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shared-mime-info 1.15 (2019-30-10)
* Add Kindle 8 eBook format
* Fix some HTML files being detected as XML

shared-mime-info 1.14 (2019-20-09)
* Add mime-type for QCOW images
* Fix matching SVG files in some circumstances (again)

shared-mime-info 1.13.1 (2019-11-09)
* Fix matching SVG files in some circumstances

shared-mime-info 1.13 (2019-11-09)
* Add code of conduct document
* Use itstool and gettext to generate translations
* Add content-tree type for OSTree USB repositories
* Add match for MPEG-4 v1 videos
* Adjust a lot of user readable mime-type descriptions
* Fix WOFF/WOFF2 mime-types
* Prefer text/html to XHTML for *.html files
* Better magic for text/html files
* Fix SVG magic for files embedded in HTML
* Add *.sgd as a glob for Mega Drive ROMs

Specification:
- Mention that sub-class-of can be aliases

Tools:
- Enable Large File Support in update-mime-database

Test suite:
- Make test suite failures fatal
- Add test for duplicate mime-types
- Fix WarpScript test
- Generate the specification in the CI, to avoid it becoming
  syntactically invalid

shared-mime-info 1.12 (2019-17-01)
* Fix build from tarball

shared-mime-info 1.11 (2019-17-01)
* Add mime-type for reStructuredText
* Add mime-type for Groovy scripting language
* Add mime-type for Gradle build tool
* Add mime-type for Maven
* Add mime-type for WarpScript source code
* Add mime-type for zstd and tar.zst archives
* Change the preferred suffix for image/jpeg from .jpeg to .jpg
* Assign *.html to XHTML pages
* Better detection for *.key files (Apple Keynote vs. GPG keys)
* Give weight to one of the appimage patterns

Tools:
- Link to GitLab for contributions and bug reports
- Loads of memory and file descriptor leak fixes

Spec:
- Clarify the availability of C character escape support

shared-mime-info 1.10 (2018-28-06)
* Add mime-type for MJPEG raw streams
* Add MPEG-4 Ringtone mime-type
* Add mime-type for HEIF images
* Add application/vnd.sqlite3, application/x-sqlite2 IANA types
* Add application/pkcs8-encrypted
* Add audio/usac
* Add application/vnd.youtube.yt
* Add mime-types for raw floppy disk images
* Add aliases for SAP and HFE floppy images mime-types
* Use new application/vnd.comicbook-rar IANA type
* Remove magic from STL binary
* Add *.adts and *.ass globs from IANA to audio/aac
* Use new IANA type for application/xliff+xml
* Use new IANA type for model/stl
* Add text/x-perl alias to application/x-perl
* Bump priority for our DjVu mime-types
* Differentiate Neo Geo Pocket Color ROMs from non-Color ones
* Remove *.bin from application/octet-stream
* Add an application/xps alias for application/oxps
* Change Qt Linguist file type to text/vnd.qt.linguist
* Fix the QML magic

Tools:
- Don't warn with unknown top level type names
- Look in obsolete KDE sub-dirs for clean up opportunities
- Add some debug when parsing XML package files

Spec:
- ASCII check should be done with 128 leading bytes, not 32 bytes

shared-mime-info 1.9 (2017-18-09)
* Add x-systemd-unit and x-dbus-service MIME types
* Fix magic for application/x-java-keystore on little endian
* Add mime-type for STL 3D models and GCODE
* Add application/x-executable as a supertype of application/ecmascript
* Add shebang magic for gjs JavaScript files
* Add a mimetype for Khronos texture files
* Add a mime-type for Famicom Disk System images
* Add "font" top level type, and use IANA registered type for TTF,
  OTF, WOFF, TTC and WOFF2
* Add OpenCL mime-type
* Add text/x-python3 content type
* Add Audible.com mime type
* Add application/x-atari-lynx-rom
* Add application/x-wonderswan-rom
* Add application/x-virtual-boy-rom
* Better JPEG 2000 MIME type support
* Add support for GIMP data files (.gbr, .gih, .pat)
* Add an alias for Adobe Illustrator formats
* Add *.mjs glob for Javascript
* Rename application/x-trig to application/trig
* Rename Panasonic RAW image mime-types to image/x-panasonic-rw*
* Change the preferred suffix for image/x-tga from icb to tga
* Correct "PostScript" capitalisation
* Add mimetype for AppImage Type 2
* Remove AppImage glob with different casing

shared-mime-info 1.8 (2016-12-05)
* Add Flatpak-related mime-types
* Add mime-type for a number of Thomson-related disk (and cassette) images
* Add many audio and video mime-type aliases as used in VLC
* Add mime-type for pdf.lz files
* Write the correct length for literal and glob lists to the cache
* Build fixes

shared-mime-info 1.7 (2016-09-05)
* Add mime-types for a number of video games systems ROMS
  (Atari 7800, Atari 2600, Neo Geo Pocket, Sega CD/Mega-CD, Game Boy Color,
   Genesis 32X, Sega SG-1000, Sega Game Gear, Sega Pico)
* Add mime-type for .tar.lz and tar.lz4 archives
* Add mime-type for Jupyter Notebook files
* Add Flatpak mime-types and add compatibility for xdg-app ones
* Add *.dib glob to BMP images
* Use official IANA mime-types for WMF and EMF images
* Add application/raml+yaml mime-type
* Add GPX mimetypes as found in the wild
* Add application/vnd.squashfs and application/vnd.snap mime-types
* Add mime-type for IGES documents
* Add mime-types for Sass CSS pre-processor files
* Add mime-type for Twig templates
* Add alias application/nappdf for application/pdf
* Add mimetype for AppImage
* Add application/x-bsdiff mime-type
* Add Gherkin feature specifications mime-type
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.chess-pgn
* Use new IANA registered type for application/geo+json
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.comicbook+zip
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.rar
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.framemaker
* Improve VRML mime-type
* Better MPEG-2 TS magic
* Better magic for 669 tracker MOD files
* Fix misdetection of zip files as their content
* Fix multi-page DjVu detection by file
* Fix TGA magic detection
* Fixes related to AMR audio files
* Remove "*.sg" glob for Sega Master System ROM types

shared-mime-info 1.6 (2016-02-23)
* Add XAR archive mime-type
* Add GeoJSON mime-type
* Add GPX mime-type
* Add xdg-app mime-type
* Add *.xht glob and magic for XHTML files
* Bump priority of archive mime-types with long magics,
  to avoid false positives when detecting files inside
  the archive itself

shared-mime-info 1.5 (2015-09-15)
* Fix compilation with glib < 2.26
* Update DTD

Mime-type changes:
* Add more globs to console ROM files
* Use "folder" generic-icon for inode/directory
* Bump priority for ISO images glob matching to work
  around confusion around Wii image files
* Add application/owl+xml
* Add text/turtle
* Use IANA registered image/vnd.zbrush.pcx for PCX
* Add text/rust for Rust source code
* Add application/ld+json as subclass of application/json
* Add text/csv-schema
* Add application/vnd.coffeescript
* Make application/vnd.apple.mpegurl a subclass of text/plain
* Make application/sdp a subclass of text/plain
* Add application/jrd+json as subclass of application/json
* Add MTM, MED, 699 and Ultratracker magic for application/x-mod
* Add Meson build definitions
* Match newer versions of XCF files
* Use IANA registered type for PKCS#12
* Add application/x-doom-wad
* Add Amiga disk image
* Rename "Dreamcast ROM" to "Dreamcast GD-ROM"
* Add application/x-wii-wad
* Add magic and tests to application/x-gameboy-rom
* Add application/x-saturn-rom
* Fix application/x-genesis-rom translation rules
* Split up multi-page DjVu into its own mime-type

shared-mime-info 1.4 (2015-02-05)
* Add glob for low-resolution videos from GoPro
* Add mime-type for partially downloaded files
* Use IANA registered mime-type for Debian packages
* Add another magic for OTF fonts
* Add support for Adobe PageMaker
* Remove the Apple iOS PNG variant
* Add *.dbk glob for DocBook
* Use IANA registered mime-type for Vivo
* Remove obsolete application/x-gmc-link mime-type
* Make application/x-wais-source a subclass of text/plain
* Flip application/smil+xml and application/smil type/alias
* Add Nintendo 64 ROM magic
* Add qpress archive support
* Add image/x-tiff-multipage mime-type
* Rename "Microsoft icon" to "Windows icon"
* Add magic for ODB files
* Use IANA registered text/markdown for Markdown
* New mimetype for SCons scripts as subclass of x-python
* Make application/pgp-encrypted a subclass of text/plain
* Associate *.qmltypes and *.qmlproject files with the text/x-qml mime type
* Add text/x-genie mime type for Genie source code

* Disable fdatasync() usage if PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC is set
* Skip mime database update if packages are older than cache
* Add "-n" option to update-mime-database to only update if "newer"

shared-mime-info 1.3 (2014-04-08)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add Aliases for OpenOffice Base and StarWriter
- Add Apple Keynote 5 mime-type
- Add mimetype for compressed FictionBook2
- Don't recognize all .asc files as application/pgp-encrypted
- Add tree magic for the Kindle e-book reader
- Add LZ4 archive type
- Add PC Engine, GameCube and Wii "ROM" types
- Add audio/x-opus+ogg mime-type
- Add image/webp mime-type
- Prefer application/vnd.ms-asf to video/x-ms-asf
- Add application/x-riff mime-type
- Add JSON mime-type
- Add *.jsm glob for Javascript
- Add magic and glob patterns for compressed x-spss-sav files
- JavaScript and CSS are not subclasses of text/x-csrc
- Remove *.CSSL glob for CSS files

* Call g_type_init() only with older glib
* Fix failures on NetBSD
* Store MEDIA/SUBTYPE.xml files in lowercase

shared-mime-info 1.2 (2013-09-30)
* Mime-type changes:
- Use IANA registered application/sql type for SQL
- Add test for text/x-python
- Added *.pyx as Pyrex/Cython variant of text/x-python
- Lower the priority of the *png glob on Apple PNGs
- Add magic for Kobo e-book reader
- Add another magic for EPub books
- Add missing globs and tests for OpenPGP files
- Add MIME types for raw disk images
- Add video/x-matroska-3d mime-type
- Use application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie for SWF
- Use application/vnd.nintendo.snes.rom for SNES ROMs, associate *.sfc with them
- Fix shebang matches for shell scripts
- Remove *.ogv as a glob for Theora videos as they might not be Theora
- Improve detection of Perl scripts
- Add more aliases for Photoshop images
- Add Microsoft Publisher mime-type
- Correct JPEG2000 definition

* Check for errors when saving files, and ensure that files
  are saved to disk before carrying on.
* Don't use access() to check for writability
* Rename configure.in to configure.ac

shared-mime-info 1.1 (2012-02-13)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add application/x-ccmx
- Add zz-application/zz-winassoc-* aliases
- Make application/x-xz-compressed-tar a subclass of application/x-xz
- Add DTS and DTS-HD mime-types
- Add test for PPM bug
- Fix comment and add glob for application/pkcs7-mime
- Add application/x-qtiplot mime-type
- Add AMZ (AmazonMP3 Download File) mime-type
- Add separate mime-type for Apple broken PNGs
- Add *.mk and *.mak text/x-makefile globs
- Match application/vnd.palm to IANA standard
- Use IANA registered application/gzip instead of x-gzip
- Add application/gml+xml
- Fix Scream Tracker instrument magic
- Add application/x-gtk-builder type
- Add magic for v1 and v2 XCF files
- Add LZMA test file
- Fix some globs for OGG files
- Move *.taz from application/x-compressed-tar to application/x-tarz
- Add some sub-class-of tags for compressed files
- Add *.tb2 as a glob for application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Add support for DOS EPS files
- Add *.ar archives to the test suite
- Add xlr mime-type
- Add application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- Put bz2 patterns before bz ones for bzip-related mimetypes
- Add simple magic for text/x-gettext-translation-template
- Add test case for application/x-gettext-translation
- Add mime-type for source RPMs
- Add AMR audio test
- Add test case for TTF fonts
- Add Woff font mime-type
- Add FLTK acronym
- Add application/ics as an alias for text/calendar
- Add RAR acronym
- Add dicomdir glob
- Add *.di as a glob for D source files
- Add magic for MNG animations
- Add magic for PICT v2 images
- Add JNLP file to the test suite
- Add support for the AVF AVI container variant
- Add EMF and WMF aliases
- Improve magic of uncompressed TGA files
- Add application/winhlp
- Add text/x-uuencode
- Add MHTML mime-type
- Make the main docbook mime-type be application/x-docbook+xml
- Add application/x-lzh-compressed as alias to application/x-lha
- Add IFF super-type
- Split off the AAC mime-type from the M4A one
- Add text/x-modelica mime-type
- Add magic for GNU gettext message catalogs (.mo)

* Specification changes:
- Fix mimetype names used as examples
- Document that the first extension is the main one
- Fix missing plural

* Honor NOCONFIGURE=1
* Allow builders to not run make check by default
* Fix build for platforms with executable extensions
* Disable checks when cross compiling
* Use non-installed update-mime-database in install-data-hook
* Use native update-mime-database for install when cross compiling
* Add a local-test target to print mime info

shared-mime-info 1.0 (2012-01-17)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add root-XML for AbiWord, Atom, Dia, Dia shape,
  KML, RDF, XSL FO, metalink, XMI, SMIL
- Add glob for VDR recordings
- Make PBM/PPM detection more permissive
- Fix magic for MP3 files without ID3
- Add application/vnd.visio mimetype
- Fix Amazon MP3 being detected as Qt Designer
- Add application/acrobat alias for PDF files
- Add support for detecting DVDs without VIDEO_TS dirs

* Test suite adjustments for xdgmime bug fixes


shared-mime-info 0.91 (2011-09-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add WWF
- Add application/vnd.android.package-archive.
- Add root-XML for SVG
- Add Qt QML
- Add application/x-fictionbook
- Add application/x-mobipocket-ebook
- Add another alias for ASX playlists
- Add video/3gp, video/x-mpeg, video/x-mpeg2,
  video/divx, and video/msvideo aliases
- Add MSOffice 12 and OOXML mime-types
- Add video/vnd.mpegurl
- Java class tweaks
- Add magic for Megadrive ROMs
- Add application/vnd.tcpdump.pcap
- Fix root-XML for XSL
- Add extension for Scheme text files
- Add extensions for VRML documents
- Loosen magic for FLTK fluid files
- Move application/x-reject to text/x-reject
- Add application/x-nzb
- Remove glob from text/x-uri
- Added a *.wsgi pattern for python scripts
- Add DVI, PKCS, RELAX NG, and S/MIME acronyms.
- Use text/vcard instead of deprecated text/directory for vCards.
- Add text/x-markdown
- Add WebVTT
- Add *.php5 and *.phps as patterns for PHP
- Make dash scripts shell scripts
- Add application/x-iso9660-image alias for application/x-cd-image
- Add text/x-scala mime type
- Add another magic for XSPF files
- Update CHM mime-type to application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp

* Other:
- Fix parallel build
- Update GPLv2 COPYING file
- Use XZ tarballs by default

shared-mime-info 0.90 (2010-12-1)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Make application/epub+zip sub-class-of application/zip
- Make sure RAM files are not all treated as text
- Make CMakefiles a sub-class of text/plain
- Add new mime-type for Panasonic RW2 images
- Add XSL magic
- Add root-XML for XSL
- Add *.gem as a glob for tar archives
- Add test case for text/directory files
- Add go source code
- Add pdf.xz mime-type
- Add text/x-ooc source code
- Add Cobol source code

* Other:
- Don't error out on the x-scheme-handler/* mime-types
- Fix crasher when mime-magic is empty

shared-mime-info 0.80 (2010-09-30)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add magic for F4V (Flash) video files
- Add mime-type for Dia shapes
- Bump priority for KOffice magics to give them precedence over gzip and zip
- Add mime-type for Verilog and SystemVerilog source files and headers
- Add Qt Linguist translation file
- Add application/x-xspf+xml alias for XSPF playlists
- Use audio/flac for FLAC files, make audio/x-flac an alias of it
- Add mime-type for HDF files
- Add mime-type for Mozilla Extension packages
- Add mime-type for text/cache-manifest
- Add YAML mime-type
- Add application/relax-ng-compact-syntax mime-type
- Add more tests for Matlab and Octave files
- Improve translator comments for VCD, SVCD and PictureCD
- Add application/pkcs8 mime-type
- Add audio and video WebM mime-types
- Add video/mp2t mime-type
- Use generic video icon for application/x-matroska
- Improve magic for Matroska files
- Add magic for audio/x-stm
- Update magic for Apple HTTP Streaming playlists
- Add Lrzip archive mime-type
- Fix PDF detection for some pesky files
- Add details about 3GPP and 3GPP2 files
- Add JavaFX video format
- Add Windows Imaging Format Disk Image mime-type
- Add application/x-apple-diskimage mime-type
- Add e-book reader content-type
- Add application/x-tex as an alias for text/x-tex
- Use application/oxps mime-type for XPS files
- Add magic to BibTeX files

* Other:
- Fix malformed D source test
- Avoid using ~/.local data when running the test suite
- Make sure that update-mime-info doesn't get called before installed

shared-mime-info 0.71 (2010-02-01)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add magic for FLAC files
- Add ICC profiles
- Remove duplicate XUL definition
- Add IT8.7/2 profiles
- Add Apple's HTTP Live Streaming playlists
- Add application/pkix-crl
- Match *xsl and *xslt to application/xslt+xml
- Add *.eml glob for message/rfc822 messages
- Add application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow
- Update MathML definition
- Add application/x-java-keystore and application/x-java-jce-keystore
- Add OpenDocument test cases, flat XML file definitions
- Make D sources a sub-class of C sources

