Announce: Flatpak 0.8.0

[Jorge García]

Hi,

Congratulations for the release!

I understand this is a  "medium/long term support" version of flatpak.
Seems to me like an important milestone. Are you going to send a press
release?

Are there any plans to release a "medium/long term support" of
xdg-desktop-portal too?

Best regards,
Jorge

El dia 20 des. 2016 11:10 p. m., "Alexander Larsson" <alexl at redhat.com> va
escriure:

> Available here:
>
> https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.8.0
>
> $ sha256sum flatpak-0.8.0.tar.xz
> 5b082065c9921308305845f99b0facbc9b85a93e3d7553fd238824190294
> aacd  flatpak-0.8.0.tar.xz
>
> Major changes in 0.8.0
> ======================
>
> This is the first release in a new series of stable releases called
> 0.8.x. New features will be added to 0.9.x, and only bugfixes will be
> backported to 0.8.x. The featureset of this release is a good base to
> target if you're creating flatpaks that should be widely usable.
>
> This release technically requires only OSTree 2016.14, and it build
> fine with this, but we recommend using OSTree 2016.15, because of the
> change in how it verifies the checksums of commits in delta files.
>
>  * Flatpakrepo files now support a RuntimeRepo= key which points to
>    a flatpakrepo file. This means the user don't have to manually
>    configure a remote for the runtime, just reply to the prompt
>    to automatically do this when installing the app.
>  * We now support dependencies when installing bundles. This includes
>    required runtimes, related refs, and the equivalent of RuntimeRepo.
>  * The support for OCI in flatpak has been updated to the latest
>    OCI spec version, and support has been added to directly install
>    flatpak applications from an OCI image.
>  * In flatpak install, the --from and --bundle options are now optional
>    if the argument has the correct suffix (.flatpakref and .flatpak)
>  * Flatpak install now supports -y to let you avoid interactive prompts.
>  * build-finish: We now export mime type files with the right name.
>  * build-finish: New --require-version option let you specify a particular
>    version of flatpak, and older version of flatpak will not install
>    or update to the new version.
>  * build-sign: Allow signing all apps by omitting the id.
>  * Fix regression in the document portal when adding named files.
>  * build-import-bundle now signs the commit if you specify a gpg key.
>  * Flatpak now reads configuration from /etc/flatpak/installations.d
>    which lets you support multiple system-level installation paths.
>    These can be accessed with new --installation=... arguments to
>    most of the commands.
>  * flatpak-builder: Support --jobs=N to limit parallel builds
>  * flatpak-builder: Patch source got new options property that lets
>    you pass arguments to patch.
>  * flatpak-builder: New generic "buildsystem: type" option that
>    replace the (now deprecated) "cmake: true" option. This
>    supports "autotools", "cmake" and "meson".
>
> --
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