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shared-mime-info 2.3 (2022-10-07)

* Make update-mime-database compatible with MSVC (by porting it to C++)
* Remove "##" magic for matlab files
* Add application/x-ms-pdb
* Identify .pdb files without a signature match as application/vnd.palm
* text/vnd.familysearch.gedcom: use IANA registered type
* application/vnd.dbf: use IANA registered type
* application/vnd.dart: use IANA registered type
* application/yaml: use IANA registered type
* Update application/sieve.
* Updated to latest xdgmime
* Add subclass information for .ppt and .xls
* Add application/x-bzip3
* Add application/x-bzip for bzip2's deprecated predecessor bzip
* Rename application/x-bzip to application/x-bzip2
* add tiled map editor map and tileset files
* Add image/apng
* Lengthen image/png magic
* Add JPEG XR mime type
* Add Gerber and Excellon drill files
* Bump magic priority for application/ovf
* Fix description for audio/x-xi
* Add Portable Font Resource `application/font-tdpfr`.
* Add mimetype application/x-lmdb
* Add definition and test file for StuffIt X archives.
* spec: Clarify that namespaceURI can be empty
* Add application/vnd.ms-officetheme
* Add mime type for Typst files
* Add text/x-nim and text/x-nimscript
* Don't install man page on Windows
* Improve matching for message/rfc822
* Add mimetype for Blueprint source code
* buildsystem - add options for building tests and translations
* Give application/x-raw-floppy-disk-image the floppy media icon
* Give generic optical disk images the optical media icon
* Make application/vnd.squashfs a subclass of application/vnd.efi.img
* Prefer application/vnd.efi.img over application/x-raw-disk-image
* Prefer application/vnd.efi.iso over application/x-cd-image
* Avoid meson errors when 'build-tools' is set to false
* Add DOS/Windows batch file type
* Add application/vnd.microsoft.windows.thumbnail-cache
* Add application/x-fishscript and application/x-nuscript
* Add perf data file type
* use Sentence case for mime type descriptions
* Revert "use Title Case for mime type description"
* Add todo.txt mime type
* Prefer video/vnd.avi over video/x-msvideo
* Prefer audio/vnd.wave over audio/x-wav
* Add mimetype for ERIS link files
* Add mimetype for CBOR
* Add support for newer AAXC Audible Audiobook format
* ci: Use ci-templates to build image
* Add Modrinth modpack
* Add application/x-zpaq
* CI: Use dnf5 instead of dnf
* use Title Case for mime type description
* Add mimetype for Quite OK Image Format (QOI)
* ci: Use detached pipelines
* Add OpenVPN profile
* Prefer application/java-archive to application/x-java-archive
* icons for 3d model formats
* Make application/pgp-* not inherit from text/plain
* Add text/julia for Julia source code
* application/javascript: Rename to text/javascript
* Change descriptions to say LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice
* Add TAK audio mime type
* video/vnd.youtube.yt: add magic
* video/vnd.youtube.yt: use IANA registered type
* text/markdown: add x-office-document generic-icon
* Add two new languages
* `audio/x-wav`: Add missing sub-class relationship with `application/x-riff`
* Add mimetype for Flattened Devicetree (binary)
* Add mimetype for Devicetree source code

shared-mime-info 2.2 (2022-03-27)
* model/3mf: new
* Match shared libraries with version suffix
* model/obj: add mtllib and Blender comment based magic
* model/mtl: add Blender comment magic, increase newmtl range
* model/obj, model/mtl: new types
* Add Electron Archive Format type application/x-asar
* text/x-qml: Lower match priority to avoid conflicts with Python
* Move '*.blend' to top of Blender glob list
* Adding SPARQL media types
* application/zip: Add `*.zipx` glob and test fixture
* Added DSD mime type
* Differentiate comic book archives
* FITS: Add missing `application/fits` and legacy globs
* Add Godot engine files
* Add FlashForge "xgcode" mime-type
* text/x-objc++src: new type
* image/heif: test .hif extension too
* image/hif: add *.hif glob
* image/heif: add another test case
* image/heif: add magics
* Add a build-tools option to allow installing only the mime data
* Add compressed SVG glob pattern `*.svg.gz`
* Add Apple Wallet pass type application/vnd.apple.pkpass
* migrate from custom itstool to builtin msgfmt for creating translated XML
* Make the remaining plain text types subclasses of text/plain
* audio/mobile-xmf: separate from audio/x-xmf
* Adding ZIM file
* Make text/x-mrml a subclass of application/xml
* image/avif: move acronym and expansion to separate fields from comment
* freedesktop_generate.sh: Don't hardcode ninja
* Add text/x-mpl2
* application/x-apple-systemprofiler+xml: require _SPCommandLineArguments in plist
* image/jpeg: add test case with embedded property list XML
* audio/vnd.dts.hd: include parent type magic in magic match
* model/gltf+json: new type
* model/gltf-binary: new type
* application/x-object: add *.mod and a test case
* application/x-mod: add some ProTracker magics and a test case
* image/jxl: include test files in test list
* tests: add trailing linefeed to mime-detection list
* Make application/x-mswinurl a subclass of text/plain
* Change description for *.desktop files to "desktop entry"
* application/x-x509-ca-cert: add magics and test cases
* application/pkix-cert: add BEGIN/END X509 CERTIFICATE magic
* application/pkix-crl: add magic and test case
* application/pkix-cert: add magic and test case
* image/jxl: new type
* Added .sc filename extension for Scala source code, as it is occasionally used
* application/schema+json: new type
* Add text/x-crystal
* application/x-krita: remove stray period from comment
* adding org-mode
* Add Elixir source code mime type
* Add two new offsets for .kra and .krz
* text/x-python3: add *.pyi glob (Python stub files)
* image/x-canon-cr3: new
* image/x-xpixmap: make XPM3 magic more specific
* image/x-xpixmap: add XPM2 magic
* application/x-troff-man: add *.[1-9] glob
* application/toml: new type
* Lower priority of "BEGIN {" for perl, awk uses that too
* Add Smacker video type video/vnd.radgamettools.smacker
* Clarify database license
* meson: make xmlto optional, build spec only if found
* application/x-7z-compressed: add *.7z.001 glob
* Add Bink video type video/vnd.radgamettools.bink
* image/x-nikon-nrw: add test case
* image/x-nikon-nrw: new type
* application/x-vhdx-disk: improve acronym and its expansion
* application/ovf: new
* application/x-qed-disk: new
* application/x-vdi-disk: new
* application/x-vmdk-disk: new
* application/x-vhd-disk, /x-vhdx-disk: new
* application/vnd.apple.numbers, .pages: add older magics and test cases
* Add text/x-dart
* application/vnd.apple.numbers, /vnd.apple.pages: new types
* xdgmime: configure as submodule

