Announcing Flatpak 1.15.9 (development prerelease)

[Simon McVittie]

Available here: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.15.9

$ sha256sum -b flatpak-1.15.9.tar.xz
8a05aba11db26e922637e6422f772de3daf05d2ab97ca45bedc6ccc7a588c4d2 *flatpak-1.15.9.tar.xz

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 branch in stable OS distributions.

Dependencies:

 * bubblewrap and xdg-dbus-proxy are now provided by Meson wrap files
   instead of being directly vendored via `git submodule`.
   If downloading external software during build is not allowed in your
   environment, please install suitable versions of bubblewrap and
   xdg-dbus-proxy separately, then configure Flatpak with options similar to
   `-Dsystem_bubblewrap=bwrap -Dsystem_dbus_proxy=xdg-dbus-proxy`
   (most major distributions package it like this already).

Enhancements:

 * If xdg-dbus-proxy is new enough (0.1.6 or later, not yet released),
   allow two broadcast signals from AT-SPI by default, allowing bus
   traffic to be reduced. If xdg-dbus-proxy is older, this change will
   have no practical effect but is harmless. (#5828)

 * Install csh profile snippet (#5753)

Bug fixes:

 * Expand the list of environment variables that Flatpak apps do not
   inherit from the host system (#5765, #5785)

 * Take time zone information from $TZDIR if set (#5850)

 * Fix a memory leak since 1.15.7 when reloading D-Bus configuration (#5856)

 * Fix a memory leak when running `flatpak permissions` (#5844)

 * Fix memory leaks in `flatpak update` (#5816)

 * Fix memory leaks when installing packages (#5811)

 * Use more similar translatable strings for some error messages (#5748)

 * Document `flatpak config --set languages '*all*'` correctly:
   it is really `*all*` (or equivalently `*`), not just `all` (#5836)

 * Fix a misleading comment in the test for CVE-2024-32462 (#5779)

 * Fix a copy/paste error in the 1.15.7 release notes

 * On systems where subdirectories of /sys have been made inaccessible,
   continue without them (#5138)

 * Make tests more compatible with non-GNU shell utilities (#5812)

 * Translation updates: ka (#5873), hi (#5838), pt_BR (#5877), zh_CN (#5843)

Internal changes:

 * libglnx and variant-schema-compiler are now managed as `git subtree`
   instead of `git submodule`.
   Maintainers and contributors, please see `subprojects/README.md` for
   details of how to interact with these.
   In particular this means that submodules no longer need to be set up
   before working on a git clone. (#5800, #5845)

 * Split library code into more, smaller translation units, reducing
   internal circular dependencies (#5409, #5801, #5803)

 * Add some convenience macros in the test suite (#5693)

 * Minor internal robustness improvement (#5833)

 * Add configuration for Github Codespaces (#5767)

 * Improve CI configuration (#5791)

 * Work around infrastructure issues in third-party apt repositories
   used by default in Github Workflows (#5786)

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