Prerelease for 1.4.0. Current development is focussing on DirectFB II,
so when the development branch has proven its stability, 1.4.0 can
be released. Contains bugfixes, documentation, features, enhancements.
For detailed info click on the news title
Config
- added 'include' option, to include config files.
- added config option to override module search dir.
- read /proc/self/cmdline if DirectFBInit() does not receive argv/argc.
- added option to override initial screen size.
- Fix build when srcdir != builddir.
Core
- Added IDirectFBSurface::Read and ::Write
- better out-of-memory error handling
- fixed alpha handling for palette SetEntriesYUV
- rectified changes to surface policy in case a surface is allocated again, of reallocated
- fixed memory leak in local "System Memory" pool when deallocating due to IDirectFB::Release
- fix software blending bug when modifying both source and destination
- IDirectFBDisplayLayer::SetSourceRectangle for non-scalable surfaces: change dst size too.
- surfaces: Fixed missing initialization of bridge pointer, crashing when no bridge is available.
- surfaces: clean-up local pool on 'leave' and 'destroy'
- gfx: added RGBA4444 support
- default font: Support premultiplied font formats.
Direct
- include ARM memcpy routines (big endian only)
Documentation
- added documentation for blend functions and some desktop-buffer-mode options
- directfbrc.5: Document triple and windows desktop-buffer-mode options.
Fusion
- update to use new 'unified' fusion kernel module.
When using multi-app, please use fusion 8.1.1 or newer.
- fixed skirmish wait argument not taken as msec but usec
Gfxsystems
- matrox: Wrong chroma plane offset was being used with deinterlace blits.
- omap: Added omapfb.h to release zipfile.
- SH772x: LCD parameters not obtained via fbdev ioctl
- SH772x: improved JPEG Encode/decode performance, JPEG fixes, JPU by default disabled due to conflicts
- SH772x: detection broadened to SH772x revisions
- unichrome: support for accel stretchblit YUV->RGB for CX700/M/2.
Input
- Fix possible array overruns
- added direct_modules_unregister() when unloading the module
- linuxinput: Fix LED handling, Count KEY_M
- font loading: Support premultiplied font formats.
- Video4Linux: add sources to release zipfile. Conform v4l and v4l2 to new core architecture.
- zytronic: added zytronic touch screen driver.
- vt: Move the keyboard XLATE/MEDIUMRAW handling to the vt code, to allow concurrent input.
- input: correctly read modifiers for load_keymap
- keyboard: added setting/loading of keyboard keymaps via IDirectFBInputDevice
Systems
- fbdev: Fixes for pan & zoom functionality
- fbdev: corrected ioctl error handling: now stops on error.
- fbdev: Test non-primary layer allocations
- fbdev: use directfbrc for initial screen size, if specified.
- x11: fixes for glx handling, additional logging
- x11: Remember each GLXContext's drawable and set update flag only if it changed.
- x11: Manage second GLX context per thread via another surface accessor ID.
Tools
- dfbdump: fixed to show correct buffer allocation sizes for certain formats.
- dfbinfo: now shows multiple encoder types correctly
Window Manager
- default: Fix DLBM_TILE clipping
- default: Fixed advanced blending with only DSBLIT_BLEND_COLORALPHA being used.
- default: Added Meta-R for window rotation.
niels