shared-mime-info 2.1 (2020-12-31)
* New maintainers: David Faure and Ville Skyttä
* Adapt to xdgmime behaviour change: in case of multiple glob matches, and the magic match is unrelated to all of them, ignore the magic and pick one of the glob matches. xdgmime was actually deviating from the spec on this. (#138)
* Improve text/vnd.trolltech.linguist magic to reduce false positives for MPEG TS files (#10)
* audio/mpeg: add layer 2, 2.5, and 1 protected magics (#46)
* Add many aliases for image/x-tga
* audio/x-mod: improve magic for 669 Composer files (#144)
* Add mime-type image/ktx2 (Khronos image texture format version 2)
* application/oxps: differentiate from /vnd.ms-xpsdocument
* Make image/g3fax the canonical name for image/fax-g3
* Make text/vnd.trolltech.linguist the canonical name for text/vnd.qt.linguist
* Make application/vnd.smaf the canonical name for application/x-smaf
* Make application/vnd.apple.keynote the canonical name for application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey
* Add mime-type image/astc (Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression files)
* Add mime-type for SageMath script files (*.sage)
* Add mime-type for Kaitai Struct
* Remove application/x-dc-rom
* Add mime-type for MAME compressed hard disk image (application/x-mame-chd)
* Add mime-types application/nintendo-3ds-executable, application/x-nintendo-3ds-rom
* Add mime-types application/x-dreamcast-rom, application/x-gd-rom-cue, application/x-discjuggler-cd-image
* Add mime-type application/x-compressed-iso (*.cso)
* Remove image/avif-sequence
* Fix application/x-sharedlib vs application/x-executable confusion for PIE executables (#11)

shared-mime-info 2.0 (2020-06-05)
* Port build system to meson, and ship test suite with tarball
* Install ITS file to allow gettext to translate mime-type descriptions
* Add BPS and IPS patch formats
* Lower weight for "use strict" and similar in the perl mimetype
* Add new magic for Sega Mega Drive ROMs
* Add Common Lisp mime-type
* Rename text/x-tcl to text/tcl
* Add text/vbscript
* Add PySpread spreadsheet mime-types
* Add Kotlin source mime-type
* Add AVIF image mime-type
* Split versions of the Audible audio mime types
* Add *.spx glob for audio/x-speex+ogg
* Add Apple System Profiler XML mime-type

shared-mime-info 1.15 (2019-10-30)
* Add Kindle 8 eBook format
* Fix some HTML files being detected as XML

shared-mime-info 1.14 (2019-09-20)
* Add mime-type for QCOW images
* Fix matching SVG files in some circumstances (again)

shared-mime-info 1.13.1 (2019-09-11)
* Fix matching SVG files in some circumstances

shared-mime-info 1.13 (2019-09-11)
* Add code of conduct document
* Use itstool and gettext to generate translations
* Add content-tree type for OSTree USB repositories
* Add match for MPEG-4 v1 videos
* Adjust a lot of user readable mime-type descriptions
* Fix WOFF/WOFF2 mime-types
* Prefer text/html to XHTML for *.html files
* Better magic for text/html files
* Fix SVG magic for files embedded in HTML
* Add *.sgd as a glob for Mega Drive ROMs

Specification:
- Mention that sub-class-of can be aliases

Tools:
- Enable Large File Support in update-mime-database

Test suite:
- Make test suite failures fatal
- Add test for duplicate mime-types
- Fix WarpScript test
- Generate the specification in the CI, to avoid it becoming
  syntactically invalid

shared-mime-info 1.12 (2019-01-17)
* Fix build from tarball

shared-mime-info 1.11 (2019-01-17)
* Add mime-type for reStructuredText
* Add mime-type for Groovy scripting language
* Add mime-type for Gradle build tool
* Add mime-type for Maven
* Add mime-type for WarpScript source code
* Add mime-type for zstd and tar.zst archives
* Change the preferred suffix for image/jpeg from .jpeg to .jpg
* Assign *.html to XHTML pages
* Better detection for *.key files (Apple Keynote vs. GPG keys)
* Give weight to one of the appimage patterns

Tools:
- Link to GitLab for contributions and bug reports
- Loads of memory and file descriptor leak fixes

