[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: folks 0.6.3.1

[Travis Reitter]

This release also fixed:

* Bug 659732 — Gnome fails to load and crashes when the
  Evolution-exchange plugin is configured

(It just missed the original announcement).

-Travis

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 13:09 -0700, Travis Reitter wrote:
> libfolks 0.6.3.1 is now available for download from:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.6/
> 
> 7dc71cd10b6010976d0d597abd81a72873ec2f7bd164bc4f18204355c0daef96
> folks-0.6.3.1.tar.bz2
> 9e368f6640f600ca64818747f2cb224f1063db9a5d75fbaaaefce7374778341d
> folks-0.6.3.1.tar.xz
> 
> libfolks 0.6.3.1 — Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion
> ========================================================================
> 
> 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 to libfolks 0.6.3.1
> ===========================================================
> Bugs fixed:
> * Bug 658631 — Deprecate PersonaStore.can-[alias|group]-personas
> * Bug 658002 — defective typelib
> * Bug 659737 — tests fail due to usage of deprecated methods
> 
> API changes:
> * Deprecate Folks.PersonaStore.can_[alias, group]_personas.
>   Applications should use Folks.PersonaStore#always-writeable-properties
>   and Folks.Persona#writeable-properties to check availability of
>   "alias" and "groups" properties.
> 
> 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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