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A little over two weeks have passed since the beta release, and, 61 commits and 11 reverts later, it's release candidate time!
This release resolves a few crashes and unintended compositor behaviors.
Note: Wayland compositor functionality now requires EFL 1.16.

Release Highlights

• Full Wayland support
• New screen management infrastructure and dialog
• New audio mixer infrastructure and gadget
• Many internal widgets replaced with Elementary
• Improved FreeBSD support
• Geolocation module

The complete log can be seen here.

Tickets Addressed

• T2788
• T2803
• T2819
• T2827
• T2829
• T2830

As always, stay tuned to the latest infrequent E updates on the release blog.

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Building and Dependencies

If you have an existing EFL or Elementary install, you may wish to delete its header files and libraries before compiling and installing to avoid possible conflicts during compilation. Please compile the dependencies in the following order (click for README):

1. efl
2. elementary
3. emotion_generic_players
4. evas_generic_loaders

Note: E20 depends on EFL v1.15.2 or newer for X11 compositing, and 1.16 for Wayland support.

Below are links to the project pages for each of the dependencies:

• EFL
• Elementary
• Emotion Generic Players
• Evas Generic Loaders