Announce: Flatpak 1.15.2 (development prerelease)

Simon McVittie smcv at collabora.com
Mon Feb 6 14:53:47 UTC 2023


Available here: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.15.2

This is a development prerelease for the adventurous, part of the 1.15.x
branch, which will eventually lead to a 1.16.0 stable release. Don't
include this version in stable OS distributions.

Some of the bug fixes in this release will also be included in 1.14.2,
which I'm hoping to release soon.

$ sha256sum -b flatpak-1.15.2.tar.xz
292e383d8d1bc1d1fdfd031f3802b0550d90bc4fd300b3e4fd9c2cb0750a8d63 *flatpak-1.15.2.tar.xz

Bug fixes:

* Never try to export a parent of reserved directories as a --filesystem,
  for example /run, which would prevent the app from starting (#5205, #5207)
* Never try to export a --filesystem below /run/flatpak or /run/host,
  which could similarly prevent the app from starting
* The above change also fixes apps not starting if a --filesystem is a
  symlink to the root directory (#1357)
* Show a warning when the --filesystem exists but cannot be shared with
  the sandbox (#1357, #5035, #5205, #5207)
* Display the intended messages for flatpak repair (#5204)
* Exporting an app to an existing repository on a CIFS filesystem
  now works as intended (#5257)
* Unset $GIO_EXTRA_MODULES for apps, avoiding misbehaviour in some GLib
  apps when set to a path on the host (#5206)
* Unset $XKB_CONFIG_ROOT for apps, avoiding crashes in GTK and Qt apps
  under Wayland when this variable is set to a path not available in the
  sandbox (#5194)
* When using the fish shell, avoid duplicate XDG_DATA_DIRS entries if the
  profile script is sourced more than once (#5198)
* Update included copy of bubblewrap to 0.7.0 for better error messages
* Install SELinux files correctly when building with Meson
* Translation updates: ru, tr (#5256, #5262)

Internal changes:

* Update included copy of libglnx
* flatpak -v now uses the INFO log level, and flatpak -vv uses the
  DEBUG log level in the flatpak log domain. Previously, the extra
  messages that were logged by flatpak -vv were in a separate "flatpak2"
  log domain. G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=flatpak previously had an effect similar to
  flatpak -v, and is now more similar to flatpak -vv. (#5001)

-- 
Simon McVittie, Collabora Ltd. / Debian
on behalf of the Flatpak maintainers



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