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============
Version 0.15
============

  o make the extension check for Icon key a warning instead of an error for now
    (Ray Strode)
  o Fix a crash in update-desktop-database when there's no group (Vincent)
  o Fix a crash in the validator happening for very small lines (Vincent)

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Version 0.14
============

  o update of the Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
  o make desktop-file-install print an error when trying to install a
    non-existing desktop file, or a desktop file that can't be read (Vincent)
  o make the validator check the content of the Icon key (Vincent)
  o make the validator accept X-Foo as a valid environment (this was added to
    the spec) (Stanislav Brabec, Vincent)
  o really handle the -m command line argument for desktop-file-install
    (Matthias Clasen)
  o make desktop-file-install accept as one valid argument multiple
    categories/only-show-in/mime-types values. Now --add-category="GNOME;GTK"
    works as expected. (Vincent)
  o make desktop-file-install validate the created desktop file before removing
    the original file, and unlink it if it's not valid (Vincent)
  o code cleanups for desktop-file-install (Vincent)

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Version 0.13
============

  o rewrite validator, and update it for desktop entry specification 1.0.
    The validator should be stricter and report more useful messages.
    (Vincent)
  o add --warn-kde and --no-warn-deprecated command line options to
    desktop-file-validate (Vincent)
  o port desktop-file-install to GKeyFile (Vincent)
  o don't require --vendor for desktop-file-install (Vincent)
  o some general module cleanup (Vincent)

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Version 0.12
============

  o improves category validation code to not catch false positives (Vincent Fretin, Ville Skyttä, Ray Strode, Vincent Untz) 
  o make category validation code non-fatal (Ray)
  o fix mem leaks and double frees (Pascal Terjan)

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Version 0.11
============

  o Validate desktop file categories (Emmet Hikory, Vincent Untz)
  o Use GKeyFile instead of the old egg code in update-desktop-database (Vincent)
  o Use GOption instead of popt (Vincent)
  o Fix grammar problem in one of the strings (Moritz Barsnick)
  o NULL terminate search patch in update-desktop-database (Mike Hearn)
  o Fix language to encoding mapping to match spec (Ville Skyttä) 

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Version 0.10
============

  o Remove all menus code (Mark McLoughlin)
  o Don't try and add key/value pairs to comments (Miloslav Trmac)

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Version 0.9
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  o Many update-desktop-database improvements (Ray Strode, Dan Williams)
  o Fix desktop-file-install --remove-only-show-in (Ray Strode)

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Version 0.8
===========

 o Fix various leaks (Kjartan Maraas)
 o Update with latest libegg code (Ray Strode)

 o Menu method work (Mark McLoughlin, Dan Williams)
     + Reload the menu when .desktop/.directory files change
     + Respect NoDisplay in .desktop/.directory files
     + Remove empty submenus
     + Report the last modification time of the tree
     + Support setting the OnlyShowIn name
     + Add a reasonable default set of schemes

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Version 0.7
===========

 o Add update-desktop-database (Ray Strode)
 o Emacs editing mode for .desktop files (Ville Skyttä)
 o Update to latest spec, improve error messages (Ville Skyttä)
 o Warning fixes (Mark McLoughlin)
 o distcheck fixes (Jonathan Blandford)

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Version 0.6
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 o Bring up to date with version 0.8 of the menu spec
 o Don't crash when a .desktop file is a symlink to a non-existant file

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Version 0.5
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 o Don't segfault with .desktop files which have a leading comment

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Version 0.4
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 o Add support for "Desktop Action" sections

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Version 0.3
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 o Create target dir of desktop-file-install if nonexistent;
 o improve some error messages
 o fix OnlyShowIn? handling
 o add --print-available option to dump desktop files being considered by desktop-menu-tool
 o rename obsolete [KDE Desktop Entry] section if found
 o fix a crash
 o verify proper spelling of KDE and GNOME in OnlyShowIn?
 o add a --remove-key option; check that string lists end in a semicolon
 o add --copy-name-to-generic-name and vice versa
 o fix bug in --delete-original that made it not work

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Version 0.2
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 o Adds desktop-menu-tool to parse vfolder menus and generate a symlink tree or just print them out.

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Version 0.1
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 o Initial release. Contains desktop-file-validate and desktop-file-install.