This file contains the same edited highlights as the announcement emails. For full details, see the ChangeLog in tarballs, or "git log" in Git checkouts. telepathy-spec 0.25.1 (2011-11-23) ================================== The “farewell whiskey chess” release. API additions and clarifications: • Call1.Content.Interface.AudioControl is a wonderful new interface to allow the connection manager to recommend volume changes during calls. • The various values of Socket_Access_Control have enjoyed some clarification of their meanings on different tube types. • Protocol.Interface.Addressing has been undrafted, with NormalizeURI renamed to NormalizeContactURI. • Connection.Interface.Addressing is still a draft, but its methods have been changed to split the return values into two mappings. telepathy-spec 0.25.0 (2011-11-10) ================================== API additions and clarifications: • Channel.Interface.FileTransfer.Metadata has been added. • Channel.Interface.Picture has been added. • "windows-live" has been added as a known account service name. • Channel.Interface.Subject: clarify default values for properties in the unknown case. • RoomConfig: add a PasswordHint property which does what you think it does. • Room: add Creator, CreatorHandle and CreationTimestamp properties. • Channel.Type.ContactList has been deprecated. telepathy-spec 0.24.0 (2011-10-10) ================================== The “underestimating the future” release. This is the start of a new stable branch of the Telepathy specification. Changes since 0.23.4: • Channel.Interface.Room has been undrafted, with a few changes: · The RoomID property has become RoomName; · The Subject property has been split off onto a separate interface, Channel.Interface.Subject (which is also undrafted). • Channel.Interface.RoomConfig has been defined to replace the remaining klunky Telepathy.Properties on Channel.Type.Text. • As a result, the Telepathy.Properties interface has been deprecated, since all interfaces which historically used it now have better replacements. Other notable changes since the 0.22 stable branch: • Most interfaces now provide both handles and identifiers for contacts. This makes life easier for telepathy-glib and telepathy-qt4 (and, by extension, application authors). • A new revision of the Call family of interfaces has landed. It is still marked experimental. • ChannelDispatcher has a pair of new methods, DelegateChannels() and PresentChannel(), to aid user interfaces where channels can be shown in a number of places (like Gnome 3). • FileTransfer now has a URI property to indicate the on-disk location of the file being sent or received. telepathy-spec 0.23.4 (2011-09-29) ================================== API additions and clarifications: • Always give contact identifiers together with handles in Channel.Interface.Group. This helps clients to create contact objects without extra async operations. Additions are: • Channel.Interface.Group.MemberIdentifiers; • Channel.Interface.Group.SelfContactChanged; and • Channel.Interface.Group.HandleOwnersChangedDetailed. • AccountManager: remove note about service activation. Mission Control is service-activatable and is probably the only implementation we'll ever have. • Clarify possible errors returned by AM.CreateAccount. Spec HTML improvements: • Now is used to reference a value in a enumeration. Call DRAFT2 landed • Call interfaces are now versioned. For example org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Call.DRAFT is now renamed to org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Channel.Type.Call1. telepathy-spec 0.23.3 (2011-07-14) ================================== API additions and clarifications: • The semantics of the 'supersedes' header in Messages have been clarified, and 'original-message-sent' and 'original-message-received' headers have been defined to make the timestamps used for message edits unambiguous. (fd.o#37413, David) • A tonne of properties on FileTransfer have been marked as requestable and/or immutable. Also, as a clarification, the spec now explicitly says that approvers may set the URI property, and that handlers MUST obey this. (Xavier) • A new ChannelRequest hint, DelegateToPreferredHandler, has been added. (fd.o#38240, Danni) Spec HTML improvements: • Jumping to anchors within the spec HTML will no longer move the text you're looking for underneath the title bar with Webkit. Yay! (Danni (my heroine)) • The generated HTML spec now has a beautiful favicon. (fd.o#38594, Guillaume) And for spec developers: • `make upload-branch` now takes an optional UPLOAD_BRANCH_TO Makefile variable, which allows you to override the default server, namely “people.freedesktop.org” (João Paulo Rechi Vita) telepathy-spec 0.23.2 (2011-05-16) ================================== Changes to existing API ----------------------- • ChannelDispatcher.DelegateChannels() now calls HandleChannels once per Channel. It also returns the list of Channels which have been delegated and those which have not. (fdo #37109, Guillaume) telepathy-spec 0.23.1 (2011-05-09) ================================== This first release in the 0.23 