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 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 (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 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 (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 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' hexidecimal 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 '
  • ' (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 and (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 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 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 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 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 in releases (Richard Hughes) - Correctly load descriptions from 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) Bugfixes: - Add more applications to the blacklist (Richard Hughes, Igor Gnatenko) - Allow specifying --packages-dir multiple times (Richard Hughes) - Alow setting the cachedir different from the outputdir (Richard Hughes) - Always return errors from the correct domain when parsing broken AppData files (Richard Hughes) - Assume foo is a source image kind for AppData files (Richard Hughes) - Assume that stock icons are available in HiDPI sizes (Richard Hughes) - Blacklist the 40 most common search tokens (Richard Hughes) - Check if the search entries are valid before searching (Richard Hughes) - Check screenshots are a reasonable size (Richard Hughes) - Do not absorb metainfo files for package deps (Richard Hughes) - Do not blacklist applications with broken AppData files (Richard Hughes) - Do not veto applications with NoDisplay=false (Richard Hughes) - Fall back to the dumb tokenizer for keywords with special chars (Richard Hughes) - Handle other-endian MO files (Andreas Schwab) - Move as_utils_install_filename() into libappstream-glib (Richard Hughes) - Output the full filename for local icons (Richard Hughes) - Preserve the URL for remote icon types and filename for local icons (Richard Hughes) - Require AppData for Xvfb-using applications (Richard Hughes) - Set an error if an XML file contains font markup (Richard Hughes) - Show the offending text when validation fails (Richard Hughes) Version 0.3.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-11-24 New Features: - Allow filtering addons in the status html pages (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Detect missing parents in the old metadata (Richard Hughes) - Do not fail to load all the desktop files if one is bad (Richard Hughes) - Improve appdata-xml.m4 deprecation notice (David King) - Use from the AppStream specification (Richard Hughes) - When using install-origin install into /var/cache (Richard Hughes) Version 0.3.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-11-04 New Features: - Add --veto-ignore to appstream-builder (Richard Hughes) - Add BLUR and SHARPEN values for AsImageSaveFlags (Richard Hughes) - Add a simple 'search' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_set_origin() (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add some more valid metadata licenses (Richard Hughes) - Do not composite an app with its duplicate (Richard Hughes) - Do not create a hardlink when the target does not exist (Richard Hughes) - Do not generate metadata with an icon prefix (Richard Hughes) - Fix FTBFS on GNU/Hurd (Matthias Klumpp) - Fix extraction of hardlinks (Richard Hughes) - Obsolete the appdata-tools package (Richard Hughes) - Save the screenshots as soon as possible (Richard Hughes) - Show the kudo stats on the status page (Richard Hughes) - Support HiDPI YAML icons (Richard Hughes) - Support getting the origin from .yml files (Richard Hughes) Version 0.3.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-10-21 Notes: - This branch is still unstable and should not be used in stable distributions. - This release allows appstream-builer to parse Alpm packages for Arch Linux. - HiDPI support is now working well for icons and screenshots. New Features: - Add a kudo for a HiDPI icon (Richard Hughes) - Add an --enable-hidpi argument to appstream-builder (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_APP_VALIDATE_FLAG_ALL_APPS (Richard Hughes) - Add asb_app_set_hidpi_enabled() (Richard Hughes) - Add asb_context_get_min_icon_size() (Richard Hughes) - Add asb_context_set_embedded_icons() (Richard Hughes) - Add AsIcon as a new abstract icon object (Richard Hughes) - Add as_icon_convert_to_kind() (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_ICON_KIND_EMBEDDED and AS_ICON_KIND_LOCAL (Richard Hughes) - Add as_node_add_attribute_as_int() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_screenshot_set_priority() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_convert_icons() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_find_icon_filename_full() for HiDPI support (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_get_string_overlap() (Richard Hughes) - Alpm backend for appstream-builder (Fabien Bourigault) - Support filtering by metadata in status-csv (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add more applications to the blacklist (Richard Hughes) - Allow application with NoDisplay=true and an AppData file (Richard Hughes) - Allow AppStream files to be upgraded using appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Correctly write symlinks when extracting packages (Richard Hughes) - Do not allow applications to extend themselves (Richard Hughes) - Do not crash when doing