[AppStream] AppStream 0.9.8 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Wed Aug 10 21:03:31 UTC 2016


Hi!
A lot of changes this time, preparing for some API/ABI breaks in the
next release.

Tarballs available here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases

Enjoy!
    Matthias

Version 0.9.8
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Released: 2016-08-10

Features:
 * qt: Different approach for storing the icon size and url relation (Aleix Pol)
 * Strictly validate AppStream IDs (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add AsSuggested class (Lucas Moura)
 * tests: Test merges for suggestions (Lucas Moura)
 * Add functions handling SPDX license ids and expressions (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Include a line-hint in the issue report (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement console-application component type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Validate files following the new cid scheme properly
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Validate metadata_license for permissiveness (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Compress cache data (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement "translate" URL type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * xml: Implement the suggests tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * yaml: Implement reading and writing of Suggests field (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Consider merge components valid if they have at least an ID (Matthias Klumpp)
 * yaml: Read/write merge components (Matthias Klumpp)

Specification:
 * spec: Add console-application component type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Streamline the requirements for component-ids (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Define a "translate" URL type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Specify the suggests tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Describe the merge property (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Proofreading fixes (Philip Withnall)

Bugfixes:
 * Make searching for multiple terms work properly again (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Don't fail on invalid search terms (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Don't re-instantiate stemmer on each use (Matthias Klumpp)
 * ascli: Line-wrap unicode texts properly on the console (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add missing docs to the API reference (Matthias Klumpp)
 * tests: Add test description to each test (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Sort search results by default (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Fix a few issues with merging (Matthias Klumpp)


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