Announce: Flatpak 1.2.5

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Thu Sep 19 11:01:23 UTC 2019


Available here:
  https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.2.5

$ sha256sum flatpak-1.2.5.tar.xz
c71b36bf0141cb3e0b4c3e024c81b62a58a3d1e17e7a53a60171372b450e4290
flatpak-1.2.5.tar.xz

This release to the 1.2 old stable series matches some new features
that were added in 1.4.3 stable release. These are backported because
these features are in use on flathub at the moment.

The main feature is the support for allowing the use of extra_data
for runtimes (as opposed to only for apps) which is used by the new
org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 extension.

Supporting this, flatpak now supports specifying several flatpak
versions to require, rather than just a single one. This is used by
the above extension in order to express that it needs flatpak 1.2.5 or
1.4.2 (but not e.g. 1.4.1).

Only the client side features for this are backported. To build such
extensions you need to use a newer flatpak.

Other changes are:
 * Various fixes for OCI repos
 * Some crashers fixes
 * Set looser permissions on the /run/host/monitor directory to
   work with e.g. toolbox on the host.
 * Fix installation of bundles.
 * Handle 'versions' extension key (in addition to 'version') when
   checking for installed extensions. Thg lack of this was causing
   flatpak to incorrectly consider some extensions not in use,
   thus removing them in 'uninstall --unused'.

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



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