Changelog for AppStream-0.14.1-3.2.x86_64.rpm :

* Wed Feb 17 2021 Dominique Leuenberger - Update to version 0.14.1: + Features: - Switch back from Soup to cURL for HTTP(S). - validator: Check a few more things on requires/recommends items. - Only download the first bytes of a file when checking URLs for validity. + Specification: spec: Officially mark tag as deprecated. + Bugfixes: - qt: Return better errors in AppStream::Metadata. - Do not automatically clean up errors that will be propagated. - Remove overall extern \"C\" to make very new (2.67+) GLib versions happy. - ascli: Don’t use GNU C extension type names. - build: Use c11 rather than gnu11 and define vendor extensions separately.- Changes from version 0.14.0: + Features: - news-to-metainfo: Interpret placeholder release dates as denoting a dev version. - Make as_utils_build_data_id public API. - Add AsReview for attaching user reviews to software components. - Add a branch element to component data-IDs. - utils: Add data-ID hashing and matching functions. - utils: Make as_gstring_replace public API. - Add branch info to on-disk cached components. - content-rating: Add as_content_rating_add_attribute API. - Rename INPUTMETHOD component kind enum to INPUT_METHOD. - Add \"cabinet\" bundle type for firmware deployments. - Make AsTokenMatch public API. - Add function to AsScreenshot to get image closest to preferred size. - Allow AsComponent to directly ingest desktop-entry data. - Make as_pool_build_search_tokens API public. - Add \"origin\" token match. - Make as_component_add_provided_item API public. - Add some useful image dimension constants. - compose: Add blur function from asglib. - Add more efficient load_from_bytes method to AsComponent. + Updated translations.- Drop fix-build-gcc7.patch: no longer applicable.- Replace pkgconfig(libsoup-2.4) with pkgconfig(libcurl) BuildRequires: follow upstreams switch back to cURL.
* Mon Jan 11 2021 Fabian Vogt - Disable vala bindings, fails to build on Leap 15.2 because g-ir-scanner emits the return type before parameters, which vapigen does not like- Update to 0.13.1: Bugfixes:
* Install enum types headers to the right location
* qt: Construct library using libappstream dependency object
* validator: Improve check for invalid hyperlinks to reduce false-positives- Update to 0.13.0: Notes:
* This release introduces a new library, libappstream-compose, designed to provide building blocks for composing AppStream metadata. This includes GUI stuff like font and SVG rendering, which libappstream deliberately does not provide. The new compose library is not API/ABI stable and should - for now - only be used by appstream-generator. Features:
* qt: add missing Provided::KindId enum (Aleix Pol)
* Add experimental libappstream-compose (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement support for display_length relation kind (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement \"tv-remote\" input control kind (Matthias Klumpp)
* Refactor AsRelation to use GVariant internally (Matthias Klumpp)
* content-rating: Align the OARS/CSM mappings of sex-
* (Philip Withnall)
* content-rating: Add content rating system APIs from gnome-software (Philip Withnall)
* content-rating: Expand translator comments to link to OARS website (Philip Withnall) Specification:
* spec: Specify display_length requires/recommends item (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Add tv-remote user input control type (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* Use glib-mkenums to create the GType of all the available enums (Corentin Noël)
* Set FD_CLOEXEC on the LMDB FD manually (Fabian Vogt)
* Never ship with an embedded convenience copy of Highlight.js (Matthias Klumpp)
* Don\'t fail doc install if global highlight.js wasn\'t found (Matthias Klumpp)
* Properly escape markup when fixing invalid description data (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Don\'t pass NULL to vprintf, it\'s not an allowed value (Matthias Klumpp)
* meson: Kill deprecation warning for pkgconfig.generate (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Demote cid-contains-uppercase-letter from INFO to PEDANTIC (Matthias Klumpp)
* Change some AsPool GIR annotations to only transfer container, as workaround for issue in GIR (Matthias Klumpp)
* Properly parse YAML font provides entry (Matthias Klumpp)
* content-rating: Lower the OARS/CSM mapping of sex-homosexuality/intense (Philip Withnall)
* Change return annotation of as_agreement_get_sections to \"transfer none\" (Rico Tzschichholz)
* contrib: Vala expects element-type of PtrArray to reflect their ownership (Rico Tzschichholz)- Drop patches, now upstream:
* 0001-Set-FD_CLOEXEC-on-the-LMDB-FD-manually.patch
* properly-escape-markup.patch- Refresh fix-build-gcc7.patch
* Thu Nov 12 2020 Fabian Vogt - Add patch to avoid FD leak:
* 0001-Set-FD_CLOEXEC-on-the-LMDB-FD-manually.patch
* Thu Jul 02 2020 Fabian Vogt - Update to 0.12.11: Features:
* Auto-update static category data from fd.o
* Implement support for input control relations
* validator: Validate input control relations
* validator: Put AppStream technical terms and tag names in backticks in explanation texts
* Modernize the README
* validator: Check for uppercase letters in cids
* Strip beginning/trailing newlines in a number of places
* Make AsContext getter for AsComponent public API
* qt: Add support for name_variant_suffix
* Make component sort-score API public API
* Implement a YAML representation of release artifact information Specification:
* Build specification and docs with DAPS
* docs: Add (HTML) anchors for requires/recommends items
* spec: Specify user input control recommendations
* docs: Don\'t show reference to nonexistent provides->service tag for services
* spec: Encourage the use of only lowercase letters for component-IDs
* docs: Document --explain flag in ascli manual page as well
* docs: Add permalink anchors to some list entries
* Formally support BLAKE2b/s as hash functions for release artifacts
* docs: Link to the MetaInfo Creator webapp in a few places Bugfixes:
* Be less noisy about ignoring excessively long search tokens
* Tighten the \"free license\" check and prevent false positives
* cache: Use correct fts value per result (David Hewitt)
* validator: Control items can\'t have a version
* validator: Reduce download timeout
* yaml: Strip encoding when serializing keyword lists
* Allows arbitrary indentation when converting NEWS files
* Ignore NULL values silently in our stringstrip function
* Only dump valid metainfo description markup, sanitize it otherwise- Add patch to avoid parser errors for invalid descriptions:
* properly-escape-markup.patch- Add patch to fix build on Leap 15.2:
* fix-build-gcc7.patch
* Wed Feb 26 2020 Christophe Giboudeaux - Update to 0.12.10. Check the NEWS file for the complete changelog.- Drop patches. Issues fixed upstream:
* 0001-Restore-compatibility-with-GLib-2.58.patch
* 0001-Fix-possible-NULL-dereference.patch
* 0002-Don-t-ignore-xmlNodeDump-return-code.patch
* 0003-Fix-infinite-recursion-if-component-has-itself-liste.patch
* find-lmdb.patch
* Thu Dec 19 2019 Stefan Brüns - Drop itstools BuildRequires, not required for either building or testing.- xsltproc is no longer invoked via xmlto, drop xmlto, explicitly add required xsltproc and docbook-xsl-stylesheets.
* Tue Jul 30 2019 Fabian Vogt - Add patches to fix crash with some invalid metainfo (boo#1139463):
* 0001-Fix-possible-NULL-dereference.patch
* 0002-Don-t-ignore-xmlNodeDump-return-code.patch
* 0003-Fix-infinite-recursion-if-component-has-itself-liste.patch- Update build requirements- Add %check section
* Mon Jul 29 2019 Fabian Vogt - Update summary and description
* Wed Jun 19 2019 Fabian Vogt - Update to 0.12.7: Notes:
* This release changes the way AsPool caches components and will also permanently keep components in an LMDB-based cache. Additionally, the GVariant AsComponent serialization was removed. Features:
* Depend on LMDB (Matthias Klumpp)
* tests: Test pool cache and XML read performance separately (Matthias Klumpp)
* Improvements to data caching and fulltext search (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add new LMDB based component cache (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Implicitly hash keys if they are too long for the database (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Implement all supported search modes (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Implement various performance optimizations and helpers (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Allow switch to nosync mode, make insertions threadsafe (Matthias Klumpp)
* Refactor component pool to make use of the mmap\'ed caches by default (Matthias Klumpp)
* Don\'t limit term length in user search queries (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ignore one-letter search terms (Matthias Klumpp)
* pool: Mask removed components in readonly caches so they can not be queried (Matthias Klumpp)
* Remove component GVariant serialization (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Use binary representations for cache values (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Always refine launchable entries, to make them searchable (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make component scope API public (Matthias Klumpp)
* Handle LicenseRef URLs explicitly when extracing a license URL (Matthias Klumpp)
* Update static data (Matthias Klumpp)
* tests: Update perf test with test for the new cache implementation (Matthias Klumpp)
* its: Add \"translatable\" option in metainfo.its (fujiwarat) Specification:
* Add a note about not dropping .desktop suffix from existing IDs (Kalev Lember)
* spec: clarify purpose (Kamil Páral)
* docs: Explicitly rule out nested lists (Marius Vollmer)
* docs: Add link to project page to specification abstract (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Clarify format of the appstream: URI (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Clarify how to denote proprietary licenses (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* tests: Fix potential wrong output when two tests fail in parallel (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Allow some top-level tags to be empty (Matthias Klumpp)
* Only match all things for broad queries, for invalid ones return nothing (Matthias Klumpp)
* Determine system cache age correctly and don\'t needlessly refresh it (Matthias Klumpp)
* Never attempt to load the system cache when it is not needed (Matthias Klumpp)