* Specification:
- Update version to 0.19

* Other:
- Move to git for VCS
- Use transifex for translations

shared-mime-info 0.70 (2009-09-06)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add MXF video
- Add Google Earth XML files
- Add XZ archives
- Add SPSS formats
- Add OpenRaster images
- Add glob for OpenType fonts
- Add more MPEG-4 video container magic
- Add RealMediaFormat videos
- Add LZIP archives
- Add Kexi mime-types
- Add CBT comics
- Add Windows theme packs
- Add metalink
- Better glob for core files
- Better magic for graphviz files
- Add MRML, CVS, TSV acronyms
- Better definition for LZO archives
- Fix mime-type/magic for Java archives
- Fix MSWinURL magic
- Add tar.bz2 as a sub-class of application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Split Win32 from Unix autostart detection
- Better magic for Cisco VPN files
- New magic for Word documents
- Better glob matching for Makefiles

* Specification:
- Add glob-deleteall and magic-deleteall support
- Add case-sensitive attribute support

* Other changes:
- fix make call on *BSDs
- Better error in update-mime-database when a directory doesn't exist

shared-mime-info 0.60 (2009-02-21)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add alias for SMIL
- Fix SMIL detection
- Add Annodex mime-type
- Only use .ogg for audio Ogg files
- Fix RDF mime-type
- Oasis mime-type fixes
- Make PICTURES match a picture CD but not "pictures"
- Add alias for application/zip
- Add Microsoft Document Imaging format
- Add magic for 7z archives
- Add cb7 comic book archives
- Add magic for XCF files
- Remove application/x-msi magic
- Add audio/x-gsm mime-type
- Add MS cab mime-type
- Add FictionBook mime-type
- Fix PKCS#12 bundles definition (not text files)
- Add PKCS#7 and PkiPath mime-types
- Add application/vnd.ms-wpl mime-type
- Add more aliases for media types
- Add alias for text/x-csv
- Fix comment for Gnucash files
- Make Javascript a sub-class of C
- Add *.vapi as a glob for Vala files
- Fix image/fits to match IANA
- Add Office 2007/OpenXML documents mime-types
- Add Pocket Word and AportisDoc document types
- Fix MS ICO, and Photoshop image to match IANA

* Other changes:
- Regenerate the pot file when needed
- Some clarifications in the spec
- Build fix when srcdir != builddir

shared-mime-info 0.51 (2008-07-23)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Strings review

shared-mime-info 0.50 (2008-07-22)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Better magic for a number of image types, from gdk-pixbuf
- Add "extended URL format" files
- Add MSI (Windows Installer) type
- Add tree content types

* update-mime-database Changes:
- Implement tree content types, in the treemagic file

shared-mime-info 0.40 (2008-06-11)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add Skencil image
- Add OpenOffice extension
- Add Lilypond music sheets
- Add MO3 compressed tracker files
- Add text/x-diff alias for patches
- Add text/x-c alias for C source files
- Add text/rtf for RTF files
- Add *.m3u8 glob for M3U files
- Fix problems with Matroska audio/video detection
- Fix pack200 magic
- Fix detection of some message/rfc822 files
- Tighten PBM/PPM/PGM magic to avoid false positives
- Make "README*" glob very low
- Make application/x-gnuplot a subclass of text/plain
- Remove useless fnmatch matches
- Remove useless gtkrc mime-type

* update-mime-database Changes:
- Implement glob weights
- Implement reverse suffix tree
- Implement icon and generic-icon support
- Implement compact suffix tree

shared-mime-info 0.30 (2008-05-12)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add LZMA archive
- Add Eiffel source
- Add TTX font
- Add EXR image
- Add SubViewer subtitle
- Add Windows Registry
- Add SMAF, XMF and iMelogy ringtones
- Add MRML playlists
- Add FLTK Fluid
- Add NFO info
- Add ALZ archive
- Add MS Word template
- Add GNUNet saved searches
- Add MOF
- Add CDRDAO TOC
- Add magic for KDC Kodak
- Add pattern for PCX images
- Add pattern for mbox files
- Add pattern for AWK scripts
- Add more magic for FLAC audio
- Add iptables
- Add Electronic books
- Add Cisco VPN
- Add Pack200 archives
- Add CMake scripts
- Add MS Works document
- Update DjVu types
- Update Flash video type
- Mark RCS files as text/plain
- Add an alias for RPM packages
- Remove application/x-cgi mime-type
- Remove *.exe glob for Unix executables
- Remove audio/x-mp3-playlist and make it an alias for MP3 playlists
- Remove the useless application/x-dbm type
- Remove duplicate *.amr glob from 3GPP files
- Add "<Asx" as a pattern for ASX files
- Lower XML magic priority so text/html is preferred
- Fix magic for application/x-java
- Fix up magic for AVI files
- Add "*.med" glob to MOD music
- Add "*.3gp2" glob for 3GPP audio/video
- Fix multiple XML mime-types
- Remove duplicate StuffIt archive type
- Remove unused text/x-ksysv-log