Spec:
- Clarify the availability of C character escape support

shared-mime-info 1.10 (2018-06-28)
* Add mime-type for MJPEG raw streams
* Add MPEG-4 Ringtone mime-type
* Add mime-type for HEIF images
* Add application/vnd.sqlite3, application/x-sqlite2 IANA types
* Add application/pkcs8-encrypted
* Add audio/usac
* Add application/vnd.youtube.yt
* Add mime-types for raw floppy disk images
* Add aliases for SAP and HFE floppy images mime-types
* Use new application/vnd.comicbook-rar IANA type
* Remove magic from STL binary
* Add *.adts and *.ass globs from IANA to audio/aac
* Use new IANA type for application/xliff+xml
* Use new IANA type for model/stl
* Add text/x-perl alias to application/x-perl
* Bump priority for our DjVu mime-types
* Differentiate Neo Geo Pocket Color ROMs from non-Color ones
* Remove *.bin from application/octet-stream
* Add an application/xps alias for application/oxps
* Change Qt Linguist file type to text/vnd.qt.linguist
* Fix the QML magic

Tools:
- Don't warn with unknown top level type names
- Look in obsolete KDE sub-dirs for clean up opportunities
- Add some debug when parsing XML package files

Spec:
- ASCII check should be done with 128 leading bytes, not 32 bytes

shared-mime-info 1.9 (2017-09-18)
* Add x-systemd-unit and x-dbus-service MIME types
* Fix magic for application/x-java-keystore on little endian
* Add mime-type for STL 3D models and GCODE
* Add application/x-executable as a supertype of application/ecmascript
* Add shebang magic for gjs JavaScript files
* Add a mimetype for Khronos texture files
* Add a mime-type for Famicom Disk System images
* Add "font" top level type, and use IANA registered type for TTF,
  OTF, WOFF, TTC and WOFF2
* Add OpenCL mime-type
* Add text/x-python3 content type
* Add Audible.com mime type
* Add application/x-atari-lynx-rom
* Add application/x-wonderswan-rom
* Add application/x-virtual-boy-rom
* Better JPEG 2000 MIME type support
* Add support for GIMP data files (.gbr, .gih, .pat)
* Add an alias for Adobe Illustrator formats
* Add *.mjs glob for Javascript
* Rename application/x-trig to application/trig
* Rename Panasonic RAW image mime-types to image/x-panasonic-rw*
* Change the preferred suffix for image/x-tga from icb to tga
* Correct "PostScript" capitalisation
* Add mimetype for AppImage Type 2
* Remove AppImage glob with different casing

shared-mime-info 1.8 (2016-12-05)
* Add Flatpak-related mime-types
* Add mime-type for a number of Thomson-related disk (and cassette) images
* Add many audio and video mime-type aliases as used in VLC
* Add mime-type for pdf.lz files
* Write the correct length for literal and glob lists to the cache
* Build fixes

shared-mime-info 1.7 (2016-09-05)
* Add mime-types for a number of video games systems ROMS
  (Atari 7800, Atari 2600, Neo Geo Pocket, Sega CD/Mega-CD, Game Boy Color,
   Genesis 32X, Sega SG-1000, Sega Game Gear, Sega Pico)
* Add mime-type for .tar.lz and tar.lz4 archives
* Add mime-type for Jupyter Notebook files
* Add Flatpak mime-types and add compatibility for xdg-app ones
* Add *.dib glob to BMP images
* Use official IANA mime-types for WMF and EMF images
* Add application/raml+yaml mime-type
* Add GPX mimetypes as found in the wild
* Add application/vnd.squashfs and application/vnd.snap mime-types
* Add mime-type for IGES documents
* Add mime-types for Sass CSS pre-processor files
* Add mime-type for Twig templates
* Add alias application/nappdf for application/pdf
* Add mimetype for AppImage
* Add application/x-bsdiff mime-type
* Add Gherkin feature specifications mime-type
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.chess-pgn
* Use new IANA registered type for application/geo+json
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.comicbook+zip
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.rar
* Use official IANA registered type for application/vnd.framemaker
* Improve VRML mime-type
* Better MPEG-2 TS magic
* Better magic for 669 tracker MOD files
* Fix misdetection of zip files as their content
* Fix multi-page DjVu detection by file
* Fix TGA magic detection
* Fixes related to AMR audio files
* Remove "*.sg" glob for Sega Master System ROM types

shared-mime-info 1.6 (2016-02-23)
* Add XAR archive mime-type
* Add GeoJSON mime-type
* Add GPX mime-type
* Add xdg-app mime-type
* Add *.xht glob and magic for XHTML files
* Bump priority of archive mime-types with long magics,
  to avoid false positives when detecting files inside
  the archive itself

shared-mime-info 1.5 (2015-09-15)
* Fix compilation with glib < 2.26
* Update DTD

Mime-type changes:
* Add more globs to console ROM files
* Use "folder" generic-icon for inode/directory
* Bump priority for ISO images glob matching to work
  around confusion around Wii image files
* Add application/owl+xml
* Add text/turtle
* Use IANA registered image/vnd.zbrush.pcx for PCX
* Add text/rust for Rust source code
* Add application/ld+json as subclass of application/json
* Add text/csv-schema
* Add application/vnd.coffeescript
* Make application/vnd.apple.mpegurl a subclass of text/plain
* Make application/sdp a subclass of text/plain
* Add application/jrd+json as subclass of application/json
* Add MTM, MED, 699 and Ultratracker magic for application/x-mod
* Add Meson build definitions
* Match newer versions of XCF files
* Use IANA registered type for PKCS#12
* Add application/x-doom-wad
* Add Amiga disk image
* Rename "Dreamcast ROM" to "Dreamcast GD-ROM"
* Add application/x-wii-wad
* Add magic and tests to application/x-gameboy-rom
* Add application/x-saturn-rom
* Fix application/x-genesis-rom translation rules
* Split up multi-page DjVu into its own mime-type

shared-mime-info 1.4 (2015-02-05)
* Add glob for low-resolution videos from GoPro
* Add mime-type for partially downloaded files
* Use IANA registered mime-type for Debian packages
* Add another magic for OTF fonts
* Add support for Adobe PageMaker
* Remove the Apple iOS PNG variant
* Add *.dbk glob for DocBook
* Use IANA registered mime-type for Vivo
* Remove obsolete application/x-gmc-link mime-type
* Make application/x-wais-source a subclass of text/plain
* Flip application/smil+xml and application/smil type/alias
* Add Nintendo 64 ROM magic
* Add qpress archive support
* Add image/x-tiff-multipage mime-type
* Rename "Microsoft icon" to "Windows icon"
* Add magic for ODB files
* Use IANA registered text/markdown for Markdown
* New mimetype for SCons scripts as subclass of x-python
* Make application/pgp-encrypted a subclass of text/plain
* Associate *.qmltypes and *.qmlproject files with the text/x-qml mime type
* Add text/x-genie mime type for Genie source code

