ANNOUNCE: Xfce 4.12 released

Sun Mar 1 01:58:15 CET 2015

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:07:20 +0100
nick <nick at xfce.org> wrote:

> Xfce 4.12 is now available for download.
> 
> It includes the following releases of Xfce core components:
> 
>   exo 0.10.3
>   garcon 0.4.0
>   gtk-xfce-engine 2.10.0
>   libxfce4ui 4.12.0
>   libxfce4util 4.12.1
>   thunar 1.6.6
>   thunar-volman 0.8.1
>   tumbler 0.1.31
>   xfce4-appfinder 4.12.0
>   xfce4-dev-tools 4.12.0
>   xfce4-panel 4.12.0
>   xfce4-power-manager 1.4.3
>   xfce4-session 4.12.0
>   xfce4-settings 4.12.0
>   xfconf 4.12.0
>   xfdesktop 4.12.0
>   xfwm4 4.12.0
> 
> Individual tarballs are available for download now:
>   http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12/src
> 
> A tarball including all individual releases can be downloaded here:
>   http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12/fat_tarballs
> 
> 
> Release notes for 4.12
> ======================
> 
> Today, after 2 years and 10 months of work, we are pleased to announce
> the release of the Xfce desktop 4.12, a new stable version that
> supersedes Xfce 4.10.
> This long period can only be explained by how awesome Xfce 4.10 was. But
> as all things, it needed some refreshing -  and for that we saw lots of
> new contributors providing valuable feedback, features and bugfixes. As
> always, Xfce follows its steady pace of evolution without revolution
> that seems to match our users' needs.
> 
> In this 4.12 cycle, we mainly focused on polishing our user experience
> on the desktop and window manager, and on updating some components to
> take advantage of newly available technologies.
> 
> The main highlights of this release are:
> 
> - The window manager gained a new themable Alt+Tab dialog with optional
>   windows preview and a list mode. Initial Client side decoration
>   support was implemented, window tiling mode was improved providing
>   support for corner-tiling, and a new zooming mode was added.
>   A HiDPI Xfwm theme was also added.
> - The panel can now intelligently hide itself, supports Gtk3 plugins,
>   and saw lots of its third-party plugins updated to take full
> advantage
>   of the features added in 4.10.
> - The desktop has a new wallpaper settings dialog, per workspace
>   wallpaper support, and better multi-monitor handling. It also
> supports
>   displaying folder coverart and emblems on icons now.
> - Our session manager was updated to use logind and/or upower if
>   available for hibernate/suspend support. For portability and to
>   respect our users' choices, fallback modes were implemented relying
> on
>   os-specific backends.
> - Support for multi-monitor use was improved in a new display settings
>   dialog and a quick setup popup on monitor plugging
> - The appearance dialog now showcases previews for icons and themes.
> - Xfsettingsd now supports libinput.
> - Power management was not forgotten: A new panel plugin was created,
>   logind/upower support was added to handle battery/lid/brightness
>   events, and locking via light-locker was implemented. The settings
>   dialog was also revamped, and support for X11 screenblanking was
>   added.
> - Our file manager, the beloved Thunar, saw an insane amount of
>   improvements: tab support, tons of bug fixes, speed-ups, key
> shortcuts
>   for custom actions, better naming of file copies and links, nice
>   freespace bar in properties, tweaks for the renamer and other
> dialogs,
>   improved keyboard navigation, fixes for the treeview pane, better
>   wallpaper support, Gtk3 bookmarks support, multiple file properties..
>   need we say more?
> - To prepare the future of Xfce with Gtk3, which no longer requires
>   theme engines, we are stopping the development of our Gtk theme
>   engine,and dropping our Gtk3 engine - theme makers, please update
>   your themes to CSS if you want them to work on the next Xfce version.
> - Due to gstreamer1.0 having dropped the mixer-interface entirely, and
>   xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed relying on this interface with
>   gstreamer0.10, our mixer application and volume daemon cannot be
>   ported to 1.0 and are consequently not maintained anymore.
> 
> Xfce wouldn't be what it is right now without all its goodies. In this
> area, we also saw a flurry of activity, most notably:
> 
> - Xfburn gained BluRay Disc burning support
> - Task manager UI was totally revamped, and got ported to Gtk3
> - Parole's UI was totally redone, parts of it rewritten with many
>   features added. Furthermore it was ported to Gtk3 and gstreamer1.0
> - Mousepad was totally rewritten and got an initial port to Gtk3
> - Imgur.com support was added to the screenshooter
> - A new GNOME-Shell-like dashboard named xfdashboard is now available
> - A new alternative menu for the panel named whiskermenu was added
> - The GNOME2 hardware monitor plugin was ported to our panel
> - Weather plugin got a totally new user interface with powerful
>  customization options and provides tons of detailed information
> - Eyes plugin uses 3D coordinates to calculate its eye position, so
>   even more sometimes scary, sometimes funny eyes will spy on you!
> - Netload plugin works with the new udev net interface names and can
>   be configured to show transfer rates in the panel
> - Clipboard manager plugin optionally displays a QR code
> - Cpufreq plugin now supports the intel pstate driver and can adapt
>   better for different panel sizes and information displayed
> - Nearly all plugins have been improved to give the same look and feel
>   and to support the new deskbar panel mode
> 
> 
> An online tour of the changes in Xfce 4.12 can be viewed here:
> 
>   http://xfce.org/about/tour
> 
> A more detailed overview of the changes between Xfce 4.10 and Xfce 4.12
> can be found on the following page:
> 
>   http://xfce.org/download/changelogs
> 
> This release can be downloaded either as a set of individual packages
> or as a single fat tarball including all these individual versions:
> 
>   http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.12
> 
> **Thank you, everyone!**
> 
> A warm thank you all the contributors, translators and packagers for
> your efforts in making this release possible. We would also like to
> thank our fantastic users and occasional contributors who submitted bug
> reports, helped us find issues and sometimes provided patches. We are
> currently reviewing all patches sent to us and will include many more
> fixes to Xfce in the next release. We would also like to thank the many
> people who donated money to our project via Bounty Source
> (https://www.bountysource.com/teams/xfce). This will help us meet and
> hack on Xfce in the future!
> 
> As always, we welcome everyone who would like to contribute to the
> development of Xfce!
> 
>   http://docs.xfce.org/contribute/start
> 
> Best regards,
> The Xfce development team

Thanks, everyone. Xfce 4.12 will be available for FreeBSD users soon.

Mandatory screenshot [1].

Regards

[1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-screen-shots.8877/page-32#post-283313

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