[Freedesktop-sdk] Freedesktop SDK 21.08.0 has been released!

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 8:35 PM Javier Jardón <jjardon at gnome.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have now released Freedesktop SDK 21.08.0. It is already available
> on Flathub!
>
> Check the NEWS file for all the updates: [1]
>
> If you maintain an application using the Freedesktop SDK runtime, please
> consider upgrading the version, especially if you are still using
> 19.08 or earlier as It's going to be EOL soon [2].
> In most cases, this mostly requires changing "runtime-version"
> in the Flatpak builder manifest of the application.
>
> This is the result of a year of work from all our contributors, thanks
> a lot to all of them! (including our beloved freedesktop-sdk bot :)):
>
>    563  freedesktop_sdk_updater
>    240  Seppo Yli-Olli
>    210  Valentin David
>    136  Javier Jardón
>     71  Abderrahim Kitouni
>     26  James Thomas
>     12  Lctrs
>      9  Kevin Degeling
>      6  Sam Thursfield
>      6  gasinvein
>      5  Dor Askayo
>      5  Jordan Petridis
>      5  Tomaz Canabrava
>      3  AsciiWolf
>      3  Douglas Winship
>      3  Tristan van Berkom
>      2  Bartłomiej Piotrowski
>      2  Ludovico de Nittis
>      2  Michael Catanzaro
>      2  Philippe Normand
>      2  Robin Lee
>      2  Thomas Coldrick
>      1  Bastien Nocera
>      1  Christopher Davis
>      1  Dimitrije Dinic
>      1  Georges Basile Stavracas Neto
>      1  Pedro Alvarez
>      1  Rob Kendrick
>      1  Robin Jacqueline Heywood
>      1  Tristan Maat
>      1  Wyatt Childers
>      1  Zachary Mazza
>      1  skierpage
>      1  vanadiae
>
> And thanks to our infrastructure sponsors; without their help this
> project will not be possible:
>
> - https://www.worksonarm.com/ (ARM build servers)
> - https://osuosl.org/ (x86_64 build servers)
> - https://fosshost.org/ (server infrastructure)
>
> Also, special thanks to Codethink [3] for sponsoring the time to add
> RISC-V support!
> You can see the talk Valentin did about this in LAS here: [4]
>
> If you need assistance or have any issues, please get in touch!
> - File issues at https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/issues
> - Join the our matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#freedesktop-sdk:matrix.org
> - Join the mailing list:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/freedesktop-sdk
> - You can also ask on Flathub's forum: https://discourse.flathub.org/
>
> Cheers,
> freedesktop-sdk team
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/release/21.08/NEWS
> [2] https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/wikis/Releases#policies
> [3] https://www.codethink.co.uk/
> [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INTbqkck258&t=7s

Hi Javier,
:) good to see it happen!

Kudos to everyone who made this happen, especially freedesktop_sdk_updater ;-)

Cheers!
Aleix