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Version 0.8.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2022-07-15
New Features:
- Add validation for duplicate license xml elements (Otto Urpelainen)
- Add vcs-browser and contribute URL type (JakobDev)
- Port from libsoup to libcurl (Richard Hughes)
- Support em/code tags (Philip Müller)
- Use GProxyResolver to auto-detect the correct proxy (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Align the OARS/CSM mappings (Philip Withnall)
- Also unwrap description in metainfo files (Fabian Vogt)
- Check --version-script linker option before using (Biswapriyo Nath)
- Consider the AppStream version as a string (Corentin Noël)
- Do not show a critical warning on <suggests><id/></suggests> (Richard Hughes)
- Fix extracting relative symlinks and file paths in icon tarball (Fabian Vogt, Philip Withnall)
- Fix Markdown underlining in appdata-to-news (Philip Withnall)
- Fix validation of translated captions when LANG is not C (Richard Hughes)
- Make directories as 0755 && umask (Pavel Raiskup)
- Parse custom and launchables from DEP-11 (Sebastian Krzyszkowiak)
- Sync the ITS file with appstream (Piotr Drąg)
- Update current version in AsStore (Corentin Noël)
- Update to SPDX 3.16 (Nick Richards)
Version 0.7.18
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-09-07
New Features:
- Add content rating system APIs from gnome-software (Philip Withnall)
- Add "validate-version" command (Florian Müllner)
Bugfixes:
- Allow timestamp in the future in validate-relax (Bartłomiej Piotrowski)
- Don't ignore localized strings that are the same as original (Isaque Galdino)
- Fix crash with invalid children of <ul/> (Fabian Vogt)
- Lower the OARS/CSM mapping of sex-homosexuality/intense (Philip Withnall)
- Properly initialize mutexes (Laurent Bigonville)
- Test launchable tags in validation (Ian McInerney)
Version 0.7.17
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2020-02-20
Bugfixes:
- Add "icon-theme" as recognised component type (Fabio Valentini)
- Fix building in macOS (Oleksii Samorukov)
- Fix CI by moving 'future' back a bit (Richard Hughes)
- Fix Win32 headers (Jehan)
- Make default content rating values match OARS semantics (Philip Withnall)
- Properly initialize unique_id_mutex (Marc-Antoine Perennou)
- Support ${id}/${locale}.qm in addition to ${id}_${locale}.qm (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.7.16
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2019-09-30
Bugfixes:
- Add UPL short name to SPDX conversion (Salman Siddiqui)
- Allow building on Windows (Jehan)
- Allow non-desktop components to be extended (Richard Hughes)
- Allow parsing desktop files using as_app_parse_data() (Richard Hughes)
- Do not allow forward or backwards slashes in <id> values (Richard Hughes)
- Do not preserve restrictive permissions when installing AppStream files (Richard Hughes)
- Do not require <translation> for validation unless strict (Kalev Lember)
- Do not require <update_contact> for validation unless strict (Richard Hughes)
- Log expected and actual screenshot dimensions when failing (Tobias Mueller)
- Modernize the validation requirements (Richard Hughes)
- Offset future checks by UTC+14 (Peter Hutterer)
- Only require <release> for validate, but not validate-relax (Kalev Lember)
- Remove relative path from icon names (David Hewitt)
- Remove SQLite dependency (Jan Tojnar)
- Support loading YAML from as_store_from_bytes (Robert Ancell)
- Update list of allowed metadata licences (scx)
- Update the SPDX license list to v3.5 (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.15
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2019-02-28
Notes:
- The libappstream-builder shared library is no longer installed (Richard Hughes)
New Features:
- Add as_content_rating_get_rating_ids() (Philip Withnall)
- Add as_release_set_install_duration() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_vercmp_full() for gnome-software (Richard Hughes, Kalev Lember)
- Add support for CONTACT URLs (Robert Ancell)
- Add support for per-release URLs (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for SOURCE URLs (Richard Hughes)
- Make as_content_rating_attribute_to_csm_age() public (Philip Withnall)
Bugfixes:
- Add missing OARS → CSM mappings (Philip Withnall)
- Add some thread safety to AsApp and AsStore (Kalev Lember)
- Do not overwrite the project group using heuristics if already set (Richard Hughes)
- Recognise uncompressed Arch packages (Richard Hughes)
- Remove unnecessary gtk dependency for builder (Mart Raudsepp)
- Return G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND when loading fails (Philip Withnall)
- Tokenize the ID when adding search tokens (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.7.14
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-10-16
New Features:
- Add as_app_to_xml() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_content_rating_add_attribute() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Set the AppStream ID from the X-Flatpak desktop key (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.13
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-09-28
New Features:
- Add ID provides for desktop files with X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Better debug output for appstream-compose (Bastien Nocera)
- Change order of arguments in matrix-html to match status-html (suve)
- Do not restrict the maximum number of releases allowed (Richard Hughes)
- Throw an error when a launchable desktop-id is invalid (Bastien Nocera)
Version 0.7.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-08-13
Bugfixes:
- Support localised text in agreement sections (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-08-09
