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Major changes in 0.99.1
=======================
This is the first pre-release before flatpak 1.0. This is considered
feature-complete and we expect no features or major changes before
1.0, only bugfixes.
Note: There were some (minor) API changes in the FlatpakTransaction
APIs that were added in 0.11.8, so please don't use the old
version. (Note: I know of no user of this API).
Changes since last minor release:
* Ostree 2018.6 is required, and with this, the p2p code in
flatpak is made non-optional.
* flatpak install/update/ininstall now lists all the operations
that it will do and asks for confirmation before starting.
* In the above confirmation the permissions (new permissions
for updates) are shown for all applications.
* The FlatpakTranscation API has a new ::ready signal that
allows users to do similar confirmation prompts.
* P2P updates are more efficient
* system-wide installation uses less fsync calls so should
installation should be faster.
* New ssh agent permissions allows granting an app
ssh access.
Major changes in 0.11.8.3
=========================
* Fix a 25 second timeout on startup if using p11-kit < 0.23.10
* Minor change in dbus proxy default filter, now broadcasts are
not accepted from portals.
Major changes in 0.11.8.2
=========================
* Fix crash when building some apps
* Allow multiple appstream components per app
* Fix handling of gl drivers in uninstall --unused
* Don't prompt if nothing changed in uninstall --unused
* Longer timeouts in test suite
* Updated translations
Major changes in 0.11.8.1
=========================
* Fixed regression running apps with --own=* permissions
Major changes in 0.11.8
=======================
* Flatpak uninstall now accepts --all to remove everything and --unused to remove unused
runtimes.
* New command "flatpak repair" allows checking and repairing a flatpak installation.
* New permission --allow=bluetooth allows use of AF_BLUETOOTH sockets
* If p11-kit-server is installed on the host, this is now used to forward the host
certificate trust store to the sandboxed app.
* New transaction API in libflatpak that makes it much easier to implement
installation and updates in frontends.
* Flatpak uninstall now does not allow you to remove a runtime if some installed app requires it.
* We now have tab-completion for zsh.
* New installations of flatpak now defaults to bare-user-only repos, which means
that it works with filesystems that don't support xattrs.
* New flatpak info options: --show-location, --show-runtime, --show-sdk
* New flatpak remote-info options: --show-runtime, --show-sdk
* p2p operations now work when offline.
* Work around hanging on app startup on blocking autofs mounts.
* The dbus proxy filtering now works matches the new dbus containers filtering API.
* Various optimizations make installation and updates faster. In particular
operations like running triggers and pruning only happens once per
install/update operation.
* We now respect multiple extension versions matches when auto-downloading extensions.
* New http header Flatpak-Upgrade-From sent when upgrading.
* Commands like "flatpak info/list/remotes/seach" now work properly if /var/lib/flatpak doesn't exist.
* The bubblewrap version required for system-bwrap is now 0.2.1.
Major changes in 0.11.7
=======================
* Fix regression in installing .flatpak bundles
Major changes in 0.11.6
=======================
* Further work on the export filename regression, now also fixes the
same issue as in 0.11.5 but in flatpak build-finish.
* Fix segfault when installing from .flatpakref in gnome-software
* Build yacc parser from source.
* Don't tab-complete Sources/Locale/Debug extension by default.
* Fix tests on debian.
Major changes in 0.11.5
=======================
* Fix a regression which caused installation of epiphany and
other apps that export multiple .service files to fail.
* Fix appstream updates in p2p mode.
* Don't distribute generated gdbus code with tarball.
* Add documentation for the flatpak portal
Major changes in 0.11.4
=======================
* flatpak remove is now an alias for flatpak uninstall.
* flatpak uninstall now picks system or user automatically if not specified
* New appstream branch format which is more efficient to distribute,
the old is still generated for backwards compat.
* Appstream data now contains compatible arches (for applications
that doesn't exist for the primary arch). For example, an
i386-only app is now listed in the x86-64 appstream.
* The flatpak version is included in the user agent when downloading.
* The Flatpak-Ref http header is set to the currently installing ref when
downloading.
* New argument --timestamp in build-commit-from.
* When updating many apps we now only prune the local repo when all
updates are done, making multi-app updates faster.
* flatpak build now always allows multiarch use.
* flatpak build now mounts app extensions during build.
* flatpak build-init now supports --extension to add extension points earlier
than build-finish. Also build-finish now supports --remove-extension.
* New flatpak portal allows applications to sandbox themselves and restart a
newer version of themselves.
* New flatpak run options: --no-a11y-bus, --no-documents-portal.
* Initial support for end-of-life:ing applications.
* New option X-Flatpak-RunOptions in exported desktop/files allow you to specify
no-a11y-bus and no-documents-portal.
* Support for tagged extension points, which is useful if you want to use
the same extension id (but maybe different versions) multiple times in an app.
