[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.12 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 03:07:37 PDT 2013


Version 0.8.12
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Released: 2013-10-18

Libraries:
 - Add a method to parse a PkPackage from it's description (Richard Hughes)
 - Add pk_transaction_past_get_timestamp() as a helper (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some simple getters for PkDetails (Richard Hughes)
 - Add some simple getters for PkTransactionPast (Richard Hughes)
 - Destroy and re-create the control proxy if the server changes
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not have duplicate 'interactive' properties (Richard Hughes)
 - Make PkTask thread-default-context aware (Giovanni Campagna)

Backends:
 - pisi: Detect when reboot is required and report it (Ikey Doherty)
 - pisi: Fix parsing of package update messages (Ikey Doherty)
 - pisi: Support INFO_BUGFIX when listing new updates (Ikey Doherty)

New Features:
 - Add GetPackageHistory() that returns history data for packages
(Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Check for packagekitd in the right location (Dominique Leuenberger)
 - Do not send the backend a cache age of -308 when using UINT_MAX
(Richard Hughes)

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

Richard.


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