[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: folks 0.6.7

Travis Reitter travis.reitter at collabora.co.uk
Wed Feb 22 18:36:32 PST 2012


libfolks 0.6.7 is now available for download from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.6/

d9ce3fd1f0ea3e0cb3780521cfda161062cf7ed1a016261e8d244fe41cbae8f3
folks-0.6.7.tar.xz

libfolks 0.6.7 —
It's not a party unless you do something that scares you.
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Libfolks pulls together contacts from any number of accounts supported
by the libfolks backends. This release includes a number of backends,
including Telepathy, evolution-data-server, libsocialweb, Tracker, and
a simple key-file backend.

The 0.6.x series is API and ABI stable and corresponds to the GNOME 3.4
release. We will continue in the 0.6.x for the foreseeable future,
until we need to make further API or ABI breaks (which we don't
anticipate at this time). We will make an announcement when we
officially commit to API/ABI stability for the project as a whole.

See the NEWS file for details on every break we made before 0.6.0. In
future releases, we will have example programs that will be kept
up-to-date with the latest API as well.

For more information, see the Folks wiki page:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks

Reference documentation is available here:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-eds/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-libsocialweb/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-telepathy/

Overview of changes from libfolks 0.6.6 to libfolks 0.6.7
=============================================================
Bugs fixed:
* Bug 666310 — Crash in Tracker backend by unsetting an entry in a
  read-only map
* Bug 666528 — Can't convert from type 'GFile' to 'gchararray'
* Bug 666540 — Segfault on empty e-mail addresses with potential match
* Bug 659610 — Support code coverage report generation
* Bug 657063 — Allow to pass a command to folks-inspect
* Bug 667410 — A second instance of the aggregator only fetch a small
  subset of my contacts
* Bug 667535 — persona created by tpf_persona_dup_for_contact() outlives
  its TpContact
* Bug 670196 — Disable GLib deprecation warnings
* Bug 668415 — Port to Vala 0.15.x

API changes:
* Add PostalAddress.is_empty() and Role.is_empty()

Dependencies
============
libfolks and depend upon core GNOME libraries (GLib, GIO, etc.), as well
as the recent releases of Vala and gobject-introspection.

The Telepathy backend also requires a recent release of telepathy-glib,
built to include its Vala bindings.

The EDS backend also requires a recent release of evolution-data-server,
built to include its Vala bindings.

The Tracker backend requires a recent version of Tracker.

The Libsocialweb backend requires a recent version of libsocialweb,
built to include the Vala bindings.

Contributing/Contact
====================
For any questions, comments, feature proposals, etc., please refer to
the Telepathy mailing list or #telepathy on Freenode.
For bug reports, please file them against the GNOME Bugzilla module
"folks".



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