* Disable fdatasync() usage if PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC is set
* Skip mime database update if packages are older than cache
* Add "-n" option to update-mime-database to only update if "newer"

shared-mime-info 1.3 (2014-04-08)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add Aliases for OpenOffice Base and StarWriter
- Add Apple Keynote 5 mime-type
- Add mimetype for compressed FictionBook2
- Don't recognize all .asc files as application/pgp-encrypted
- Add tree magic for the Kindle e-book reader
- Add LZ4 archive type
- Add PC Engine, GameCube and Wii "ROM" types
- Add audio/x-opus+ogg mime-type
- Add image/webp mime-type
- Prefer application/vnd.ms-asf to video/x-ms-asf
- Add application/x-riff mime-type
- Add JSON mime-type
- Add *.jsm glob for Javascript
- Add magic and glob patterns for compressed x-spss-sav files
- JavaScript and CSS are not subclasses of text/x-csrc
- Remove *.CSSL glob for CSS files

* Call g_type_init() only with older glib
* Fix failures on NetBSD
* Store MEDIA/SUBTYPE.xml files in lowercase

shared-mime-info 1.2 (2013-09-30)
* Mime-type changes:
- Use IANA registered application/sql type for SQL
- Add test for text/x-python
- Added *.pyx as Pyrex/Cython variant of text/x-python
- Lower the priority of the *png glob on Apple PNGs
- Add magic for Kobo e-book reader
- Add another magic for EPub books
- Add missing globs and tests for OpenPGP files
- Add MIME types for raw disk images
- Add video/x-matroska-3d mime-type
- Use application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie for SWF
- Use application/vnd.nintendo.snes.rom for SNES ROMs, associate *.sfc with them
- Fix shebang matches for shell scripts
- Remove *.ogv as a glob for Theora videos as they might not be Theora
- Improve detection of Perl scripts
- Add more aliases for Photoshop images
- Add Microsoft Publisher mime-type
- Correct JPEG2000 definition

* Check for errors when saving files, and ensure that files
  are saved to disk before carrying on.
* Don't use access() to check for writability
* Rename configure.in to configure.ac

shared-mime-info 1.1 (2012-02-13)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add application/x-ccmx
- Add zz-application/zz-winassoc-* aliases
- Make application/x-xz-compressed-tar a subclass of application/x-xz
- Add DTS and DTS-HD mime-types
- Add test for PPM bug
- Fix comment and add glob for application/pkcs7-mime
- Add application/x-qtiplot mime-type
- Add AMZ (AmazonMP3 Download File) mime-type
- Add separate mime-type for Apple broken PNGs
- Add *.mk and *.mak text/x-makefile globs
- Match application/vnd.palm to IANA standard
- Use IANA registered application/gzip instead of x-gzip
- Add application/gml+xml
- Fix Scream Tracker instrument magic
- Add application/x-gtk-builder type
- Add magic for v1 and v2 XCF files
- Add LZMA test file
- Fix some globs for OGG files
- Move *.taz from application/x-compressed-tar to application/x-tarz
- Add some sub-class-of tags for compressed files
- Add *.tb2 as a glob for application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Add support for DOS EPS files
- Add *.ar archives to the test suite
- Add xlr mime-type
- Add application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- Put bz2 patterns before bz ones for bzip-related mimetypes
- Add simple magic for text/x-gettext-translation-template
- Add test case for application/x-gettext-translation
- Add mime-type for source RPMs
- Add AMR audio test
- Add test case for TTF fonts
- Add Woff font mime-type
- Add FLTK acronym
- Add application/ics as an alias for text/calendar
- Add RAR acronym
- Add dicomdir glob
- Add *.di as a glob for D source files
- Add magic for MNG animations
- Add magic for PICT v2 images
- Add JNLP file to the test suite
- Add support for the AVF AVI container variant
- Add EMF and WMF aliases
- Improve magic of uncompressed TGA files
- Add application/winhlp
- Add text/x-uuencode
- Add MHTML mime-type
- Make the main docbook mime-type be application/x-docbook+xml
- Add application/x-lzh-compressed as alias to application/x-lha
- Add IFF super-type
- Split off the AAC mime-type from the M4A one
- Add text/x-modelica mime-type
- Add magic for GNU gettext message catalogs (.mo)

* Specification changes:
- Fix mimetype names used as examples
- Document that the first extension is the main one
- Fix missing plural

* Honor NOCONFIGURE=1
* Allow builders to not run make check by default
* Fix build for platforms with executable extensions
* Disable checks when cross compiling
* Use non-installed update-mime-database in install-data-hook
* Use native update-mime-database for install when cross compiling
* Add a local-test target to print mime info

shared-mime-info 1.0 (2012-01-17)
* Mime-type changes:
- Add root-XML for AbiWord, Atom, Dia, Dia shape,
  KML, RDF, XSL FO, metalink, XMI, SMIL
- Add glob for VDR recordings
- Make PBM/PPM detection more permissive
- Fix magic for MP3 files without ID3
- Add application/vnd.visio mimetype
- Fix Amazon MP3 being detected as Qt Designer
- Add application/acrobat alias for PDF files
- Add support for detecting DVDs without VIDEO_TS dirs