* We now export .service files for names that the app is allowed to own on
the session bus.
* libflatpak got new methods for listing remotes by type.
* libflatpak now has support in FlatpakRemoteRef for getting remote metadata
such as end-of-life, download size, metadata etc.
* There was some internal restructuring on how installs/updates are done
which should improve performance and maintainability.
Major changes in 0.11.3
=======================
* Fix "open with" and flatpak run --file-forwarding crash
* Fix build with glibc 2.27
Major changes in 0.11.2
=======================
* Remove fuse dependency, since we don't ship document portal anymore
* Fix various issues with /home being a symlink to /var/home (atomic)
* Allow downgrades when using collection ids
* Search on all supported architectures
Major changes in 0.11.1
=======================
This release removes the document portal and the permission store as they
have been added to xdg-desktop-portal 0.10. Packagers need to update
these two in lock-step. Flatpak technically doesn't depend on
xdg-desktop-portal, but it is recommended that the flatpak package
depends on xdg-desktop-portal in some way, because most flatpaks will
want it.
* Remove document portal and permission store
* Add --socket=fallback-x11 permission
* Fix dbus proxy vulnerability in authentication phase
* Allow personality syscall in devel mode
* commit-from: Migrate static deltas with commit
* Add "network" storage type for installations
* Add flatpak info --show-permissions
* Add flatpak info --file-access
* search: Update appstream (if stale) before searching
* Make libflatpak work when /var/lib/flatpak is empty
* build-bundle: Add --from-commit option
* Allow appstream ids that don't end in .desktop
* Make permission handling ignore unknown permissions for forwards
compatibility
* Removed incorrect error message in update --appdata when there
was no updates
* Fix handling of abort in the duplicate remote prompt
* Fix division by zero in progress calculation
* Fix flatpak remote-info --show-metadata
* Fixed crash when installing some flatpak bundle files
* Fix installation of telegram
* remote-ls -u only considers app from the origin remote
* Fix assertion error in extra-data progress reporting
* Report nicer errors when trying to downgrade as non-root
* pulseaudio: Try to find pulseaudio socket better
* Fixed some warnings reported by coverity
* Cleaned up code by splitting up some large source files
Major changes in 0.10.2
=======================
* Flatpak now requires OSTree 2017.14
* flatpak update now updates from both system and user installations
by default.
* flatpak update is less noisy when updating appstream info.
* All the remote-* commands now by default automatically decide to use
--user or --system based on the given remote name.
* flatpak remote-ls with no remote lists the content of all remotes
* Fixed regression that made xdg-user-dirs and theme selection
for kde apps break.
* flatpak override with no argument now overrides globally, i.e. for
all apps.
* flatpak override now supports --nofilesystem properly. For example
flatpak override --nofilesystem=~/.ssh hides the ssh dir for all
apps, even those who have homedir access.
* flatpak install now takes a --reinstall argument which uninstalls
a previously installed version if necessary. This is very useful
when you want to install a new version from a different source.
* flatpak install now allows you to pass an absolute pathname as
remote name, which will create a temporary remote and install
from that. The remote will be removed when the app is uninstalled.
This is very useful during development and testing.
* Flatpak now creates CLI wrappers for all installed apps, so if you
add /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin or ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin
to your PATH you can easily start flatpak apps by their application id.
Major changes in 0.10.1
=======================
* New command "flatpak remote-info" shows information about applications
in a remote. In particular the --log operation shows the history and
can be used in combination with flatpak upate --commit=XYZ to roll
back to a previous version.
* New command "flatpak search" which allows you to search the appstream
data from the commandline.
* flatpak update now upates appstream data for all confured remotes, which
is important for search to work.
* Allow automatic installation of gtk themes matching the active theme.
* Handle the case when /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink
* /usr an /etc are now expose in /run/host in the app if the app has
full filesystem access.
* flatpak remote-add now works as a user when /var/lib/flatpak is empty,
allowing flatpak to work on stateless systems.
* Add support for flatpak build --log-session/system-bus, similar to
what flatpak run already does.
* flatpak build --readonly runs with the target directory (normally /app)
mounted read-only.
* Fall back to LD_LIBRARY_PATH if a runtime doesn't have /usr/bin/ldconfig.
* Updated the support for OCI remotes. This is work in progress and still
disabled by default though.
Major changes in 0.10
=====================
This is the first release in a new series of stable releases called
0.10.x. New features will be added to 0.11.x, and bugfixes will be
backported to 0.10.x. During the early phase of the 0.10.x series we
may also backport minor features, but we guarantee backwards
compatibility.
