We are pleased to announce Mir 2.7
Idle timeout
In many embedded scenarios it is useful to dim or switch off the display after a period of inactivity. Mir now has a configuration option for this.
Onscreen keyboard and Qt applications
Qt only supports the older zwp_text_input_manager_v2 protocol, we’ve added support for this to Mir.
MirOil
This release introduces MirOil, a support API to assist the migration of Lomiri (nee Unity8) to the current version of Mir. Read more about this library on the UBports forum.
Keyboard focus
Fixed more corner-cases of keyboard focus management
Supported distributions
We’ve ensured that Mir 2.7 builds with the latest versions of Ubuntu (jammy), Fedora (rawhide), Debian (sid) and Alpine (edge).
Changelog
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
-gdboption 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)
Mir 2.7.0 is available as a source tarball and the Mir PPAs.