* Test suite adjustments for xdgmime bug fixes


shared-mime-info 0.91 (2011-09-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add WWF
- Add application/vnd.android.package-archive.
- Add root-XML for SVG
- Add Qt QML
- Add application/x-fictionbook
- Add application/x-mobipocket-ebook
- Add another alias for ASX playlists
- Add video/3gp, video/x-mpeg, video/x-mpeg2,
  video/divx, and video/msvideo aliases
- Add MSOffice 12 and OOXML mime-types
- Add video/vnd.mpegurl
- Java class tweaks
- Add magic for Megadrive ROMs
- Add application/vnd.tcpdump.pcap
- Fix root-XML for XSL
- Add extension for Scheme text files
- Add extensions for VRML documents
- Loosen magic for FLTK fluid files
- Move application/x-reject to text/x-reject
- Add application/x-nzb
- Remove glob from text/x-uri
- Added a *.wsgi pattern for python scripts
- Add DVI, PKCS, RELAX NG, and S/MIME acronyms.
- Use text/vcard instead of deprecated text/directory for vCards.
- Add text/x-markdown
- Add WebVTT
- Add *.php5 and *.phps as patterns for PHP
- Make dash scripts shell scripts
- Add application/x-iso9660-image alias for application/x-cd-image
- Add text/x-scala mime type
- Add another magic for XSPF files
- Update CHM mime-type to application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp

* Other:
- Fix parallel build
- Update GPLv2 COPYING file
- Use XZ tarballs by default

shared-mime-info 0.90 (2010-12-1)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Make application/epub+zip sub-class-of application/zip
- Make sure RAM files are not all treated as text
- Make CMakefiles a sub-class of text/plain
- Add new mime-type for Panasonic RW2 images
- Add XSL magic
- Add root-XML for XSL
- Add *.gem as a glob for tar archives
- Add test case for text/directory files
- Add go source code
- Add pdf.xz mime-type
- Add text/x-ooc source code
- Add Cobol source code

* Other:
- Don't error out on the x-scheme-handler/* mime-types
- Fix crasher when mime-magic is empty

shared-mime-info 0.80 (2010-09-30)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add magic for F4V (Flash) video files
- Add mime-type for Dia shapes
- Bump priority for KOffice magics to give them precedence over gzip and zip
- Add mime-type for Verilog and SystemVerilog source files and headers
- Add Qt Linguist translation file
- Add application/x-xspf+xml alias for XSPF playlists
- Use audio/flac for FLAC files, make audio/x-flac an alias of it
- Add mime-type for HDF files
- Add mime-type for Mozilla Extension packages
- Add mime-type for text/cache-manifest
- Add YAML mime-type
- Add application/relax-ng-compact-syntax mime-type
- Add more tests for Matlab and Octave files
- Improve translator comments for VCD, SVCD and PictureCD
- Add application/pkcs8 mime-type
- Add audio and video WebM mime-types
- Add video/mp2t mime-type
- Use generic video icon for application/x-matroska
- Improve magic for Matroska files
- Add magic for audio/x-stm
- Update magic for Apple HTTP Streaming playlists
- Add Lrzip archive mime-type
- Fix PDF detection for some pesky files
- Add details about 3GPP and 3GPP2 files
- Add JavaFX video format
- Add Windows Imaging Format Disk Image mime-type
- Add application/x-apple-diskimage mime-type
- Add e-book reader content-type
- Add application/x-tex as an alias for text/x-tex
- Use application/oxps mime-type for XPS files
- Add magic to BibTeX files

* Other:
- Fix malformed D source test
- Avoid using ~/.local data when running the test suite
- Make sure that update-mime-info doesn't get called before installed

shared-mime-info 0.71 (2010-02-01)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add magic for FLAC files
- Add ICC profiles
- Remove duplicate XUL definition
- Add IT8.7/2 profiles
- Add Apple's HTTP Live Streaming playlists
- Add application/pkix-crl
- Match *xsl and *xslt to application/xslt+xml
- Add *.eml glob for message/rfc822 messages
- Add application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow
- Update MathML definition
- Add application/x-java-keystore and application/x-java-jce-keystore
- Add OpenDocument test cases, flat XML file definitions
- Make D sources a sub-class of C sources

* Specification:
- Update version to 0.19

* Other:
- Move to git for VCS
- Use transifex for translations

shared-mime-info 0.70 (2009-09-06)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add MXF video
- Add Google Earth XML files
- Add XZ archives
- Add SPSS formats
- Add OpenRaster images
- Add glob for OpenType fonts
- Add more MPEG-4 video container magic
- Add RealMediaFormat videos
- Add LZIP archives
- Add Kexi mime-types
- Add CBT comics
- Add Windows theme packs
- Add metalink
- Better glob for core files
- Better magic for graphviz files
- Add MRML, CVS, TSV acronyms
- Better definition for LZO archives
- Fix mime-type/magic for Java archives
- Fix MSWinURL magic
- Add tar.bz2 as a sub-class of application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Split Win32 from Unix autostart detection
- Better magic for Cisco VPN files
- New magic for Word documents
- Better glob matching for Makefiles

* Specification:
- Add glob-deleteall and magic-deleteall support
- Add case-sensitive attribute support

* Other changes:
- fix make call on *BSDs
- Better error in update-mime-database when a directory doesn't exist

shared-mime-info 0.60 (2009-02-21)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add alias for SMIL
- Fix SMIL detection
- Add Annodex mime-type
- Only use .ogg for audio Ogg files
- Fix RDF mime-type
- Oasis mime-type fixes
- Make PICTURES match a picture CD but not "pictures"
- Add alias for application/zip
- Add Microsoft Document Imaging format
- Add magic for 7z archives
- Add cb7 comic book archives
- Add magic for XCF files
- Remove application/x-msi magic
- Add audio/x-gsm mime-type
- Add MS cab mime-type
- Add FictionBook mime-type
- Fix PKCS#12 bundles definition (not text files)
- Add PKCS#7 and PkiPath mime-types
- Add application/vnd.ms-wpl mime-type
- Add more aliases for media types
- Add alias for text/x-csv
- Fix comment for Gnucash files
- Make Javascript a sub-class of C
- Add *.vapi as a glob for Vala files
- Fix image/fits to match IANA
- Add Office 2007/OpenXML documents mime-types
- Add Pocket Word and AportisDoc document types
- Fix MS ICO, and Photoshop image to match IANA

* Other changes:
- Regenerate the pot file when needed
- Some clarifications in the spec
- Build fix when srcdir != builddir

shared-mime-info 0.51 (2008-07-23)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Strings review

shared-mime-info 0.50 (2008-07-22)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Better magic for a number of image types, from gdk-pixbuf
- Add "extended URL format" files
- Add MSI (Windows Installer) type
- Add tree content types

* update-mime-database Changes:
- Implement tree content types, in the treemagic file

shared-mime-info 0.40 (2008-06-11)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add Skencil image
- Add OpenOffice extension
- Add Lilypond music sheets
- Add MO3 compressed tracker files
- Add text/x-diff alias for patches
- Add text/x-c alias for C source files
- Add text/rtf for RTF files
- Add *.m3u8 glob for M3U files
- Fix problems with Matroska audio/video detection
- Fix pack200 magic
- Fix detection of some message/rfc822 files
- Tighten PBM/PPM/PGM magic to avoid false positives
- Make "README*" glob very low
- Make application/x-gnuplot a subclass of text/plain
- Remove useless fnmatch matches
- Remove useless gtkrc mime-type

* update-mime-database Changes:
- Implement glob weights
- Implement reverse suffix tree
- Implement icon and generic-icon support
- Implement compact suffix tree

shared-mime-info 0.30 (2008-05-12)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add LZMA archive
- Add Eiffel source
- Add TTX font
- Add EXR image
- Add SubViewer subtitle
- Add Windows Registry
- Add SMAF, XMF and iMelogy ringtones
- Add MRML playlists
- Add FLTK Fluid
- Add NFO info
- Add ALZ archive
- Add MS Word template
- Add GNUNet saved searches
- Add MOF
- Add CDRDAO TOC
- Add magic for KDC Kodak
- Add pattern for PCX images
- Add pattern for mbox files
- Add pattern for AWK scripts
- Add more magic for FLAC audio
- Add iptables
- Add Electronic books
- Add Cisco VPN
- Add Pack200 archives
- Add CMake scripts
- Add MS Works document
- Update DjVu types
- Update Flash video type
- Mark RCS files as text/plain
- Add an alias for RPM packages
- Remove application/x-cgi mime-type
- Remove *.exe glob for Unix executables
- Remove audio/x-mp3-playlist and make it an alias for MP3 playlists
- Remove the useless application/x-dbm type
- Remove duplicate *.amr glob from 3GPP files
- Add "<Asx" as a pattern for ASX files
- Lower XML magic priority so text/html is preferred
- Fix magic for application/x-java
- Fix up magic for AVI files
- Add "*.med" glob to MOD music
- Add "*.3gp2" glob for 3GPP audio/video
- Fix multiple XML mime-types
- Remove duplicate StuffIt archive type
- Remove unused text/x-ksysv-log

* Other:
- Update specification
- Add instructions on how to file bugs, and update translations
- Update dependencies to GLib 2.6
- Update DTD, require translated comments, require expanded-acronym if
acronym is present, require a known value for generic-icon
- Small fix to the update-mime-database man page
- Ignore unknown fields in update-mime-database
- Make sure all the comments are marked for translation
- Fix typos in the DTD
- Avoid warnings in update-mime-database for the x-content/ mimetypes

shared-mime-info 0.23 (2007-12-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add QTIF QuickTime image
- Add SDP stream description
- Add Vala source file
- Add Atom feed, OPML
- Add SAMI, MicroDVD, MPSub, SSA subtitles
- Add audio/x-m4b as a sub-class of audio/mp4
- Add *.aac as a suffix for MPEG-4 audio files
- Add Compressed Flash detection, add FutureSplash support
- Add *.asc as a suffix for PGP armoured keys
- Add application/msword as a sub-class of application/x-ole-storage
- Don't associate *.htm and *.html to Mozilla bookmarks
- Add more aliases for PowerPoint and Word mime-types
- Add *.vlc as a suffix for m3u files
- Better magic for Word and Office documents
- Split Windows Media Station playlists from ASX ones
- Fix up JPEG 2000 mime-types
* Other:
- Add a testsuite in the CVS tree

shared-mime-info 0.22 (2007-07-30)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Clean up the Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks mime-types
- Fix Powerpoint magic detection
- Add another magic matchlet to HTML
- Add magic detection for OpenOffice.org files
- Add MP2 audio, EMF mime-types
- Add more aliases for 3GPP videos
- Add magic detection to WMF
- Add more suffixes for WordPerfect documents
- Add mime-types for SIS/SISX archives
- Add x-epoc media type
- Add *.hxx as a suffix for C++ headers
- Add Erlang mime-type
- Add another Fortran magic detection
- Add Plucker mime-type
- Add winmail.dat files as TNEF files
- Add WMLScript mime-type
- Add JAD mime-type
- Add iRiver PLA playlist mime-type
- Add Nintendo DS ROM mime-type
- Add video/avi as an alias for AVI files
- Update Ogg mime-types to match Xiph's latest documents
* Other:
- Improve Window compatibility
- Update the glib requirements

