Geoclue 2.2.0

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce a new major release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.1.10:

- Report 'Speed' and 'Heading' on location updates.
- Try to provide the most accurate location first.
- Avoid a crash by ensuring requested max accuracy is within bounds.
- Fix GPS coordinates parsing.
- Fix GeoIP on machines without WiFi hardware.
- Gracefully handle inexistent agent.
- Stop sources whose accuracy level becomes higher, rather than lower, than the
  requested level.
- Keep old location object alive on D-Bus for a bit longer to ensure
  applications are not accessing it still after it is destroyed.
- Don't enable the modem. Seems at least GNOME takes care of modem enabling for
  us and besides this shouldn't be done by geoclue anyway (see
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85040).
- Wait for modem to be enabled before checking availability of location
  capabilities and using them. This is particularly important for pin-enabled
  modems.
- Ignore redundant GPS location updates.
- Fix some potential crashes.
- Some improvements to output of where-am-i demo application.

Dependency-related changes:

Explicitly require libsoup >= 2.42

All contributors to this release:

Ankit <ankitstarski at gmail.com>
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
Fabrice Bellet <fabrice at bellet.info>
Pawel Golinski <pg359186 at students.mimuw.edu.pl>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
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Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The
primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware
applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to
ensure that no application can access location information without
explicit permission from user.

Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for Linux.

The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation
to best find user's location:

* WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters)
* GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters)
* 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS)
* GeoIP (accuracy: city-level)

Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has
been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library.

Release tarball:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.2/geoclue-2.2.0.tar.xz
sha256sum: a490de0d4f97cb65f81e9fd0f687c7e84ef2c41509c214a1438964f541c7d446

D-Bus API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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