Mir 1.7.0 Release

We’re pleased to announce the release of Mir 1.7.0.

For Ubuntu, Mir is available from the Mir PPAs.

It is also available as a source tarball.

Summary

This is a bugfix release, with most of the fixes being to the (still “experimental”) X11 support for desktop.

For the avoidance of doubt, Mir 1.7 retains the optional support for mirclient based applications. This support is no longer available “master”, so we’ve “cherry-picked” changes that do not interfere with it, we’ll continue to do so for the short term. In particular, we hope to remove the “experimental” status from our X11 support (via Xwayland) shortly.

Changelog

ABI summary:

mirserver ABI bumped to 53

Enhancements:

[X11] Add basic window decorations

[X11] Add a configuration option to specify the Xwayland executable

[X11] Code cleanup: fix threading, initialization, style, etc.

[server/input] Use a sorted map for outputs

BasicWindowManager requests on unknown windows should noop

Bugs fixed: