gtk4-4.18.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Douglas R. Reno]

4.17.1

Overview of Changes in 4.17.1, 06-12-2024
=========================================

This release switches our portal support from opt-in to opt-out.
We will use portals by default, unless you set GDK_DEBUG=no-portals.
And we will *always* use portals in flatpaks.

* Text rendering:
 - Make error underlines smaller

* GtkText:
 - Avoid selecting inserted Emoji

* GtkPlacesView:
 - Improve accessibility

* GtkFileChooser:
 - Fix a case where search was stealing focus

* GtkEmojiChooser:
 - Update to CLDR 46 / Unicode 16

* Accessibility:
 - Fix DBus signature of ChildrenChanged

* GDK:
 - Don't recycle threads too aggressively
 - Add GDK_DISABLE=threads to disable threaded operations
 - Improve parallelization for small tasks

* GSK:
 - Make occlusion checking more effective
 - Clip luminosity when clipping colors (avoiding masking artifacts)
 - Fix problems with dihedral transforms

* Vulkan:
 - Streamline Vulkan setup
 - Fix blurry rendering at certain scale/size combinations

* OpenGL:
 - Conform to buffer offset alignment requirements

* Windows:
 - Fix pasting certain bitmaps

* Documentation:
 - Revise and modernize some docs

* Debugging:
 - Inspector: Show surfaces and renderers in the tree
 - Inspector: Make the object tree resizable
 - Inspector: Add a "Copy for gitlab" button

* Translation updates

4.17.2

Overview of Changes in 4.17.2, 26-12-2024
=========================================

* GtkWindow:
 - Rework computing the minimum size

* GtkPicture:
 - Fix measuring with content-fit = scale-down

* GtkStack:
 - Report constant size request mode in more cases
 - Avoid measuring children aginst preferred request mode
 - Fix measuring during size interpolation

* GtkFlowBox:
 - Improve size request mode reporting
 - Fix measuring minimum height
 - Fix measuring natural width
 - Implement hfw vai binary search

* GtkScrolledWindow:
 - Report constant size request mode in more cases
 - Skip measuring children if we can

* GtkBox:
 - Don't always reserve height for baseline alignment
 - Rework natural opposite size-for-size computation
 - Add fast paths for some cases of measurement and allocation

* GtkLayoutManager:
 - Skip invisible children for request mode determination
 - Prefer hfw, all things being equal

* GtkColorPicker:
 - Respect GDK_DEBUG=no-portals

* GtkEntry:
 - Stop guessing text direction from keyboard layout
 - Add a shortcut and context menu item to change text direction

* GtkSpinButton:
 - Make numeric spin buttons always LTR

* GtkAboutDialog:
 - Small UI improvements

* Accessibility:
 - Add an AccessKit backend. Use -Daccesskit=enabled to build it
   and GTK_A11Y=accesskit to use it

* Windows:
 - Drop the AeroSnap emulation

* Wayland:
 - Always clear exported surface IDs on finalize
 - Use the correct display for imcontext

* Vulkan:
 - Make GdkVulkanContext work with Android armv7

* Build:
 - Require GLib 2.80
 - Require harfbuzz 8.4
 - Require pango 1.55
 - Require C11

* Translation update:
 Russian

4.17.3

Overview of Changes in 4.17.3, 16-01-2025
=========================================

* GtkText:
 - Consume Ctrl-A
 - Handle Cut', Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo keys
 - Improve a11y representation

* GtkLabel:
 - Consume Ctrl-A when we handle it
 - Pass mnemonics to a11y

* GtkTextView:
 - Handle Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo keys
 - Fix disappearing carets after focus changes

* GtkFileChooser:
 - Handle Find keys
 - Set a11y label on Search button
 - Set a11y labels on pathbar buttons
 - Pass key-shortcuts for the "New folder" button

* GtkAppChooser:
 - Fix sorting

* GtkListBox:
 - Improve a11y representation

* GtkColumnView:
 - Fix column dnd in right-to-left context

* GtkWindow:
 - Make resize corners gapless with rounded corners

* GtkPopoverMenu:
 - Show mnemonics on Alt press

* GtkMenuButton:
 - Improve a11y representation

* GtkFileDialog:
 - Fix a crash
 - Add more text file api variants

* GtkSizeGroup:
 - Improve consistency measurements and allocations

* GtkBuilder:
 - Parse tab arrays and font descriptions in Pango syntax

* Wayland:
 - Rely on scale events for pointer surfaces
 - Make idle inhibit work with fullscreen subsurfaces