* Assume \"unknown\" distribution ID by default (if /etc/os-release is missing) (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Ensure previous cache is closed before opening a new one (Matthias Klumpp)
* Put test data in alphabetical order (Robert Ancell)
* Generate XML and YAML in alphabetical order (Robert Ancell)- Add patch to work with vanilla lmdb:
* find-lmdb.patch- Add patch to fix build on Leap:
* 0001-Restore-compatibility-with-GLib-2.58.patch
* Sun Mar 17 2019 Jan Engelhardt - Replace boilerplate and em-dash summaries.
* Mon Mar 04 2019 Matthias Eliasson - Update to 0.12.6: Features:
* Implement artifacts (Matthias Klumpp)
* Search improvements (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* doc: help distinguish the 2 \'languages\' tags (Beuc)
* spec: Document the new artifacts tag (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to 0.12.5: Features:
* qt: expose the spdx parser to Qt users (Aleix Pol)
* Implement operating-system component and add convenience functions (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Add operating-system component type and a few utility functions (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow fetching the ISO8601 date directly alongside the timestamp in AsRelease (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement date_eol for AsRelease (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add convenience methods for retrieving date_eol as UNIX timestamp (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Allow retrieving the EOL timestamp for releases (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement new release details URL (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make rDNS conversion function more generic and add more extensive tests (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* docs: tag can have details url (Jehan)
* spec: Specify the operating-system component (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Specify date_eol for releases (Matthias Klumpp)
* docs: Explicitly state list items are allowed in ol/ul lists (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* Don\'t warn about issues in a cache refresh if there weren\'t any (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ensure releases are always sorted in descending order (Matthias Klumpp)
* pool: Fix g-i for get_components_
*() while GPtrArray owns its elements (Rico Tzschichholz)- Update to 0.12.4: Features:
* pool: Be a lot more forgiving when encountering invalid components (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement component removal via remove-component merges (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Warn about insecure URLs, handle mailto: URLs (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add a contact URL type (Robert Ancell) Specification:
* Document new remove-component merge type (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* as-pool: fix GObject annotation for GPtrArray owning the elements (Corentin Noël)
* Make invalid components ratio check more accurate (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ensure description paragraphs contain no invalid XML tags (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to 0.12.3: Notes:
* Beginning with this release, data from local .desktop files will not be loaded into the pool automatically, unless a metainfo file also exists. This should ensure less duplicated components in general higher-quality data to be displayed. It also provides another incentive to add/fix metainfo files. If you prefer the previous behavior, set the AS_POOL_FLAG_READ_DESKTOP_FILES flag on your AsPool instance. Features:
* apt: Ignore errors post-update (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Allow content_rating to be empty (Matthias Klumpp)
* ascli: Display stock icon name if no suitable icon was found for details view (Matthias Klumpp)
* Refactor loading of local metainfo files (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* spec: Clarify the requirement for content_attribute tags in content_rating (Matthias Klumpp)
* docs: Write intro for addon quickstart (Matthias Klumpp)
* docs: Replace hyphens in component-IDs of XML examples (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* Ensure all addons are linked to a component (David Hewitt)
* Annotate nullable return types (David Hewitt)
* cache: Set explicit variant types for cases where they can not be inferred (Matthias Klumpp)
* utils: Handle NULL strings when comparing versions (Matthias Klumpp)
* Explicitly include string.h in as-tag.c (Matthias Klumpp)
* Properly ignore desktop-entry components if we have better data (Matthias Klumpp)
* Remove AppStream XSD schema (Matthias Klumpp)
* Update static data (Matthias Klumpp)
* Set error variable if there were some errors during refinement (Stefan Bruens)- Remove patches, now upstream:
* explicit-variant-types.patch
* workaround-hidden-symbols.patch
* Tue Oct 16 2018 Fabian Vogt - Update to 0.12.2:
* Fix a couple of incorrect g_ptr_array_unrefs (Iain Lane)
* Use autofree functions instead of freeing resources explicitly (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add missing const (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ensure we don\'t produce a .pc file with unnecessary Requires.private lines (Matthias Klumpp)
* Stop leaking local GVariantDict instance contents (Phil Miller)