New Features:
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_DEVELOPER_VERIFIED (Robert Ancell)
- Provide async variants of store load functions (Florian Müllner)
Bugfixes:
- Escape quotes in attributes (Robin Richtsfeld)
Version 0.7.10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-07-11
Bugfixes:
- Add object type checks on the inputs of all functions (Robert Ancell)
- Do not parse firmware files (Richard Hughes)
- Do not require a release transaction when validating in relaxed mode (Richard Hughes)
- Extract release descriptions and agreement sections for translation (Piotr Drąg)
Version 0.7.9
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-06-04
New Features:
- Add ability to store signature filename and checksum (Richard Hughes)
- Convert local icons found in metainfo files (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Follow the Debian tilde usage when ordering versions (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the refcounted string interning feature (Richard Hughes)
- Use the launchable to find the desktop filename (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-04-20
New Features:
- Add as_store_get_app_by_launchable() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_unique_id_match() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_version_string() for fwupd (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for component agreements (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Correctly compare version numbers like '1.2.3' and '1.2.3a' (Richard Hughes)
- Don't include the path component in the name when parsing the package filename (Richard Hughes)
- If the launchable is specified don't guess it when composing (Richard Hughes)
- Never add more than one component to the AppStream store when composing (Richard Hughes)
- Veto apps that have empty OnlyShowIn= (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.7.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-03-12
New Features:
- Add AS_IMAGE_LOAD_FLAG_ALWAYS_RESIZE to always resize the pixbuf (Richard Hughes)
- Add custom metadata key for shell extension uuid (Kalev Lember)
Bugfixes:
- Always resize AppStream icons to fit the destination size (Richard Hughes)
- Correctly validate files using OR in the metadata_license (Richard Hughes)
- Do not fail to validate if the timestamps are out of order (Richard Hughes)
- Don't abort the build if pngquant fails (Richard Hughes)
- Update the SPDX license list to v3.0 (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2018-02-09
New Features:
- Add support for release types (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not deference invalid lists when parsing invalid desktop files (Marco Trevisan)
- Fix an invalid read when using as_app_parse_data() from Python (Richard Hughes)
- Never include '&' in attribute values (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-01-22
New Features:
- Add as_app_parse_data() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_store_get_apps_by_provide() (Richard Hughes)
- Add more GObject Introspection annotations for Python (Richard Hughes)
- Support OARS v1.1 additions (Richard Hughes)
- Use pngquant to make the application icons take up less space (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Describe connection problems/HTTP errors when validating images (suve)
- Do not try to extract duplicate files in the icon theme packages (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use an 'enable' prefix for meson arguments (Richard Hughes)
- Don't expect an enum when really passing a bitfield (Richard Hughes)
- Don't fall back to English if other languages are available (Peter Oliver)
- Explicitly require a new enough json-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash when calling as_release_add_location() directly (Richard Hughes)
- Fix appstream-compose when using new-style desktop IDs (Richard Hughes)
- Fix compile with GCab v1.0 (Richard Hughes)
- Fix the arithmetic when fitting an image in 16:9 (Joaquim Rocha)
- Generate icons and samples for emoji fonts (Peter Oliver)
- Never change the default screenshot when processing AppData (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-11-09
New Features:
- Add the 'hardware' requires type (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Only try to set the file permissions on regular files (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-10-23
New Features:
- Add AS_VERSION_PARSE_FLAG_USE_BCD when formatting version strings (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_get_release_by_version() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_get_screenshot_default() (Richard Hughes)
- Add new launchable types (Marius Vollmer, Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not assign "flatpak" as an app's origin when no origin was found (Joaquim Rocha)
- Fix the inode mode to be sane on extracted files (Richard Hughes)
- Prefer /usr/share/metainfo as default path for metainfo files (Jeremy Bicha)
- Write XML for newer AppStream specification versions (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-08-21
Bugfixes:
- Allow remote icon types for desktop AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Define _XOPEN_SOURCE in order to expose realpath() in headers (Philip Withnall)
- Do not check the suffix of <id> tags (Richard Hughes)
- Drop an unreachable branch and add some additional checks (Philip Withnall)
- Enable C99 support in meson.build (Philip Withnall)
- Prefer /usr/share/metainfo as default path for metainfo files (Matthias Klumpp)
Version 0.7.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-08-03
New Features:
- Add <id> kinds for application provides (Richard Hughes)
