Please help with testing and packaging it for your distribution, so we can get wider testing.

• Svn revision to use: 41533.
• Snapshot tarballs:  http://download.enlightenment.org/snapshots/2009-06-14/
• Release (eet) tarballs:  http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/
• Release Plan
• Release Schedule
•  Raster's announcement

Next snapshot is due Monday, September 7th. We plan to skip August to have time to merge Google Summer of Code projects and do aggressive hacking, but maybe we can find some room to another release. If things go well this will be the "alpha" snapshot and then we move on to beta, release candidates and final release! But we need to finish features and improve overall quality, get your editors and hack!

e17 News

• Sergey Semernin finally has a SVN-account and can commit directly. He already started with committing the support for Gadcon sites (like announced in ecn200925) and a lot of E_Fm improvements.

EFL News

• Cedric added an optimization inside Evas render loop that reduces the need for a memset to 0 in surface initialization (taking the alpha channel into account). The accelerated DirectFB and SDL engines directly benefit from this chance, but the Software_X11 engine needs to receive some fixes to make use of the improvement. This change breaks the Evas API.

• He also plans to do a stable release of Eina this summer, because the TODO is finally empty. However, there is still work to do, and everybody can help! Developers of external EFL apps can do testing and reviewing of Eina, check the API (for consistency and correctness) as well as file and fix bugs in trac. Also the documentation is not yet complete and has still quite some spelling and grammar problems that should be fixed.

• pfritz did huge changes in EWL, some of which break all existing EWL themes. You can get more information in his blog:  http://pfritz.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-new-state-system-of-ewl/ changeset:41306

• antognolli is still working hard on EThumb which receives a lot of new features and improvements constantly. For example it is now able to create animated thumbnails from videos. changeset:41322

• caro renamed the old software_x11 engine to software_xlib in many cases because x11 can also mean the XCB as Xlib replacement. This introduces several API brakes (most in-tree stuff is already up to date).

• Andreas Volz addad a new modular C++ wrapper, called EFLxx, and moved the old one (EFLpp) to OLD. For more information about EFLxx you can check the EFLxx wiki article. changeset:41355

Application News

• rephorm did a rewrite of the well-known elicit tool. It is not completely ready yet, but works fine so far. You can get the code here:  http://github.com/rephorm/elicit/
  

• morlenxus did a new release of easy_e17. You can find the changelog and the script on:  http://omicron.homeip.net/?blog_id=66

• mekius replaced the Etk-frontend of Empower with an Elementary-frontend and bumped the version to 2.0.0 (plus a lot other improvements from Quaker) changeset:41298

Community News

• Noorul Islam is moving the old 'Introduction To EFL' guide *by Kostis Kapelonis) to the Wiki. You can find it (and help moving it) here: IntroductionToEFL