as_tag_from_string(NULL) (Richard Hughes) - Do not leak applications when building if more than one plugin returns results (Richard Hughes) - Do not subsume vetoed fonts into the parent component (Richard Hughes) - Do not write provides with an unknown kind (Richard Hughes) - Flush the package log again after the metadata write (Richard Hughes) - Ignore translation for non-translatable tags (Richard Hughes) - Include the width and height in the tag (Richard Hughes) - Install AppStream files with correct permissions (Richard Hughes) - Log when applications are automatically composited (Richard Hughes) - Manually search for HiDPI icons if the application only has one listed icon (Richard Hughes) - Monitor the XML and icons path for changes (Richard Hughes) - Never allow more than one default screenshot (Richard Hughes) - Never return a smaller HiDPI icon than a LoDPI icon (Richard Hughes) - Only detect missing data after the application have been merged (Richard Hughes) - Only guess a project as GNOME if it uses the GNOME bugzilla (Richard Hughes) - Only process fonts with valid metainfo files (Richard Hughes) - Relax validation requirements for font metainfo files (Richard Hughes) - Respect AS_NODE_FROM_XML_FLAG_LITERAL_TEXT when dealing with comments (Richard Hughes) - Sort the screenshots with a priority value (Richard Hughes) - Support multiple XML comments per tag (Richard Hughes) - Support upgrading more than one AppData file at a time (Richard Hughes) - When validating AppStream files also validate the application objects (Richard Hughes) - Write the application XML after all the vetos have been added (Richard Hughes) Version 0.3.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-09-01 Notes: - This release breaks API and bumps the soname. See docs/PORTING.txt for more details about what was changed. New Features: - Add a new kudo for high contrast icons (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_add_veto() (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_APP_PARSE_FLAG_ALLOW_VETO (Richard Hughes) - Add asb_utils_ensure_exists() (Richard Hughes) - Add a self test framework for libappstream-builder (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_add_metadata_index() (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_STORE_LOAD_FLAG_ALLOW_VETO (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_remove_all() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_remove_app_by_id() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_set_builder_id() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_find_icon_filename() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_is_spdx_license() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_spdx_license_detokenize() (Richard Hughes) - Add check-root to appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Add some validation rules for metainfo files (Richard Hughes) - Allow desktop->addon demotion with an AppData file (Richard Hughes) - Allow filtering other kinds of components in status-csv (Richard Hughes) - Allow translated keywords (Richard Hughes) - Rename as_app_get_id_full() to as_app_get_id() (Richard Hughes) - Rename as_app_get_id() to as_app_get_id_filename() (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add a veto if a .desktop file has NoDisplay=true (Richard Hughes) - Add dummy failed applications (Richard Hughes) - Add more things to the blacklist that are not applications (Richard Hughes) - A keyword search match is better than the project name (Richard Hughes) - Allow different source roots to define addons (Richard Hughes) - Check the locale more carefully (Richard Hughes) - Conform to the actual SPDX 2.0 license expression syntax (Richard Hughes) - Do not require sentence case when validating with relaxed settings (Richard Hughes) - Do not try to download screenshots when run with --nonet (Richard Hughes) - Do not write into the ignore metadata (Richard Hughes) - Don't add localized keywords that already exist in C (Richard Hughes) - Ignore AppData screenshots with xml:lang attributes (Richard Hughes) - Link client/appstream-util against gdk-pixbuf (William Hua) - Make validate,install,dump and convert to accept a *.yml (Igor Gnatenko) - Metadata licenses like 'CC0 and CC-BY-3.0' are content licenses (Richard Hughes) - Never add duplicate tags (Richard Hughes) - Never add empty keywords (Richard Hughes) - Only get the package data when required (Richard Hughes) - Rework as_utils_spdx_license_tokenize() to be more efficient (Richard Hughes) - Store vetos in the XML itself (Richard Hughes) - Support keywords separated by comma (Richard Hughes) - Turn of sig checking for rpm packages (Richard Hughes) - Update the SPDX license list to v1.20 (Richard Hughes) - Use libyaml to read DEP-11 metadata (Richard Hughes) Version 0.2.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-08-05 New Features: - Add AS_PROVIDE_KIND_DBUS_SYSTEM (Richard Hughes) - Add an 'install-origin' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Add an installed tests to validate appdata (Matthias Clasen) - Add as_store_set_destdir() so we can use a different root (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_validate() (Richard Hughes) - Add asb_app_set_veto_description() (Richard Hughes) - Add support for which will be in AppStream 0.8 (Richard Hughes) - Add the provide for applications automatically (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add a plugin to detect new-style 'gtk/menus.ui' AppMenu support (Richard Hughes) - Avoid using rsync's -a parameter (Kalev Lember) - Detect any addons with missing parents (Richard Hughes) - Do not load applications with NoDisplay=true when loading local (Richard Hughes) - Do not pad the compressed AppStream metadata with NUL bytes (Richard Hughes) - Do not treat app-install metadata as installed (Richard Hughes) - Markup errors should not be fatal when assembling a store (Richard Hughes) - Only add registered projects and categories to the metadata (Richard Hughes) - Only link to apps.fedoraproject.org when processing Fedora metadata (Richard Hughes) - Show the time remaining when building metadata (Richard Hughes) - Show what application addons extend in status.html (Richard Hughes) - Validate for a sentence case start in