* Accessibility:
 - Implement GetKeyBinding properly for actions
 - Set key-shortcuts attribute
 - Fix state change notification for some states
 - Set application ID attribute

* MacOS:
 - Make the NGL renderer work again

* GSK:
 - Don't double-clip edges for shadows

* Demos:
 - widget-factory: Set alternative text on pictures
 - gtk-demo: Allow to run as a service

* Deprecations:
 - GtkShortcutsWindow
 - Loading themes from ~/.themes
 - <child> in ui files where child properties exist

* Translation updates:
 Brazilian Portuguese
 Georgian
 Turkish

4.17.4

Overview of Changes in 4.17.4, 01-02-2025
=========================================

This release introduces a new backend, which allows running
GTK applications on Android phones. It is still considered
experimental. Feedback and improvements are welcome!

We have a ci job that produces signed apks for gtk4-demo,
to make it easy to try this out.

* GtkFileChooser:
 - Stop replacing : (colon) with U+2236 (ratio)

* GtkSpinButton:
 - Avoid out-of-bounds values in some cases

* GtkWindow:
 - Send expected a11y events when a window is closed
 - Change accessible role back to GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_WINDOW

* GtkLabel:
 - Make context menus keyboard-navigatable

* GtkVideo:
 - Support rotated videos

* GDK:
 - Add a way to retrieve keyboard layout information
 - Use libpng api for cicp if available

* GSK
 - Drop the old GL renderer

* Accessibility:
 - Maintain inverse relations

* macOS:
 - Enable AccessKit in ci
 - Fix inverted pen tilt

* Deprecations:
 - The x11 backend
 - The Broadway backend

* Build:
 - Require cairo 1.18.2

* Bugs fixed:
  - #6755 Accessible `window:activate` events missing for Gtk4 (Matthias Clasen)
  - #6823 Enumeration values starting with numbers (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7210 ci: Build with -Daccesskit=enabled on macOS
  - #7228 gtk4-demo settings demo does not actually write settings (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #7246 Cannot navigate context menu of GtkLabel with keyboard
  - #7268 RFC: API to query the current keyboard layout ?
  - #7271 Test failures with libpng-1.6.45 (Alessandro Astone)
  - #7279 GTKFileChooserWidget incorrectly displays "Modified" time of file when
    format should be "%H:%M" (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7294 Hovering buttons causes "g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT
    (object)' failed" (Matthias Clasen)
  - !7555 Introducing new android backend
  - !8017 gdk: fix crash on Wayland with already destroyed surface.
  - !8060 Deprecate the X11 backend
  - !8115 Introduce the label for relation and the concept of reverse relations
  - !8118 Prepare the 4.17.3 release
  - !8119 Post-release version bump
  - !8121 vulkan: Handle VK_PRESENT_MODE_FIFO_LATEST_READY_EXT
  - !8124 Fix the archive URL for Boost
  - !8126 docs: Mark GtkShortcutsWindow as deprecated
  - !8127 tools: Drop support for the gl renderer
  - !8128 spinbutton: Consider adjustment value sanitization
  - !8129 Drop test exclusions for the gl renderer
  - !8133 ci: Move subproject download and update over to a separate job
  - !8134 Keep installing gsk/gl/gskglrenderer.h
  - !8137 gtktextattributes and gtkaccessible copy-paste errors
  - !8138 gtk-demo: Plug a memory leak
  - !8139 window: Hide accessible earlier
  - !8140 Keep installing gsk/gl/gskglrenderer.h
  - !8142 gtk4-builder-tool: Plug a few memory leaks
  - !8144 macos: fix broken accounting messages and click after moving the
    window
  - !8147 Docs: Small fixes
  - !8148 text: Correct the documentation
  - !8150 Avoid using deprecated GtkWindow::keys-changed internally
  - !8151 gstreamer: Implement rotation tag support
  - !8157 gstreamer: Improve rotation tag support
  - !8160 docs: Don't recommend usage of deprecated ToggleButton method
  - !8163 gdk/contentserializer: Force specific URI schemes to serialize as URI
  - !8164 gdk/wayland: Ensure to generate grab broken events before crossings
  - !8166 filedialog: fix typo in docs
  - !8167 macos: Gtk4: Fix inverted pen Y tilt on macOS