Changes since 0.9.99
* Added the flatpak config option which can set the language settings
* Fix issue where sometimes ld.so.conf were not generated
* /dev/mali0 is added to --device=dri
* Work around ostree static delta issues in some cases
Major changes in 0.9.99
=======================
* Requires ostree 2017.12 for important pull stability fix
* New libflatpak API: flatpak_dir_cleanup_undeployed_refs, flatpak_installation_prune_local_repo,
flatpak_installation_remove_local_ref_sync, flatpak_installation_cleanup_local_refs_sync
* build: FLATPAK_ID and FLATPAK_ARCH are now set in the environment when building
* update: Don't fail the entire update if some remote fails to update its metadata
* run: /.flatpak-info now lists exact commits and extensions in use
* run: We now use a per-app ld.so.cache file whenn running. This should speed things up,
and allows ldconfig to report the correct results.
* The verbose mode was changed into two levels, use -vv to show the more detailed info, which
currently only contains the full bubblewrap argument lists.
* run: Some common problematic host environment variables are now unset in the sandbox
(PYTHONPATH, PERLLIB, PERL5LIB and XCURSOR_PATH)
* run: Fixed failure when a higher prio extensions depended on a lower prio one.
* run: The extension ld path order is now: app extensions, app, runtime extension, runtime.
This was previously incorrect in that the app could override app extensions.
* Extensions are now not downloaded if a matching unmaintained extension is already installed
* Preemptive changes to handle new bubblewrap change which doesn't user /newroot
* document portal: Disable debug spew that was accidentally enabled
* build-finish: New --extension-priority option
* run: Fix regression in --persist in 0.9.98
* run: Use sealed memfds (instead of just temporary files) when passing data to bubblewrap
Major changes in 0.9.98.2
=========================
* Fix permission denied when using the system-helper
Major changes in 0.9.98.1
=========================
* run: Fix homedir access if the app has --filesystem=host access
* build-update: Fix appstream update in case one arch didn't change
Major changes in 0.9.98
=======================
* libflatpak now correctly finds metadata for subset installations (like locale data)
* flatpak build now supports --appdir which exposes the per-app directory in the
user homedir. This is useful when testing builds.
* The host fontconfig caches are exposed to the sandbox, next to the fonts in /run/host.
This will (pending fontconfig work) allow sharing host fontconfig caches, allowing
much faster initial startup for flatpak apps.
* flatpak install now supports --no-pull
* Added new extension property "locale-subset", which makes the extension point
act like a locale extension (i.e. only install the subset configured by the
locale).
* flatpak remote-add --oci is disabled for now, as this is not up to date with
the latest OCI work, and we don't want to break existing deployments if this
has to change when this lands.
* Parallel installation/updates are now safe because we take a filesystem lock
whenever we prune the local ostree repo.
* Flatpak run now works when important paths like $HOME, etc, are symlinks.
* The ostree min-free-space property is is set to zero by default for the
flatpak repos. This was causing a lot of problems for people, but the feature
is still there if you manually enable it.
Major changes in 0.9.12
=======================
* Fixed a regression in extra-data installation
* Don't expose the a11y bus in flatpak build
Major changes in 0.9.11
=======================
* You can now show all outstanding updates with: flatpak remote-ls --updates
* The dbus filter "org.name.*" now means all subnames of org.name, not just
the first level. This matches how dbus arg0namespace works, and how the
comming dbus container support will work.
* Fixed segfauld on update
* Better commandline tab completion
* Flatpak now exposes host icons readonly as /run/host/share/icons to the sandbox.
Major changes in 0.9.10
=======================
Fix regression in dbus proxy that causes some apps to not
work in 0.9.9.
Major changes in 0.9.9
======================
flatpak-builder was split out into its own module:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder
* When downloading to a temporary directory for later install to the
system repo we now write to /var/tmp instead of $HOME. This is more
likely to be the same filesystem as /var/lib/flatpak, and thus will
not run into issues with e.g. filesystem full.
* We now get the default language list from AccountService if possible.
* A regression that made --devel crash was fixed.
* New feature for flatpakrefs, SuggestRemoteName=remotename will cause
flatpak to ask if you want to create a generic (not app specific)
remote for the repo url.
* flatpak build now does not die with the parent by default, you have
to pass --die-with-parent. This was done because die-with-parent
uses PR_SET_PDEATHSIG which does not work well if the parent is
threaded, like e.g. gnome-software is.
* We now always re-set the personality in the sandboxed process
in order to avoid inheriting weird settings.
* We now share a single dbus proxy instance for all proxies for a sandbox.
* dbus-proxy now properly disallows old-style eavesdropping.
* We now support accessibility by starting a customized dbus proxy for the
a11y bus.
Major changes in 0.9.8
======================
Core:
* Experimental support for peer2peer installation, enable with --enable-p2p
* Add default language setting to flatpak config. Defaults to all locales for
system installs and the users locale for per-user installs.
