[Systems] Release Meeting 2012-03-23

Andrea Cimitan andrea.cimitan at canonical.com
Fri Mar 23 14:54:43 UTC 2012


Only reporting sections worth having a look, no blocking items.
Weekly releases, focusing on bugfixing.

=== Summary of bugs ===
  * ayatana-scrollbar
   - nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in show_thumb_cb() #907111
   - Low visibility impaired users can't easily disable overlay 
scrollbars #934123
   - scroll *on* thumb not functional #951121
  * indicators
   - Patch for GMenuModel menu support proposed for merge
   - Fixed dbusmenu-gtk crash in theme_changed_cb #953509
   - Fixed appmenu crash in g_variant_is_trusted() #953479
   - Fixed several datetime memory leaks 772340, #957320
   - Fixed ido scrollwheel regression in last week's release #954440
   - Fixed bug in our keyboard indicator showing the wrong setting #885730
   - Fixed smaller indicator memory leaks in libindicate, isound, 
i-application, i-session #957970, #960578, #957992, #957342
   - Fixed six Coverity bugs #957412, #957414, #957420, #957415, 
#957471, #957611
   - Fixed 8 indicator sound bugs #937460, #952550, #946607, #945827, 
#944148, #921755, #949032, #806848
  * gnome-control-center
   - Fixed combo box resizing bug on control center
  * printing
   - Ghostscript patch to work around interpreter bugs for Brother 
PostScript printers
  * utouch
   - utouch-geis:
    -- #957331 Atomic grail backend will not do anything if a tap 
physically ends within the grail composition time
    -- #957334 Non-tentative grail backend emits wrong tap events
    -- #957344 Grail backend emits wrong number of tap touches when 
GEIS_GESTURE_TYPE_SYSTEM is used
    -- #956538 geis_new() segfaults on Linux kernels older than 2.6.27
    -- #934207 [FFe] gesture rejection has no effect (accepted and released)
   - utouch-grail:
    -- #957437 Atomic timeouts not calculated correctly
    -- #960438 Tap touches rejected erroneously
    -- #949933 Have to compile gtest ourselves
    -- #960598 utouch-grail aborts when there are multiple accepted 
atomic gestures
    -- #955131 Recognizer::start_times_ keeps growing indefinitely
   - utouch-frame:
    -- #961596 Needs symbol visibility filtering
    -- #961489 Xorg-gtest and gtest libraries need to be compiled locally
    -- #930143 Some classes have virtual functions but no virtual 
destructors
   - xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
    -- #961725 Three touch tap must be disabled by default for uTouch 
gestures
    -- #960108 Right-click simulation (two-finger hold+click) no longer 
works on MacBook touchpad
    -- #961738 Clickpad click actions triggered for wrong number of touches
   - xorg-gtest:
    -- #960528 Usage of xorg-gtest depends on xutils-dev (>= 1:7.7~1)
    -- #959836 Needs to distribute sources instead of precompiled libraries
   - xserver-xorg-input-evdev:
    -- #932439 Horizontal scrolling reversed recently
   - valgrind:
    -- #958095 Linux user input device ioctls missing wrappers

=== Releases ===
  * ayatana-scrollbar
   - Released 0.2.16 focused on stability and adding a11y
  * printing
   - Released cups-filters 1.0.7
    -- Workarounds for PostScript interpreter bugs in the PostScript 
printers from Kyocera and Brother
    -- fixes concerning PJL command addition
    -- support for native PDF printers for the first time in Linux
    -- fixed DesignJet driver and PPDs
    -- added debug mode for PostScript output
  * utouch
   - Released xorg-gtest 0.2.0 upstream and in Precise
   - Released utouch-frame 2.2.2 upstream and in Precise
   - Released utouch-grail 3.0.3 upstream and in Precise
   - Released utouch-geis 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 and released to Precise



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