* Other:
- Update specification
- Add instructions on how to file bugs, and update translations
- Update dependencies to GLib 2.6
- Update DTD, require translated comments, require expanded-acronym if
acronym is present, require a known value for generic-icon
- Small fix to the update-mime-database man page
- Ignore unknown fields in update-mime-database
- Make sure all the comments are marked for translation
- Fix typos in the DTD
- Avoid warnings in update-mime-database for the x-content/ mimetypes

shared-mime-info 0.23 (2007-12-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add QTIF QuickTime image
- Add SDP stream description
- Add Vala source file
- Add Atom feed, OPML
- Add SAMI, MicroDVD, MPSub, SSA subtitles
- Add audio/x-m4b as a sub-class of audio/mp4
- Add *.aac as a suffix for MPEG-4 audio files
- Add Compressed Flash detection, add FutureSplash support
- Add *.asc as a suffix for PGP armoured keys
- Add application/msword as a sub-class of application/x-ole-storage
- Don't associate *.htm and *.html to Mozilla bookmarks
- Add more aliases for PowerPoint and Word mime-types
- Add *.vlc as a suffix for m3u files
- Better magic for Word and Office documents
- Split Windows Media Station playlists from ASX ones
- Fix up JPEG 2000 mime-types
* Other:
- Add a testsuite in the CVS tree

shared-mime-info 0.22 (2007-07-30)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Clean up the Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks mime-types
- Fix Powerpoint magic detection
- Add another magic matchlet to HTML
- Add magic detection for OpenOffice.org files
- Add MP2 audio, EMF mime-types
- Add more aliases for 3GPP videos
- Add magic detection to WMF
- Add more suffixes for WordPerfect documents
- Add mime-types for SIS/SISX archives
- Add x-epoc media type
- Add *.hxx as a suffix for C++ headers
- Add Erlang mime-type
- Add another Fortran magic detection
- Add Plucker mime-type
- Add winmail.dat files as TNEF files
- Add WMLScript mime-type
- Add JAD mime-type
- Add iRiver PLA playlist mime-type
- Add Nintendo DS ROM mime-type
- Add video/avi as an alias for AVI files
- Update Ogg mime-types to match Xiph's latest documents
* Other:
- Improve Window compatibility
- Update the glib requirements

shared-mime-info 0.21 (2007-04-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add *.m2t as a pattern for MPEG-2 files
- Add comments for the XMCD database and ARC mime-types
- Fix comments for Adobe FrameMaker documents
- Make application/m3u an alias for audio/x-mpegurl
- Make audio/x-mpeg an alias for audio/mpeg
- Add XPS to the mime-types
- Fix RealVideo documents mime-types
- Make application/x-shared-library-la a subclass of text/plain
- Add TNEF to the mime-types
- Add PAK archive to the mime-types
- Add PSF, miniPSF, PSFlib, and gzipped PSF fonts to the mime-types
- Add *.iso9660 as a pattern for ISO files
- Add PKCS#10 certification requests to the mime-types
- Add and correct loads of raw camera image types
- Add magic for OpenOffice.org file types
- Add KSysV init files to the mime-types
- Add DirectDraw surface files to the mime-types
- Add X11 cursor type to the mime-types
- Fix magic for RTSPtext metalinks

