[Telepathy] Announce: telepathy-spec 0.24.0

[Will Thompson]

Hello,

Announcing telepathy-spec 0.24.0, the “underestimating the future”
release.  This is the start of a new stable branch of the Telepathy
specification. (Corresponding stable branches of some other components
will follow presently.)

tarball: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-spec/telepathy-spec-0.24.0.tar.gz
signature: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-spec/telepathy-spec-0.24.0.tar.gz.asc

Changes since 0.23.4:

• Channel.Interface.Room has been undrafted, with a few changes:
  · The RoomID property has become RoomName;
  · The Subject property has been split off onto a separate interface,
    Channel.Interface.Subject (which is also undrafted).

• Channel.Interface.RoomConfig has been defined to replace the remaining
  klunky Telepathy.Properties on Channel.Type.Text.

• As a result, the Telepathy.Properties interface has been deprecated,
  since all interfaces which historically used it now have better
  replacements.

Other notable changes since the 0.22 stable branch:

• Most interfaces now provide both handles and identifiers for contacts.
  This makes life easier for telepathy-glib and telepathy-qt4 (and, by
  extension, application authors).

• A new revision of the Call family of interfaces has landed. It is
  still marked experimental.

• ChannelDispatcher has a pair of new methods, DelegateChannels() and
  PresentChannel(), to aid user interfaces where channels can be shown
  in a number of places (like Gnome 3).

• FileTransfer now has a URI property to indicate the on-disk location
  of the file being sent or received.

Regards,
-- 
Will