[Telepathy] Announce: telepathy-glib 0.15.5

[Will Thompson]

The “feel. experience. know” release. This is a pretty big release,
containing over ten thousand lines of changes, which should make various
aspects of application development easier. Fasten your seatbelts.

tarball: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-0.15.5.tar.gz
signature: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-0.15.5.tar.gz.asc
git: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-glib

Dependencies:

• Valac ≥0.11.2 is now required for the Vala bindings.

• gtk-doc ≥1.17 is now required if you want to build documentation.
  Relatedly, building documentation for releases works again.
  (fd.o#39666)

Enhancements:

• A new pair of classes, TpSimpleClientFactory and
  TpAutomaticClientFactory, have been added, which make it much easier
  for application to provide custom subclasses of specific channel
  types and to request that certain features always be prepared on proxy
  objects before they are given to the application. These replace the
  prevous TpBasicProxyFactory and TpAutomaticProxyFactory classes, which
  are now deprecated. (Xavier)

• A new TpAccount feature, TP_ACCOUNT_FEATURE_CONNECTION, has been
  added, to ask TpAccount to prepare TpConnection objects before
  announcing them. Relatedly, TpAccountManager no longer signals new
  TpAccount objects until they are prepared. (Xavier)

• TpConnection now has API for managing the user's contact list! Hooray.
  This only works with CMs that implement the new ContactList API; dear
  Python CM folks, please do this and we can move forward with grace and
  speed.

• fd.o#26516: Add tp_debug_sender_set_timestamps. (Jonny)

• A metric tonne of new methods were added for joining chat rooms and
  managing members. (Xavier)

• TpFileTransferChannel, a high-level API for file transfer
  channels, was added. (Morten Mjelva)

• fd.o#38061: tp_cm_message_set_message() was added to complement
  tp_cm_message_take_message(). (Danni)

Fixes:

• fd.o#38060: fix a crash caused by an off-by-one error when
  constructing the SendError signal. (Danni)

• fd.o#38997: cope more gracefully if UNIX sockets are unsupported,
  which should improve Windows portability. (Guillaume)

• fd.o#39377: TpContact no longer erroneously re-prepares many features
  if existing contacts are re-requested. (Will)

• fd.o#27855: TpChannelManagers now have access to the original TargetID
  specified in the channel request, if any. Previously, it was
  transformed into a TargetHandle and the TargetID was removed from the
  dictionary.  The TargetHandle is still synthesised (validating the
  TargetID in the process) but the ID is left intact. (Will)

-- 
Will