- 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 <translation/> purpose (Kamil Páral)
* docs: Explicitly rule out nested lists (Marius Vollmer)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/710906
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=47
- 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: <release> 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
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/681558
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=43
- 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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/642258
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=41
- 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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/572099
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/AppStream?expand=0&rev=8
- 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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/572093
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=35
- 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)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/570912
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=33
- Update to version 0.11.1:
Notes:
* This release contains refactoring of the XML/YAML parsers and some other changes that are more invasive
than usual.
Features:
* qt: Add new getters/setters and classes to be on par with the GObject library (Jan Grulich)
* qt: Add AS::Metadata class used for parsing desktop and appstream metadata files (Jan Grulich)
* Refactor the XML parser and serialization code (Matthias Klumpp)
* Refactor the YAML parser and emitter code (Matthias Klumpp)
* Implement 'service' component type (Matthias Klumpp)
* Improve speed of metainfo description parsing slightly (Matthias Klumpp)
* test: Add additional testcase for reading metainfo description tags (Matthias Klumpp)
* test: Test metainfo descriptions starting with enumerations (Matthias Klumpp)
Specification:
* doc: Add Distro Packaging page (Jeremy Bicha)
* doc: Add "service" components and their launchables (Marius Vollmer)
* Allow components to provide other components (provides -> id) (Matthias Klumpp)
Bugfixes:
* doc: Uncomment line in middle of paragraph (Jeremy Bicha)
* doc: A releases tag is not essential for components, but summary is (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow descriptions to start with an enumeration (Matthias Klumpp)
* Ensure we always update with fresh data when refreshing the cache (Matthias Klumpp)
* Replace invalid components in the pool with new ones of the same name (Matthias Klumpp)
* Resolve a few potential bugs (found by static checks) (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Check if we are trying to parse a real component (Matthias Klumpp)
- Update to version 0.11.0:
Features:
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/508298
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=30
Features:
* Match modalias wildcards on regular searches (Matthias Klumpp)
* xml: Add methods to get/set custom data in metainfo/collection files (Matthias Klumpp)
* Make cache update issue messages slightly more verbose (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add preliminary code for reading metainfo files in addition to .desktop files (Matthias Klumpp)
* cache: Cache custom fields as well (Matthias Klumpp)
Bugfixes:
* qt: Make sure dependencies are fetched when looking for the package (Aleix Pol)
* yaml: Consistently read/write the Suggests field (Matthias Klumpp)
* Correctly read bundle kind from XML data (Matthias Klumpp)
Features:
* qt: Introduce AppStream::Suggested in the Qt frontend (Aleix Pol)
Bugfixes:
* Properly validate suggests tag (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Add an empty check to Provided and return it if necessary (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add path search to find libstemmer headers (#91) (Neal Gompa)
Notes:
* The release breaks the Qt library API. Patches to make KDE Discover use the new API exist
in its Git master branch, and will be available with Plasma 5.9.
The patches will likely not enter the stable branch, so if you want to upgrade AppStream,
you might need to ship patches for Discover downstream to use the new API.
Features:
* qt: Update API to reflect more recent AppStream features, be easier to
extend and also a bit faster due to removing needless data conversions.
(Matthias Klumpp, Aleix Pol)
* Make components record their origin kind internally (Matthias Klumpp)
* Provide a file:/ URL for icons when we know a file name (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add support for Snappy/Snap bundles (Matthias Klumpp)
Specification:
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Frameworks5/AppStream?expand=0&rev=28
- Use a define for the so version and fix -devel requiring the old libappstream3
- Update to version 0.10.0
- Disable stemming support until we have libstemmer packaged.
- Generate libappstream4 packages since AppStream changes the ABI in 0.10.0
Notes:
* This release breaks API/ABI in order to support multiple metadata sets describing the same
component (needed for bundling support), moving away from the database as central data store
and general cleanup.
* Porting is relatively straightforward, if you were using AsDatabase, you should switch to AsPool
now (AsDatabase has been a wrapper around AsPool for a while anyway).
* Many methods became private API with this release, file a bug if you miss anything.
* The 'categories.xml' file is gone - please account for that if you were reading it directly,
and consider using AsCategory instead, which offers the same functionality.
Features:
* Remove the AsDatabase class (Matthias Klumpp)
* Use cmakedefine for compile-time features (Matthias Klumpp)
* Rename AsDataPool -> AsPool (Matthias Klumpp)
* Add placeholder enum for web applications (Matthias Klumpp)
* qt: Implement Appstream::Release for the Qt interface (Aleix Pol)
* Recognize the "Pantheon" desktop for Elementary (Matthias Klumpp)
* Get rid of the menu parser and make AsCategory more useful instead (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow AsComponent to automatically check for list-value duplicates (Matthias Klumpp)
* Give bundles their own class (Matthias Klumpp)
* Stop shipping the categories.xml file (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow multiple metadata sets in the pool to describe a component (Matthias Klumpp)
* Name AppStream metadata styles consistently (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow the 'C' description fallback to be turned off (Iain Lane)
* Make AsScreenshot return localized images by default (Matthias Klumpp)
* Allow to compare AsRelease versions easily (Matthias Klumpp)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/436641
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/AppStream?expand=0&rev=5
