diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f659c5d..13eed51c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,29 @@ +Changes in 1.5.1 +================ + +The major new feature of this is the support for protected applications and the system +around authenticting downloads to it. This is not considered stable yet, but this release +has the initial work to make it possible for developers to play around with this. I +will send out a separate mail about this later. + +Other changes: + * Flatpak now bundles bubblewrap 0.4.0, and requires 0.4.0 to use the system bubblewrap. + * Optional support for parental controls using libmalcontent. + * Transaction now installs extensions before apps to ensure we have a working app immediately after install. + * Changes in temporary file use makes flatpak run work better in low disk space situations. + * flatpak enter now works without sudo, and works better in general. + * New features for the flatpak portal: + * Support starting a sub-sandbox with the child processes visible in the original sandbox. + * Support adding some kinds of permissions to sub-sandboxes + * New commands flatpak permission-set and permission-remove + * flatpak install CLI now always shows what kind of operations everything is. + * libflatpak now returns apps as updatable if doing so would auto-download missing extensions or runtimes. + * new API: flatpak_transaction_get_no_(deploy|pull). + * We can now store locale info in the extra-languages key (in addition to the country code). + * remote-ls and list --app-runtime now only shows apps, no runtimes. + * Stop using mirror refs and delete any useless mirror refs you might have in your repo. + * Fix busy-loop regression in revokefs-fuse in 1.5.0 + Changes in 1.5.0 ================