Announce: Flatpak 1.2.0

[Alexander Larsson]

Following out plans to have a stable release approximately every 4
months, here comes
flatpak 1.2:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.2.0

$ sha256sum flatpak-1.2.0.tar.xz
dbc5debba445621a5c753849aabc7042bdbc718a3af44204408df8ad2b36b3ad
flatpak-1.2.0.tar.xz

Changes in 1.2
==============

 * Ensure DeployCollectionID works in flatpakrepo files in all cases.
 * Don't error out with empty installations in uninstall.
 * Add helper that validates icon files during export.
 * Don't allow root to modify the (non-root) per-user flatpak installation,
   as this risks causing problems later.
 * Remove some incorrect warnings from flatpak repair.
 * Allow multiple name segments after prefix when exporting files.
 * Allow specification of ellipsization in --colums options.
 * Handle dates as well as timestamps in appdata
 * Fixed a bug where flatpak remote-delete removed too many refs.
 * Now we use raw terminal mode during a transaction to a avoid
problems with input
   during the operation causing problems with escape sequences.
 * Generate a fontconfig directory remapping snippet as will be needed
   for newer versions of fontconfig.
 * Support --extra-collection-id in build-commit-from to bind the commit
   to multiple collection ids. This is work in progress in ostree.

Here are all the changes since 1.0 repeated:

Changes in 1.1.3
================

 * Various fixes to the CLI output changes
 * New flatpak --installations option to list all installations
 * Extract license info from appdata among with the other fields.
   This is shown in e.g. info and remote-info, and has library API.
 * install/update/uninstall now has --noninteractive option with less output
   that is useful when called from scripts, etc.
 * --devel is now properly forwarded to sub-sandboxes using the flatpak portal.
 * Drop dependency on libappstream-glib from libflatpak.
 * Initial support for exposing the system dconf defaults to the sandbox.
 * We now create deploy refs for the deployed commits to avoid a prune removing
   objects that are in use.
 * Ask about removing all refs when deleting a remote.
 * New environment generator that handles custom installations,
   replacing the old dbus service config file.
 * Documentation updates
 * More robust completion
 * Try to report out-of-space errors better.
 * Add more tests.
 * Various improvements to the repair command.

Changes in 1.1.2
================

 * Refreshed the CLI output layout, in particular the install/update progress
   and application list/info commands.
 * The host XDG_{DATA,CONFIG,CACHE}_HOME env vars are now available as
   with the HOST_ prefix in the sandbox.
 * FLATPAK_ID is set to the app id in the sandbox (this previously
   only happened in flatpak build).
 * The spawn portal command now has a kill with parent option.
 * Flatpak shells now have custom prompts
 * New library APIs: Access to deployed appstream data, list unused refs.
 * Flatpak run now has --cwd option.
 * New option --static-delta-jobs to limit number of parallel delta
   generation jobs in build-update-repo.
 * Fixed critical warning with newer policykit versions.

Changes in 1.1.1
================

 * New libflatpak function: flatpak_remote_get_main_ref()
 * Various changes to the policykit rules in order to cause less, and
   more understandable policykit authentication dialogs.
 * Give DRI apps access to more nvidia device nodes required for
CUDA/OpenCL support.
 * search now doesn't search noenumerate remotes.
 * Renamed operations permission-list to permissions and document-list to
   documents. The old names are still supported as aliases.
 * New property 'non-interactive' for installations that allow frontends
   to do background updates without triggering policykit authentications.
 * New flag in HostCommand to allow killing the child process when
   the spawner exits the session bus.
 * Flatpak now authenticates on the terminal in case there is no desktop-wide
   policykit agent.
 * update with no arguments now updates all installations (i.e. also custom
   systemwide installations).
 * Use system helper to generate summary files for OCI remotes.
 * Better progress reporting for OCI downloads.
 * New conditional extension download feature, 'on-xdg-desktop-FOO'
which downloads
   when XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP matches FOO.
 * More sockets are now mounted read-only in the sandbox
 * Updated docs, error messages and translations

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 Alexander Larsson                                Red Hat, Inc
       alexl at redhat.com         alexander.larsson at gmail.com