- Support CompulsoryForDesktops in YAML (Iain Lane)
- Update the SPDX license list to 2.6 (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Avoid unnecessary gdk dependency (Patrick Ohly)
- Fail to validate if AppData screenshots are duplicated (Richard Hughes)
- Have plugins link with asglib along with asbuilder (Neal Gompa)
- Install appdata-xml.m4 (Jeremy Bicha)
- Make gperf dependency fully required (Philip Withnall)
- Make introspection optional (Patrick Ohly)
- Skip loading desktop data from Snap directory (Robert Ancell)
- Validate the <id> format according to the spec (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.7.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-06-22
New Features:
- Enable Travis CI for Fedora 25 and Debian Stretch (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the cache-id functionality (Richard Hughes)
- Switch to the meson build system (Richard Hughes, Emmanuele Bassi)
Bugfixes:
- Add the limits in the validation output messages (Richard Hughes)
- Do not add the GNOME Software categories or icons (Richard Hughes)
- Do not enforce that the project is a valid environment_id (Richard Hughes)
- Don't cast gsize to guint32 when getting file length (Iain Lane)
- Return failure if the AsbTask fails (Richard Hughes)
- Show a warning if adding keywords after the cache creation (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.13
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-05-08
New Features:
- Add a 'check-component' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_remove_category() and as_app_remove_kudo() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_guid_from_data() (Richard Hughes)
- Add functions for getting the AsApp and AsStore search match (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for icon scaling (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for <launchable> (Richard Hughes)
- Allow using the app origin as a search keyword (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Casefold all stemmed entries (Richard Hughes)
- Support non-numeric version numbers correctly (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-04-12
New Features:
- Validate kudos in AppData and AppStream files (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Copy hash table keys to avoid a common crash on Ubuntu (Robert Ancell)
- Fix the predicate comparison when using globs in metainfo files (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-03-20
New Features:
- Add initial support for Mozilla .xpi translations (Richard Hughes)
- Make content_rating required for any component with a 'Game' category (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Don't crash when using 'appstream-util show-search-tokens' (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a problem with appstream-compose with older AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Fix compile with -Wdiscarded-qualifiers (Richard Hughes)
- Parse small version numbers correctly (Richard Hughes)
- Revert "Enable the stack protection in local builds" (Kalev Lember)
- Show a warning if a desktop file is not found when required (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-03-06
Bugfixes:
- Add <developer_name> to translation list (Piotr Drąg)
- Fix small unintentional ABI break (Iain Lane)
- Ignore <p></p> in AppStream markup (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.9
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-02-27
New Features:
- Add AsFormat object and deprecate app_set_source_file() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not set the AsApp state using the AsRelease state (Richard Hughes)
- Fail to validate if any release is in the future (Richard Hughes)
- Fail to validate if the release children are in the wrong order (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-02-01
New Features:
- Make gperf a hard dep (Kalev Lember)
- Read and write the <custom> tag (Richard Hughes)
- Support AppData components with no desktop files (Alexander Larsson)
Bugfixes:
- Add a destructor for AsRefString (Kalev Lember)
- Add a dummy update_contact to appdata-from-desktop (Kalev Lember)
- Do not ignore type=replace merge components (Richard Hughes)
- Fix the build with gperf 3.1 (Kalev Lember)
- Fix use after free with hash table keys (Kalev Lember)
- Hold a ref in the store to avoid use-after-free (Simon McVittie)
- Ignore -Wconversion and -Wsign-conversion warnings from generated file (Kalev Lember)
- Require name and summary for validate-relax (Kalev Lember)
- Support reading metainfo.xml files when using appstream-compose (Richard Hughes)
- Tighten a rule that classifies apps as web-apps (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.6.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-01-12
New Features:
- Add AsRequire as a way to store runtime requirements (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for "+" at the end of SPDX license identifiers (Kalev Lember)
- Scan /usr/share/metainfo as well when building appstream-data (Kalev Lember)
Bugfixes:
- Allow loading application XPM icons (Richard Hughes)
- Enable C99 support in configure.ac (Philip Withnall)
- Fix a crash when using as_release_get_location_default() (Richard Hughes)
- Fix dep extraction when multiple versions are available (Kalev Lember)
- Only fail to validate <icon> in AppData desktop components (Richard Hughes)
- Recursively add subpackage deps into the main package (Kalev Lember)
- Resolve relative symlinks when extracting archives (Kalev Lember)
- Update the SPDX licence list to v2.5 (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.6.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-12-15
