Tanaka]

==== Ruby/ATK

• Improvements
  • Dropped ATK < 1.12 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 1.12.2.
    [GitHub#191] [cosmo0920]
  • [windows] Updated bundled ATK to 2.10.0 from 2.8.0.

==== Ruby/Pango

• Improvements
  • Supported cairo 1.6.
    [GitHub#172] [Patch by Grant S.]
  • Dropped Pango < 1.14 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 1.14.9.
    [GitHub#192] [cosmo0920]
  • Added Pango::Layout#height=.
    [GitHub#210] [Patch by Vasily Fedoseyev]
  • Added Pango::Layout#ellipsized?.
    [GitHub#210] [Patch by Vasily Fedoseyev]
  • [windows] Updated bundled Pango to 1.36.1 from 1.34.1.

==== Ruby/GdkPixbuf2

• Improvements
  • [windows] Added rcairo dependency on Windows for using libpng and
    zlib
    bundled in rcairo.
  • [windows] Updated bundled gdk-pixbuf to 2.30.2 from 2.28.1.

==== Ruby/GTK2

• Improvements
  • Dropped GTK+ < 2.10 support because CentOS 5 has GTK+ 2.10.4.
    [GitHub#182] [Patch by cosmo0920]
  • [windows] Updated bundled GTK+ to 2.24.22 from 2.24.18.

==== Ruby/GDK3

• Improvements
  • [test] Made more stable. [GitHub#178] [Reported by mtasaka]
  • Added Gdk::Device#ungrab. [cosmo0920]
  • Added Gdk::DeviceManager. [cosmo0920]
  • Added Gdk::Device#get_position. [cosmo0920]
  • Added Gdk::Device#warp. [cosmo0920]
  • Added Gdk::Device#grab. [cosmo0920]
  • Added Gdk::Window#get_device_position. [cosmo0920]
  • [windows] Updated bundled GTK+ to 3.10.6 from 3.8.2.
  • [windows] Bundled hicolor-icon-theme. It may fix a problem that
    Windows theme is not applied.
    [ruby-gnome2-devel-en] [Reported by Regis d’Aubarede]

==== Ruby/GTK3

• Improvements
  • [sample] Updated for GTK+ 3. [Masafumi Y.]
  • Removed Gtk::BindingSet#add_path.
  • Added Gtk.show_uri.
• Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that Gtk::ActionGroup#add_radio_actions always fails.
    [ruby-gnome2-devel-ja] [Reported by S. Kitagawa]

==== Ruby/GStreamer

• Improvements
  • Supported calling module functions of Gst module such as
    Gst.version before calling Gst.init.
  • Added Gst::Registry#plugins.
  • Added Gst::Registry#get_features.
  • Added Gst::ElementFactory#long_name.
  • Added Gst::ElementFactory#klass.
  • Added Gst::ElementFactory#author.
  • Added Gst::ElementFactory#static_pad_templates.
  • Added Gst::Caps#structures.
  • Added Gst::Structure#fields.
  • Gst::Element#flags returns flag object instead of raw integer
    value.
    Use Gst::Element#flags_raw for raw integer value.
  • Gst::PluginFeature#rank returns Gst::Rank instead of raw integer
    value.
    Use Gst::PluginFeature#rank for raw integer value.
  • Supported GstValueList.
  • [windows] Updated bundled GStreamer to 1.2.1 from 1.0.7.

==== Ruby/Clutter

• Improvements
  • [sample] Updated for Clutter 1.12 or later.
    [Patch by Kentaro F.]
  • [windows] Updated bundled Clutter to 1.16.2 from 1.14.4.

==== Ruby/ClutterGStreamer

• Improvements
  • [sample] Added.
    [Masafumi Y.]
  • Fixed a typo in sample.
    [Reported by Toyo Abe]
  • [windows] Updated bundled Clutter-GStreamer to 2.0.8 from 2.0.2.

==== Ruby/Poppler

• Improvements
  • Dropped Popper < 0.12 because CentOS has Poppler 0.12.4.
    [GitHub#212] [cosmo0920]
  • [windows] Bundled Poppler 0.24.4.

==== Ruby/RSVG

• Improvements
  • [windows] Bundled librsvg 2.40.1.

==== Ruby/GtkSourceView3

• Improvements
  • Supported auto GtkSourceView install on OS X.
    [GitHub#177] [Masafumi Y.]
  • [windows] Updated bundled GtkSourceView to 3.10.1 from 3.8.1.

==== Ruby/GooCanvas

• Improvements
  • [sample] Followed changes caused by migrating to
    Ruby/GObjectIntrospection.
    [Masafumi Y.]
  • Updated FSF address.
    [GitHub#201] [Reported by ktdreyer]
• Fixes
  • Fixed wrong dependency.
    [ruby-gnomde2-devel-ja] [Reported by Masafumi Y.]

=== Thanks

• Kentaro F.
• S. Kitagawa
• Markus Heiler
• Masafumi Y.
• Grant S.
• Toyo Abe
• mtasaka
• cosmo0920
• Hiroyuki Tanaka
• ktdreyer
• Regis d’Aubarede

Thanks,

kou