[packagekit] PackageKit 0.6.8 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 08:59:35 PDT 2010


Today I released PackageKit 0.6.8.

Version 0.6.8
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Released: 2010-09-06

Translations:
 - Add Lithuanian translation (Žygimantas Beručka)
 - Updates to Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW) translation (zerng07)
 - Updates to Indonesian (id) translation (dapidc)
 - Updates to Panjabi (Punjabi) (pa) translation (aalam)
 - Updates to Swedish (sv) translation (yeager)

Libraries:
 - packagekit-qt: Fix compilation
 - packagekit-qt: Fixed error on proxy creating, extended API (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - packagekit-qt: Forgot to setHints()

Backends:
 - aptcc: Improved user experience by setting subprogress on package
installation/remove/update (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Disable auto remove by default (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Fix how downloads are emitted (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Forbid canceling while installing, the user might need to
dpkg --configure -a on the cmd line (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Improved how packages are emited (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Improved logic for the updates category (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: make sure all downloaded packages emit FINISHED (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Show apt error message when we could not get the cache lock
(Daniel Nicoletti)
 - entropy: encode input strings into UTF-8 before processing (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: implement what_provides feature for mimetypes (Fabio Erculiani)
 - yum: Add selinux-policy to the list of infrastructure packages
(Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Fix update notices: not all yum repos are official fedora ones
(Mark J Cox)
 - yum: Redundant updated date gets displayed (Mark J Cox)
 - zypp: Immediately abort transactions that set errors relating to
signature interactions (Michael Meeks)
 - zypp: Remove a double pk_backend_finish path, and an incorrect
update_packages callback (Michael Meeks)

Bugfixes:
 - Add accessor to detect if an error is already set on a backend
(Michael Meeks)
 - Ensure gobject-introspection is installed before running configure.
Fixes #29861 (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix compile with the latest PolicyKit release (Richard Hughes)
 - Increase timeout between an error message and assuming the thread
is dead (Michael Meeks)
 - Set allow_cancel default in init to match that in
pk_transaction_set_running ie. FALSE (Michael Meeks)

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

Richard.



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