[Telepathy] Announcing Telepathy 0.99.8

[Simon McVittie]

The “like spinning plates” release. This is another snapshot of
Telepathy 1.0: as before, it is incompatible with earlier snapshots, and
probably still incompatible with 1.0 too.

New tarball snapshots:

http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-spec/telepathy-spec-0.99.8.tar.gz
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/telepathy-glib-0.99.8.tar.gz

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Matching snapshots of Mission Control (5.99.8) and Gabble, Salut, Idle,
Haze, Rakia (each at version 0.99.8) should follow soon.

The next milestones for Telepathy 1.0 are:

• make telepathy-glib use GDBus instead of dbus-glib for the actual
  D-Bus interactions (it will still link to dbus-glib for its type
  system, since rewriting that all at once is too intrusive)
• give Mission Control 6 an automatic one-time import for MC 5 accounts

See below for the telepathy-glib NEWS, which summarizes the changes
relevant to everything else too.

Regards,
    S

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Dependencies:

• GLib ≥ 2.39.90
• dbus-glib ≥ 0.102

API breaks caused by telepathy-spec changes:

• Account.AccountPropertyChanged has been replaced with
  the standard o.fd.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged

• Handle_Type is now Entity_Type, and all uses of the term have also
  been renamed (TpEntityType, TargetEntityType, etc.)

• HandleChannel's Requests_Satisfied parameter has changed from ao
  (array of object path) to a{oa{sv}} (map from object path to its
  immutable properties), replacing Handler_Info["request-properties"].
  Observer has had a similar change.

Other API breaks:

• Various APIs that previously took a GHashTable<string, GValue> now
  take a GVariant of type G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARDICT, often by deleting the
  GHashTable version and removing the _vardict suffix from an existing
  GVariant version

• tp_message_peek has been superseded by tp_message_dup_part

• TpMessage string accessors now return a copied string, and their names
  contain "dup" instead of "get"

• TpProtocol and TpTLSCertificate objects cannot be created directly,
  go via TpClientFactory instead

• The tpl-extensions pkg-config module has gone away

Deleted draft API that never had a satisfactory implementation:

• Account.I.ExternalPasswordStorage1
• Channel.I.CredentialsStorage1
• CM.I.AccountStorage1

Additions:

• TpLogger, a TpProxy subclass which hosts generated code for talking to
  the Logger (but you should use libtelepathy-logger-1 instead)

• tp_asv_from_vardict, tp_asv_to_vardict

• tp_base_connection_get_account_path_suffix

• more TpAccountChannelRequest high-level API

Fixes:

• don't leak every D-Bus method call result, a regression in 0.23.1
  (Simon)

• fix a memory leak when cleaning up TpProxy "prepare" requests
  (fd.o #76000, Simon)

• fix a memory leak for paths to contacts' avatar data (fd.o #76000,
  Simon)