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  • and tags (Richard Hughes) Version 0.2.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-07-17 New Features: - Add some simple filtering in the status.html page (Richard Hughes) - Record if distro metadata and screenshots are being used (Richard Hughes) - Show the builder progress in a ncurses-style panel (Richard Hughes) - Support pre-decompressed RPMs (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add oxygen-icon-theme when an application depends on kde-runtime (Richard Hughes) - Be more careful with untrusted XML data (Richard Hughes) - Do not allow duplicates to be added when using as_app_add_kudo_kind() (Richard Hughes) - Do not fail to build packages with invalid KDE service files (Richard Hughes) - Do not warn if the AppData file duplicates the .desktop value (Richard Hughes) - Show any package duplicates when generating metadata (Richard Hughes) - Show apps with missing icons in the failed metadata (Richard Hughes) Version 0.2.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-07-11 New Features: - Add as_app_get_source_file() to return the file that created the AsApp (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_set_state() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_set_trust_flags() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_source_kind_to_string() (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_APP_SUBSUME_FLAG_PARTIAL (Richard Hughes) - Add a script to download the Fedora package cache (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_get_alpha_flags() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_screenshot_get_image() (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_STORE_ADD_FLAG_PREFER_LOCAL to allow the client to prefer local files (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_load_path() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_store_set_add_flags() (Richard Hughes) - Add a 'status-csv' command to appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_is_blacklisted_id() (Richard Hughes) - Add --screenshot-dir to appstream-builder (Richard Hughes) - Add some useful image size constants (Richard Hughes) - Add support for introduced in AppStream 0.8 (Richard Hughes) - Add two new builder plugins to add kudos on KDE applications (Richard Hughes) - Allow AsStore to load directories of AppData and desktop files (Richard Hughes) - Remove asb_context_set_extra_checks() (Richard Hughes) - Remove as_util_get_possible_kudos() as it's now unused (Richard Hughes) - Sharpen resized screenshots after resizing with a cubic interpolation (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Allow calling as_image_set_pixbuf() with a NULL pixbuf (Richard Hughes) - Allow install/uninstall xml.gz (Igor Gnatenko) - Allow old applications in the metadata if they have AppData (Richard Hughes) - Allow per-distro AppData files to be used when upstream supplies a broken one (Richard Hughes) - Allow users to specify the location and name of the status files (Richard Hughes) - Always check for duplicate screenshots when using as_app_subsume() (Richard Hughes) - Always download data files for each application on Fedora (Richard Hughes) - Always write a 'source' screenshot image (Richard Hughes) - Assume local files are untrusted when parsing (Richard Hughes) - Copy the icon kind when removing duplicates (Richard Hughes) - Deallocate the pixbuf data when the AsbApp has been saved (Richard Hughes) - Do not allow NoDisplay=true applications to ever be in the metadata (Richard Hughes) - Do not allow RequiresAppdata to become true with AppData (Richard Hughes) - Do not hardcode a blacklist of package extra deps (Richard Hughes) - Fix linking with libarchive (Igor Gnatenko) - Load extra screenshots for any apps created in appstream-extra (Richard Hughes) - Never load SVG files at the native size (Richard Hughes) - Never scale up small screenshots (Richard Hughes) - Never upscale icons, either pad or downscale with sharpening (Richard Hughes) - Never use release descriptions from package files (Richard Hughes) - Promote DESKTOP sources to APPDATA if we subsume an appdata.xml file (Richard Hughes) - Sort the values alphabetically (Richard Hughes) - Use as_image_get_alpha_flags() when validating and building metadata (Richard Hughes) - Use realpath() when setting AsbContext paths (Richard Hughes) - Validate screenshot captions (Richard Hughes) - Write metadata of the failed applications (Richard Hughes) Version 0.2.