Exo 0.12.0 Released

With full GTK+ 2 and 3 support and numerous enhancements, Exo 0.12.0 provides a solid development base for new and refreshed Xfce applications.

What’s New?

Since this is the first stable release in nearly 2.5 years, I will briefly summarize the changes since version 0.10.7, released on September 13, 2015.

New Features

GTK Extensions

• Added exo_gtk_dialog_get_action_area
• Added exo_gtk_dialog_add_secondary_button
• Added support for the “insensitive” state in exo_cell_renderer_icon (GTK+ 3)

Helpers

• WebBrower: Added Brave, Google Chrome, and Vivaldi
• MailReader: Added Geary, dropped Opera Mail (no longer available for Linux)

Utilities

• exo-csource: Added a new --output flag to write the generated output to a file
• exo-helper: Added a new --query flag to determine the preferred application

Icons

• Replaced non-standard gnome-* icons
• Replaced non-existent “missing-image” icon

Build Changes

• Build requirements were updated. Exo now requires GTK+ 2.24, GTK+ 3.22, GLib 2.42, libxfce4ui 4.12, and libxfce4util 4.12. Building GTK+ 3 libraries is not optional.
• The default debug setting is now “yes” instead of “full.”

Documentation Updates

• Added missing per-release API indices
• Resolved undocumented symbols (100% symbol coverage)
• Updated project documentation (HACKING, README, THANKS)

Release Notes

• The full release notes can be found here.
• The full change log can be found here.

Downloads

The latest version of Exo can always be downloaded from the Xfce archives. Grab version 0.12.0 from the below link.

Source code

• SHA-256: 64b88271a37d0ec7dca062c7bc61ca323116f7855092ac39698c421a2f30a18f
• SHA-1: 364a9aaa1724b99fe33f46b93969d98e990e9a1f
• MD5: 724afcca224f5fb22b510926d2740e52