MirServer/mir v2.0.0.0

Release 2.0.0

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ABI summary:

• mirclient ABI bumped to 10
• miral ABI bumped to 4
• mirserver ABI bumped to 54
• mirplatform ABI bumped to 19
• mirplatformgraphics ABI bumped to 17
• mirclientplatform dropped

Enhancements:

• Drop legacy packages: libmirclient-dev, mir-client-platform*, mir-utils, libmirserver-dev and mirtest-dev
• Drop legacy config options: "host-socket", "nested-passthrough" & "name"
• [mirclient] Drop obsolete stuff we don't use
• [graphics] Reworked graphics platform API
• [graphics] Improved probing of egmstreams-kms platform
• [graphics] Improved probing of gbm-kms platform
• [graphics] gbm-kms (formerly mesa-kms) platform is independent of mesa
• [graphics] gbm-x11 (formerly mesa-x11) platform is independent of mesa
• [graphics] rpi-dispmanx New DispmanX platform
• [miral] Remove dependency on mirclient; drop deprecated APIs and tidy up
• [miral] Allow shells to enable/disable SSD
• [miral] Add scale support to DisplayConfiguration. (Fixes: #1423)
• [mir-demos] miral-shell uses a better default terminal emulator
• [mir-demos] mir-shell gets the user keymap from gsetting
• [mir-demos] Add a "fake-mir-kiosk" script to assist snap development
• [Wayland] Clean up code
• [X11] Clean up code
• [performance tests] Remove mirclient legacy, add X11 based tests
• Improve WLCS integration: change mir_discover_external_gtests to take an explicit list of expected failures.
• [Tests] mir-smoke-test-runner: Start with Mir's eglinfo

Bugs fixed:

• [input] Use xkb scan code to identify modifier keys. (Instead of unreliable key_sym). (Fixes: #1515)
• [input] Don't auto repeat modifier keys. (Fixes: #1598)
• [X11] Do not force XWayland EGL to use DRM
• [X11] Treat COMPOUND_TEXT as a string type. (Fixes: #1552)
• [X11] Initialize BasicDecoration in a threadsafe way. (Fixes #1479)
• [X11] Stack X11 surfaces correctly on the XWayland server
• [X11] Handle failure to open both abstract and ordinary X11 sockets. (Fixes: #1449)
• [graphics] Add a PlatformPriority::hosted probe value. We now select a hardware-accelerated X11 platform over a software-rasterised mesa-kms platform. (Fixes: #1543)
• [miral] Add WindowManagerTools::active_application_zone() (Fixes: #1530)
• [miral] Drop the --startup-apps configuration option from MirRunner. (Fixes: #1531)
• [Wayland] WaylandInputDispatcher only takes input events (fixes #1047)
• [Tests] Make LTTNG fork()-safe. (Fixes #1405)