development branch contains all the fixes and additions from 0.22.3. Enhancements: • Channel.Interface.SMS.GetSMSLength() to allow SMS message chunking to be shown to the user. (Danni) • ChannelDispatcher.DelegateChannels() to move channels between handlers. (fdo #25293, Guillaume) • ChannelDispatcher.PresentChannel(): convenient API to re-ensure an existing channel. (fdo #25293, Guillaume) telepathy-spec 0.22.3 (2011-05-09) ================================== Fixes: • Correct DBus_Property-parameter boilerplate. (fdo #37005, Will) telepathy-spec 0.22.2 (2011-04-20) ================================== The “every cell stayed the same” release. Once again, this release in the stable series includes some minor API additions. Enhancements: • Channel.Interface.SMS now includes some sample contact capabilities. (Danni) • Connection.Interface.Balance now has a ManageCreditURI property. (fd.o#36254, Danni) • Connection.Interface.SimplePresence now has a MaximumStatusMessageLength property. (fd.o#33054, André) • SimplePresence defines two new well-known status identifiers: "pstn" and "chat". (fd.o#36159, Danni vs. Will) Fixes: • Protocol.Interface.Avatars properties are documented to be immutable. (Guillaume) • The tables in SimplePresence and Call's HTML documentation look nicer. telepathy-spec 0.22.1 (2011-03-30) ================================== The “we can change the things we know” release. Unconventionally, this release in the 0.22 stable series of the specification contains minor API additions. This is not intended to become a trend; once major changes land in the specification and a release is made in the 0.23.x unstable series, no new API will be added to the stable branch. • A new error code, InsufficientBalance, has been added, along with a balance-required key for the CallStateDetails dictionary. (Danni) • Media.StreamHandler has grown two new method/signal pairs, namely SetRemoteFeedbackMessages/SupportedFeedbackMessages and SetRemoteHeaderExtensions/SupportedHeaderExtensions, plus some related types, for enabling exciting RTP header extensions and RTCP feedback messages. telepathy-spec 0.22.0 (2011-03-21) ================================== The “literate small talk” release. This is a new stable version of telepathy-spec, intended to serve as a reference point for future work. There were no API changes since development release 0.21.13; significant additions and changes to non-DRAFT interfaces from the year-and-a-half of development since 0.20.0 are summarized below. The versions of libraries, connection managers and Mission Control recommended for use with GNOME 3.0 (such as the upcoming telepathy-glib 0.14) can be expected to support most of the API from this spec release. Changes to existing API ----------------------- • Handles are no longer expected to be reference-counted - instead, they persist as long as the Connection does. A new property, HasImmortalHandles, indicates whether this is the case. Versions of telepathy-glib since 0.13.8 implement these semantics, and set that property, automatically for most connection managers. • message-token has been redefined from "globally unique" to "whatever's in the underlying protocol", replacing the unimplemented protocol-token. This makes it feasible to implement message-token again. Note that connection managers implementing message-token should not be backported to Maemo 5, since its event logger assumes that message-token is guaranteed to be unique, which is usually unimplementable. • The Messages interface is now mandatory for Text channels. Enhancements to core API ------------------------ • The Connection has a pair of new methods, AddClientInterest and RemoveClientInterest, to allow clients to subscribe to potentially bandwidth-costly interfaces (such as MailNotification) in a generic way. • ChannelDispatcher and ChannelRequest now support "request hints" (metadata passed through from the requester to the handler), and the SucceededWithChannel signal. New optional interfaces ----------------------- • The ContactList and ContactGroups interfaces for connections are now considered stable, and a new ContactBlocking interface has been added. Between them, these interfaces replace ContactList channels. • The Connection.Interface.ClientTypes, Connection.Interface.MailNotification, Connection.Interface.Powersaving, and Protocol.Interface.Presence interfaces are now considered stable. • Chan.T.ServerAuthentication and Chan.I.SASLAuthentication provide interactive querying for credentials, allowing connection without saving a password if there is a handler for these channels • Chan.I.Securable indicates whether a channel is secure • Account.Interface.Addressing stores user preferences for use of accounts for non-primary protocols, such as using SIP for telephony. Enhancements to optional interfaces ----------------------------------- • Add a FileTransfer.URI property which can be used to tell other Telepathy clients about the location of the transferred file. Changes since 0.21.13 --------------------- • A server-message key for the Details dictionary in the ConnectionError signal has been defined. (wjt)