[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.4 released!

[Richard Hughes]

Version 0.8.4
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2012-10-01

Notes:
 - Lots of nice bugfixes (mainly for the parallel-backend code), but
   also a few new features to play with.

Libraries:
 - packagekit-qt: Fix getTimeSinceAction (Daniel Nicoletti)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Disable parallelization for now (Matthias Klumpp)
 - dummy: Use a thread when doing the socket ping-pong test (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Emit finished() if the lock is not available (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Handle RepoError when downloading packages (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Work around a yum API break for resolving (Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: Adjust PK_FILTER_ENUM_NOT_DEVELOPMENT (bnc#770028) (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Construct PoolItem from sat::Solvable rather than doing a
search (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Don't retrieve raw package attributes but use zypp::ResObject
(bnc#764677) (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Don't waste time comparing zypp::Arch string representations
(Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Fix missing dtor (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: No longer use the old and deprecated ZYppCommitResult members
(bnc#769764) (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: No need to retrieve installed packages attributes from rpm
database (Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Set CXXFLAGS and use --std=c++0x as libzypp does (bnc#769764)
(Michael Andres)
 - zypp: Use pre-increment in for-loops to avoid temporaries (Michael Andres)

New Features:
 - cnf: Suggest a Linux binary if the Solaris name is used (Richard Hughes)
 - Remove support for the deprecated category search prefix (Richard Hughes)
 - Use pkttyagent to request user passwords if required (Matthias Klumpp)
 - When retrying a cancelled task wait before rescheduling it (Richard Hughes)
 - yum-plugin: Ask PackageKit to quit when yum is started (Elad Alfassa)

Bugfixes:
 - Allow plugins to restore transaction signals (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Allow the user to specify standard GNU help options (Richard Hughes)
 - cnf: Return with exit code 127 for a cancelled transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not allow the client to overwrite files when downloading
packages (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not fail with lock-required when a cancelled transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't finish an adopted transaction prematurely (Jonathan Conder)
 - Don't leak pango languages (William Jon McCann)
 - Drop unneeded schema (Matthias Clasen)
 - Ensure we cancel background transactions for a interactive
transaction (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix plugin interface transaction_start method (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Fix several return values in pkcon when there is an error (Richard Hughes)
 - Increase MaximumItemsToResolve default value to 1200 (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Make sure all plugin events are processed (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Preserve previously-set backend roles (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Remove backend/ includes dir and install missing Jobs header
(Matthias Klumpp)
 - Remove PK_PLUGIN_PHASE_TRANSACTION_FINISHED_START as it's unused
(Richard Hughes)
 - Remove the --nowait option in pkcon, it does not work with PkTask
(Richard Hughes)
 - Run the transaction-run plugins before we start the transaction
(Richard Hughes)
 - Wire up all signals for pk_plugin_transaction_run() (Richard Hughes)

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

Richard