From fb5264327ab0d00235b09a24ecc705a0f0f10895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon McVittie Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 12:06:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie --- NEWS | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d69093e6..bce1cef1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,74 @@ Changes in 1.16.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Released: not yet -... +Enhancements: + +* When using parental controls, allow a child account to update existing + apps by default, to ensure that security and bugfix updates can be + installed. This can be overridden by setting polkit policy rules for + the new `org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls-update` + action if necessary. (#5552) + +* Make systemd scopes easier to match to Flatpak app instances, + by using the instance ID instead of the top-level process ID in the + scope name (#6015) + +* Access to `--device=dri` now includes `/dev/udmabuf` (#6158) + +* Improve the error message for an invalid parameter to + flatpak-spawn --sandbox-a11y-own-name (#6048) + +* Speed up `flatpak prune --dry-run` by not calculating potential freed + space and avoiding operations that would need to hold a lock + (#5813, #6121) + +* Speed up `flatpak permission-reset` by only writing entries that have + actually changed (#5772) + +* Documentation improvements (#4859, #6066, #6134) + +* Translation updates: bg (#6120), ka (#6176), pl (#6106), + pt_BR (#6076, #6188), ro (#6139), ru (#6145), sl (#6054), sv (#6193), + tr (#6109) + +Bug fixes: + +* Fix intermittent flatpak-portal crashes by avoiding unnecessary + multi-threading (#5605) + +* Don't show a confusing confirmation prompt when `flatpak remove --unused` + removes `autoprune-unless` extensions that are no longer needed, such as + older Nvidia drivers (#5712, #2718) + +* Don't propagate `$PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX` from host into sandbox (#6110) + +* Don't propagate `$WAYLAND_DISPLAY`, `$WAYLAND_SOCKET` from host into + sandbox if access to the Wayland socket has been denied (#3948) + +* When discovering the AT-SPI bus, treat `$AT_SPI_BUS_ADDRESS` as + higher-priority than GetAddress(), more closely matching the behaviour + of AT-SPI itself (#6173) + +* Fix a memory leak when installing extra-data (#6069) + +* Don't show fatal transaction errors twice (#3400) + +* Fix the build with -Ddefault_library=static (#6119) + +* Fix incorrect error reporting (#6127, #5170) + +* When using `FLATPAK_TTY_PROGRESS`, terminate OSC escape sequence with + standard ST sequence instead of xterm-specific BEL (#6092) + +* Include all options in shell completion for `flatpak search` (#6096) + +Internal changes: + +* Fix an unclear boolean expression (no functional change) (#5013) + +* Avoid a duplicate redirection in the test suite (#6117) + +* CI updates Changes in 1.16.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~