Freedesktop SDK 24.08.0 released!

[Javier Jardón]

Hi everyone,

We have now released Freedesktop SDK 24.08.0. It is already available
on Flathub!

Check the NEWS file for all the updates:
https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/blob/release/24.08/NEWS

Main changes are:
- Setup of RISC-V native runners (still experimental) (RISC-V support
exist since 21.08 but this will allow
  to check support more often)
- Experimental support for loongarch64 architecture
- Added lots of image format libraries libavif libjxl
webp-pixbuf-loader libheif, etc. ffmpeg got libx265 support
- Ship gst-plugins-rs together with the other GStreamer components
- The deprecated appstream-glib library was removed in favour of
[libappstream](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/).
Maintainers are advised to transition away from the appstream-compose,
appstream-util commands to appstreamcli. See also
https://docs.flathub.org/blog/improved-build-validation/
- Update all the components to the latest version available, check
specific versions at
https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/wikis/Release-Contents#contents
- A lot of other small fixes and improvements

If you maintain an application using the Freedesktop SDK runtime, please
consider upgrading the version, especially if you are still using
22.08 or earlier as It’s going to be EOL
[soon](https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/wikis/Releases#policies).
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!

  1487  freedesktop_sdk_updater
   442  Freedesktop SDK Merge Bot
   332  Seppo Yli-Olli
   332  bbhtt
    63  Robin Lee
    58  Abderrahim Kitouni
    52  Erick555
    38  Valentin David
    37  Jordan Petridis
    28  Javier Jardón
    20  Ben Brown
     8  Arran Ireland
     7  Michael Catanzaro
     7  Tanvir Roshid
     6  Neill Whillans
     5  Leo Park
     4  Will Thompson
     3  Sabri Ünal
     2  EliasOfWaffle
     2  Philippe Normand
     2  Pyfisch
     2  qq
     1  Adam Roddick
     1  Alberto Fanjul
     1  AsciiWolf
     1  Bartłomiej Piotrowski
     1  Chunyi Wu
     1  Colin Kinloch
     1  Dan Nicholson
     1  Dor Askayo
     1  Jan-Michael Brummer
     1  Jeremy Bícha
     1  Jürg Billeter
     1  Kejia Hu
     1  Konrad Kolodziejczyk
     1  Robert Mader
     1  Tom Coldrick
     1  axtloss2
     1  qq qq

Thanks as well to our infrastructure sponsors; without their help this
project will not be possible:
- https://osuosl.org/ (x86_64, ARM, PPC and RISC-V build servers)
- https://www.worksonarm.com/ (ARM build server)
- RISC-V foundation (RISC-V build server)

Also special thanks to [Codethink](https://www.codethink.co.uk/) for
some engineering support during the cycle

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