* Other:
- Remove mention of ROX in the See Also section of the man page

shared-mime-info 0.20 (2007-02-06)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add text/javascript as an alias for application/javascript
- Add  *.latex as a pattern for TeX documents
- Add image/x-macpaint for "MacPaint Bitmap image"
- Add RTSPtextRTSP-style movie references to application/x-quicktime-media-link
- Add image/pdf as an alias for application/pdf
- Add video/flv as an alias for FLV videos
- Add Google Video Pointer mime-types
- Add application/pls as an alias for pls files
- Add gzip/bz2 types for DVI, PDF and PostScript
- Add *.kar as a pattern for MIDI files
- Add video/mp4v-es as an alias for MPEG-4 videos
- Add video/x-ms-wvx, video/x-ms-wax and video/x-ms-wmx as alias for ASX
- Add patterns and aliases for Vivo video
- Add alias for FLI files
- Add video/x-ms-wm as an alias for video/x-ms-asf
- Add a image/x-icns mime-type for MacOS X icons
- Add a text/x-rpm-spec mime-type for RPM .spec files
- Add NSC multicast playlists to video/x-ms-asf, with magic
- Add the audio/x-tta mime-type
- Add application/x-msexcel as an alias for Excel files
- Add PGM, PBM and PPM as sub-classes of PNM
- Move *.ram files to application/ram
- Use the preferred Matroska mime-types, includes Matroska audio
- Detect Makefile with a shebang at the start
- Add application/x-bzip2 as an alias for bz2 archives
- Add more magic for QuickTime files
- Add eMusic download packages
- Add *.rdfs and *.owl patterns to RDF files
- Add newer magic for Gnumeric files
- Add mime-type for WBMP images
- Make DIA a sub-class of application/xml
- Clean up PGP/GnuPG file types
- Add Lua scripts
- Avoid misdetecting Java files as C files
- Add OCL scripts
- Merge the application/vnd.palm and application/x-palm-database mime-types
- Make mbox as a sub-class of text/plain
- Add magic to detect AutoCAD DXF files
- Add magic for Go SGF records
- Add magic for PGN chess games
- Add DAR archives
- Add WavPack audio
- Remove bogus magic for Targa files
- Add Markaby scripts
- Add ACE archives
- Add Haansoft's Hangul word processor documents
- Clean up XSLT mime-types depending on version
- Add LDIF files
- Add XLIFF translation files
- Move compressed SVG files to image/svg+xml-compressed
- Add Citrix ICA files
- Add XUL and XBL detection
- Move compressed pcf (font) detection to application/x-font-pcf

* Other:
- Fix CPIO description
- Don't abort when update-mime-database can't open a file
- Move the pkgconfig file to $(datadir)
- Skip the translation of update-mime-database.c
- Have a quiet output to update-mime-database by default

shared-mime-info 0.19 (2006-08-25)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add application/powerpoint and application/mspowerpoint as aliases for
  Powerpoint
- Add VHDL mime-type
- Add application/mbox for the MBOX mailboxes
- Add text/x-txt2tags
- Remove *.dat as a glob for MPEG videos
- Add Monkey's Audio, AC3, and Musepack mime-types
- Fix matching Type1 fonts
- Remove useless application/octet-stream mime-type
- Add *.mo to application/x-gettext-translation
- Add loads of tracker audio files, console ROMs, raw images mime-types
- Fix QuickTime Media Links mime-types and detection
- Add audio/AMR and audio/AMR-WB mime-types and detection
- Add better TeX magic, and more globs
- Add better magic for patch files
- Fix .jar files' mime-types, and add better magic
- Fix magic for MPEG4 audio files
- Add an alias for .deb packages
- Add application/sieve mime-type
- Fix application/javascript's mime-type
- Fix text/csv's mime-type

* Other:
- Add paths to the .pc file

shared-mime-info 0.18 (2006-07-03)

* Mime-type Changes:
- Add *.qtl to video/quicktime
- Add *.wax to audio/x-ms-asx
- Add *.mpga to audio/mpeg
- Add audio/x-ms-wma (Windows Media Audio)
- Add application/xspf+xml (XSPF playlist)
- Add a lot of subclassing information
- Fix the RSS mime-types
- Fix *.asx files' mime-type
- Avoid audio/x-ms-asx files being detected as HTML
- Avoid application/pdf files being detected as Matlab documents
- Clarify C, C++, C# and ObjC mime-types

* New translations:
- Danish

shared-mime-info 0.17 (2006-03-14)

* Mime-types Changes:
- Added application/x-cue (CD image cuesheet)
- Added application/vnd.ms-access (Access database)
- Added application/x-7z-compressed (7-zip archive)
- Added application/mathematica (Mathematica)
- Added application/x-gedcom (GEDCOM genealogy)
- Added application/x-shorten (Shorten audio)
- Added video/3gpp (3GPP video)
- Added application/docbook+xml (Docbook)
- Added application/x-sqlite (SQLite database)
- Added application/x-go-sgf (Go saved games)
- Added application/x-m4 (M4 scripts)
- Added a few Ogg related mime-types
- Added application/x-cbr and application/x-cbz (Comic books archives)
- Added flv-application/octet-stream (Flash video)
- Added application/x-gnuplot (Gnuplot)
- Added application/x-srt (Text subtitle files)

* New translations:
- zh_TW

* Spec changes:
- Make the mime cache contain an mmappable binary format
- Add acronym and expanded-acronym
- Add recommendations for duplicate globs handling

shared-mime-info 0.16  (2004-03-22)

