[packagekit] PackageKit 0.7.0 released!

[Richard Hughes]

Version 0.7.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-09-05

Notes:
 - This is the first release of the unstable 0.7.x series.
 - This code removes a lot of deprecated code and compatibility shims
   compared to the previous branch.
 - Highlights of this release is the new transaction plugin interface
   that allows external projects to add modules for interfacing with
   PackageKit. This allows projects such as Listaller to interface with
   PackageKit to install self contained software blobs.
   See http://listaller.tenstral.net/ for more information.
 - The daemon code is now using GDBus rather than dbus-glib, but the
   libpackagekit-glib library is still using the latter. It'll be
   converted hopefully in time for 0.7.1.
 - It's probably not a good idea to use releases from this branch for
   stable distros or enterprise products!

Libraries:
 - glib: Free the PkProgress' package (Garrett Regier)
 - glib: Remove the foo_from_text() compatibility defines (Richard Hughes)
 - python: Remove the native python library (Richard Hughes)
 - qt2: Use cmake package config instead of Find* module (Matthias Klumpp)
 - qt: Do not dist the moc files (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Fix crash when long description blow char buffer (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Fix the size by emitting installed and download size (Daniel
Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Implement provides-library (Matthias Klumpp)
 - apt: Remove the python apt backend (Richard Hughes)
 - dummy: Implement SimulateUpdatePackages and SimulateRemovePackages
(Richard Hughes)
 - entropy: properly account package size when "extra" downloads are
available (Fabio Erculiani)
 - razor: Remove the razor backend, upstream razor is dead (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Add a document detailing the yum API we're using (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Emit Package(Untrusted) for each package that is untrusted in
the transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Ignore missing obsoleted updates rather than failing the
update (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Manually convert the results of GetDetails to unicode. Fixes
rh#719916 (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Parse the new style .discinfo files for F15 (Chris Lumens)
 - zif: Emit Message(UntrustedPackage) to sometimes skip the trusted
authentication (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Emit Package(Untrusted) for each package that is untrusted in
the transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Fix a fatal error when doing 'pkcon repo-list --filter=~devel'
(Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Use the shared version for newest filtering (Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: do not install locked (taboo) patches (Ladislav Slezak)
 - zypp: Do not rebuild the pool on every call causing slowness
(bnc#679650) (Duncan Mac-Vicar P)
 - zypp: Just use the iterator instead of so many temps (Duncan Mac-Vicar P)

New Features:
 - Add an 'auto' string for the --with-default-backend= configure
option (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an example plugin that saves private state (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an example to contrib to show how to build an out-of-tree
plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an ItemProgress signal designed to eventually replace
SubPercentage (Richard Hughes)
 - Add an untrusted section header when using console applications
(Richard Hughes)
 - Add a PK_PROVIDES_ENUM_LIBRARY entry (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Add a "Python" type to PkProvidesEnum and document how the provided
components should be named (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Add a transaction plugin infrastructure to packagekitd (Richard Hughes)
 - Port the browser-plugin from dbus-glib to GDBus (Richard Hughes)
 - Convert the daemon to use GDBus rather than dbus-glib (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not do the compatibility method fallbacks anymore (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't ship all the valid licences as enums anymore (Richard Hughes)
 - Install a pkgconfig file so external projects can build plugins
(Richard Hughes)
 - Move the check for libraries in use for security updates
functionality to a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the checking for running processes before update to a plugin
(Richard Hughes)
 - Move the clearing firmware functionality into a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the desktop database rescan functionality into a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the pre-transaction.d and post-transaction.d functionality
into a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the update check for running processes into a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Move the updating of the package list into a plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Raise the PolicyKit required version to 0.98 and drop the compat
code (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove PkFileMonitor, we can now use GFileMonitor (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the deprecated PK_BACKEND_OPTIONS (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the GTK+2 pango module and only support GTK+3 (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the HAL integration code (Richard Hughes)
 - Require a new version of automake, and make configure.in sane again
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use g_bus_watch_name() and remove the homegrown EggDbusMonitor
(Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Actually use the value from /etc/login.defs (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix the browser-plugin build with GTK+ < 2.24 (Frederic Crozat)
 - Port the gstreamer-plugin from dbus-glib to GDBus (Richard Hughes)
 - gtk-module: Port from dbus-glib to GDBus (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore local packages when calculating the simulate list (Richard Hughes)
 - Ignore untrusted packages when calculating the simulate list (Richard Hughes)
 - Make percentage, subpercentage and remaining proper GObject
properties on the PkBackend object (Richard Hughes)
 - Make the lsof plugin code support distros such as Fedora with
/lib64 (Richard Hughes)
 - pk-command-not-found: An ellipsis has three dots, not two (Adam Jackson)
 - Make lsof use the '-n' option to avoid looking up hostnames (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove cppunit check as packagekit-qt2 does not use it (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - Remove the duplicate 'The software is not from a trusted source'
(Richard Hughes)
 - Use g_unix_signal_add_full() which has been renamed in  GLib (Denis
Washington)

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

Richard