* Translation updates:
  - Slovenian (Martin)
  - Thai (Aefgh Threenine)

4.17.5

Overview of Changes in 4.17.5, 23-02-2025
=========================================

* Numeric mode in GtkSpinButtons works again

* Client-side dialogs can be made fully modal

* Portals work better for unsandboxed apps, by registering

* Editable labels have a context menu

* GtkListBox size allocation has been improved

* We require wayland 1.23 and wayland-protocols 1.41

* We use the wp_color_manager_v1 protocol for color management under Wayland

* Most screenshots in the documentation have a dark variant

* GtkBuilder allows inline definition for GMenu-valued properties

* Headerbars can use native window controls on macOS

* Bugs fixed:
  - #4353 Keyboard: Set shortcut does not work for key-codes > 247 (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #5125 Demo / Menu: Popup at wrong position, hangs on Wayland (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #5815 builder: integrate menus more properly (Matthias Clasen)
  - #6010 gtk4-demo > Lists > Selections emits CRITICALS (Matthias Clasen)
  - #6272 a11y: API for updating platform state for custom GtkAccessible
    implementations is missing (Emmanuele Bassi)
  - #6355 gtk_widget_compute_transform() not working correctly with GtkPopover
    (Alessandro Astone)
  - #6379 GtkListBox crashes if the placeholder is focused and then TAB is
    pressed
  - #7191 Have a way to block parent shortcuts in AdwDialog (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7215 Changing the click behavior of Gtk.EditableLabel (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7229 GSK/vulkan uses mipmaps without checking the formats/tiling
    `VkImageFormatProperties.maxMipLevels` (Janne Grunau)
  - #7249 Cursor hotspot and cursor image are not updated atomically on Wayland
    (Carlos Garnacho)
  - #7257 Unexpected spacing at the end of a textview when using child widgets.
    (Sergey Bugaev)
  - #7286 GtkApplicationWindow show-menubar documentation inconsistent
  - #7307 GtkAppChooserWidget doesn't fit in a mobile screen (Automeris naranja)
  - #7310 Inspector showing child widgets & controllers twice (Florian
    "sp1rit"​)
  - #7311 GtkSpinButton:numeric=True doesn't work (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7312 Dead link in common questions
  - #7321 mem leak in emoji chooser (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7322 invalid array index use
  - #7324 Missing support for F17, F18, F19 and F20 keys on MacOS (Elisa Pau)
  - #7334 Gtk password inputs should expose the displayed text (e.g. black
    circles) via AT-SPI; not the underlying value (Emmanuele Bassi)
  - #7340 Job Failed #4757144: Meson error
  - !7951 ListBox hacking
  - !8071 macos: Native window controls
  - !8073 gpu: Fix off-by-one error in gsk_vulkan_mipmap_levels
  - !8155 application: Register host apps with portal
  - !8177 Small Android fixes
  - !8178 Fix typo in `FileLauncher.set_always_ask` docs
  - !8179 gdk/wayland: Use forgotten include guards
  - !8180 docs: fix some typos, mainly closing ticks
  - !8184 android: Provide Gdk.FOCUS_CHANGE events
  - !8187 demos: Fix gettext domain in metainfo
  - !8195 gtk-demo: Tweak the fixed demo
  - !8196 settings: Fix GdkDisplay values ignored at init
  - !8197 popovermenubar: Do not steal the focus on hover
  - !8198 gi: Add missing annotation to WaylandSurface.force_next_commit
  - !8200 rendernode: Add fixed-size annotations
  - !8201 fontdialogbutton: Gracefully handle unknown font
  - !8205 Update getting_started.md - point to Gtk.Widget.present instead of
    show
  - !8206 docs: Fix 'Title overline too short' error
  - !8207 Update getting_started for gdk_surface_create_similar_surface
    depreaction
  - !8208 a11y: Fix issues in text attribute run logic
  - !8210 gdk: Small documentation improvements
  - !8211 wayland: Use the wp_color_manager_v1 protocol
  - !8217 macos: Disable animations if setting "Reduce Motion" is active
  - !8219 application: Clean up dangling inhibitor surface
  - !8221 gtk-demo: Improve colors of triangle in GLArea demo
  - !8222 vulkan: Fix max amount of modifiers per format
  - !8223 docs: Add dark variants to widget gallery
  - !8224 docs: Fix gallery images for menus
  - !8228 gsk: Don't color-convert empty surfaces
  - !8229 gdk: Remove GDK_DEBUG=gl-no-fractional