* Drop leaked references to container items (Phil Miller)- Update to 0.12.1: Features:
* ascli: Add command to compare version numbers (Matthias Klumpp)
* yaml: Allow reading multiple localized strings from YAML data (Matthias Klumpp)
* yaml: Always include the untranslated strings (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow to ignore media_baseurl when parsing metadata (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Add implementation of the agreement tag (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add new \"repository\" component type (Matthias Klumpp)
* yaml: Implement Agreements field (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Implement support for agreements (Matthias Klumpp)
* tests: Improve cache data tests, add agreement tag test (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use gperf for perfect hash generation for some tags (Matthias Klumpp)
* tests: Add rundimentary performance test (Matthias Klumpp)
* its: Mark agreement sections as translatable (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Add support for service/repository component types (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* docs: Describe the custom tag (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Describe the new agreement tag (Matthias Klumpp)
* docs: Clarify that the /usr/share/appdata/ path is legacy and should not be used (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* its: Allow translation of release descriptions (Marc J)
* Load data from desktop files properly again (Matthias Klumpp)
* Update desktop-environment list (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Don\'t warn about inlining in maintainer mode (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to 0.12.0: Features:
* Implement release types (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Support release types (Matthias Klumpp)
* Update static data lists (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make as_str_replace use as_gstring_replace internally (Matthias Klumpp)
* spdx: Add some compatibility workarounds for SPDX 3.0 (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Validate SPDX license expressions for metadata_license (Matthias Klumpp)
* apt: Add config snippets to enable icon downloads (Matthias Klumpp)
* yaml: Ensure all string values have whitespaces stripped (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make as_component_get_launchables public API (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement support for requires/recommends (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add recommends/requires data to the cache (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add a quick way to check if a version satisfies an AsRelation requirement (Matthias Klumpp)
* ascli: Properly document the --no-net flag (Matthias Klumpp)
* ascli: Allow to disable network acces via an environment variable (Matthias Klumpp)
* apt: Support 48x48px icons (Matthias Klumpp)
* yaml: Make Requires/Recommends data more compact and easier to emit (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Validate requires/recommends tags (Matthias Klumpp)
* Default to format version 0.12 (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* spec: Add a \"type\" property to tag. (Jehan)
* spec: Initial draft for requires/recommends (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Document the YAML Rquires/Recommends fields (Matthias Klumpp)
* spec: Clarify that the memory requirement uses MiB as unit (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* qt: Implement missing constructors (Aleix Pol)
* apt: escape the icon scale factor as it is using the arobase character (Corentin Noël)
* Check plain language string in as_component_localized_get as well (Antonio Rojas)
* qt: Define location and soname for all configurations, not just Debug (Gabriel Souza Franco)
* Never override high-quality data with incomplete .desktop data (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make data update script work with recent SPDX (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add a timeout to URL validity checks (Matthias Klumpp)- Remove patches, now upstream:
* 0001-Fix-regression-from-153.patch- Add patch to fix assertion failure on cache refresh (boo#1105691):
* explicit-variant-types.patch- Add patch to fix build on Leap:
* workaround-hidden-symbols.patch- Run spec-cleaner
* Wed May 23 2018 kbabiochAATTsuse.com- Use OpenPGP signature provided upstream- Added AppStream.keyring, which contains the key from the author- Use %license macro for license files
* Sun Feb 11 2018 fabianAATTritter-vogt.de- appstreamcli can use curl for some checks, so recommend it (boo#1080446)
* Mon Jan 29 2018 alarrosaAATTsuse.com- Now the appstream cache is refreshed in %post. The update to 0.11.8 plus the refresh fixes kde#389531.- Headers are now installed to /usr/include/appstream instead of /usr/inlude/AppStream- New package AppStream-doc with the html documentation for AppStream- Use meson to build instead of cmake- Update to version 0.11.8: Features:
* validator: Emit a hint in case a discouraged AppStream ID style is used (Matthias Klumpp)
* l10n: Renamed Norwegian Bokmål language file (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* docs: Add quickstart instructions for intltool (David Steele)
