[AppStream] AppStream 0.9.5 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Mon May 2 17:18:25 UTC 2016


A new release of AppStream is out.
Due to a nasty double-free corruption issue which is really hard to
track, it is recommended for all users of 0.9.4 to update soon or
backport the patch.
Aside from bugfixes, the new release also brings localized
screenshots, as requested by Endless for curated software centers.
It requires changes on software centers and metadata generators to
make full use of this new feature.

Release notes are below.
Tarballs available here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases

Version 0.9.5
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Released: 2016-05-02

Features:
 * Update README (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Provide a bit more hints for translators (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Improve error messages when reading broken XML (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Load all XML in AsXMLData (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement reading localized images from metadata (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Write localized images in XML/YAML serialize routines (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Unify codepaths for checking compatible locales (Matthias Klumpp)
 * yaml: Implement read/write support for the Languages field (Matthias Klumpp)
 * xml: Serialize and read languages tag properly (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Validate files in legacy paths too (Matthias Klumpp)

Specification:
 * spec: Allow localized screenshot images (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Refactor icon-finding code and fix rare double-free corruption
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Properly validate randomly ordered XML tags for duplicates (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: The translation tag is only valid in metainfo files
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Be slightly less pedantic about size info when reading screenshot
images (Matthias Klumpp)
 * xml: Properly write <release/> description tag (Matthias Klumpp)


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