[ANN] Kivy 1.0.7 released

[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce Kivy 1.0.7.

Kivy is a full featured framework for creating novel and performant

user interfaces, such as multitouch applications, under the LGPL 3

license. The framework work on Windows, MacOSX, Linux and Android.

All downloads are available on the website:

    http://kivy.org

Here is some features we want to highlight:

    - Packaging: you can know create .exe on Windows platform and

      .app/.dmg on MacOSX. In addition, a common Setting management

      have been added into App class, that you can use for pushing

      application settings. Use F1 on Desktop or settings button on

      Android to show the Setting panel.

    - Better image support: texture implementation have been improved

      to support S3TC and mipmapping, and reduce memory consumption.

      DDS format is also supported. Default texture behaviors have a

      faster loading time, and so, a direct impact on performance.

      You can even activate mipmapping for label, it might be longer,

      to create the label, but faster and nicer on the screen.

    - Better widgets: new Switch, new Settings, ScrollView kinetic,

      GridLayout enhanced, test it !

As usual, any issues / features should be reported at:

    http://github.com/tito/kivy/issues

Changelog - 1.0.7

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Core

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    - [#32] Implement window rotation (0,90,180,270)

    - [#150] Fix to prevent gcc bug on Mageia

    - [#153] Add packaging doc and hooks for Windows and MacOSX

    - [#155] Replaced import in class methods with late binding

    - [#157] Implement Label.valign support

    - [#166] Prevent to open too many fonts at the same time

    - [#184] Remove unlink() in properties, not needed anymore

    - [#186] Fixes extension support for MacOSX

    - Disable window resizing until we are OpenGL context resistant

    - Enhance extensions wizard and auto-created setup.py

    - Enhance pixels from pygame surface

    - Enhance properties list to prevent memory leak

    - Enhance properties to store data inside Widget class

    - Fixes for Audio class creation

    - Fixes for Clock dictionnary crashes

    - Fixes for volume usage on gstreamer video implementation

    - Fixes infinite loop when we hit max iteration

    - Fixes ordering of Window.add_widget

    - Fixes to avoid resync error with gstreamer

    - New DDS Image loader using new S3TC support

    - New DictProperty property

Graphics

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    - [#27] Implement mipmap support

    - [#130] Implement caching for Shader source/compilation result

    - [#161] Prevent to upload texture twice when NPOT is supported

    - [#182] Fix Rotation.angle caching with degrees/radians

    - [#190] Fix crash when too many vertices are pushed in VBO

    - Enhance Ellipse to add angle_start/angle_end properties

    - Enhance GridLayout to have minimum and default size per col/row

    - Enhance logging of OpenGL capabilities

    - Enhance texture memory by using native NPOT if available

    - Enhance texture upload by using the best pixel packing

    - Fixes Color.hsv property crashes

    - Fixes for GLES2 by using GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT in VBO

    - Fixes some typo on OpenGL wrapper

    - New $HEADER$ token that can be used in fragment/vertex shader code

    - New OpenGL Utils module for checking texture capabilities and others

    - New S3TC texture support

    - New Texture.colorfmt property

Input

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    - Enhance Wacom support on linux platform

    - Fix leak/slowdown in MouseMotionEvent

Lang

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    - [#189] Fixes for not allowing dot in properties name

    - Concat property value when the value is shifted to one level

    - Enhance key resolution ([x for x in list] can be used now.)

    - Enhance module/class resolution at import

Widget

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    - [#139] Add TreeView.remove_node()

    - [#143] Fix crash when group is changing on ToggleButton

    - [#146] Fix invalid calculation for Image.norm_image_size

    - [#152] Fix Camera.play property

    - [#160] Prevent label creation until text is set

    - [#178] Set default values only on properties

    - Enhance ScrollView to have kind of kinetic movement

    - Fixes calculation of Stacklayout.size with padding

    - Fixes FloatLayout relayout when children size* is changing

    - Fixes for initial Label.font_name assignement

    - Fixes to prevent call of on_release twice

    - Fix ScrollView with grab events

    - New Image.allow_stretch property

    - New Popup (modal popup) widget

    - New Settings widget

    - New Switch widget

    - New Widget.uid property

Examples

--------

    - New tiny shader editor demo

Documentation

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    - [#17] Enhance all cythonized classes documentation

    - [#84] Add previous/next link in the bottom of the documentation

    - [#153] Enhance Environment documentation

    - [#159] Remove warning on unimplemented Template in lang

    - [#191] Fix logo link to go to http://kivy.org/

    - [#192] Add PDF download link in sidebar

    - Added vim highlighter

    - Enhanced documentation widget with images

    - Enhance OpenGL wrapper documentation with Kronos website links

    - Rework documentation for Graphics part

    - Several typo fixes

MacOSX

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    - Reduce the portable package from 50MB to 40MB

Thanks to guoguofish, Gabriel Pettier, Joakim Gebart, George Sebastian,

Gabriel Ortega for their contribution on this release !

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Mathieu, Christopher and Thomas

http://kivy.org/#aboutus

[Oleksandr Lobunets]

Sweet! Looking forward to play with it over the next week!

Nice work, Matt.

Alex.