* build-update-repo: Now always keeps the *two* latest deltas around to avoid
race conditions with outstanding downloads at the time or running the update.
* Support loading extra data from local lookaside cache.
Flatpak-builder:
* Set terminal title to the currently building module
* Added ability to specify http url for sources mirror with --extra-sources-url.
* --install-deps-from=REMOTE installs the dependencies needed for the
manifest.
* New option --delete-build-dirs to always delete build directories,
even on a failed build.
* New property "add-extension" makes it nicer to create extension points.
Major changes in 0.9.7
======================
* Don't re-download git repo when bundling sources
* Build modules with no source if buildsystem is "simple"
* Build cleanups
Major changes in 0.9.6
======================
This version requires the latest ostree version (2017.7) because it
uses a new feature that hardens the security of flatpak. Previously,
if you installed to a system-wide repository, the files created for an
application were as specified by the remote repo, but owned by root,
which could include problematic permissions like setuid or
world-writable. We now never create such problematic files or
directories on disk. Flatpak export was also changed to never
create problematic files in new apps.
Related to this, newly created flatpak installations also use the
new "bare-user-only" mode for the repositories, which means you
can now install applications even if your filesystem does not
support extended attributes.
Other changes:
* flatpak info --show-metadata now only shows the metadata, in
a machine parseable way.
* build-export now records the flatpak version in the commit message
* builder: The .pyc timestamp fixer now allows .pyc files with no
corresponding .py file.
* builder: New feature 'inherit-extensions' lets you copy extension
info from the parent runtime.
* builder: Set ExtensionOf in auto-created extensions (like Locale
and Debug)
* builder: Setting CPPFLAGS now works
Major changes in 0.9.5
======================
Changes in flatpak:
* Fix installation of installed tests
* Don't show an error when updating if a remote is disabled
* Store the app id in the X-Flatpak key when exporting a
desktop file.
* flatpak run: Handle paths when rewriting %u urls during
file forwarding.
* builder: Always assume separate builddir when using meson, as
meson only works with this.
* document-portal: The app-specific directory is always accessible
to the app, take this into consideration for AddFull.
* builder: Don't warn for unknown keys if they start with x-
* Fix a race condition whe restarting the document portal
* build-update-repo: Don't list removed deltas in the summary
* list: Don't show .Locale/.Debug/.Sources by default. Show with -a.
* remote-ls: Don't show .Locale/.Debug/.Sources, or non-primary
arches (unless the primary does not exist) by default.
Show with -a.
* dbus-portal: Fix handling of NameHasOwner
* builder: Add --export-only to export a previous build.
* run: Allow regular files for --filesystem=xdg-config/path
* run: Allow --filesystem=xdg-config/subdir:ro (previously
it needed to be writable).
* build-commit-from: Properly handle xa.ref when rewriting
refnames.
Major changes in 0.9.4
======================
Changes in flatpak:
* Now requires ostree 2017.6 and bubblewrap 0.1.8
* Better progress reporting in CLI and UI
* Improved output from commands info, list, remotes,
remote-ls: More detail, colors, nicer table formating.
* New command flatpak repo that lets you show information
about local repositories.
* When launching exported desktop files, the paths
passed to it are automatically created as documents
to allow access to the arguments, if needed.
* Flatpak install of an already installed application is
now a warning, not an error.
* flatpak build now kills all the processes in the
sandbox when it exits.
* flatpak update --subpath=... now updates the app event
if there is no new upstream version, but the subpath is
different from what is currently installed.
* Exports are now whitelisted, and the only thing you can
export are:
desktop files, icons, dbus services, mime definitions, and
gnome-shell search providers
* Exported gnome-shell search providers are automatically
disabled by default.
* Exported mimetypes are rewritten to only allow globs, and to
make the globs have a low priority vs system mime info.
* A remote can now redirect to a new URL and/or a new GPG key, by
using build-update-repo --redirect-url=URL --gpg-import=FILE.
When clients see this they permanently change the local configuration.
This is very useful when migrating official repositories.
* flatpak caches in the homedir are now stored in ~/.cache
(or $XDG_CACHE_HOME) instead of ~/.local/share/flatpak/system-cache.
* Added version field to all exported dbus interfaces.
* New AddFull method in the Document Portal, which allows
exporting multiple files, as-needed by a particular target
app. This is useful for implementations of dbus activation
for desktop files.
* New flag --no-static-deltas for install/update without
using static deltas. Mostly useful for debugging.
* TMPDIR is now unset in the sandbox, if set on the
host. Each sandbox has a personal /tmp that is used.
* Flatpak run now works if /tmp is a symlink on the
host.
* /etc/hosts and /etc/hosts.conf from the host are now exposed
in the sandbox in addition to /etc/resolv.conf.
* Titles and default branches are now automatically updated from
the remote unless they are explicitly set. You no longer have
to run flatpak remote-modify --update.
* Some performance inprovements when installing apps.
* When exporting a build, the commit objects now always include
the branchname, the metadata and install/download size.
The sizes are reused for faster summary building, and the
others changes are for future use. The fields are verified
against the deployed metadata during installation, so it
is trusted.
* Fixed minor race condition in portal application identification.
* lib: New flatpak_installation_update_appstream_full_sync method
that allows progress reporting.
* bash-completion: Fix out-of-bounds read that could produce
weird completion at times.
Changes in flatpak-builder:
* Added support for appdata screenshot mirroring.
* New property "install-rule" lets you change what Makefile rule to
use in the install phase.
* The git "commit" property can now specify both a tag object and the
commit object it refers to.
* New cppflags property, similar to e.g. cflags.
* The "env" property now overrides the cflags/cxxflags/ldflags
properties, to allow these to be reset.
* Initial checkout of git/bzr to a temporary directory so that errors
during checkout do not persist.
* Properly take the "buildsystem" field into account when calculating
cache freshness.
* Don't crash if appstream-compose fails.
* "ldflags" property now works correctly.
Major changes in 0.9.3
======================
Changes in flatpak-builder:
* "rename-icon" renames in translated icons too
* Moved manifest format docs to own manpage, "flatpak-manifest".
* "bootstrap.sh" is now recognized as an autogen.sh alternative
* Fall back to not using rofiles-fuse if it is not available.
* Make sure flatpak-builder --run grants the app access to dbus.
* Make paths paths for module includes and module dependencies
relative to the included module rather than the "base" json file.
* When cross-compiling 32bit apps on 64bit arches (like i386 on x86-64)
then we automatically set a linux32 personallity.
* Print warnings for unhandled json properties.
* Make sure flatpak-builder --run works if --extra-data is in the
finish args.
* Take build-commands into consideration when considering if the
build cache is stale.
* Support for --extra-sources= to pre-seed downloaded sources.
* Support for --bundle-sources which creates a runtime with the sources
that were used to build the app.
* Handle trailing whitespace in git submodule uris
* Progress reporting while downloading files.
Other changes:
* build-export now always exports directories as readable and executable.
* build-update-repo --generate-static-deltas now fork the work process
rather than using threads, which avoids problems with this using
a lot of memory in a single process in some cases.
* Report flatpak version in HTTP request user agent.
* New "flatpak repo" command added that has some options for maintaining
a repository.
* flatpak info can now report more information and handles multiple
installed branches better.
* Support non-default WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment var.
* Handle application ids that end with .desktop when generating
appstream data.
* Documentation updates
Major changes in 0.9.2
======================
* Fixed a use-after-free and some leaks in the dbus-proxy. This
is not currently believed to be exploitable, but the proxy is a
security boundary, so we still recommend to update.
* Regular updates now never allow updates to an older version
than what is currently installed (unless you explicitly specify
an old commit id). This closes a hole where a MITM attacker can
force clients to downgrade to an earlier (gpg-signed) version of
the application.
* The automatic detection of --from in flatpak install now detects
flatpakref extensions even in URIs that end in a query string such as
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-apps-nightly/plain/gedit.flatpakref?h=stable
* OCI support now supports GPG signatures
* OCI support now works with the system-helper for unprivileged systemwide
installation.
* Experimental support for the new ostree bare-user-only repo mode that
allows flatpak to run on filesytems without xattrs. Set
FLATPAK_OSTREE_REPO_MODE=user-only in the environment to use this.
* builder: New property disable-fsckobjects for git sources
* builder: New property commit for git sources. This lets you specify
both a tag (for readability) and a commit id (to ensure the tag doesn't
change).
* builder: The manifest file format docs have been split out into its
own manpage.
* builder: App manifests now support specifying sdk-extensions that has
to be installed for the app to build.
* builder: When creating the platform, remove all sdk-specific extensions,
allowing creation of sdk-specific extensions.
* builder: Correctly handle absolute pathnames in the specified
command.
* builder: Support --default-branch which defined the branch to build in
case the manifest doesn't specify one.
* When exporting builds to ostree we now use the canonical permissions
for bare-user files, which means the resulting builds can safely
be used with the new ostree bare-user-only repository type.
* The detection of "unmaintained" system extensions was broken, and
in some cases these extensions were not found. This now always
works.
* Flatpak now builds with latest OSTree. This required some fixing for
multiple definitions of the g_auto* macros as OSTree now exports
those.
* We no longer rely on ostree trivial-httpd for the tests, because
this is optional in later versions of ostree. Instead we use
they python SimpleHTTPServer.
* The minimum glib version has been corrected to 2.44.
* The minumum automake version has been increased to 1.13.4
because some older version didn't work.
