Mir release 0.28.1

Mir 0.28.1

We are pleased to announce that Mir 0.28.1 has been released and is available in the mir-team/release ppa and in Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic”. There are builds for the supported Ubuntu releases (16.04 LTS “Xenial”, 17.04 “Zesty” or 17.10 “Artful”) To use the PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mir-team/release
$ sudo apt-get update

As the 0.28.1 numbering reflects this release is a collection of improvements and bugfixes to Mir release 0.28. There are no API or ABI changes.

Significantly, we’ve addressed a number of issues that impacted on building Mir on other distributions. Obviously, we’ve not tried them all, so if you encounter a problem please reach out (either here, on freenode #ubuntu-mir or file a bug on launchpad.

What is in Mir 0.28.1?

Enhancements

  • Fix build (and add instructions) for Fedora
  • Don’t build components that use Mir EGL when it isn’t available.
  • Fix GMock detection (across the platforms we’ve tried).
  • Add Wayland support for keymaps.
  • [miral-app, miral-desktop] Default to using SDL’s Wayland support.

Bugs fixed:

  • Wayland demo client doesn’t cross-compile. (LP: #1723971)
  • mir fails to find drm.h. (LP: #1722147)
  • Build process depends on Debian toolchain. (LP: #1724202)
  • XWayland clients updates not causing redraw (LP: #1720223)
  • Don’t treat failing to bypass buffers as a fatal error. (This could happen with Wayland clients.)
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weeee!!! works great with unity8! thanks much

PS: muhahahahaha

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I’ve seen it asked a couple of times:

  1. The Unity8 desktop is available in the 17.04 “Zesty” archive
  2. It is installed with “sudo apt install unity8-desktop-session”
  3. It is selected on the logon screen - the “cog” by the user name