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Version 0.1.7
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Released: 2014-06-12

New Features:
 - Add <extends> 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 <p></p> (Richard Hughes)
 - Support the non-standard X-Ubuntu-Software-Center-Name (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.6
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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 <releases> (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 <project_licence> 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
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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 <project_license> (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 <metadata_license> (Richard Hughes)

Version 0.1.4
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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 <screenshot> sections without <image>'s
 - Support the AppStream 0.6.1 priority attribute
 - Support translated <ul> and <ol> tags when normalizing
 - When adding a duplicate AppStream application merge the entries

Version 0.1.3
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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
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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
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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 <architectures> from API 0.6
 - Speed up as_tag_to_string() by using a table and a single lookup
 - Support old-style markup-less <description> 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
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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