[packagekit] PackageKit 1.2.7 released!

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Sat Aug 26 22:14:30 UTC 2023


Hello!
Another PackageKit release is out, with a whole lot of maintenance
fixes and minor new features.
Thanks to all contributors!

Tarballs available here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/releases/

Version 1.2.7
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2023-08-26

New Features:
 * pkclient: Add an option to count download size with dependencies (Milan Crha)
 * pk-transaction: Add support for getting the RemainingTime property
(Philip Withnall)

Backends:
 * dnf: Notify PackageKit when dnf installs or removes packages (Gordon Messmer)
 * dnf: Run pk_backend_refresh_repo in a new process to avoid keeping
libdnf memory leaks (Gordon Messmer)
 * dnf: Calculate download size with dependencies, if requested (Milan Crha)
 * zypp: Fix ambiguous reference to 'filesystem' class (Jonathan Kang)
 * apt: Display more useful pretty names for repositories (Matthias Klumpp)
 * apt: Set update urgency as urgency as well as status again (Matthias Klumpp)
 * apt: Don't crash while resolving mimetypes, modernize mime search
code (Matthias Klumpp)
 * apt: Fix 'search-file' regexp as per BRE pattern (which is the default) (sid)
 * alpm: add and support deepin group (Wang Zichong)

Bugfixes:
 * progress: Free the sender value on finalize (Corentin Noël)
 * Add G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS to all properties (Corentin Noël)
 * pkcon: Widen progressbar text area (Frank Dana)
 * Use more portable shebang in Python test scripts (Gleb Popov)
 * Make use of SYSCONFDIR definition when setting a config file watch
(Gleb Popov)
 * Shutdown daemon on idle by default again (yump)
 * Fix use of potentially uninitialized timer ID (Gordon Messmer)
 * pk-transaction: Return an error if property name is not known
(Philip Withnall)
 * pk-client: Signal a transaction as finished if it disappears off
the bus (Philip Withnall)
 * pk-transaction: Check that Finished signal is emitted at most once
(Philip Withnall)
 * pk-transaction: Check that Finished signal is emitted at least once
(Philip Withnall)

Miscellaneous:
 * Add FreeBSD CI using cirrus (Alexey Yushkin)
 * packagekitd: Use export_dynamic explicitly (Dominique Leuenberger)
 * Use the term DDE instead of deepin (Gary Wang)
 * packagekit-glib2: Use the correct enum for DDE (Neal Gompa)
 * data/meson.build: Install dbus policy in /usr/share, not /etc
(Gioele Barabucci)
 * Globally pass -DPK_COMPILATION to the C++ compiler (Gleb Popov)
 * metadata: Remove reference to defunct screenshots URL (Marcus Müller)
 * metadata: replace defunct www.packagekit.org URL with freedesktop
URL (Marcus Müller)
 * docs: replace defunct www.packagekit.org URL with freedesktop URL
(Marcus Müller)
 * HACKING: Refresh to match current practices (Neal Gompa)

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