Major changes in 0.9.1
======================
This release mostly has changes to flatpak-builder and the build
machinery. All flatpaks built with this version can run
on flatpak 0.8.x, but there has been additions and minor
changes in flatpak-builder that may require minor changes
to existing builder manifests, see below.
The flatpak-builder build cache now uses an ostree feature called
rofiles-fuse. This allows the build to work directly against
hardlinked checkouts of the cache, because rofiles-fuse disallows
writes to the hardlinked files (but allows replacing them). This makes
cache commits and checkouts much faster. However, it also means that
installation cannot do in-place modification of files in the
installation directory. There is a new per-module property called
"ensure-writable" that takes a list of patterns and ensures all files
matching them are writable (by manually breaking the hardlinks). This
may need to be added to some manifests to keep them building in the new
version.
The cflags and cxxflags module properties now work by appending,
rather that replacing, when there are multiple values specified. For
instance, the per-arch or per-module cflags will be appended to the
base cflags. This may cause old json files do duplicate cflags in
some cases. Normally compiler flags are repeatable without problems
though, so it is unlikely to cause problems.
Here are a short summary of the rest of the flatpak-builder changes:
* The build cache was changed so that it is not invalidated if
the installed version of the SDK changed. This means that the app
will not rebuilt if you updated the SDK. This is generally the right
thing to do, as SDKs are meant to be compatible. If you want
to avoid this (for instance when building against an unstable sdk)
you can use the --rebuild-on-sdk-change argument.
* The build cache is now per-arch, so building on one arch doesn't
invalidate the cache for another arch.
* New buildsystem "cmake-ninja" which works like "cmake", but builds
using ninja, rather than make.
* New buildsystem "simple" which doesn't use configure or make, it
just runs a set of shell commands specified in the "build-commands"
property. Note: build-commands is also available to other buildsystems
and are run between make and make install.
* flatpak-builder now has build-runtime and build-extension properties that
makes it easier to build runtimes and extensions.
* FLATPAK_DEST is set in the build environment to the installation
destination (i.e. typically /app). It is particularly useful when
building an extension where the destination is more complex.
* flatpak-builder now supports --from-git=URL which pulls the
json manifest and related files directly from a git repo.
* modules have a new no-make-install property which skips
the make install step.
* Modules and sources have only-arches and skip-arches properties,
which lets you enable/disable them based on the build architecture.
* build-options has a new property ldflags, which is similar
to cflags and cxxflags.
* flatpak build (and thus flatpak-builder --run) now supports
dbus proxies when needed.
* All git repos are cloned with fsckObjects=true, which means
we verify that the repos are valid.
* New flatpak-builder argument --build-shell=MODULE extracts and
prepares the sources for a specified module and then starts
a build sandbox inside it.
There are also some other changes:
* build-export: Now supports --timestamp=ISO-8601-TIMESTAMP, which
allows you to create reproducible commits.
* The OCI support has been updated to the latest version of the
OCI image specification format.
* There is a new flatpak-bisect script that can be used to bisect
flatpak applications, looking for regressions.
* flatpak list got a revamp. It now shows more information, and
shows both apps and runtimes by default.
* flatpak remote-list was renamed flatpak remotes in order
to minimize confusion with flatpak remote-ls. The old name
is deprecated but still works.
Major changes in 0.8.4
======================
In addition to the regular list of bugfixes this stable release
include backports of one more feature required for making OpenGL work
well. Now extra-data using extensions (such as the nvidia driver) can
specify that it doesn't need a runtime to run its apply script. We use
this in the nvidia driver by making the script a static binary, which
lets us use the nvidia driver for multiple runtimes without requering
that a particular one is installed. We also support an extension point
supporting multiple versions, which will be use for sharing the
nvidia driver between different runtime versions.
Additional fixes:
* Documentation fixes
* Crash fixes
* Fix xauth propagation in some cases
* Don't remove origin remotes on uninstall if some other app
is installed from it.
* Don't reset what locales are installed when updating a locale
extension
* Disable splice for the documentation portal as it seems
to be broken in fuse
* Append, don't override XDG_DATA_DIRS in profile script
* Fix progress reporting in libflatpak to go from 0 to
100% once, merging the various phases.
Major changes in 0.8.3
======================
In addition to the regular list of bugfixes this stable release
include backports of a the updated OpenGL support from master. This,
in combination with the work in the runtime allows flatpak to work out
of the box with out-of-tree OpenGL drivers, including the nvidia
driver.
Additionally, due to some complicated issues wrt ptrace and user
namespaces this version disables the use of user namespaces if
bubblewrap is setuid, as it cause problems for the way flatpak
portals identifies applications. (See issue #557 for details)
* Better handling of errors for extra-data
* Handle extra-data properly for runtimes (as well as apps)
* Respect required version for runtimes (as well as apps)
* flatpak list: Don't break if some local ref is not deployed
* builder: Look for appstream data in /app/share/metadata also
* builder: Fix buildsystem=cmake builds
* Add progress reporting to extra-data download
* Fix uid/gid for directories in document portal
Major changes in 0.8.2
======================
This is a bugfix and security update.
