[Telepathy] Announce: telepathy-mission-control 5.15.1 (5.16 rc1)

[Simon McVittie]

The “where can I put giant plastic arthopods?” release.

tarball:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-mission-control/telepathy-mission-control-5.15.1.tar.gz
signature:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-mission-control/telepathy-mission-control-5.15.1.tar.gz.asc

This is a release candidate for Mission Control 5.16.

Dependencies:

• There is no longer a special configuration option for ConnMan
  connectivity monitoring. MC now can use any GNetworkMonitor plugin,
  such as the Linux Netlink plugin provided with GLib, or
  <https://github.com/jukkar/connman-network-monitor/>.

• On systems with NetworkManager, basic connectivity monitoring support
  no longer requires libnm-glib, although compiling with libnm-glib
  might still mean that disconnection can be detected more quickly.

• gnome-keyring support has been removed. Use a ServerAuthentication
  Handler similar to the ones provided in Empathy or KDE-Telepathy if
  you don't want passwords to be stored in a file as clear text.

Deprecations:

• mcp_dispatch_operation_leave_channels() is deprecated.
  To hang up and close Call channels in a dispatch policy plugin,
  use tp_call_channel_hangup_async() and
  mcp_dispatch_operation_close_channels() instead.

Enhancements:

• Use GIO's GNetworkMonitor plugins to monitor connectivity
  (fd.o #56635, Simon)

• Remove gnome-keyring integration in favour of recommending
  ServerAuthentication Handlers, which have better UI and don't expose
  passwords on D-Bus (fd.o #32578, Simon)

• Internal cleanup related to the connectivity code (fd.o #68712, Simon)

Fixes:

• Don't emit critical warnings if more than one emergency "service
  point" is provided, and don't leak memory if any are provided
  (fd.o #55773, Simon)

• Advertise Service and Hidden as properties that can be given when
  creating an account (fd.o #33127, Simon)

• Fix a likely crash when upgrading the storage format of accounts,
  a regression in 5.15.0 (fd.o #69542, Simon)

• Fix a crash when an account is disconnected while inspecting the
  self-contact, a regression in 5.15.0 (fd.o #69542, Simon)

• Make the regression tests pass with the parallel test harness used by
  default in Automake 1.13+ (fd.o #69542, Simon)