Announce: Flatpak 0.11.4
Alexander Larsson
alexl at redhat.com
Thu Apr 26 14:07:43 UTC 2018
Available here:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/0.11.4
$ sha256sum flatpak-0.11.4.tar.xz
28c68aaf4812ec8b350f4a9ae25006a7c9550d117b7dd6463f3b3168a6e7e9e4
flatpak-0.11.4.tar.xz
Major changes in 0.11.4
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* flatpak remove is now an alias for flatpak uninstall.
* flatpak uninstall now picks system or user automatically if not specified
* New appstream branch format which is more efficient to distribute,
the old is still generated for backwards compat.
* Appstream data now contains compatible arches (for applications
that doesn't exist for the primary arch). For example, an
i386-only app is now listed in the x86-64 appstream.
* The flatpak version is included in the user agent when downloading.
* The Flatpak-Ref http header is set to the currently installing ref when
downloading.
* New argument --timestamp in build-commit-from.
* When updating many apps we now only prune the local repo when all
updates are done, making multi-app updates faster.
* flatpak build now always allows multiarch use.
* flatpak build now mounts app extensions during build.
* flatpak build-init now supports --extension to add extension points earlier
than build-finish. Also build-finish now supports --remove-extension.
* New flatpak portal allows applications to sandbox themselves and restart a
newer version of themselves.
* New flatpak run options: --no-a11y-bus, --no-documents-portal.
* Initial support for end-of-life:ing applications.
* New option X-Flatpak-RunOptions in exported desktop/files allow you
to specify
no-a11y-bus and no-documents-portal.
* Support for tagged extension points, which is useful if you want to use
the same extension id (but maybe different versions) multiple times
in an app.
* We now export .service files for names that the app is allowed to own on
the session bus.
* libflatpak got new methods for listing remotes by type.
* libflatpak now has support in FlatpakRemoteRef for getting remote metadata
such as end-of-life, download size, metadata etc.
* There was some internal restructuring on how installs/updates are done
which should improve performance and maintainability.
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Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc
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