From a8dbc68056af9f32b6ebc6c1a0191e9ca7ec2e7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wilson Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:00:50 +0000 Subject: version: Bump for snapshot 1.11.4 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson --- NEWS | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8ec157774..5d22053a3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,91 @@ +Snapshot 1.11.4 (2012-13-12) +============================ +The cairo community is pleased to finally announce the long aniticpated +release candidate for 1.12, 1.11.4, of the cairo graphics library. This +is the first major update to cairo in over a year and brings a large +number of new features; undoubtably a few bugs as well. + +While many people have contributed and have helped to test the release, +providing feedback on 1.10 and suggesting improvements, this release +is the result of a few persevering souls who deserve recognition for their +outstanding contributions: Andrea Canciani (all round bug fixing, +performance tuning and master of the gradients), Adrian Johnson (PDF +supremo) and Uli Schlachter (who stepped forward as maintainer for the +XCB backend). + +Major additions since 1.11.2: + + * cairo_surface_map_to_image API for pixel level access to any surface + + * New antialias hints to control the trade-off between speed and quality + + * A callback pattern, cairo_pattern_create_raster_source, for lazy + decoding of image data. + + * cairo_surface_observer_t, a new type of surface to gather performance + statistics + + * XCB as a supported backend + + * A rewritten compositor pipeline for performance improvements for, but not + limited to, the xlib and image backends. + From ION and PineView through to SandyBridge, every machine I have shows + across the board performance improvement on the cairo-traces: + + i5-2520m gnome-system-monitor: 5.97x speedup + pnv gnome-system-monitor: 4.86x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-asteroids: 4.66x speedup + pnv firefox-asteroids: 4.43x speedup + image firefox-canvas: 3.82x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-canvas-alpha: 3.49x speedup + image firefox-asteroids: 2.87x speedup + pnv firefox-talos-svg: 2.83x speedup + ion grads-heat-map: 2.75x speedup + pnv firefox-canvas-alpha: 2.66x speedup + image gnome-system-monitor: 2.66x speedup + image swfdec-giant-steps: 2.46x speedup + image firefox-canvas-alpha: 2.14x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-talos-svg: 2.03x speedup + image grads-heat-map: 2.02x speedup + ion gnome-system-monitor: 2.00x speedup + pnv firefox-particles: 1.99x speedup + i5-2520m grads-heat-map: 1.96x speedup + pnv firefox-canvas: 1.92x speedup + ion firefox-particles: 1.80x speedup + image poppler-reseau: 1.77x speedup + pnv xfce4-terminal-a1: 1.72x speedup + image firefox-talos-svg: 1.65x speedup + pnv grads-heat-map: 1.63x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-canvas: 1.63x speedup + pnv swfdec-youtube: 1.62x speedup + image ocitysmap: 1.59x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-fishbowl: 1.56x speedup + i5-2520m poppler-reseau: 1.50x speedup + i5-2520m evolution: 1.50x speedup + i5-2520m midori-zoomed: 1.43x speedup + pnv firefox-planet-gnome: 1.42x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-talos-gfx: 1.41x speedup + i5-2520m gvim: 1.41x speedup + pnv ocitysmap: 1.37x speedup + image poppler: 1.31x speedup + ion firefox-canvas-alpha: 1.35x speedup + ion firefox-talos-svg: 1.34x speedup + i5-2520m ocitysmap: 1.32x speedup + pnv poppler-reseau: 1.31x speedup + i5-2520m firefox-planet-gnome: 1.31x speedup + pnv firefox-fishbowl: 1.30x speedup + pnv evolution: 1.28x speedup + image gvim: 1.27x speedup + i5-2520m swfdec-youtube: 1.25x speedup + pnv gnome-terminal-vim: 1.27x speedup + pnv gvim: 1.25x speedup + image firefox-planet-gnome: 1.25x speedup + image swfdec-youtube: 1.25x speedup + ... + +And a plethora of minor improvements everywhere! +-Chris + Snapshot 1.11.2 (2011-01-23) =========================== -- cgit v1.2.1