[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: folks 0.6.4

Travis Reitter travis.reitter at collabora.co.uk
Mon Oct 17 21:50:53 PDT 2011


libfolks 0.6.4 is now available for download from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.6/

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libfolks 0.6.4 — I am me too. That doesn't mean anything.
========================================================================

Libfolks pulls together contacts from any number of accounts supported
by the libfolks backends. This release includes a number of backends,
including Telepathy, evolution-data-server, libsocialweb, Tracker, and
a simple key-file backend.

The 0.6.x series is API and ABI stable and corresponds to the GNOME 3.2
release. We will continue in the 0.6.x for the foreseeable future,
until we need to make further API or ABI breaks (which we don't
anticipate at this time). We will make an announcement when we
officially commit to API/ABI stability for the project as a whole.

See the NEWS file for details on every break we made before 0.6.0. In
future releases, we will have example programs that will be kept
up-to-date with the latest API as well.

For more information, see the Folks wiki page:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks

Reference documentation is available here:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-eds/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-libsocialweb/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-telepathy/

Overview of changes from libfolks 0.6.3.2 to libfolks 0.6.4
=============================================================
Bugs fixed:
* Bug 660217 — folks-0.6.3.2 requires tracker-0.12, but configure.ac
calls
  VALA_CHECK_PACKAGES([tracker-sparql-0.12])
* Bug 657602 — Telepathy backend fails to set Personas' phone numbers
from
  ContactInfo
* Bug 660937 — [regression] build failure: No package 'gee-1.0' found
* Bug 661475 — string_strip: assertion `self != NULL' failed

API changes:
* Implement PhoneDetails on Tpf.Persona
* Implement NameDetails on Tpf.Persona
* Implement EmailDetails on Tpf.Persona
* Implement UrlDetails on Tpf.Persona
* Implement BirthdayDetails on Tpf.Persona
* Add PersonaStoreError.UNSUPPORTED_ON_NON_USER

Dependencies
============
libfolks and depend upon core GNOME libraries (GLib, GIO, etc.), as well
as the recent releases of Vala and gobject-introspection.

The Telepathy backend also requires a recent release of telepathy-glib,
built to include its Vala bindings.

The EDS backend also requires a recent release of evolution-data-server,
built to include its Vala bindings.

The Tracker backend requires a recent version of Tracker.

The Libsocialweb backend requires a recent version of libsocialweb,
built to include the Vala bindings.

Contributing/Contact
====================
For any questions, comments, feature proposals, etc., please refer to
the Telepathy mailing list or #telepathy on Freenode.
For bug reports, please file them against the GNOME Bugzilla module
"folks".



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