From 19d20faa08c656d9843526fcf4aac501386a5997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georges Basile Stavracas Neto Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 17:31:26 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Prepare NEWS for 1.19.0 --- NEWS | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e57ae5c90..ff9ea32a6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,53 @@ +Changes in 1.19.0 +================= +Released: 2024-10-09 + +- Completely rework and restructure the documentation website. Documentation is + now segmented by target audience (app developers, desktop developers, and + contributors). It also documents how the Document portal operates, the FUSE + filesystem, and custom file attributes. This is available in the following + address: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/index.html +- The portals.conf parser is now able to handle fallback backends better, and + respects the order of backends in the config file. +- Try to use the xdg-desktop-portal-gtk backend as a last resort backend, if + everything else fails. +- Implement getlk and setlk, and honour O_NOFOLLOW, in the Document portal's + FUSE filesystem. +- Neutralize the Devices portal. Originally the Devices portal was introduced + so that services like PulseAudio or PipeWire could request access to + microphones and cameras on the behalf of apps. It was not meant to be used by + sandboxed apps directly, which is unusual for a portal. Practically, however, + it didn't take off. +- Implement PID/TID mapping for host system apps. +- Add a new "supported_output_file_formats" option to the Print portal. This + can be used by apps like browsers to limit the output file formats presented + by the Print portal backend. For example, an app can limit file printing to + PDF files. +- Add a new "GetHostPaths" method to the Document portal, which allows mapping + file descriptors to paths on the host system. This can be used by apps to + show more meaningful file paths in the user interface. +- Like the new method above, the Document portal sets the + "user.document-portal.host-path" xattr on files, pointing to the the host + system file path. The use case is similar to "GetHostPaths". +- Make the Background portal more robust when validating autostart files. +- Clarify behavior of the File Chooser portal in the documentation pages. +- Improve robustness against deleted o_path fds in the Document portal. +- Fix a warning in some systems while trying to load Request D-Bus object + properties. +- Fix a physical inode leak in the Document portal. +- Various improvements to the test suite. Python-based tests now run in parallel + and are more careful when setting up the mock D-Bus server. Tests also start + dbus-monitor if necessary now. FUSE tests of the Document portal have been + made more TAP-alike now. +- Memory leak fixes in a variety of portals and services, including the + permissions database, the Document portal, the File Transfer portal, the + Location portal, the Background portal, tests, and the icon validator. And + more. There's a lot of memory leak fixes everywhere, really. +- Major refactorings of the icon validator. Icons are now limited to 4MB files. +- Update XML specification specifying session handle type to match current + actual ABI in GlobalShortcuts, Inhibit, RemoteDesktop, and ScreenCast portals. +- New and updated translations. + Changes in 1.18.1 ================= Released: 2023-10-26