flatpak/flatpak 1.15.7

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Dependencies:

• The Meson build system is now required.
  Compiling with Autotools is no longer possible.

• In distributions that compile Flatpak to use a separate bubblewrap (bwrap)
  executable, version 0.9.0 is recommended. Several of the bug fixes listed
  below will not be active if an older version is used.

• In distributions that compile Flatpak to use a separate xdg-dbus-proxy
  executable, version 0.1.5 is recommended.

• If libmalcontent (parental controls) is enabled, it must be version 0.5.0
  or later.

New features:

• Automatically remove obsolete driver versions and other autopruned refs
  (#5632)

• --socket=inherit-wayland-socket (#5614)

• Automatically reload D-Bus session bus configuration after installing
  or upgrading apps, to pick up any exported D-Bus services (#3342)

Bug fixes:

• Update included copy of bubblewrap to version 0.9.0:

  • --symlink is now idempotent, meaning it succeeds if the
    symlink already exists and already has the desired target
    (#2387, #3477, #5255)
  • Report a better error message if mount(2) fails with ENOSPC
  • Fix a double-close on error reading from --args, --seccomp or
    --add-seccomp-fd argument
  • Improve memory allocation behaviour
  • Silence various compiler warnings

• Update included copy of bubblewrap to version 0.1.5:

  • Fix handling of long object paths

• Don't parse <developer><name/></developer> as the application name
  (#5700)

• Don't refuse to start apps when there is no D-Bus system bus available
  (#5076)

• Don't try to repeat migration of apps whose data was migrated to a new
  name and then deleted (#5668)

• Improve handling of mixed locales on systems with systemd-localed (#5497)

• Improve display of ellipsized columns in wide terminals (#5722)

• Make flatpak info -e look for extensions in all installations (#5670)

• Fix warnings from newer GLib versions (#5660, #5737)

• Always set the container environment variable (#5610)

• Always let the app inherit redirected file descriptors (#5626)

• In flatpak ps, add xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to the list of backends
  we'll use to learn which apps are running in the background (#5729)

• Don't use WAYLAND_SOCKET unless given --socket=inherit-wayland-socket
  (#5614)

• Use fusermount3 if compiled with FUSE 3, overridable with
  -Dsystem_fusermount compile-time option (#5104)

• Avoid leaking a temporary variable from /etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh into
  the shell environment (#5574)

• Improve async-signal safety (#5687)

• Fix various memory leaks (#5683, #5690, #5691)

• Avoid undefined behaviour of signed left-shift when storing object IDs
  in a hash table (#5738)

• Detect the correct gtk-doc when cross-compiling (#5650)

• Detect the correct wayland-scanner when cross-compiling (#5596)

• Documentation improvements (#5659, #5677, #5682, #5664, #5719)

• Skip more tests when FUSE isn't available (#5611)

• Translation updates (#5602, #5707)