[packagekit] PackageKit 0.7.3 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 03:17:25 PST 2012


Version 0.7.3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2012-03-01

Notes:
 - Lots of stability and crasher fixes which means updating to this
   release is a really good idea if you're already got 0.7.x installed.

Libraries:
 - glib: Don't segfault the client if there are no cached properties
(Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Fix a critical warning in gnome-settings-daemon when setting
the proxy (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Fix transfer annotation of pk_results_get_package_sack() (Vincent Untz)
 - glib: Fix transfer annotations for GPtrArray returns (Martin Pitt)
 - glib: Do not send progress updates for non-verb packages (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - apt: Add support for plugins, call them for what-provides (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Add test case for what-provides CODEC (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Add test cases for what-provides ANY and unsupported types (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Add test for what-provides MODALIAS (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Do not fail on missing /var/lib/PackageKit/mime-map.gdbm (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Fix error code for what-provides CODEC (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Implement support for what-provides ANY (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: Implement support for what-provides MODALIAS (Martin Pitt)
 - apt: what_provides() search argument is a list, not a string (Martin Pitt)
 - aptcc: Disable InstallFiles() again (Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: Don't hang on long transactions (Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: Fix crash when simulating local package install (Matthias Klumpp)
 - zif: Autoremove deps if 'autoremove' is set (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Do not pretty-print a package when it's not found (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Ensure the files are sorted by name before returning them to
the daemon (Richard Hughes)

New Features:
 - Add LANGUAGE_SUPPORT what-provides type (Martin Pitt)

Bugfixes:
 - Document CODEC what-provides type (Martin Pitt)
 - Don't crash when the system bus isn't available, just abort with an
error (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a critical warning when starting gnome-settings-daemon (Matthias Clasen)
 - Imply the install trusted polkit auth when we get the remove auth
(Richard Hughes)
 - Imply the install trusted polkit auth when we get the untrusted
auth (Richard Hughes)
 - Port the session example code to GDBus (Richard Hughes)
 - web: Add a note to the website about the session helper API (Richard Hughes)
 - web: Rename KPackageKit to Apper (Matthias Klumpp)

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

Richard


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