ANNOUNCE: folks 0.6.6

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libfolks 0.6.6 is now available for download from:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.6/

 

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folks-0.6.6.tar.xz

 

libfolks 0.6.6 — It matters to me that you're impressed.

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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 0.6.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 0.6.5 to libfolks 0.6.6

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Bugs fixed:

* Bug 664158 — Stale log handler can cause segfault when re-creating

Aggregator in a single run

* Bug 663889 — crash due to NameDetails which fail to guarantee

non-null full-name/nickname

* Bug 665039 — Crash in folks_backends_sw_backend_add_service

* Bug 665728 — TpfPersonaStore: prepare() isn't mutually exclusive

inside a single thread

* Bug 665692 — Use constructors correctly

* Bug 665376 — Add API to get a TpfPersona from a TpContact

 

API changes:

* Add Edsf.PersonaStore.source

* Make Edsf.Persona.contact writeable on construct (previously private

setter)

* Make Edsf.Persona.contact_id writeable on construct (previously

private setter)

* Add Swf.PersonaStore.service

* Make Swf.Persona.lsw_contact writeable on construct (previously

private setter)

* Add Trf.Persona.tracker_id

* Add Trf.Persona.cursor

* Make AbstractFieldDetails.value writeable on construct (previously

just a normal setter)

* Make AbstractFieldDetails.parameters writeable on construct

(previously just a normal setter)

* Add ObjectCache.type_id

* Add ObjectCache.id

* Add Tpf.PersonaStore.dup_for_account() and

Tpf.Persona.dup_for_contact()

 

Dependencies

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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

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For any questions, comments, feature proposals, etc., please refer to