Mir 0.28.1

We are pleased to announce that Mir 0.28.1 has been released and is available in the mir-team/release ppa and in Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic”. There are builds for the supported Ubuntu releases (16.04 LTS “Xenial”, 17.04 “Zesty” or 17.10 “Artful”) To use the PPA:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mir-team/release $ sudo apt-get update

As the 0.28.1 numbering reflects this release is a collection of improvements and bugfixes to Mir release 0.28. There are no API or ABI changes.

Significantly, we’ve addressed a number of issues that impacted on building Mir on other distributions. Obviously, we’ve not tried them all, so if you encounter a problem please reach out (either here, on freenode #ubuntu-mir or file a bug on launchpad.

What is in Mir 0.28.1?

Enhancements

Fix build (and add instructions) for Fedora

Don’t build components that use Mir EGL when it isn’t available.

Fix GMock detection (across the platforms we’ve tried).

Add Wayland support for keymaps.

[miral-app, miral-desktop] Default to using SDL’s Wayland support.

Bugs fixed: