news 28 Posted September 25, 2012 gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your passwords and encryption keys securely. This is a stable release. Important Notes: ================ * Some helpful notes for distributors: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Distributors Changes between 3.4.x and 3.6.0: ================================ * Use the XDG directories for storing keys * Better handling of the --replace argument to gnome-keyring-daemon * Fix ability to store keyring files without using hardlinks * Make the GPG agent password caching options work correctly * Initialize PKCS#11 correctly in gnome-keyring tool * Rename the p11-kit module file * Use setsid() to become a process leader when daemonizing * Support the xdg:schema attribute on secret items * Update to newer glib dependency and remove redundant code * Encode passwords correctly for gpg2 in the gpg-agent * Fix types of the DBus Created and Modified properties * Expose the 'session' and 'login' keyrings as aliases * Emit Secret Service signals when collections/items change * Fix some spurious warnings * Return correct introspect data for Secret Service * Fix the gnome2-store for gcr importer, and test * Debug and logging fixes * Updated translations * Testing fixes * Build fixes Details of changes between 3.4.x and 3.6.0: =========================================== Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡iÄ (1): Updated Slovenian translation Ani Peter (1): Updated Malayalam file Carles Ferrando (2): [l10n]Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation [l10n]Updated Catalan (Valencian) translation Changwoo Ryu (1): Updated Korean translation Dirgita (1): Updated Indonesian translation Dr.T.Vasudevan (1): updated Tamil translation Fran Diéguez (1): Updated Galician translations Jordi Serratosa (2): [l10n] Fixes on Catalan translation [l10n] Fixes on Catalan translation Justin Lecher (2): Typo GMODULE -> GLIB in AC_SUBST Typo GMODULE -> GLIB in AC_SUBST Khaled Hosny (1): Updated Arabic translation Nguyễn Thái Ngá»Âc Duy (2): po/vi: import from Damned Lies Updated Vietnamese translation Nilamdyuti Goswami (2): Assamese translation reviewed Implemented FUEL entries to Assamese translation Noriko Mizumoto (1): [l10n] Update Japanese translation Piotr Drąg (1): Updated Polish translation Rajesh Ranjan (1): hindi update Raul Gutierrez Segales (1): Use the right introspection string for Secret.Service iface RÅ«dolfs Mazurs (1): Updated Latvian translation Sandeep Sheshrao Shedmake (1): Updated Marathi Translations Stef Walter (51): Better building of .desktop and .service files Use correct XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when started from PAM Relicense egg-unix-credentials.c [daemon] Set 'text/plain' content type on secrets returned from da pkcs11: Complete a bunch more tests Bring over new egg'd components from gcr Release 3.4.1 Merge branch 'gnome-3-4' Bump version number Change password dbus method is actually on internal interface daemon: Return correct introspect data for secret service xdg-store: Remove references to libtasn1.h ssh-store: Don't include built p11-tests.conf file gkm: Fix GKM_DEBUG environment variable for G_MESSAGES_DEBUG gnome2-store: Ignore attributes that gcr-viewer sets Merge branch 'gnome-3-4' gkm: Add gkm_log_xxx() functions for stringizing gkm: Add debug tracing for CKA_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_INVALID gnome2-store: Test the gnome2-store with the gcr importer Release version 3.5.3 secret-store: Support the xdg:schema attribute correctly Remove support code for old glib versions egg: Add methods for creating scratch directory in tests Use GNOME_KEYRING_TEST_PROMPTER to specify prompter name Quiet down messages during tests egg: Add ability to run tests in a mainloop without a thread daemon: Perform initialization in the main loop daemon: Emit secret service signals when collections/items change dbus: Expose the 'session' and 'login' keyrings as aliases dbus: The Created and Modified properties are uint64 dbus: Don't log into token if already logged in gpg-agent: Don't barf when retrieving password when not unlocked gpg-agent: Encode passwords when --data was requested Convert from EggBytes to GBytes Match common old GnomeKeyringItemType schemas to xdg:schema attrib Release version 3.5.4 Some 'make distcheck' fixes Rename the p11-kit module file tool: Initialize pkcs#11 before beginning import Release version 3.5.5 schema: Update description for gpg-cache-method gpg-agent: Hook up the TTL cache option secret-store: Mark a secret item as 'used' when accessed daemon: Be quiet while replacing another daemon daemon: If control directory in environment use when replacing daemon: When --replace quit all running daemons Use the XDG directories for storing keys Release version 3.5.90 Release 3.5.91 Release version 3.5.92 Release version 3.6.0 Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (1): Updated Thai translation. Timo Jyrinki (1): Finnish translation update by Jiri Grönroos Tom Tryfonidis (1): Updated Greek translation Werner Koch (2): Provide fallback for file systems without working hardlinks Improve the gkm transaction tests Yclept Nemo (1): daemon: Use setsid() to become a process leader when daemonizing Yinghua Wang (2): update Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation update Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation raveit65 (1): Add MATE Desktop to desktop files Downloads: ========== http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/3.6/ 6a0de88d5e1778dd5026226cb2ff25bf8355f370b089daa58ee0887639fb0a20 gnome-keyring-3.6.0.tar.xz Cheers, Stef Walter _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post