Release 2.10.0

ABI summary:

• mirplatform ABI bumped to 24
• mirwayland ABI bumped to 4

Enhancements:

• Verify wl_pointer.set_cursor() serial matches latest
  wl_pointer.enter() serial (#2532)
• MinimalWindowManager: allow moving window from the maximized
  state (#2593)
• X11 platform: send discrete scroll (#2579)
• Verify serials for move/resize requests (#2622)
• Modernize touch events (#2623)
• Implement Modifier+Drag window move gesture (#2626)
• Improve Client class lifetime management (#2644)
• Implement X11 platform pixel format selection correctly (#2648)
• Deactivate text input in destructor for v1 and v2 protocols (#2657)
• gbm-kms/quirks: Quirk off AST devices (#2679)
• [MirAL] Expose wait features (#2646)

Bugs fixed:

• Incorrect rendering when a surface spans multiple outputs (#1753)
• [Xwayland] weird focus problems with CLion (#2255)
• Maximized windows end up behind panels after screen going off (#2580)
• Menus of panels don't close when losing (or don't lose) focus (#2585)
• CapsLock state gets stuck (#2592)
• Popups dismissed by Mir when parent clicked (#2604)
• Latest swaybg (on 22.10) doesn't paint on Mir (#2620)
• Shutdown crash when OSK is running (#2639)
• Cursor only updates once per enter on XWayland (#2643)
• OSK stays on screen with unfocused app (#2651)
• Scaling messes up screencopy (#2653)
• Mir sometimes shuts down when moving to a different TTY when logind-driven (#2661)
• Bug in implementation of xdg_output (#2666)
• Waking screens up after idle-timeout often stops or locks Mir up (#2674)
• In CLion cut & paste only works up to the last \n in the source text (#2677)

Release 2.9.0

ABI summary:

• miral ABI bumped to 5
• mircore ABI bumped to 2
• miroil ABI bumped to 2

Enhancements:

• [Wayland] Implement zwp_idle_inhibit_manager_v1
• [Wayland] Implement zwlr_virtual_pointer_v1
• [Wayland] Implement zwp_text_input_manager_v1 (Electron works with OSK)
• [Wayland] Bump wl_seat to v8 and implement hi-res scrolling (Fixes: #2176, Fixes: #2499)
• [Wayland platform] improve failed to connect error
• [Wayland platform] Port to xdg-shell (Fixes #1903, Fixes: #2434)
• [MirAL] Allow --add-wayland-extenions all
• [MirAL] Allow servers to get repeated string options
• [MirAL] Improvement to ExternalClientLauncher: Don't force clients to split command lines themselves
• [MirAL] Tidy up event filtering API
• [MirAL] Expose miral::Zone::id()
• [MirAL] Rename CommandLineOption => ConfigurationOption
• [Input] Filter 2 distinct bogus touch event scenarios (UBports)
• [gbm-kms] new driver quirk to disable KMS modeset probe
• [gbm-kms] Add defaults to driver-quirks for nvidia and evdi (Fixes: #2467)
• [gbm-kms] Add defaults to driver-quirks for vc4-drm and v3d
• [mir-smoke-test-runner] Enable working in a Wayland only environment

Bugs fixed:

• Fix ABI breakage of libmircore.so.1 with v2.8.0 vs v1.8.2 (Fixes #2465)
• [Wayland] Text Input v2: do not use commit count as serial
• [Wayland] Send keyboard modifiers after keyboard enter (Fixes: #2535, Fixes: #2025)
• [Wayland] wlr-screencopy-v1: send .damage event as required (wayvnc fix)
• [Wayland] wlr-screencopy-v1: Waits until the copy area has been damaged in .copy_with_damage request (wayvnc fix)
• [MirAL] Unblock signals before execing child processes (Fixes: #1284)
• [eglstream-kms] Kill clients, not Mir, when they submit bad EGLStreams (Fixes: #2061)
• [eglstream-kms] Handle EGL errors in devnum_for_device (Fixes: #2426)
• [test clients] Explicitly ask for a GLESv2 context (Fixes: #2440)
• [renderers/gl] Clear framebuffer to opaque black (Fixes: #2427)
• CMake cleanup for locally built dependencies (Fixes: #2507, Fixes: #2261)
• Fix event timestamps (Fixes: #2577)