New Features:
- Add a refcounted overloaded C string object and use in most objects (Richard Hughes)
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_IS_PROXY (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_release_state_to_string() (Richard Hughes)
- Add Geary to the app id fallbacks (Niels De Graef)
- Add support for ONLY_NATIVE_LANGS when parsing yaml files (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Deduplicate the AsNode attribute key and value using a hash table (Richard Hughes)
- Detect invalid files in the libyaml read handler (Richard Hughes)
- Do not absorb core addons into the main application (Richard Hughes)
- Do not add <kudos>, <languages>, <provides> or <releases> for addons (Richard Hughes)
- Do not save the attributes if the node or parent node is ignored (Richard Hughes)
- Lazy load more structures in libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Set a better icon for codecs (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.6.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-11-07
New Features:
- Add app-removed, app-added and app-changed signals to AsStore (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_store_load_search_cache() (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'watch' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Allow only loading native languages when parsing AppStream (Richard Hughes)
- Allow the client to control what search fields are indexed (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Always copy the state when replacing AppData with AppStream (Richard Hughes)
- Do not sent a REMOVED signal when deleting a transient temp file (Richard Hughes)
- Ensure the component scope is set when loading yaml files (Richard Hughes)
- Handle files being moved into monitored AppStream directories (Richard Hughes)
- Load the search token blacklist into a hash table (Richard Hughes)
- Monitor missing AppStream directories (Richard Hughes)
- Only transliterate when the locale requires it (Richard Hughes)
- Process file changes when an attribute changes (Joaquim Rocha)
Version 0.6.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-10-12
New Features:
- Add as_content_rating_get_value() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_profile_prune() for limiting the profiling output (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_store_add_apps() (Richard Hughes)
- Add flag to only load uncompressed files into a store (Richard Hughes)
- Add functions to build and validate an AppStream ID (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for AppImage bundles (Richard Hughes)
- Allow filtering applications based on merge type (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Don't show a critical warning on invalid yaml file (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a small memory leak when parsing yaml files (Richard Hughes)
- Fix building metadata on repos with mixed architecture content (Richard Hughes)
- Fix setting the origin for Flatpak user repos (Joaquim Rocha)
- Fix the CSM rating age calculation (Richard Hughes)
- Never inhierit Name and Comment when using appstream-compose (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-09-06
New Features:
- Add a component kind of 'driver' (Richard Hughes)
- Add an easy way to add a language to an existing file (Richard Hughes)
- Add an easy way to add a modalias to an existing file (Richard Hughes)
- Support components with merge=replace rules (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add -lang as a dep in order to detect translations (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Convert the built unknown icons to the correct kind (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-10-29
New Features:
- Add a hash function specifically designed for unique-ids (Richard Hughes)
- Add AS_BUNDLE_KIND_CABINET (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the inf parsing from appstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Check if icon name is unset before checking the prefix (Justin J. Kim)
- Do not merge all LangPack entries (Richard Hughes)
- Do not require an icon from LOCALIZATION kind (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use the deprecated GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use the prefix check when parsing YAML (Richard Hughes)
- Fix gcc shift warnings on 32 bit platforms (Kalev Lember)
- Ignore system datadirs that are actually per-user (Richard Hughes)
- Invalidate the unique-id if any of the parts are changed (Richard Hughes)
- Make upgrade check for SPDX license string (Kai Willadsen)
- Pay attention to errors from libyaml (#129) (Anders Kaseorg, Richard Hughes)
Version 0.6.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-10-12
New Features:
- Add as_app_set_branch() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_review_new() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_unique_id_equal() to compare IDs for equality (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for application suggestions (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for AppStream merge components (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for Google .PAK files (Richard Hughes)
- Add the TRANSLATE URL kind (Richard Hughes)
- Allow multiple components with the same ID in the AsStore (Richard Hughes)
- Allow subsuming each property individually (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add some more validation checks for keywords (Richard Hughes)
- Add Sugar as a valid desktop environment (#118) (Sam)
- Add SUSE-Public-Domain to License map (#126) (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Add two new GCC warnings and fix up signed/unsigned issues (Richard Hughes)
