[AppStream] AppStream 0.9.6 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Thu May 12 16:39:58 UTC 2016


Pretty much a bugfix-only release, with rather boring changes.

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

Version 0.9.6
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Released: 2016-05-12

Features:
 * Improve metadata file decompression code (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Simplify loading of data too (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make it easy to compile with Address Sanitizer enabled (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Allow compiling with UBSan as well (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add back support for Travis CI (Matthias Klumpp)
 * yaml: Write Releases field (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * qt: Properly check for component validity (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Ensure decompressed metadata is null-terminated (Neil Mayhew)
 * validator: Long descriptions are not needed for generic components
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make VAPI generation depend on GIR typelibs explicitly (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Be more verbose when failing to move the cache directory (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Handle format errors when parsing YAML metadata (Neil Mayhew)


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