Release 2.8.0

ABI summary

• mircommon ABI bumped to 9
• mirserver ABI bumped to 58
• mirplatformgraphics ABI bumped to 20

Enhancements

• Move generated protocol code to build directory (#2300)
• Allow --app-env-amend to be supplied multiple times (#2333)
• Make window title a configuration option (#2349)
• Add fatal_error if unable to bind Wayland socket (#2350)
• Add mold to the list of supported linkers (#2353)
• Platform refactoring towards hybrid GPU support (#2358, #2378, #2407)
• Implement wlr_screencopy_unstable_v1 for screenshots (#2383)
• Refactor out mf::MirDisplay (#2406)

Bugs fixed

• Synchronize buffer swaps to video frame in egl spinner (Fixes #2154)
• Do not give menus keyboard focus (Fixes #2324)
• Refactor Wayland keyboard input (Fixes #2331)
• Further simplify and correct keyboard focus setting (Fixes #2338)
• wl_pointer: do not send events when not compatible (Fixes #2341)
• Kill clients with error instead of sending unsupported (Fixes #2343)
• Initialize sig_handler_desc.sa_mask (#2386)
• Fix ThreadedDispatcherSignalTest.keeps_dispatching... (Fixes #2377)

Release 2.7.0

ABI summary

• miroil ABI added, at version 1

Enhancements

• Add "idle-timeout" configuration option
• Support zwp_text_input_manager_v2: This older text input protocol is the only one currently supported by Qt. (Fixes #2260)
• Move to c++20
• Add mir::system_executor, linearising_executor
• Add -gdb option to miral-app script to run the server under gdb
• Add miroil (compatibility layer for Lomiri)

Bugs fixed

• Give keyboard focus to menus (grabbing popups). (Fixes #2241)
• XWayland fixes for dialog window type (Fixes #2250)
• Don't send keyboard events without focus
• Don't request axis values when axis is unset. (Fixes #2248)
• Fix mentions of mirclient in mirserver.pc, mirtest.pc
• Fix pkg-config mistakes in mirwayland.pc mirtest.pc
• WlKeyboard: use WlSeat::FocusListener for focus tracking (Fixes #2272)
• Deactivate text input when the Wayland object is deleted (Fixes #2269)
• Send wl_pointer.axis_stop. (Fixes #2247, #2276)
• FTBFS with newer deps on Fedora/rawhide, Alpine/edge & Debian/sid
• wl_pointer: do not send events not compatible with version (Fixes #2341)

Release 1.8.2

Backports

• Add missing headers
• Cherry picks
  • examples/mir_demo_server/server_example_input_filter.cpp: Typo in stdout.
  • Instantiate parameterized test suite DisplayOrientationSetting
  • Fix FTBFS.
  • Fix missing #includes for GCC 11
  • Fix FTBFS
  • Fix compiler errors
  • Delete obsolete gmock hack
  • Add missing include

Release 2.6.0

ABI summary

• mirplatform ABI bumped to 23
• mirserver ABI bumped to 57

Enhancements

• [Wayland] Error on invalid xdg_surface size
• [MirAL] add a socket_fd_of(Application) function (for use with authenticating in snaps with apparmor)
• [MirAL] Add WaylandExtensions::conditionally_enable(). (Fixes #2194)
• Add display-scale option
• Try harder to pick a working GBM framebuffer (Some drivers don't support rendering to RGBX GBM buffers)

Bugs fixed

• [Wayland] Extension names in configuration and global names should match. (Fixes #2208)
• fix Miral shell text on Arch
• Differentiate between active surfaces and surfaces with keyboard input. (Fixes #1626, #2189)

