Announce: Flatpak 0.9.4

[Alexander Larsson]

Available here:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.9.4

$ sha256sum flatpak-0.9.4.tar.xz 
e080d0cf59cbf9ada24091c22a4a8439fac8f01c4fa9c286ec34bb1446c81223  flatpak-0.9.4.tar.xz

Major changes in 0.9.4
======================

 Changes in flatpak:

 * Now requires ostree 2017.6 and bubblewrap 0.1.8
 * Better progress reporting in CLI and UI
 * Improved output from commands info, list, remotes,
   remote-ls: More detail, colors, nicer table formating.
 * New command flatpak repo that lets you show information
   about local repositories.
 * When launching exported desktop files, the paths
   passed to it are automatically created as documents
   to allow access to the arguments, if needed.
 * Flatpak install of an already installed application is
   now a warning, not an error.
 * flatpak build now kills all the processes in the
   sandbox when it exits.
 * flatpak update --subpath=... now updates the app event
   if there is no new upstream version, but the subpath is
   different from what is currently installed.
 * Exports are now whitelisted, and the only thing you can
   export are:
     desktop files, icons, dbus services, mime definitions, and
     gnome-shell search providers
 * Exported gnome-shell search providers are automatically
   disabled by default.
 * Exported mimetypes are rewritten to only allow globs, and to
   make the globs have a low priority vs system mime info.
 * A remote can now redirect to a new URL and/or a new GPG key, by
   using build-update-repo --redirect-url=URL --gpg-import=FILE.
   When clients see this they permanently change the local
configuration.
   This is very useful when migrating official repositories.
 * flatpak caches in the homedir are now stored in ~/.cache
   (or $XDG_CACHE_HOME) instead of ~/.local/share/flatpak/system-cache.
 * Added version field to all exported dbus interfaces.
 * New AddFull method in the Document Portal, which allows
   exporting multiple files, as-needed by a particular target
   app. This is useful for implementations of dbus activation
   for desktop files.
 * New flag --no-static-deltas for install/update without
   using static deltas. Mostly useful for debugging.
 * TMPDIR is now unset in the sandbox, if set on the
   host. Each sandbox has a personal /tmp that is used.
 * Flatpak run now works if /tmp is a symlink on the
   host.
 * /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.conf from the host are now exposed
   in the sandbox in addition to /etc/resolv.conf.
 * Titles and default branches are now automatically updated from
   the remote unless they are explicitly set. You no longer have
   to run flatpak remote-modify --update.
 * Some performance inprovements when installing apps.
 * When exporting a build, the commit objects now always include
   the branchname, the metadata and install/download size.
   The sizes are reused for faster summary building, and the
   others changes are for future use. The fields are verified
   against the deployed metadata during installation, so it
   is trusted.
 * Fixed minor race condition in portal application identification.
 * lib: New  flatpak_installation_update_appstream_full_sync method
   that allows progress reporting.
 * bash-completion: Fix out-of-bounds read that could produce
   weird completion at times.

 Changes in flatpak-builder:

 * Added support for appdata screenshot mirroring.
 * New property "install-rule" lets you change what Makefile rule to
   use in the install phase.
 * The git "commit" property can now specify both a tag object and the
   commit object it refers to.
 * New cppflags property, similar to e.g. cflags.
 * The "env" property now overrides the cflags/cxxflags/ldflags
   properties, to allow these to be reset.
 * Initial checkout of git/bzr to a temporary directory so that errors
   during checkout do not persist.
 * Properly take the "buildsystem" field into account when calculating
   cache freshness.
 * Don't crash if appstream-compose fails.
 * "ldflags" property now works  correctly.

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 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
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