[AppStream] AppStream 0.12.10 released!

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hello!
We have the first release of AppStream in the new year, and it's
packed with features and bugfixes!
For distributors it's important to note that the optional dependency
on Curl has been dropped, instead we use libsoup now as mandatory
dependency. Libsoup is mandatory because more features in AppStream
will need to use it in future, e.g. for fetching release notes from
remote locations.
For users the most important changes are likely the ones improving
search with non-English languages and localization in general.

Enjoy the new release!

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

Version 0.12.10
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Released: 2019-01-18

Notes:
 * This release drops its optional dependency on Curl in favor of a non-optional
   dependency on libsoup.

Features:
 * Sort addons less prominently than applications (Aleix Pol)
 * validator: Display wrong data hint if metadata_license is invalid
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Split tokens for descriptions as well (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Replace curl with libsoup for download tests (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Update content rating for OARS 1.1, make CSM age conversion public
API (Matthias Klumpp)
 * tests: Don't duplicate XML/YAML preambles in test data (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add asynchronous method for loading the metadata pool (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Try to reuse initial temporary cache when loading data into pool
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Reduce minimum required GLib version to 2.58 (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement support for "runtime" component type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Use SPDX JSON and filter out license exceptions in static data
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Update SPDX and TLD data (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement support for the WITH operator in recent SPDX (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add function to test if a license string is for free software
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * qt: Add wrappers for license exception and freeness tests (Matthias Klumpp)
 * ascli: Add vercmp shorthand for compare-versions subcommand (Matthias Klumpp)
 * ascli: Don't print validation issues in color and bold - color is
enough (Matthias Klumpp)
 * its: Mark name_variant_suffix as translatable (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make AsContext public API (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add convenience methods to direcly serialize a component to XML
(Matthias Klumpp)

Specification:
 * docs: Adjust Freedesktop spec URLs to their new redirect locations
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Document & implement the new name_variant_suffix tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Specify the "runtime" component type (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Permit alternative IDs in appstream URIs (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Fix double-free error when trying to dump bad XML markup (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Check URLs correctly if they have leading/trailing
spaces (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Remove deprecated GLib API (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Don't autofree a temporary error that may be propagated (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Don't attempt to add a zero-length search token to the index
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Filter out search tokens that are stemmed to nothing (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Prefer locale with region code over plain language code if possible
(Matthias Klumpp)
 * Use the same locale fallback algorithm everywhere (Matthias Klumpp)
 * validator: Don't fail when encountering WITH operator (Matthias Klumpp)
 * contrib/vapi: Add deprecated ProvidedKind.MIMETYPE to preserve API
(Rico Tzschichholz)

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