xorg announce - Mar 2010 - [ANNOUNCE] pixman beta release 0.17.12 now available

A new pixman release 0.17.12 is now available. This is a BETA release
leading up to a stable 0.18.0 release.

News:
 - Optimizations for rescaling with a nearest filter [Alexander Larsson, Siarhei
Siamashka]
 - Overhead reduction by caching fast paths [S?ren Sandmann]
 - Constant time operator strength reduction [S?ren]
 - Misc. bug fixes [Alan Coopersmith, Egor Starkov, Lo?c Minier]

Please test this release thoroughly. If you are a distribution, it
would be appropriate to put this release in your development/unstable
version, if you have one.

Testing on OS X and Windows is especially appreciated.

Report bugs either at 

        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=pixman

or by sending mail to pixman at lists.freedesktop.org.


Thanks,
S?ren



tar.gz:
	http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.17.12.tar.gz
	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/pixman-0.17.12.tar.gz

tar.bz2:
	http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/pixman-0.17.12.tar.bz2

Hashes:
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GPG signature:
	http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.17.12.tar.gz.sha1.asc
	(signed by S?ren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann at daimi.au.dk>

Git:
	git://git.freedesktop.org/git/pixman
	tag: pixman-0.17.12

Log:
	Alan Coopersmith (2):
	      Make .s target asm flag selection more portable
	      Add Sun cc to thread-local support checks in pixman-compiler.h
	
	Alexander Larsson (6):
	      Add CONVERT_0565_TO_8888 macro
	      Add CONVERT_8888_TO_8888 and CONVERT_0565_TO_0565 macros
	      Add FAST_PATH_NO_NONE_REPEAT flag
	      Add FAST_PATH_SAMPLES_COVER_CLIP and FAST_PATH_16BIT_SAFE
	      Add specialized fast nearest scalers
	      Use the right format for the OVER_8888_565 fast path
	
	Egor Starkov (1):
	      Eliminate trailing comma in enum
	
	Lo?c Minier (1):
	      ARM: SIMD: Try without any CFLAGS before forcing -mcpu	
	S?ren Sandmann Pedersen (16):
	      Post-release version bump to 0.17.11
	      Add a fast path cache
	      Make the operator strength reduction constant time.
	      Store the operator table more compactly.
	      Strength reduce certain conjoint/disjoint to their normal counterparts.
	      Change operator table to be an array of arrays of four bytes.
	      pixman.h: Only define stdint types when PIXMAN_DONT_DEFINE_STDINT is unde
	      test: Add support for indexed formats to blitters-test
	      Fix typo: WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN => WORDS_BIGENDIAN in pixman-edge.c
	      Add checks for various types of thread local storage.
	      Add PIXMAN_DEFINE_THREAD_LOCAL() and PIXMAN_GET_THREAD_LOCAL() macros
	      Fix contact address in configure.ac
	      Ensure that only the low 4 bit of 4 bit pixels are stored.
	      Add a FAST_PATH_X_UNIT_POSITIVE flag
	      Specialize the fast_composite_scaled_nearest_* scalers to positive x unit
	      Pre-release version bump to 0.17.12