[packagekit] PackageKit 0.6.6 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 03:25:22 PDT 2010


Version 0.6.6
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Released: 2010-07-01

Translations:
 - Updates to Chinese translation (chenh)
 - Updates to Japanese translation (khasida)
 - Updates to Chinese (Taiwan) translation (zerng07)

Libraries:
 - glib: Explicitly mark the library as LGPLv2 by using the correct
boilerplate code (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - apt: Adapt to split arguments from the Python backend (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Adapt to an API change to allow OR searches (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Fix group searching (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - aptcc: Added distro upgrade support (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - entropy: Implement forward compatibility support (Fabio Erculiani)
 - pacman: Update for pacman-glib 3.4.0 (Jonathan Conder)
 - ports: Use distfiles size, for uninstalled packages (Anders F Bjorklund)
 - urpmi: Fix update-system command and only_trusted parameter
(Aurelien Lefebvre)
 - yum: Don't crash with an internal error if the .discinfo is
malformed (Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: Disable get_zypp in intialize (Michael Meeks)
 - zypp: Fix FPE when there are no repos (Michael Meeks)
 - zypp: Don't crash checking status of non-patches (Michael Meeks)

New Features:
 - Add a MaxSearchTime entry in CommandNotFound.conf and default to
2000ms (Richard Hughes)
 - Assign names to our idle sources when using new versions of glib2
(Richard Hughes)
 - Build the gtk-module for gtk-3.0 as well as gtk-2.0 if available
(Richard Hughes)
 - Port 'make check' to GTest rather than using our homegrown EggTest
functionality (Richard Hughes)
 - Get the control properties async when the user starts the pkmon
tool (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Only set a cancelled error after we've given the backend a fighting
chance to process the request (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the packagekitd binary to libexec (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we clear the cancel timer when we finish a PkBackend
transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure filters are properly split for spawned backends (Richard Hughes)

Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Thanks to all those who made this possible.

Richard.



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