Some of the bind-mounts that flatpak sets up were not read-only as
they should have. This includes: extensions, system fonts,
resolv.conf, localtime and machine-id. Many of thse are typically only
writable by root, but some, like the user-specific fonts and
user-installed extensions could be modified from the sandbox.
Everyone using 0.8.x is recommended to update to this version.
Other fixes:
* There are new configure options for where to install dbus configuration
* Broken symlinks in the root directory no longer break flatpak run
* flatpak run with HOME in /var now works
* dri access now also handles mali devices
* install handles --arch when installing flatpakrefs
* system-helper activation fixed on systemd-less setups
* dbus-proxy now works without /run
* During installation, failing to update a dependency is now not
fatal.
* /etc is now fully writable when building runtimes
* --filesystem=xdg-config/foo now sets up the bind-mount from the host dir
even when not using :create.
Major changes in 0.8.1
======================
This is a bugfix and security update (CVE-2017-5226).
Flatpak now uses seccomp to disallow the TIOCSTI ioctl in the sandbox,
which works around the possibility to inject text on the controlling
tty (CVE-2017-5226).
This was previously fixed in bubblewrap in 0.1.6, but that change has
now been reverted as it introduced other problems for flatpak.
* Update bundled bubblewrap to 0.1.7
* Fix writing new file with O_EXCL in the document portal.
* Allow appstream data that doesn't have .desktop in the component id,
such as data for runtimes.
* Drop json-glib dependency from 1.2 to 1.0
* Builder: Fail if unable to read included file
* OCI: Ensure exported layers are readable by everyone
* Fix extra-data download in gnome-software
* Fix update-mime-database trigger when installing via
the system helper.
* Updating an app by installing a newer bundle now works
again.
* Make /var/tmp not be on a tmpfs (it is now in
~/.var/app/$appid/cache/tmp).
* Documentation / translation updates
Major changes in 0.8.0
======================
This is the first release in a new series of stable releases called
0.8.x. New features will be added to 0.9.x, and only bugfixes will be
backported to 0.8.x. The featureset of this release is a good base to
target if you're creating flatpaks that should be widely usable.
This release technically requires only OSTree 2016.14, and it build
fine with this, but we recommend using OSTree 2016.15, because of the
change in how it verifies the checksums of commits in delta files.
* Flatpakrepo files now support a RuntimeRepo= key which points to
a flatpakrepo file. This means the user don't have to manually
configure a remote for the runtime, just reply to the prompt
to automatically do this when installing the app.
* We now support dependencies when installing bundles. This includes
required runtimes, related refs, and the equivalent of RuntimeRepo.
* The support for OCI in flatpak has been updated to the latest
OCI spec version, and support has been added to directly install
flatpak applications from an OCI image.
* In flatpak install, the --from and --bundle options are now optional
if the argument has the correct suffix (.flatpakref and .flatpak)
* Flatpak install now supports -y to let you avoid interactive prompts.
* build-finish: We now export mime type files with the right name.
* build-finish: New --require-version option let you specify a particular
version of flatpak, and older version of flatpak will not install
or update to the new version.
* build-sign: Allow signing all apps by omitting the id.
* Fix regression in the document portal when adding named files.
* build-import-bundle now signs the commit if you specify a gpg key.
* Flatpak now reads configuration from /etc/flatpak/installations.d
which lets you support multiple system-level installation paths.
These can be accessed with new --installation=... arguments to
most of the commands.
* flatpak-builder: Support --jobs=N to limit parallel builds
* flatpak-builder: Patch source got new options property that lets
you pass arguments to patch.
* flatpak-builder: New generic "buildsystem: type" option that
replace the (now deprecated) "cmake: true" option. This
supports "autotools", "cmake" and "meson".
Major changes in 0.6.14
=======================
* Update bundled bubblewrap to 0.1.4 which has some nice bugfixes.
If you are using an external bubblewrap it is recommended, but
not required to update.
* Requires OSTree 2016.14, which allows us to drop some old
workarounds.
* When installing an application system-wide, don't consider
dependencies that are installed for the user only.
* Flatpak install --from now tries to re-use existing remotes to
avoid creating unnecessary origin remotes.
* Using --filesystem=$dir when $dir is a symlink-to-directory now works.
* Using --filesystem=$file to expose unix sockets to the app is now
allowed.
* By default all the directories in ~/.var/app (except the app), as
well as ~/.local/share/flatpak are hidden in the sandbox.
* New option --filesystem=$dir:create which will create the destination
if it did not previously exist.