- Avoid dependency when built without libgcab (#122) (Simon McVittie)
- Convert all current component-type names (Matthias Klumpp)
- Correct minor issue in transifex link (Jean-Baptiste)
- Do not save the 'X-' prefixed keys to the AppStream metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Do not split up the main AudioVideo category (Richard Hughes)
- Don't change ABI when built with/without gperf (#123) (Simon McVittie)
- Don't redundantly monitor files (Simon McVittie)
- Ensure predictable output order of XML attributes (Richard Hughes)
- No validation failure for lots of releases (Richard Hughes)
- Port away from intltool (Richard Hughes)
- Print max caption length when validating (Richard Hughes)
- Remove specific support for flatpak (Richard Hughes)
- Restrict addons to the same scope and bundle kind (Richard Hughes)
- Skip DEP-11 tests when DEP-11 is not enabled (Simon McVittie)
Version 0.5.17
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-07-13
New Features:
- Add AS_STATE_PURCHASABLE and AS_STATE_PURCHASING constants (Robert Ancell)
- Add external (X-*) keys of an app's desktop file as metadata AsApp (Joaquim Rocha)
Bugfixes:
- Correct disabling of timestamps for gzip (StefanBruens)
- Do not add multiple categories for apps with AudioVideo (Richard Hughes)
- Do not emit a warning when flatpak user directory doesn't exist (Kalev Lember)
- Fall back to the country code in as_app_get_language() (Richard Hughes)
- Fix gtk-doc build when builddir != srcdir (lantw44)
- Optionally use libstemmer for keyword stemming (Richard Hughes)
- Use non-deprecated glib API for monitoring renames (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.5.16
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-06-13
New Features:
- Add elementary to list of project groups (Fabio Valentini)
- Allow setting the id prefix and origin using a symlink name (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add yast2-branding-openSUSE if an app depends on yast2 (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Correctly detect new AppStream apps in new directories (Richard Hughes)
- Do not rename a category ID in AsApp (Richard Hughes)
- Fix g_ptr_array_sort use (Kalev Lember)
- Load metainfo files if present (Richard Hughes)
- Never allow NULL to be added to AsApp string array (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.15
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-05-23
New Features:
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_HAS_SHORTCUT (Joaquim Rocha)
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_NOT_LAUNCHABLE (Richard Hughes)
- Rename the xdg-app support to the new name: Flatpak (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add all applications for all architectures when loading Flatpak (Richard Hughes)
- Add note in README.md for glob usage (Mingcong Bai)
- Allow addons to have duplicate names (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Correctly set the architecture on newly discovered applications (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore files with invalid suffixes when building installed stores (Richard Hughes)
- Make yaml icon parser spec compliant (Matthias Klumpp)
- Omit timestamp from gzip compressed files (Stefan Brüns)
- Save the ID prefix in more places (Richard Hughes)
- Show the app name when complaining about missing description (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Sort archive contents by name for repeatable results (Stefan Brüns)
Version 0.5.14
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-04-20
New Features:
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_NEEDS_REBOOT (Richard Hughes)
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_NOT_REVIEWABLE (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_screenshot_get_image_for_locale() (Richard Hughes)
- Add search-pkgname to appstream-cmd (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add the Audio+Video categories from AppStream XML too (Richard Hughes)
- Fall back to searching in as_store_get_app_by_pkgname() (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore desktop files with X-AppStream-Ignore (Richard Hughes)
- Search /usr/share/metainfo for local files (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.13
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-04-01
New Features:
- Add as_store_remove_apps_with_veto() (Richard Hughes)
- Enforce the requirement of AppData for 'Categories=DesktopSettings' (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Also filter YAML apps before adding to the store (Richard Hughes)
- Always veto anything with X-Unity-Settings-Panel (Richard Hughes)
- Do not hardcode x86_64 when searching for xdg-app metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Support more DEP11 YAML markup (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-03-29
New Features:
- Add a merge-appstream command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_get_id_no_prefix() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_has_compulsory_for_desktop() (Richard Hughes)
- Add AS_APP_QUIRK_MATCH_ANY_PREFIX (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_store_get_app_by_id_ignore_prefix() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_store_get_apps_by_id() (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for content ratings (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Split up AudioVideo into two categories (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-03-08
New Features:
- Add AS_APP_KIND_LOCALIZATION (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'markup-import' command to appstream-util for testing text import (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_markup_import() (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_string_replace() (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for GNOME Shell extensions (Richard Hughes)
- Support importing HTML text using as_markup_import() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Do not mark all subsumed applications as installed (Richard Hughes)
- Do not tokenize the application ID or package name (Richard Hughes)
- Fix crash when validating files containing invalid remote URIs (Richard Hughes)
- Fix ordering of parameters to as_store_search_app_info (Robert Ancell)
- Implement DEP-11 MediaBaseUrl support (Robert Ancell)
- Tokenize names like 'half-life' into two tokens for searching (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-02-26
New Features:
- Add AS_APP_KIND_OS_UPGRADE and AS_APP_KIND_OS_UPDATE (Richard Hughes)
- Add AS_APP_KIND_SHELL_EXTENSION (Richard Hughes)
- Add AsAppQuirk (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'split-appstream' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for getting the SDK and runtime from the bundle (Richard Hughes)
- Support loading XML files using as_store_from_bytes() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add an application prefix to the ID for certain install scopes (Richard Hughes)
- Add a warning when validating in strict mode with invalid tags (Richard Hughes)
- Do not tokenize mimetypes (Richard Hughes)
- Improve the application search tokenizing and filtering (Richard Hughes)
- Load AppStream stores in a predictable order (Richard Hughes)
- Look in the correct icon directory for yaml files (Richard Hughes)
- Properly validate AppStream files with local or remote icons (Richard Hughes)
- Return results from 'appstream-util search' in relevance order (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.9
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-02-12
Bugfixes:
- Accept FSFAP as a valid metadata license (Richard Hughes)
- Add missing G_BEGIN_DECLS in libappstream-glib/as-tag.h (Andrea Azzarone)
- Fix a validation error for metainfo files with descriptions (Richard Hughes)
- Fix dates in NEWS - It's 2016! (Robert Ancell)
- Pick up newly added appinfo dirs for xdg-app remotes (Alexander Larsson)
- Update the SPDX license list (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-02-02
New Features:
- Add a flag for skipping invalid AppStream files (Richard Hughes)
- Add a modify command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for per-user and system-wide xdg-app installed stores (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for the GENERIC component kind (Richard Hughes)
- Allow setting state on AsRelease objects (Richard Hughes)
- Support <translation> tags in AppData files (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Escape data before writing to an HTML file (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore temp and hidden files in AsMonitor (Richard Hughes)
- Move the kudo and provides autodetection to libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Only load supported icon kinds when using appstream-compose (Richard Hughes)
- Reject an invalid project group when parsing (Richard Hughes)
- Remove support for Ubuntu app-install data (Richard Hughes)
- Show the source of the 'appstream-util check-root' failure (Richard Hughes)
- Support multi-line copyright statements (Richard Hughes)
- Support stock dep11 icons (Matthias Klumpp)
- Support the QT translation system (Richard Hughes)
- Use predictable sorting when outputting <provides> (Richard Hughes)
- Use the project_group heuristics when parsing AppData files (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-01-22
Notes:
- We've removed the ostree support and added a new appstream-compose command
to generate the AppStream metadata at xdg-app application build time.
New Features:
- Add appstream-compose command line tool (Alexander Larsson)
- Add as_image_load_filename_full() (Richard Hughes)
- Move the blacklisted application list to the front-end client (Richard Hughes)
- Move the gettext parsing to libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Support date=iso8601 attributes in <release> markup (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Allow disabling font support with --disable-fonts (Richard Hughes)
- Detect web-apps which are added as .desktop files (Richard Hughes)
- Make the check for screenshot equality more robust (Richard Hughes)
- Only build the test firmware files when using --enable-firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Remove all traces of ostree (Alexander Larsson)
- Remove the GIR, GStreamer, GResource, nm and KDE-specific plugins (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2016-01-15
New Features:
- Add the runtime ID kind (Richard Hughes)
- Allow dumping inf files using appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Check name uniqueness when validating AppStream data (Richard Hughes)
- Install gettext ITS rules (Daiki Ueno)
Bugfixes:
- Accept various 'or later' metadata content licenses (Richard Hughes)
- Allow specifying a particular ostree arch only (Alexander Larsson)
- Always blacklist desktop files for uninstalling software (Richard Hughes)
- Assume a release value of '0' when unset (Richard Hughes)
- Automatically add missing .inf types as required (Richard Hughes)
- Check the project_group when validating (Richard Hughes)
- Cull the application blacklist now we depend on AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Fix AppStream generation when using duplicate .deb packages (Richard Hughes)
- Fix things up for xdg-app use (Alexander Larsson)
