This is the first stable release of the 1.18 series. Users and distributions are strongly encouraged to update to this version. These are the highlights of this release:
Highlights
- A new config-based portal matching mechanism that gives more precise control over which portal backends are picked for each portal.
- New portals: Clipboard and Input Capture
- The settings portal now documents an 'accent-color' key
Other changes
New portal APIs:
- Introduce a new Clipboard portal. This portal extends the Remote Desktop portal by adding support for sharing clipboard between remote machines.
- Introduce a new Input Capture portal. This portal adds mechanisms for taking control of input devices. The primary usage model is centered around the InputLeap and Synergy use cases, where local devices are used to control remote displays.
- Add an "accept-label" option the the Print portal. This lets apps suggest a proper label to the print operation.
- Document a new 'accent-color' key in the Settings portal. This key represents an arbitrary color in sRGB colorspace. How implementations of the portal provide this key is entirely dependent on their internal policies and design.
- Support restoring remote desktop sessions
- Introduce the ReadOne() method in the Settings portal. This method is now preferred over the Read() method, as Read() mistakenly returned a variant inside a variant. The Read() method will continue to exist for compatibility with existing apps, but its usage is deprecated. We recommend apps to port to the ReadOne() method. Apps can decide whether to use ReadOne() or Read() by looking at the version of the Settings portal.
Changes that might be relevant for distributors:
- Rework how portal implementations are loaded. This new, more robust system allows selecting specific backends for specific portals, and layering them when necessary. Platforms that provide portals implementation are encouraged to provide a suitable configuration file.
- Drop the Autotools build. Meson is now the only supported build system.
- The PipeWire dependency is now mandatory
- Bump GLib dependency to 2.66
Misc changes:
- Improve robustness of the OpenURI portal by validating more URIs
- Various small visual tweaks to the generated documentation
- Various fixes to the Global Shortcuts portal
- Stop using the deprecated GTimeVal struct
- Document xdg-desktop-portal versioning scheme
- Fix various issues in the OpenURI portal
- Bump interface version of the Printer portal to 2
- Validate addresses following the HTML specs in the Email portal
- Document minimum version of the new ReadOne() method of the Settings portal
- Add a mapping id property to the ScreenCast portal
- Add activation token parameter to the Email portal
- Test tarball generation in CI
- Translation updates
$ sha256sum xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0.tar.xz
5ea35a6420a98b598c83355fc19feaea8ba999149641bf84079b0c572b00f5bd xdg-desktop-portal-1.18.0.tar.xz