[packagekit] PackageKit 0.5.8 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 03:42:29 PDT 2010


Today I released PackageKit 0.5.8.

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

Version 0.5.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2010-03-20

Note:
 - This release contains some important fixes that many distributors may want to
   include in rebased packages.

Backends:
 - apt: Show a sub progress for package downloads (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Use UTF-8 as default encoding and allow to write unicode to
stdout (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Allow to do an AND search for multiple package names
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - yum: Fix up the LXDE and Moblin groups. Fixes rh#571775 (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Fix up API usage of get_applicable_notices to prevent an
internal error (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Ensure to catch exceptions when we fail to initialize for
GetRepoList (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: If we failed to resolve deps in a simulate pass don't return
an empty package list (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Ensure we send out UntrustedPackage when we simulate
installing a file (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - When realpath fails, do not silently fail but return with an error
(Richard Hughes)
 - Fix reporting distribution upgrades by setting the correct property
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not crash libdbus when libnm-glib uses it's own context (Richard Hughes)
 - Set the backend role in the pk_backend_(role) functions, not in
PkTransaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not show installed packages when we choose packages to download
(Richard Hughes)
 - python: Do not call finished before exiting the script due to an
error (Richard Hughes)
 - Never exit the daemon, even when we hit a race in PkSpawn (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix Kubuntu support for upgrade (Jonathan Riddel)

Thanks to all those who made this possible.

Richard.



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