- Prefer stock icons when using as_app_get_icon_default() (Richard Hughes)
- Set a validation failure for files using <updatecontact> (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-12-16
New Features:
- Add a AS_APP_STATE_UPDATABLE_LIVE constant so we can support live updates (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_utils_license_to_spdx() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add the package name as another application search token (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash when tokenizing a NULL string (Richard Hughes)
- Log when we auto-add kudos or keywords (Richard Hughes)
- Only use the package license when not provided by the AppData file (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-11-18
New Features:
- Add as_utils_version_from_uint16() (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Generate GUID values according to RFC4122 (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-11-05
Bugfixes:
- Return the correct error when the desktop file has no group (Richard Hughes)
- Strip Win32 and Linux paths when decompressing firmware (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-10-27
New Features:
- Add an --enable-profile option to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_markup_validate() to check descriptions (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for AppStream <size> metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Add the ability to attach blobs of data to AsRelease objects (Richard Hughes)
- Add the ability to parse .cab archives as AppStream stores (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the long-obsolete appdata-validate tool (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Accept a '0x' hexadecimal prefix when parsing a version (Richard Hughes)
- Adapt to DEP11 spec change (Matthias Klumpp)
- Add AsProfile for speed profiling (Richard Hughes)
- Allow as_markup_convert() to ignore errors (Richard Hughes)
- Always escape AppStream descriptions when doing passthrough (Richard Hughes)
- Do not attempt to parse the version in as_release_set_version() (Richard Hughes)
- Do not ever store the KDE x-test locale data (Richard Hughes)
- Do not fail to install firmware if DriverVer is not set (Richard Hughes)
- Do not overwrite the AppData URL with the one from the package (Richard Hughes)
- Do not parse ISO dates as uint32 version numbers (Richard Hughes)
- Do not write a checksum 'type' for unknown checksum kinds (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a typo in command name (Dmitry Shachnev)
- Fix crash in validator when processing '<li></li>' (Richard Hughes)
- Monitor /usr/share/applications for apps without AppData when using watch flags (Richard Hughes)
- Only accept UNIX paths for files in cab files (Richard Hughes)
- Require AppData files to be present in the AppStream metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Simplify veto messages for missing <name> and <summary> (Kalev Lember)
- Support super-HiDPI icons like shipped in Hedgewars (Richard Hughes)
- Try harder to deal with icons that have extension or full path listed (Kalev Lember)
- Use a sensible warning when processing desktop files with NoDisplay=true (Richard Hughes)
- Use as_utils_vercmp() to be correctly check versions for equality (Richard Hughes)
- Use a wildcard in the self tests to ignore GCab-generated hash differences (Richard Hughes)
- Use g_set_object() to fix potential crash when adding pixbufs (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.5.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-09-15
Notes:
- This raises the GLib required version to 2.45.8 and libsoup to 2.51.92
New Features:
- Add support for release urgency (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add a few applications that have changed desktop ID (Richard Hughes)
- Avoid using PATH_MAX (Pino Toscano)
- Do not blacklist the 'desktop' token (Richard Hughes)
- Do not fail to validate firmware in AppStream with no screenshots (Richard Hughes)
- Don't reallocate malloc'd memory with g_malloc (Kalev Lember)
- Don't show mangled version numbers as negatives (Richard Hughes)
- Ignore empty AppStream XML files (Richard Hughes)
- Support SPDX IDs with the LicenseRef prefix (Richard Hughes)
- Support the SPDX 'NONE' and 'NOASSERTION' keywords (Richard Hughes)
- Use GLib's cleanup functions instead of libgsystem's (Kalev Lember, Richard Hughes)
- Port to G_DECLARE_DERIVABLE_TYPE macro (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.5.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-08-12
Notes:
- Remove some deprecated API which bumps soname (Richard Hughes)
- Drop the unused _len arguments on many functions (Richard Hughes)
New Features:
- Add AsChecksum (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_release_vercmp() (Richard Hughes)
- Add support for the flashed firmware provide kind (Richard Hughes)
- Add two functions from fwupd for checking GUID strings (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Emit the AsStore::changed signal if files or directories change (Richard Hughes)
- Find the application in a store by the provide value (Richard Hughes)
- Make the DriverVer in the .inf file optional (Richard Hughes)
- Only add the HiDPI kudo for desktop applications using stock icons (Richard Hughes)
- Remove support for AppStream 0.8 and lower (Richard Hughes)
- Show a better error message when there's not enough text (Kalev Lember)
Version 0.4.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-07-20
New Features:
- Add a 'compare' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add a 'mirror-local-firmware' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add a flag to relax the AppData Category=Settings requirement (Richard Hughes)