* spec: Discourage use of hyphens and digit-started segments for IDs (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* qt: Export the AppStreamQt target (Aleix Pol)
* Various string improvements (Allan Nordhøy)
* validator: Don\'t make HEAD requests for URL checks, fetch first byte instead (Matthias Klumpp)
* Enforce a non-broken version of gobject-introspection (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ensure LINGUAS update is only run explicitly (Matthias Klumpp)
* Fix a minor memory and fd leak (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to version 0.11.7: Notes:
* The appstreamcli validation commands now use curl if it is available to check all URLs in the metadata for existence. If you don\'t want this behavior, pass \"--nonet\" to appstreamcli. There might also be false positives (one is known with the KDE bugtracker) that need to be investigated, so feedback on this new feature is welcome. Features:
* validator: Check all urls for validity (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Check web-application components for missing tags (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add API to retrieve the AppStream library version (Matthias Klumpp)
* apt: Allow fetching 128x128AATT2 HiDPI icons (Rico Tzschichholz) Specification:
* Add the \"url\" launchable type (Dimitrios Christidis)
* spec: Clarify some icon details in the collection data (Marius Vollmer)
* spec: Allow tags in generic components (Marius Vollmer)
* spec: Specify the web-application component type (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* Fix endless loop when validating screenshots (Matthias Klumpp)
* ascli: Show a list of component-types when --help is passed to new-template (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Drop the wget fallback, making missing curl only an info (Matthias Klumpp)
* meson: Properly define header-file in gir (Rico Tzschichholz)- Update to version 0.11.6: Features:
* Improve screenshot validation (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow to disable introspection (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* Revert back to the old build option names (Matthias Klumpp)
* Apply maintainer flags equally to C++ and C (Matthias Klumpp)
* Explicitly set C/C++ standard versions (Matthias Klumpp)
* vapi: Include the right header (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Correctly write screenshots tag again (Matthias Klumpp)
* Do not cache a screenshot that doesn\'t have images (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Support legacy screenshot tags again (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to version 0.11.5: Features:
* Restructure build feature flags (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow disabling API documentation build (Matthias Klumpp) Bugfixes:
* qt: Don\'t check bitness when finding AppStreamQt (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to version 0.11.4: Notes:
* This release switches the build system from CMake to Meson. You will need Meson (>= 0.42) in order to build AppStream. Please test for any regressions. Features:
* Implement Meson support (Matthias Klumpp)
* meson: Make build with sanitizers (partially) work again (Matthias Klumpp)
* meson: Add helper script for building documentation (Matthias Klumpp)
* docs: Always rebuild documentation on-demand (Matthias Klumpp)
* Update README for Meson (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement cockpit-manifest launchable type (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Actually validate the type property of \"launchable\" tags (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow to search the pool for components that provide a launchable (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Add new function to search components by launchable (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* spec: New \"cockpit-manifest\" launchable type (Marius Vollmer) Bugfixes:
* validator: Complain if a component has no ID (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to version 0.11.3: Bugfixes:
* qt: Don\'t crash when an error is found and no error string is passed (Aleix Pol)
* Propagate document context to the context object for XML files (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Correctly recognize \"launchable\" as valid tag (Matthias Klumpp)- Update to version 0.11.2: Features:
* cache: Refactor cache functions (Matthias Klumpp)
* Deduplicate origin/locale/arch with AsContext (Matthias Klumpp)
* Get rid of a couple of internal helper methods (Matthias Klumpp)
* cli: When using convert, always assume collection style for YAML (Matthias Klumpp) Specification:
* Adjust docs to clearly state that licenses are SPDX expressions (Harald Sitter) Bugfixes:
* qt: Improve Icon QDebug information (Aleix Pol)
* Resolve crash when serializing lots of XML documents (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Don\'t truncate translated entries after encounting a wrong locale (Matthias Klumpp)
* Set a real locale if locale is set to \"ALL\" (Matthias Klumpp)
* validator: Make ending dot in component name only a pedantic issue (Matthias Klumpp)- Add patch to export the AppStreamQt target correctly:
* 0001-Fix-regression-from-153.patch