* Mime Types Changes:
- Added application/mathematica
- Added application/stuffit
- Fixed application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3 and other office types
- Added application/vnd.oasis.opendocument
- Even more types now inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-gettext-translation
- Fixed up text/x-python

* Lots of new translations:
   - bg eo es eu it ja ms nb pl pt pt_BR ru sq uk zh_CN

shared-mime-info 0.15  (2004-08-30)

* Mime Types Changes:
- Added various aliases
- Make text files inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-xmi
- Added application/x-javascripta

* Translations:
- new translations: Danish (Ole Laursen), Greek (Nikos Charonitakis), 
  Korean (Cha Young-Ho)
- updated translations: Finnish  (Ville Skyttä), German (Christian Neumair)

			Version 0.14 (21-Mar-2004)

* upped the mozilla/netscape bookmarks priority.

* change xbell to x-xbel

* Add matroska video mime type

* application/x-archive needs lower prio than application/x-deb

* Change C# mimetype to text/x-csharp

* Add application/x-ole-storage mimetype, remove OLE storage match from
  application/msword, since it matches all sorts of document types using
  OLE.

* add types from ImageMagick

* add .flac detection.

* make MIME descriptions more consistent with each other (patch from
  Christian Neumair).

* add a package-config file

* conditionally disable running update-mimedb for packages.

* fix up RIFF and shell magic, as well as merging diff files and patch files.

* New az, cy, and no translations.

			Version 0.13.1 (01-Jan-2003)

* Specify number of characters to test when checking for text files
  (requested by Jaap Karssenberg).

* Added <alias> and <sub-class-of> fields.



			Version 0.12 (28-Aug-2003)

* Added *.pm and *.al globs for PERL (Jaap Karssenberg).

* Added a section to the spec about the inode/* MIME types (suggested by
  Jaap Karssenberg).

* Clarify the meaning of nested magic matches.

* Fixed example (lang -> xml:lang) (Christophe Fergeau).

* Change 'case insensitive match' to 'lowercase match'.

* Fixed byte-swapping for little-endian and host-endian matches (reported by
  Jaap Karssenberg).

* Ignore trailing '/' characters on MIME directory name.

	
			Version 0.11 (17-Apr-2003)

* 'make install' validates the common types file against the DTD.

* Install instructions updated for new XDG Base Directory Specification.

* Added new <root-XML> element to identify XML files by
  (namespaceURI, localName) pairs (suggested by Mike Hearn).

* Minor updates to the database itself (Vincent Lefevre).

* Added short discussion of ACAP Media Type Dataset Class to spec (suggested
  by Dave Cridland).

* Updated spec to use XDG Base Directory Specification for paths.

* Clarifications to glob matching section (requested by Jonathan Blandford).

* Added a 'Recommended checking order' section to help interoperability
  (suggested by Lars Hallberg).

* Greatly improved error reporting in update-mime-database, and commented
  the code more.

* Fixed possible segfault if a MIME type was defined twice with no xml:lang
  in the same directory.

* When update-mime-database is run, warn the user if the MIME directory
  given isn't in the search path.


			Version 0.10 (03-Mar-2003)

* Much better validation of input files.

* Added note about the use of extended attributes to store the MIME type.

* Ensure that all changes to generated files happen atomically.

* Change to half-text, half-binary format to make parsing the magic file
  much easier.

* Make it really clear that user prefs don't go in the database.

* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but older versions seem a
  little buggy).

* Fix problem where copying nodes lost the namespace (workaround for libxml
  bug).

* Added DTD to freedesktop.org.xml.

* Spec was confused about whether a match type was an attribute or element
  name. Settled on attribute and updated XML (makes the DTD easier this way).

* Glob pattern for TGIF files.

* Added application/x-cd-image (requested by Stefano Peluchetti).

* Added text/x-uri (text/uri-list is used for something else).

* Added more extensions for powerpoint (Stefano Peluchetti).

* Marked AIFF as Amiga/Mac (Marcin Juszkiewicz), not just Amiga.

* Added *.xsl glob (*.xslt was already allowed) and added xhtml MIME type
  (requested by Vincent Lefevre).


			Version 0.9 (29-Jul-2002)

* Removed bashism in uninstall rule (reported by Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added manpage (Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but play it safe).

* Workaround libxml problem where copying nodes lost the namespace
  (reported by Stephen Watson and Jesse Wagner)

* Added skeleton description for 'action' element.

* Re-worded spec section on user preferences (Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added extra authors to spec.

* Changed SHOULD to MUST for requiring shared package (suggested by
  Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added some error checking to make sure output is writeable.