Announce: flatpak 1.13.3

Phaedrus Leeds mwleeds at protonmail.com
Thu Jun 16 23:09:52 UTC 2022


Available here: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.13.3

$ sha256sum -b flatpak-1.13.3.tar.xz
f696a4f6587f72a03c2770352f610938d073798a9e3fc6df6aff463509dbf804 *flatpak-1.13.3.tar.xz

NEWS:
Dependencies:

 * Support curl 7.29 or later as an additional, and the default, HTTP backend
   alongwith libsoup 2.x (#4943)
 * Clarify that glib 2.46 or later is now required (#4944)

New features:

 * Implement support for rewriting dynamic launchers when an app is renamed
   (#4703)
 * Add --include-sdk/debug options to install command to install SDK/debuginfo
   along with a ref (#4777)
 * Improve --sideload-repo option to take create-usb dirs (#4843)
 * Add a new library API flatpak_transaction_get_operation_for_ref() (#4947)

Bug fixes:

 * Update the SELinux module to explicitly permit the system helper have read
   access to /etc/passwd and systemd-userdbd, read and lock access to
   /var/lib/flatpak, and watch files inside $libexecdir (#4852, #4855, #4892)
 * Fix the error messages and the exit code of the 'uninstall' command when
   non-existent refs are specified (#4857)
 * Be more careful with errors when creating directories and deleting files,
   and address some memory errors (#4930)
 * Fix support for --noninteractive in the 'uninstall' command (#4947)

Other changes:

 * Cosmetic improvements to end-of-life messages and other aspects of the CLI
   output (#4947)
 * Speed up the tests by not installing the polkit agent (#4942)
 * Disable fuzzy ref matching when ID has a period or a slash, or when the
   standard input or output is not a TTY (#4829, #4848)
 * Update the icon-validator to print the format and size for consumption by
   the dynamic launcher portal (#4803, #4808)
 * Remove a pointless test (#4856)
 * Improve various details of the GitHub workflows (#4870)
 * Prepare for the addition of a Meson build (#4842, #4871, #4888, #4889, #4890)
 * Only add the specified 'summary-arches' to the compat summary. This is
   important since we're nearing the 10MB size limit for Flathub's legacy
   summary files. (#4880)
 * Translation updates: id, pt, sv, tr, uk


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Phaedrus Leeds


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