Hello everyone, the new Apertis 16.09 stable release is now available!
You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.apertis.org/16.09/ReleaseNotes
Some highlights from this release:
* Routing information sharing for navigation services Traprain is a new library introduced in Apertis 16.09 allowing navigation services to share routing information with third party applications. It enables applications to get the available routes to reach one or more destinations: for instance, with Traprain an application can request the routes to the nearby restaurants and sort them by estimated arrival time form the current location to help choosing the one to book.
* Hardware accelerated support for Web contents Apertis 16.09 ships with readily available support for accelerating Web contents (CSS3 transforms and animations, WebGL scenes) using the GPU efficiently under Wayland. This means that you can navigate the modern Web even with limited CPU resources and run WebGL scenes fully unleashing the power of your GPU. Most of this work has been submitted upstream and we plan to submit the remaining optimizations soon.
* Canterbury API for launching preferences A new API (org.apertis.Canterbury.AppDbHandler.LaunchAppPreferences) has been implemented to allow applications to launch their preferences in mildenhall-settings, including design and support work, and unit tests for the implementation in Canterbury.
The full release notes contain more details about all the work that has been poured in this release: https://wiki.apertis.org/16.09/ReleaseNotes
Images are already available for download at https://images.apertis.org/release/16.09/
Thanks to everyone who contributed!