Release 2.5.0

ABI summary:

• mirclient dropped
• mirprotobuf dropped
• mircommon ABI bumped to 8
• mirplatform ABI bumped to 23
• mirserver ABI bumped to 56
• mirwayland ABI bumped to 3
• mirplatformgraphics ABI bumped to 19

Enhancements:

• [Wayland] Bump wlr_layer_shell_unstable_v1 version from 3 to 4
• [Wayland] Add focus_mode surface property for Layer Shell
• [Wayland] Add zwp_virtual_keyboard_v1 (closes #2063)
• [Wayland] Add zwp_text_input_v3 & zwp_input_method_v2 (closes #2139)
• [Wayland] Allow zwp_linux_buffer_params_v1.add() with DRM_FORMAT_MOD_INVALID (Fixes #2177)
• [Wayland] Add axis source to pointer events (Fixes #2180)
• [Wayland-platform] Don't block forever in swap_buffers
• Drop mirclient, dependencies on Cap'n Proto & protobuf

Bugs fixed:

• Mir crash when surface and role destroyed in wrong order (Fixes #2055)
• Make GTK's approach to hiding cursors work on Mir (Fixes #2073)
• [input] Handle exceptions while handling udev events
• [input] Fix InputDeviceHub threadsafety
• [Xwayland] Improve popup window types and positioning (Fixes #2037)
• [Xwayland] Use SurfaceStateTracker to track window state (Fixes #1217)

Release 2.4.1

ABI summary:

Unchanged

Bugs fixed:

• Don't crash when input modules with connected devices are added. (canonical/mir-kiosk#60)

Release 2.4.0

ABI summary:

• mirserver ABI bumped to 55
• mirplatform ABI bumped to 22

Enhancements:

• Make attached surfaces respect exclusive zones
• split mg::Platform into DisplayPlatform and RenderingPlatform
• [gbm-kms] Add --driver-quirks option to avoid probing devices where probing crashes
• [Wayland] Respect --enable-key-repeat with Wayland
• [Wayland] Send timestamps with frame done event
• [Wayland] Send timestamps with frame done event
• [X11 platform] Add hostname to title when remote over X-forwarding (Fixes #1889)
• [X11 platform] Port from XLib to XCB
• [X11 platform] Don't clamp Mir-on-X window size
• [X11 platform] Allow resizing Mir-on-X windows

Bugs fixed:

• Keep track of past surface states (Fixes #1979)
• Place popups on output their anchor is on (Fixes #1408)
• [mirplatform] Fix mirplatform.pc include dirs
• [X11 platform] Fix cursor position on scaled outputs (Fixes #2034)
• [X11 platform] Handle key state changes when window is not focused (Fixes #2029)
• [XWayland] Gracefully handle XWayland errors (Fixes #1969)
• [Wayland] Send bufferless frame callbacks after timeout (Fixes #1967)
• [Wayland] Fix resize of layer shell surfaces (Fixes #1986)
• [Wayland] Check for locked cursor before sending pointer movement
• [Wayland platform] Precise (floating point) pointer events. (Fixes #1852)

Release 2.3.3

ABI summary:

• mirclient ABI unchanged at 10
• miral ABI unchanged at 4
• mirserver ABI unchanged at 54
• mircommon ABI unchanged at 7
• mirplatform ABI unchanged at 20
• mirprotobuf ABI unchanged at 3
• mirplatformgraphics ABI unchanged at 18
• mirinputplatform ABI unchanged at 8
• mircore ABI unchanged at 1
• mircookie ABI unchanged at 2
• mirwayland ABI unchanged at 2

Bugs fixed:

• Add app-env-amend configuration option. (Fixes: #1934)
• [miral-terminal] wait for gnome-terminal-server to exit
• Fix mirplatform.pc include dirs
• Add missing header for strdup
• [Wayland] Do not suppress motion events when relative motion is used (Fixes #1959)
• Fix protobuf symbols for Arch (Fixes FTBFS on Arch)