shared-mime-info 0.21 (2007-04-18)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add *.m2t as a pattern for MPEG-2 files
- Add comments for the XMCD database and ARC mime-types
- Fix comments for Adobe FrameMaker documents
- Make application/m3u an alias for audio/x-mpegurl
- Make audio/x-mpeg an alias for audio/mpeg
- Add XPS to the mime-types
- Fix RealVideo documents mime-types
- Make application/x-shared-library-la a subclass of text/plain
- Add TNEF to the mime-types
- Add PAK archive to the mime-types
- Add PSF, miniPSF, PSFlib, and gzipped PSF fonts to the mime-types
- Add *.iso9660 as a pattern for ISO files
- Add PKCS#10 certification requests to the mime-types
- Add and correct loads of raw camera image types
- Add magic for OpenOffice.org file types
- Add KSysV init files to the mime-types
- Add DirectDraw surface files to the mime-types
- Add X11 cursor type to the mime-types
- Fix magic for RTSPtext metalinks

* Other:
- Remove mention of ROX in the See Also section of the man page

shared-mime-info 0.20 (2007-02-06)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add text/javascript as an alias for application/javascript
- Add  *.latex as a pattern for TeX documents
- Add image/x-macpaint for "MacPaint Bitmap image"
- Add RTSPtextRTSP-style movie references to application/x-quicktime-media-link
- Add image/pdf as an alias for application/pdf
- Add video/flv as an alias for FLV videos
- Add Google Video Pointer mime-types
- Add application/pls as an alias for pls files
- Add gzip/bz2 types for DVI, PDF and PostScript
- Add *.kar as a pattern for MIDI files
- Add video/mp4v-es as an alias for MPEG-4 videos
- Add video/x-ms-wvx, video/x-ms-wax and video/x-ms-wmx as alias for ASX
- Add patterns and aliases for Vivo video
- Add alias for FLI files
- Add video/x-ms-wm as an alias for video/x-ms-asf
- Add a image/x-icns mime-type for MacOS X icons
- Add a text/x-rpm-spec mime-type for RPM .spec files
- Add NSC multicast playlists to video/x-ms-asf, with magic
- Add the audio/x-tta mime-type
- Add application/x-msexcel as an alias for Excel files
- Add PGM, PBM and PPM as sub-classes of PNM
- Move *.ram files to application/ram
- Use the preferred Matroska mime-types, includes Matroska audio
- Detect Makefile with a shebang at the start
- Add application/x-bzip2 as an alias for bz2 archives
- Add more magic for QuickTime files
- Add eMusic download packages
- Add *.rdfs and *.owl patterns to RDF files
- Add newer magic for Gnumeric files
- Add mime-type for WBMP images
- Make DIA a sub-class of application/xml
- Clean up PGP/GnuPG file types
- Add Lua scripts
- Avoid misdetecting Java files as C files
- Add OCL scripts
- Merge the application/vnd.palm and application/x-palm-database mime-types
- Make mbox as a sub-class of text/plain
- Add magic to detect AutoCAD DXF files
- Add magic for Go SGF records
- Add magic for PGN chess games
- Add DAR archives
- Add WavPack audio
- Remove bogus magic for Targa files
- Add Markaby scripts
- Add ACE archives
- Add Haansoft's Hangul word processor documents
- Clean up XSLT mime-types depending on version
- Add LDIF files
- Add XLIFF translation files
- Move compressed SVG files to image/svg+xml-compressed
- Add Citrix ICA files
- Add XUL and XBL detection
- Move compressed pcf (font) detection to application/x-font-pcf

* Other:
- Fix CPIO description
- Don't abort when update-mime-database can't open a file
- Move the pkgconfig file to $(datadir)
- Skip the translation of update-mime-database.c
- Have a quiet output to update-mime-database by default

shared-mime-info 0.19 (2006-08-25)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add application/powerpoint and application/mspowerpoint as aliases for
  Powerpoint
- Add VHDL mime-type
- Add application/mbox for the MBOX mailboxes
- Add text/x-txt2tags
- Remove *.dat as a glob for MPEG videos
- Add Monkey's Audio, AC3, and Musepack mime-types
- Fix matching Type1 fonts
- Remove useless application/octet-stream mime-type
- Add *.mo to application/x-gettext-translation
- Add loads of tracker audio files, console ROMs, raw images mime-types
- Fix QuickTime Media Links mime-types and detection
- Add audio/AMR and audio/AMR-WB mime-types and detection
- Add better TeX magic, and more globs
- Add better magic for patch files
- Fix .jar files' mime-types, and add better magic
- Fix magic for MPEG4 audio files
- Add an alias for .deb packages
- Add application/sieve mime-type
- Fix application/javascript's mime-type
- Fix text/csv's mime-type

* Other:
- Add paths to the .pc file

shared-mime-info 0.18 (2006-07-03)

* Mime-type Changes:
- Add *.qtl to video/quicktime
- Add *.wax to audio/x-ms-asx
- Add *.mpga to audio/mpeg
- Add audio/x-ms-wma (Windows Media Audio)
- Add application/xspf+xml (XSPF playlist)
- Add a lot of subclassing information
- Fix the RSS mime-types
- Fix *.asx files' mime-type
- Avoid audio/x-ms-asx files being detected as HTML
- Avoid application/pdf files being detected as Matlab documents
- Clarify C, C++, C# and ObjC mime-types

