[packagekit] PackageKit 0.6.16 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 08:35:00 PDT 2011


Version 0.6.16
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Released: 2011-07-04

Libraries:
 - glib: Added element-type annotations for each function returning a
GPtrArray (Alex Eftimie)
 - glib: Ensure packages from the progress handler have the package_id
assigned (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Better put last fix in pk_backend_initialize (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Fix bug that resolved packages were emited as installed when
updates (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Fix getDetails to actually use the resolved version,
deb#606135 (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Initial support to conffile handling (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Set env var to disable apt-listbugs closes deb#628835
(Daniel Nicoletti)
 - conary: Don't show redirected packages (Jesse Zhang)
 - conary: Simplify _resolve_list (Jesse Zhang)
 - yum: Emit RepoDetail when refreshing a repository (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Fix CVE-2011-2515 which only affects the YUM backend (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Fix a critical warning when getting details about a package
(Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Implement UpdateSystem (Richard Hughes)

New Features:
 - Generate .tar.xz release tarballs (Richard Hughes)
 - Support looking up Plasma services (Kevin Kofler)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not hardcode G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED as it breaks with GTK+-2 and
GLib (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not hardcode the UID_MIN as 500. Fixes rh#717110 (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not try to parse any arguments in command-not-found (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure we save the updates cache for the pre-transaction checks
(Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a build error in the browser plugin when using old versions of
gdk (Richard Hughes)
 - Update the PackageKit matrix webpage to reflect current backends (Robert Xu)

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

Richard



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