* Translation updates:
  - Catalan (Jordi Mas)
  - Chinese (Taiwan) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  - French (Vincent Chatelain)
  - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
  - Nepali (Pawan Chitrakar)
  - Persian (Danial Behzadi)
  - Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  - Slovenian (Martin)

4.17.6

Overview of Changes in 4.17.6, 04-03-2025
=========================================

Note: The buffer sizing fixes in this release are known to
not work with fractional scales on macOS. This will hopefully
be fixed soon. In the meantime, you can use the cairo renderer.

* GSK rendering issues on Asahi Linux are fixed

* Buffer sizing issues with fractional scaling are fixed

* GtkFontChooser scrolls to the initially selected font

* Font rendering with the new default GNOME font is improved

* The Wayland cursor shape protocol is supported

* Initial focus for popups on Android is fixed

* Bugs fixed:
  - #3184 Application crashes when presenting popover menus (Matthias Clasen)
  - #4019 Crash on ListBoxRow.get_index (Matthias Clasen)
  - #6455 GtkFlowBox aligns incorrectly with GTK_ALIGN_END and
    min/max_children_per_line (Gergo Koteles)
  - #6817 Null pointer dereference in gdk_surface_request_motion (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #7146 GSK issues illegal render ops with load=dont-care and blend=over with
    Wayland fractional scaling, causing graphical corruption (Benjamin Otte)
  - #7282 memorytexture testsuite fails the float tests (Benjamin Otte)
  - #7314 Incorrect height calculations with fractional scaling under vulkan
    renderer (violates vulkan validation layers) (Benjamin Otte)
  - #7369 GtkTextView does not claim all click gestures (Maximiliano Sandoval)
  - #7370 activating `GDK_DEBUG=EVENTS` crashes the application if a touch event
    occurs (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7384 Comment required for search string (Matthias Clasen)
  - !6617 Fix measuring label min wfh with wrap+ellipsize+lines
  - !6635 gtkmodelbutton: Always close submenus when changing parent item
  - !7746 ci: Regenerate Fedora image from F41
  - !8028 fontchooser: scroll to selected font
  - !8111 macos: Re-enable macOS GIR generation
  - !8154 adjustment: Verify that values are finite
  - !8156 Clarify hide-on-close documentation
  - !8188 gdkkeys-win32: Add keymap get_active_layout_index/get_layout_names
  - !8231 docs: Fix the missing image in the picture screenshots
  - !8232 gdk: Fix spelling for GdkAndroidDisplayNightMode enum value nick
  - !8234 wayland: Update color coordinates for extra precision
  - !8235 Drop GskProfiler
  - !8241 macos: Do not occupy space for window buttons when full screen
  - !8242 android: Update focus state on motion events for autohide surfaces
  - !8243 gdk: Deprecate gdk_cairo_context_cairo_create()
  - !8246 cpdb: Update gtk_print_backend_cpdb_init for latest CPDB version
  - !8247 wayland: Support the cursor-shape protocol
  - !8248 docs: Fix an image name
  - !8250 macos: Track number of button widgets realized on a window
  - !8251 wayland: Go back to the old none cursor
  - !8253 Bring back unhinted extents
  - !8256 wayland: Fix none cursor check
  - !8263 inspector: Show font options
  - !8264 Try again to fix font rendering

* Translation updates:
  - Basque (Asier Sarasua Garmendia)
  - Bulgarian (twlvnn kraftwerk, Alexander Shopov)
  - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
  - Chinese (China) (Luming Zh)
  - Czech (Daniel Rusek)
  - Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  - Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
  - Hebrew (Yosef Or Boczko)
  - Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  - Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
  - Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
  - Persian (Danial Behzadi)
  - Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
  - Portuguese (Brazil) (Rafael Fontenelle)
  - Slovenian (Martin)
  - Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
  - Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
  - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)

4.18.1

Overview of Changes in 4.18.1, 14-03-2025
=========================================

Note: This release makes the use of the Wayland color-management protocol
opt-in, since our code is not quite ready for being used by default yet.
To enable the color management protocol, use GDK_DEBUG=color-mgmt.

