[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.16 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 08:05:09 PST 2014


Version 0.8.16
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Released: 2014-01-20

Libraries:
 - Add pk_package_sack_find_by_id_name_arch() (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Fix Debian and Ubuntu changelog loading (Matthias Klumpp)
 - entropy: add Entropy Resources Lock support (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: add support for parallel Entropy (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: allow lazy load of all the heavy object instances (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: drop compatibility with old entropy releases (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: drop support for PackageFileUpdates interface, removed
upstream (Fabio Erculiani)
 - entropy: enable backend parallelization support (Fabio Erculiani)
 - hawkey: Bump the required version of hawkey and librepo (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Do not fail when update details are no longer available
(Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Do the refresh-cache transaction in a thread (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Support .treeinfo DVD repos (Richard Hughes)
 - katja: Don't close the database on error (Eugene Wissner)
 - katja: Fix 'make distcheck' (Eugene Wissner)
 - katja: Implement pk_backend_job_start (Eugene Wissner)
 - katja: Rename local 'conf' variables (Eugene Wissner)
 - katja: delete existing database on refresh force (Eugene Wissner)

New Features:
 - Set all the proxy settings when using pkcon (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Annotate DBUS Interface for GetPackageHistory (Dominique Leuenberger)
 - Clear the prepared-updates file only when the update is invalidated
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not show an error if GetDepends is not supported (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use the '…' character when talking to plymouth (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't use the default main context in sync PkClient methods (Richard Hughes)
 - Only scan .desktop files in the datadir (Richard Hughes

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

Richard.


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