Yet another development milestone is released from both the projects. To keep versions in sync Compiz Fusion has skipped the release of version 0.7.0. Here is Dennis “Onestone” Kasprzyk’s Compiz release announcement and Compiz Fusion release announcement from Guillaume “iXce” Seguin.

Package versions should all read 0.7.2 (rpm -qa | grep compiz) except for compiz-emerald-themes. Give some time for mirrors to sync all packages.

Highlight of the releases:

Compiz:

  - Translation support in gtk-window-decorator.
  - Updated translations.
  - Added wrapable session functions to core. This allows to provide a full
    session save/restore in a plugin.

Compiz Fusion:

New Plugins:
 compiz-fusion-plugins-main:
  - session: Communicates with session manager to save/restore window state
  - bs: Change window brightness and saturation with key/button bindings
  - mousepoll: Provides a generic system for other plugins to get the current
    mouse position
  - mag: Provides a magnifying glass under the mouse pointer with 3 different
    display modes (simple/image overlay/fisheye)

 compiz-fusion-plugins-extra:
  - 3d: Adds depth to your desktop by raising windows in layers off the cube
  - loginout: Provides a simple system to implement login and logout animations
  - maximumize: Resizes a window to fit within the available empty screen space
  - notification: Displays error messages on the screen with libnotify
  - shelf: Shrinks a window to a preset size for monitoring many windows at once
  - showmouse: Paints particle emitters that orbit the mouse pointer to make it
    more visible

 compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported:
  - atlantis: Renders an aquarium inside of the transparent cube

Configuration manager changes:
 ccsm:
  - Action settings were split into button, key, and edge settings, each using
    its own widget.

 simple-ccsm:
  - New settings manager focused on simplicity and aimed at end users

Handy 1-click links for openSUSE 10.3 (use any one of them):

compiz-fusion-gnome - compiz-fusion-kde - compiz-fusion-emerald - compiz-fusion-devel - compiz-fusion-all

For openSUSE 11:

compiz-fusion-gnome - compiz-fusion-kde - compiz-fusion-emerald - compiz-fusion-devel - compiz-fusion-all