* macOS: Make fractional scaling work again

* Android: Provide a GL renderer

* Bugs fixed:
  - #7386 Deadkeys using UFDD modifiers do not work under gtk4 apps (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #7390 recorder.ui's action items made available for translation (Matthias
    Clasen)
  - #7402 Trying to measure GtkPopover 0x42761b0 for height of 277, but it needs
    at least 313 (Sergey Bugaev)
  - #7406 Nautilus crashes when try to pin any folder as a new bookmark on the
    side panel. (Matthias Clasen)
  - !8191 treeview: Drop cell-only states when rendering the empty bottom area
  - !8237 paned: Fix handle jump on drag start
  - !8258 Revamp the portal check
  - !8260 fix: Fix the type conversion (gtk demo) in the gtkgear example
  - !8262 bitset: Fix annotations
  - !8268 Add another font testcase
  - !8269 inspector: Make editing attributes work
  - !8270 docs: Add some a11y references
  - !8271 docs: fix typo
  - !8272 inspector: Don't translate action names
  - !8273 macos: Fix HiDPI rendering on macOS
  - !8274 call nproc once in gdk parallel
  - !8276 docs: Clarify invalidation replacements
  - !8278 android: Introduced partial OpenGL backend
  - !8280 Tweak text layout
  - !8282 inspector: Allow editing PangoTabArrays
  - !8283 egl: modifers must be an array
  - !8284 gpu: Make sure we actually download dmabuf textures again
  - !8285 Make color management opt-in
  - !8287 Improve key event logging
  - !8288 Tweak font rendering more
  - !8289 API: Deprecate gdk_surface_create_cairo_context()
  - !8291 Use gtk_shell version to announce wl_surface.offset support for cursors
  - !8292 gsk: Fix multiple clipping of partial pixels
  - !8294 vulkan: Prepare for Vulkan using wp-color-v1
  - !8296 gsk: Pad text node bounds
  - !8298 window: Fix destroying with transient parent
  - !8299 stack: Fix adjusting child allocation

* Translation updates:
  - Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
  - Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
  - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
  - Chinese (China) (Luming Zh)
  - Czech (Daniel Rusek)
  - Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
  - French (Vincent Chatelain)
  - Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  - Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
  - Hebrew (Yosef Or Boczko)
  - Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  - Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  - Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
  - Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
  - Persian (Danial Behzadi)
  - Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
  - Portuguese (Brazil) (Artur Miranda)
  - Russian (Artur S0)
  - Slovenian (Martin)
  - Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
  - Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
  - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)

4.18.2

Overview of Changes in 4.18.2, 16-03-2025
=========================================

* GtkPopoverMenu:
 - Fix a sporatic crash that affected Showtime

* X11:
 - Fix interactions between scaling and the cairo renderer
   that broke the mutter-x11-frame client

* Windows:
 - Fix a lockup in AdwTabOverview with the GL renderer
 - Don't default to Vulkan

* Android:
 - Make fullscreen work as expected

* Bugs fixed:
  - #7407 Segfault on setting popover child of a MenuButton (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7408 Transparent/bugged close button on titlebar in 48.rc (Benjamin Otte)
  - #7409 Gtk 4.18 erroneously defaults to vulkan on windows (Matthias Clasen)
  - #7411 `AdwTabOverview` only works with the vulkan renderer (on windows)
    (Matthias Clasen)
  - !8306 android: Implement fullscreen for AndroidToplevel
  - !8308 clipboard: Plug a memory leak
  - !8309 wayland: Avoid leaks in drag surfaces
  - !8310 android: Wait for main thread to idle before updating IME
  - !8314 roaring: Use g_malloc/g_free

* Translation updates:
  - English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at 5aaa687b948600fbcbaeb13ea309286c97de41da