* New translations:
- Danish

shared-mime-info 0.17 (2006-03-14)

* Mime-types Changes:
- Added application/x-cue (CD image cuesheet)
- Added application/vnd.ms-access (Access database)
- Added application/x-7z-compressed (7-zip archive)
- Added application/mathematica (Mathematica)
- Added application/x-gedcom (GEDCOM genealogy)
- Added application/x-shorten (Shorten audio)
- Added video/3gpp (3GPP video)
- Added application/docbook+xml (Docbook)
- Added application/x-sqlite (SQLite database)
- Added application/x-go-sgf (Go saved games)
- Added application/x-m4 (M4 scripts)
- Added a few Ogg related mime-types
- Added application/x-cbr and application/x-cbz (Comic books archives)
- Added flv-application/octet-stream (Flash video)
- Added application/x-gnuplot (Gnuplot)
- Added application/x-srt (Text subtitle files)

* New translations:
- zh_TW

* Spec changes:
- Make the mime cache contain an mmappable binary format
- Add acronym and expanded-acronym
- Add recommendations for duplicate globs handling

shared-mime-info 0.16  (2004-03-22)

* Mime Types Changes:
- Added application/mathematica
- Added application/stuffit
- Fixed application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3 and other office types
- Added application/vnd.oasis.opendocument
- Even more types now inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-gettext-translation
- Fixed up text/x-python

* Lots of new translations:
   - bg eo es eu it ja ms nb pl pt pt_BR ru sq uk zh_CN

shared-mime-info 0.15  (2004-08-30)

* Mime Types Changes:
- Added various aliases
- Make text files inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-xmi
- Added application/x-javascripta

* Translations:
- new translations: Danish (Ole Laursen), Greek (Nikos Charonitakis),
  Korean (Cha Young-Ho)
- updated translations: Finnish  (Ville Skyttä), German (Christian Neumair)

			Version 0.14 (21-Mar-2004)

* upped the mozilla/netscape bookmarks priority.

* change xbell to x-xbel

* Add matroska video mime type

* application/x-archive needs lower prio than application/x-deb

* Change C# mimetype to text/x-csharp

* Add application/x-ole-storage mimetype, remove OLE storage match from
  application/msword, since it matches all sorts of document types using
  OLE.

* add types from ImageMagick

* add .flac detection.

* make MIME descriptions more consistent with each other (patch from
  Christian Neumair).

* add a package-config file

* conditionally disable running update-mimedb for packages.

* fix up RIFF and shell magic, as well as merging diff files and patch files.

* New az, cy, and no translations.

			Version 0.13.1 (01-Jan-2003)

* Specify number of characters to test when checking for text files
  (requested by Jaap Karssenberg).

* Added <alias> and <sub-class-of> fields.



			Version 0.12 (28-Aug-2003)

* Added *.pm and *.al globs for PERL (Jaap Karssenberg).

* Added a section to the spec about the inode/* MIME types (suggested by
  Jaap Karssenberg).

* Clarify the meaning of nested magic matches.

* Fixed example (lang -> xml:lang) (Christophe Fergeau).

* Change 'case insensitive match' to 'lowercase match'.

* Fixed byte-swapping for little-endian and host-endian matches (reported by
  Jaap Karssenberg).

* Ignore trailing '/' characters on MIME directory name.


			Version 0.11 (17-Apr-2003)

* 'make install' validates the common types file against the DTD.

* Install instructions updated for new XDG Base Directory Specification.

* Added new <root-XML> element to identify XML files by
  (namespaceURI, localName) pairs (suggested by Mike Hearn).

* Minor updates to the database itself (Vincent Lefevre).

* Added short discussion of ACAP Media Type Dataset Class to spec (suggested
  by Dave Cridland).

* Updated spec to use XDG Base Directory Specification for paths.

* Clarifications to glob matching section (requested by Jonathan Blandford).

* Added a 'Recommended checking order' section to help interoperability
  (suggested by Lars Hallberg).

* Greatly improved error reporting in update-mime-database, and commented
  the code more.

* Fixed possible segfault if a MIME type was defined twice with no xml:lang
  in the same directory.

* When update-mime-database is run, warn the user if the MIME directory
  given isn't in the search path.


			Version 0.10 (03-Mar-2003)

* Much better validation of input files.

* Added note about the use of extended attributes to store the MIME type.

* Ensure that all changes to generated files happen atomically.

* Change to half-text, half-binary format to make parsing the magic file
  much easier.

* Make it really clear that user prefs don't go in the database.

* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but older versions seem a
  little buggy).

* Fix problem where copying nodes lost the namespace (workaround for libxml
  bug).

* Added DTD to freedesktop.org.xml.

* Spec was confused about whether a match type was an attribute or element
  name. Settled on attribute and updated XML (makes the DTD easier this way).

* Glob pattern for TGIF files.

* Added application/x-cd-image (requested by Stefano Peluchetti).

* Added text/x-uri (text/uri-list is used for something else).

* Added more extensions for powerpoint (Stefano Peluchetti).

* Marked AIFF as Amiga/Mac (Marcin Juszkiewicz), not just Amiga.

* Added *.xsl glob (*.xslt was already allowed) and added xhtml MIME type
  (requested by Vincent Lefevre).


			Version 0.9 (29-Jul-2002)

* Removed bashism in uninstall rule (reported by Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added manpage (Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but play it safe).

* Workaround libxml problem where copying nodes lost the namespace
  (reported by Stephen Watson and Jesse Wagner)

* Added skeleton description for 'action' element.

* Re-worded spec section on user preferences (Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added extra authors to spec.

* Changed SHOULD to MUST for requiring shared package (suggested by
  Filip Van Raemdonck).

* Added some error checking to make sure output is writeable.