* --filesystem= now supports for xdg-[config|cache|data]. This
allows you access to the host versions of these xdg dirs. Additionally
if you use these with a subdirectory, like:
--filesystem=xdg-config/subdir
then that subdirectory on the host will be shared with the per-app
instance of the xdg-dir.
* Builder now correctly handles app-ids that have dashes in them.
Previously this generated invalid ids for the debuginfo and locale
extensions.
* The experimental OCI file format support was changed from creating an
OCI container to creating an OCI image.
* Fix regression where "flatpak update --appstream remotename" broke
Major changes in 0.6.13
=======================
* The command line arguments for install/update/uninstall changed
These used to take an application id and an optional branch name as
two arguments. This meant you could not specify multiple apps
to install in a single command. So, instead of having the branch
as a separate argument we now support partial references.
If you only specify an id we try to match the rest as best we
can depending on what is installed/available, but if this
matches multiple things you have to specify more details.
For example you can use:
* org.my.App//stable - Any compatible arch, stable branch
* org.my.App/x86_64 - x86-64, look for available branch
* org.my.App/x86_64/stable - exact reference
This means install/update/uninstall can now install multiple apps
in a single operation.
* Application runtime depencenies are checked/downloaded
Whenever you install or update an application we check that the
required runtime is installed. If not, we check if it is available
in any configured remote, and if found asks the user if/where to
install it from. If it is not found, the install/update fails.
You can mark remotes as --no-use-for-deps, which means flatpak will
never search for runtime dependencies in such remotes. This makes
the dependency search faster if you have app-only remotes.
It is recommended that app-only .flatpakrepo file define this
by specifying NoDeps=true.
* remote-add and install --from now supports uris
This means you can install flatpakrefs and flatpakrepos in a
single command like so:
* flatpak remote-add --from gnome https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome.flatpakrepo
* flatpak install --from https://sdk.gnome.org/gedit.flatpakref
* flatpak run can now launch a runtime directly
For example, "flatpak run org.gnome.Platform//3.22" will launch a shell
inside a sandboxy with the gnome 3.22 runtime and an empty /app.
This is useful for development and testing.
* included bubblewrap was bumped to 0.1.3 which has a security fix
* Support for defining the default branch per remote
* remote-add/modify: --update-metadata pulls current title and default branch
from remote summary file
* Applications can now list a set of URIs that will be downloaded with the
application. The app can then extract these and use as a part of the
application data. This is useful for applications using freely downloadable
parts that can't be redistributed elsewhere.
* flatpak-builder: Support --finish-only and --allow-missing-runtimes
* flatpak-builder: Support app layering
An app can define a "base" application which is used for the initial
content before the application is built. This way applications can
be built in a layered fashion.
* dbus proxy: The filtering has been tightened up
* build-finish: Now exports icons for themes other than hicolor too
* There is support in the app metadata for generic policies.
These are read and propagated and supports overriding, but are
not otherwise interpreted by flatpak. They can be used by other
host services as static permissions for the application.
* Support for extensions directories
In addition to using flatpak maintained runtime as an extensions
flatpak can now use raw directories in ~/.local/share/flatpak/extension
and /var/lib/flatpak/extension. For example, if you create a
directory called org.freedesktop.Platform.GStreamer.MyPlugins/x86_64/1.4
there it will be used as a source for gstreamer plugins for all
runtimes based on the freedesktop 1.4 runtime.
Major changes in 0.6.12
=======================
* Partial revert in application id rules. Application ids
can now only have dashes in the last element. This allows
apps to export files such as org.my.App-extra.desktop which
was used by the libreoffice builds.
* By default the kernel keyring is not accessable, as it is
not containable.
* Some robustness fixes for build-commit-from
* Better error messages
* flatpak update --appstream now updates for all remotes
* Made flatpak enter work, and you can now use any pid in the sandbox.
However, it requires root permissions.
* Support for --device=kvm for /dev/kvm access
* Support for --allow=multiarch to support non-primary arch support.
For example running i686 code in an x86_64 app.
* Add new default-branch setting for the remote configuration
Major changes in 0.6.11
=======================
* Dashes are now allowed in application ids. However, to still work with
symbolic icon names, they may not end with "-symbolic".
* HostCommand now handles ptys correctly
* Various documentation updates
* New FLATPAK_CHECK_VERSION macro in libflatpak
* HostCommand now returns the real PID rather than a fake one.
* Fix regression in flatpak update --appstream
* Fix regression installing bundles without origin urls
* New flatpak-builder option --show-deps lists all the files
the manifest depends on.
Major changes in 0.6.10
=======================
* Dropped requirement for systemd --user.
The way we detect if an process we're talking to is sandboxed, and
what application id it has doesn't use cgroups anymore, which means
that the dependency on systemd in the user session is now optional.
This also means the --no-desktop argument is not needed any more.