Mir 2.12.0 Release
We’re pleased to announce the release of Mir 2.12.0. This release brings a number of improvements to the user experience and reliability.
- Can’t paste when copied from Firefox address bar or Thunderbird “copy link” (#2583)
- Remove a bunch of code made redundant by a protocol clarification (#2669)
- miral-shell hangs on shutdown if eglspinner internal client errors (#2344)
- Multi-keyboard modifier state tracking is slightly cursed (#2720
- Support for virtual keyboard modifiers (e.g. for OSK) (#2145)
- Don’t try to use graphics hardware with no outputs attached (#2258)
- Overlapping outputs of different scale are rendered correctly (Fixes: #2758)
- Idle timeout no longer causes problems when the display hardware subsequently changes (#2757, #2695)
- A logic error leading to an occasional abort when using Xwayland fixed ( #2790)
Changelog
ABI summary:
- No ABI changes
Enhancements:
- [Wayland] Implement wp_primary_selection_unstable_v1 (Fixes #2699, Fixes #2583)
- [platform] Add DRMFormat::as_mir_format()
- [Wayland] Manually implement wl_shm/wl_shm_pool. (Closes: #2669)
Bugs fixed:
- [miral] InternalClient don’t use a dead wl_display (Fixes: #2344)
- [input] Move XKB modifier tracking from Wayland frontend to KeyMapper. (Fixes #2720, Fixes #2145)
- [gbm-kms] Ensure that a candidate device has the hardware to support at least one physical display. (Fixes: #2258)
- Fix overlapping outputs of different scale. (Fixes: #2758)
- After idle timeout the powermode change needs to be applied to the base display configuration. (Fixes: #2757, Fixes: #2695)
- [Xwayland] Do not abort when nothing is wrong. (Fixes: #2790)
Mir 2.12.0 is available as a source tarball and the Mir PPAs .