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-06-24 New Features: - Add AS_NODE_INSERT_FLAG_MARK_TRANSLATABLE (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_NODE_TO_XML_FLAG_SORT_CHILDREN (Richard Hughes) - Add an 'appstream-util upgrade' command to convert version < 0.6 metadata (Richard Hughes) - Add as_node_find_with_attribute() (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Add packages recursively when using appstream-builder --packages-dir (Richard Hughes) - Allow empty URL sections (Richard Hughes) - Always use the latest version of AppStream for logs (Richard Hughes) - Do not abort the build if a non-package file is found while building (Richard Hughes) - Do not include for pre-0.4 metadata (Richard Hughes) - Do not ship Addons in metadata version less than 0.7 (Richard Hughes) - Do not write X-Kudo-RecentRelease for new versions of the metadata (Richard Hughes) - Fix the xmldir in the APPSTREAM_XML_RULES m4 helper (Richard Hughes) - Include a newline before XML comments to help them stand out (Richard Hughes) Version 0.2.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-06-19 Notes: - This is the first release that merges the createrepo_as project with this one. A new experimental command 'appstream-builder' has been added and can be used by distributors to build metadata. Normal users don't need this or the shared library libappstream-bulder, and this can be split off into a subpackage by downstream if required. - We're slowly merging parts of appdata-tools into this project too, but we'll provide more details when the merge is complete. New Features: - Add an m4 file to easily validate AppData and MetaInfo files (Richard Hughes) - Add a --nonet option to appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Add 'appstream appdata-from-desktop' to autogenerate a boilerplate file (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_get_mimetypes() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_get_pkgname_default() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_guess_source_kind() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_app_to_file() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_node_remove_attribute() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_node_to_file() (Richard Hughes) - Add bash-completion files for appstream-builder and appstream-util (Igor Gnatenko) - Add from the draft AppStream 0.7 specification (Richard Hughes) - Add manpages for appstream-util and appstream-builder (Richard Hughes) - Add Russian translation (Igor Gnatenko) - Allow installing AppData and MetaInfo files using appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Allow validating more types of files (Richard Hughes) - Make the project translatable using transifex (Igor Gnatenko) Bugfixes: - Accept slightly truncated SPDX IDs (Richard Hughes) - Add a AsAppParseFlags flag to be able to append non-duplicate data (Richard Hughes) - Add appstream-build from the createrepo_as project (Richard Hughes) - Allow any SPDX license when validating in relaxed mode (Richard Hughes) - Allow 'appstream-util convert' to work with two AppData files (Richard Hughes) - Allow as_node_get_attribute_as_int() to parse negative numbers (Richard Hughes) - Allow comments on the root XML node (Richard Hughes) - Allow dumping .desktop, .appdata.xml and .metainfo.xml files in appstream-util (Richard Hughes) - Do not add addons that are packaged in the parent package (Richard Hughes) - Do not require a content license to be included into the metadata (Richard Hughes) - Don't add the fake ApplicationAddon category for addons (Richard Hughes) - Inherit search tokens from the addon to the main application (Richard Hughes) - Return the URL in the validation error when screenshots fail to be loaded (Richard Hughes) - Validate the tag values (Richard Hughes) Version 0.1.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-06-12 New Features: - Add from the draft AppStream 0.7 specification (Richard Hughes) - Add support for the 'dbus' AsProvideKind (Richard Hughes) - Add support for validating metainfo.xml files (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Allow 'appstream-util validate' to validate multiple files (Richard Hughes) - Automatically demangle the update contact (Richard Hughes) - Correctly use convert-translatable when the source kind is already set (Richard Hughes) - Do not log a critical warning in as_store_to_xml() (Richard Hughes) - Do not write a screenshot type of 'normal' as it's the default value (Richard Hughes) - Don't include the filename in the error output (Richard Hughes) - Fail to validate AppData files with URLs in the descriptions (Richard Hughes) - Fix a crash when we try to validate

    (Richard Hughes) - Support the non-standard X-Ubuntu-Software-Center-Name (Richard Hughes) Version 0.1.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-05-28 New Features: - Add as_app_get_names() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_get_basename() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_get_md5() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_load_filename() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_save_filename() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_save_pixbuf() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_image_set_pixbuf() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_node_get_comment() (Richard Hughes) - Add AsProvide (Richard Hughes, Kalev Lember) - Add as_screenshot_get_source() convenience helper (Richard Hughes) - Add AS_TAG_FLAG_USE_TRANSLATED (Richard Hughes) - Add validation for (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Also support validating .appdata.xml.in files (Richard Hughes) - Correctly parse the localized descriptions from AppData files (Richard Hughes) - Export as_app_set_source_kind() (Richard Hughes) - Fix validation of old-style AppData files without screenshot sizes (Richard Hughes) - Only autodetect the AsAppSourceKind when unknown (Richard Hughes) - Only require when being strict (Richard Hughes) - Only show the thumbnail when creating the HTML status page (Richard Hughes) - Retain comments in .desktop and .appdata.xml files when required (Richard Hughes) - Subsume more properties in AsApp (Richard Hughes) Version 0.1.