[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: folks 0.7.0

[Philip Withnall]

libfolks 0.7.0 is now available for download from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.7/

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libfolks 0.7.0 — Another name crossed off the list
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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 0.7.x unstable series corresponds to GNOME 3.6, leading up to a
0.8.x stable series when GNOME 3.6 is released. We will continue to
maintain API and ABI stability for the foreseeable future, with the
intention of having 0.8.x API compatible with 0.6.x. 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 0.6.9 to libfolks 0.7.0
=========================================================

Major changes:
* Folks now uses the Connection.ContactList Telepathy spec. instead of the
  deprecated Channel.ContactList. This means legacy Connection Managers
  (notably telepathy-butterfly) are not supported any more .

Bugs fixed:
• Bug 658576 — Need API to get a FolksIndividual from his ID
• Bug 671662 — Renamed alias of Facebook contact is not saved
• Bug 630822 — Support Connection.Interface.ContactList API

API changes:
• Add IndividualAggregator.look_up_individual()

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, built to
include its Vala bindings.

The Libsocialweb backend requires a recent version of libsocialweb,
built to include its 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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