AppStream 0.6 released!

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!
Today I released AppStream 0.6, which brings lots of extensions and
improvements. Most importantly, it breaks the specifications for
MetaInfo (AppData) files and AppStream distro XML, so you will need to
adjust your AppStream XML generators and parsers.
The libappstream library shipped with the AppStream tarball is fully
capable of handling these formats, and libappstream-glib can do that
as well at the current point in time.
For libappstream, it was rewritten in C with this release, which broke
quite some API. But porting your applications should be
straightforward.
If you have questions about the changes or how to implement AppStream
0.6 in your distribution, please let me know!
If you want to know more about AppStream 0.6, you can check out this blogpost:
 http://blog.tenstral.net/2014/03/appstream-the-next-step.html
Also, the AppStream documentation has been updated to relect the
latest changes. I recommend taking a look at it.
 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/

As always, tarballs are available on
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases/
You'll find the changelog attached to this email.
Cheers,
    Matthias Klumpp

Version 0.6
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Released: 2014-04-16

Notes:
 This release breaks both the library API and the Appstream specification.
 Please adjust your tools to work with Appstream 0.6, especially take a look
 at the documentation for the new Appstream XML specification.

Features:
 * Add new AsComponent class
 * Rewrote libappstream in plain C
 * client: Add option for detailed output
 * Use "kind" instead of "ctype" for component types
 * Implement compulsory-for-desktop
 * Some refactoring, additions and improvements
 * Correctly handle component types according to the 0.6 spec
 * Bring back thumbnail support for ss.d.n services
 * client: Improve screenshot url display
 * Implement support for <provides/>
 * Implement support for <release/>
 * Some API future-proofing
 * Add helper to generate Vala VAPI file

Specification:
 * docs: Initial documentation on components and lots of restructuring
 * docs: Add FontData meta-info spec
 * docs: Add description of input-method metainfo
 * docs: Some changes on ASXML for component-support
 * docs: Clarify font classifier
 * spec: Don't use specialized tags, everything is a component. Kill <id/> types
 * spec: All upstream meta-info goes to /usr/share/appdata now
 * specs: Update Appstream example XML for latest changes
 * specs: Add new <architectures/> tag to Appstream distro spec
 * spec: Add "origin" property for components tag
 * spec: Define icon repository
 * spec: Component-type is "desktop" for apps now
 * spec: Add <releases/> parent for release tags
 * spec: Allow more url types
 * spec: Clarify how the description tag should be translated
 * spec: Hide fonts for now - the spec is not yet ready
 * spec: Add component type for codecs
 * specs: Update project mission statement
 * spec: Use metadata_license instead of the BE version
 * spec: Add note on multiarch-support


Bugfixes:
 * Make parallel compilation possible
 * Allow compiling with -Wall -Werror
 * Prevent identifier collisions in the database
 * Some fixes for the introspection build process
 * Some basic fixes for the XSD schemes


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