Beryl News and Updates

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Beryl 0.2.0 RC1 Released

Feb 1, 2006 -- Yeah it is out. This is a preview release of the upcomming Beryl 0.2.0 which has been branched off into its more or less final form minus a couple bug fixes. It does have a couple known bugs, so be aware. The 3D animations and heliodor still doesn't play nice all the time and Nvidia users will still experience the same tired black window bug (driver issue). Also there has been a slight change to how beryl-xgl is produced, so if your package doesn't have the beryl-xgl binary, poke your package maintainer for a fix.

Major Changes from 0.1.5:

• Window Thumbnail Plugin
• Group With Tabs Plugin
• Ring Switcher
• Better Placement Algorithms
• Better Multihead Support
• Snapping Windows without Wobbly
• Show Desktop has been replaced with Fade Desktop
• Easier to use Configuration Frontend
• 3D Animation Effects
• Support Jpeg Image Format
• Focus Stealing Prevention Work
• Better Memory Usage
• many many smaller things...

Users can expect the release to hit repos within the next couple days depending on your distribution. Hopefully this will be the first and only release candidate between now and 0.2.0. A more complete changelog can be found on Trac.
--The Beryl Team

Beryl 0.1.4 Released

Dec 26, 2006 -- We are happy today to announce the release of Beryl 0.1.4! This release signifies the fifth major developer release of Beryl and the beginning of Beryl's freeze for our current stable target 0.2.0. The plugins you see in this are the plugins you will be playing with on 0.2.0, though some of them are bound to change and improve. Release notes are again not done (DBO is on an unscheduled vacation) but he'll be getting those out shortly. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all, from everyone here at The Beryl Project.

--The Beryl Team

Forums Down

Dec 11, 2006 -- The forums are experiencing a bit of down time right now. Please bear with us while the issue is being worked on. The issue seems to be with the MySQL server right now, more updates to come on the blog if progress is not made shortly.

--The Web Team

Website Updates

Dec 11, 2006 -- Several updates made to the main website today inlcuding updates tot his very page. The news sidepanel now includes mini blurbs, the broken themes link has been removed, and the New Developers rough cut guide has been uploaded. Hopefully some people will find it useful, it does contain some new material for new devs, but only enough to get them going right now.

--The Web Team

Beryl 0.1.3 Released!

Dec 9, 2006 -- Today The Beryl Project announces its 0.1.3 release of the Beryl window manager. Release tarballs are already available to maintainers and packages should be hitting your repo soon if they have not already. This release features several improvements and overall updates to the Beryl feature base, as well as a wide array of feature updates. Beryl 0.1.3 marks the first release to include the KDE Window Decorator named Aquamarine as well as the GTK Window Decorator (ported from compiz) which has been renamed Heliodor. More information about the release can be found in the release notes.

--The Beryl Team

An Apology, DBO Screwed Up

Dec 9, 2006 -- The official Beryl roadmap has received a minor update today after it became clear that a bit of misinformation about the history of Beryl had made it through to the final version. It had previously stated that patched from Compiz were difficult to install without massaging, and while this has been true of some patches, it is not true all the time. The history has since been updated to reflect a more realistic representation. This is my fault and Im really quite sorry. Some things slip under the radar...

--DBO

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