github flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal 1.19.1

pre-releaseone day ago

Dependencies:

  • XDG Desktop Portal now requires GLib 2.72 or higher.

New Features:

  • Introduce the Notification v2 portal. This updated version of the Notification portal supports a plethora of new fields for notifications, such as sounds, categories, purpose, and more.
  • Introduce the USB portal. This portal allows apps with relevant permissions to enumerate and acquire access to specific USB devices.
  • Introduce a new SchemeSupported method to the OpenURI portal. This new method allows apps to know ahead of time if the host system is able to deal with a particular scheme.

Enhancements:

  • Continued the move towards Python-based tests. This should simplify the test setup in the project quite significantly, and also will allow removing the cyclic dependency between libportal and XDG Desktop Portal.
  • Introduce umockdev-based tests.
  • Improve the icon validator so it can deal with memfd-based icons.
  • Clarify behavior of the Settings portal for non-standardized keys.
  • In the Global Shortcuts portal, clarify that the result the BindShortcuts
    of may be a subset of all requested shortcuts.
  • Add a documentation page about icon validation requirements.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fix memory leaks in the Background, Email, and Global Shortcuts portals.
  • Fix a general file descriptor & memory leak.
  • Fix a regression in the Settings portal.
  • New and updated translations.

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