- Add a flag to use non-optimal data sources when building metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Add am 'incorporate' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add two flags to veto-ignore to relax the requirements for metadata (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Be less strict when loading incorrect AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Do not duplicate <location> tags within a release (Richard Hughes)
- Do not expect the INF ClassGuid to be the ESRT GUID (Richard Hughes)
- Don't crash when parsing a <release> with no description (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a potential crash spotted by clang (Richard Hughes)
- Fix autogen with latest Intltool (Matthias Klumpp)
- Ignore the prefix when loading system-wide AppStream information (Richard Hughes)
- Include <pkgname> when writing the ignored metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Only write the release timestamp if non-zero (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the AppData veto when incorporating metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Search harder when using AS_ICON_LOAD_FLAG_SEARCH_SIZE (Richard Hughes)
- Sort multiple <icon> entries by name (Richard Hughes)
- Update the SPDX licence list to v2.0 (Richard Hughes)
- When building metadata with the use-fallback flag accept legacy icon names (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.4.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-05-26
Notes:
- Remove extra-appstream support from the builder (Richard Hughes)
- Remove all networking support when building metadata (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the batch output option from the builder (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the extra screenshots and appdata options from the builder (Richard Hughes)
New Features:
- Add a mirror-screenshots command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Detect recolorable symbolic icons (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add text icons and sample text for some languages (Parag Nemade)
- Allow using unwrapped description markup (Richard Hughes)
- Check for duplicate screenshots when adding fonts (Richard Hughes)
- Do not use the cache location when using install-origin with a DESTDIR (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash for an invalid AppData file (Richard Hughes)
- Fix exo-web-browser blacklist entry (Kalev Lember)
- Link libasb_plugin_font.la with GTK3 (Dominique Leuenberger)
- Remove overzealous blacklisting entry (Richard Hughes)
- Version the builder plugin location (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.3.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-30
New Features:
- Add a 'replace-screenshots' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add --batch-output to be able to disable the panel (Richard Hughes)
- Make the AppStream builder support optional (Richard Hughes)
- Now gcab is a hard requirement (Marc-Andre Lureau, Alberto Ruiz)
- Put all the screenshots in a file (Richard Hughes)
- Use the latest released version for unspecified (Richard Hughes)
- Use the upstream screenshot when we are using --no-net (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add the source-only tags when outputting AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Allow uninstalling AppStream files from /var/cache (Richard Hughes)
- Also subsume application licenses (Richard Hughes)
- Always upscale screenshots if they are too small (Kalev Lember)
- Assume the INF DriverVer is UTC (Richard Hughes)
- Do not fail due to style warnings when using relaxed validation (Richard Hughes)
- Do not trust the result of FcConfigAppFontAddFile() (Richard Hughes)
- Remove the gtk3 dep from libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes)
- Teach the builder how to write other archive formats (Richard Hughes)
- Update the checksums for the gcab-generated firmware (Richard Hughes)
- Use the correct image URL for HiDPI screenshots (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.3.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-03-11
New Features:
- Add new API required for firmware support (Richard Hughes)
- Add new API required for OSTree and xdg-app support (Richard Hughes)
- Add 'news-to-appdata' and 'appdata-to-news' cmds to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Support all of the yet-unreleased AppStream 0.9 spec (Richard Hughes)
Bugfixes:
- Add releases from the upstream AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Allow short descriptions when validating <description> in releases (Richard Hughes)
- Correctly load descriptions from <releases> in AppData files (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a builder crash where a package depends on itself (Richard Hughes)
- Fix a crash when more than one thread tries to ensure the same package (Richard Hughes)
- Fix DSO Linking error when built with --as-needed (Tim Lunn)
- Make the failed AppStream metadata optional (Richard Hughes)
- Make the icon tarball optional (Richard Hughes)
- Relax validation checks to allow empty release sections (Richard Hughes)
- Return the correct exit code from appstream-builder (Richard Hughes)
Version 0.3.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2015-01-17
New Features:
- Add an --origin option to appstream-builder (Richard Hughes)
- Add as_app_get_search_tokens() (Richard Hughes)
- Add show-search-tokens subcommand to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add the matrix-html subcommand to appstream-util (Richard Hughes)
- Add the VCS information to the AppStream metadata (Richard Hughes)