Geoclue 2.4.4

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Wed Sep 7 07:43:21 UTC 2016


Hi,

Here is another release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.4.3:

- Expose location timestamp over D-Bus.
- Add a TimeThreshold property that allows clients to limit location updates by
  time.
- Annotate default value of DistanceThreshold property.
- Check for full internet availability before declaring ourselves online.
- Fix autogen.sh against builddir ≠ srcdir.
- Fix a bunch of memory leaks.
- Fix a bunch of build issues.
- Other minor fixes.

Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <emilio.pozuelo at collabora.co.uk>
Justin Kim <justin.kim at collabora.com>
Philip Withnall <philip.withnall at collabora.co.uk>
Ting-Wei Lan <lantw at src.gnome.org>
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)
* GPS of other devices on the local network, e.g smartphones
  (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/2.4/geoclue-2.4.4.tar.xz
sha256sum: 9fe8efa1326184fe5e5388b5ec20050475b26e858f6688696775cc400dbf76cd

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


-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali


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