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-05-12 New Features: - Add as_app_has_category() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_check_url_exists() (Richard Hughes) - Add as_utils_spdx_license_tokenize() (Richard Hughes) - Add the new 'help' url type (Richard Hughes) - Check the licenses against the SPDX list when validating (Richard Hughes) Bugfixes: - Be less strict with the case of the XML header (Richard Hughes) - Do not save the 'xx' locale (Richard Hughes) - Do not validate AppData files without (Richard Hughes) - Don't crash when doing 'status-html' on an empty XML file (Richard Hughes) - LXDE uses X-LXDE-Settings for settings panels (Richard Hughes) - Only count desktop applications when doing the overview stats (Richard Hughes) - Support AppData version 0.6 files too (Richard Hughes) - Use SPDX license IDs in (Richard Hughes) Version 0.1.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-04-25 Notes: - This release adds a utility 'appstream-util' that can do simple operations on AppStream metadata including generating status pages or converting the metadata from one version to another. New Features: - Add AsProblem to report non-critical problems with metadata - Add as_app_get_metadata_license() - Add as_app_get_source_kind() - Add as_app_get_update_contact() - Add as_app_subsume_full() - Add as_app_validate() to validate AppStream and AppData files - Add as_node_reflow_text() to reflow XML text properly - Add as_node_set_name() internal method - Add as_store_get_apps_by_metadata() - Add as_util_get_possible_kudos() - Add a flag to as_node_to_xml() so it can process all children - Add a 'html-status' command to appstream-util - Add a 'non-package-yaml' command to appstream-util - Add a 'validate' command to appstream-util - Parse AppData files when using as_app_parse_file() - Read AppStream metadata from the per-machine location Bugfixes: - Allow writing AppStream entries with an unknown type - Do not add a 'type' attribute if the component type is unknown - Do not crash if an AppStream entry has no ID - Do not save metadata keys with an 'x-test' locale - Do not try to parse non-application tags as applicatons - Do not write xml:lang key versions when the same as the 'C' version - Return -1 from as_app_get_language() if the language is not found - Sort the application languages by name so they are predictable - Support sections without 's - Support the AppStream 0.6.1 priority attribute - Support translated
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        tags when normalizing - When adding a duplicate AppStream application merge the entries Version 0.1.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-04-10 New Features: - Add as_app_search_matches_all() - Add as_utils_is_stock_icon_name() Bugfixes: - Actually add mimetype data to the AsApp object - Do not allow applications without icons - Ignore settings panels when parsing desktop files - Load AppStream files assuming literal text strings - Only set app-install icons to cached if not already stock - Set the icon kind to stock if it matches any stock icon - Use the legacy names when using as_node_get_tag() Version 0.1.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-03-26 Notes: - This release adds basic Ubuntu app-install support, speeds up the time taken to parse large metadata files and reduces the amount of memory used to load the AppStream metadata. New Features: - Add as_app_parse_file() which parses a .desktop file into an AsApp - Add as_node_get_tag() and only store the name when the tag is unknown - Add as_node_take_attribute() to reduce allocations during parse - Add as_store_load() to load system and user locations - Add as_tag_from_string_full() to control whether fallback names are used - Load the Ubuntu app-install data which uses screenshots.debian.net - Use gperf to generate a perfect hash for the tag names Bugfixes: - Do not use GHashTable to store node attributes - Reduce the number of small attr key allocations - Use the full ID for the AsStore hash Version 0.1.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-03-21 New Features: - Add an 'api-version' property to AsStore - Add as_store_from_xml() to load text XML not from a file - Add the new AsUrlKind's and from API 0.6 - Speed up as_tag_to_string() by using a table and a single lookup - Support old-style markup-less tags - Support the 'origin' attribute on the root node Bugfixes: - Do not crash when using getting an unset description - Do not depend on functions introduced in Glib 2.39.1 - Fix parsing incompletely translated AppData files - The 'appcategories' tag is now deprecated for 'categories' Version 0.1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: 2014-03-18 Notes: - This library provides GObjects and helper methods to make it easy to read and write AppStream metadata. New Features: - Add and search for applications in an application store - Easily retrieve the best application data for the current locale - Efficiently interface with more heavy-weight parsers like expat - Get screenshot image data and release announcements - Read and write compressed AppStream XML files