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telepathy-mission-control 5.12.0 (2012-04-02)

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This is the start of a new stable branch.

Changes since 5.11.0:

• GLib ≥ 2.30 is now required.

• Add mcd_service_stop() and stop the service when SIGINT is

  sent. (fd.o#47054, Alban)

Summary of particularly noteworthy changes since 5.10.x:

• GLib ≥ 2.30 and telepathy-glib ≥ 0.17.5 are now required

• telepathy-butterfly accounts are migrated to telepathy-haze

  automatically if Haze is installed.

• Mission Control can now be stopped by sending SIGINT to the daemon.

telepathy-mission-control 5.11.0 (2012-02-21)

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The "leaning on the fourth wall" release.

Requirements:

• telepathy-glib 0.17.5 is now required

Enhancements:

• Migrate telepathy-butterfly accounts to telepathy-haze automatically,

  if Haze is installed (fd.o #42814, Guillaume)

• Improve mc-tool (fd.o #45308, Guillaume/Will)

• Add Account.Supersedes (fd.o #42814, Simon)

Fixes:

• Prefer to destroy arrays with _unref instead of _free (Xavier)

• Add support for building on Android (fd.o #42508, Alvaro/Derek)

  and Windows (Alvaro/Siraj)

• Make the NetworkManager integration optional (fd.o #43791, Mikhail)

• Don't crash on Get('Parameters') for a CM that isn't installed

  (fd.o #44939, Will)

telepathy-mission-control 5.10.1 (2011-11-08)

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The “Why would i want a debugger? I don't know. Why do you want a face?”

release.

Fixes:

• An unnecessary enum definition, which conflicted with the one provided

  by Empathy, has been removed from the GSettings schema. (Thanks,

  ioni.)

telepathy-mission-control 5.10.0 (2011-11-07)

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The “Imagine ALL the people!” release. Welcome to a new stable branch of

Mission Control.

A quick summary of what's changed since 5.8.x:

• DelegateChannels and PresentChannel, as used by Gnome Shell 3.2, have

  been added.

• libmcclient has been removed.

• MC now optionally uses Network Manager or ConnMan to monitor network

  connectivity state, and UPower to be notified that the machine is

  about to suspend.

• Lots of crashes and leaks and bugs have been fixed.

And, specifically since 5.9.3:

• fd.o#41927: It is now possible to install the MC test suite. (albanc)

• fd.o#42068: MC now has a GSettings key to force it to believe it is

  online, even if NM/ConnMan says it is offline. This key is kept in

  sync with the corresponding GSettings key provided by Empathy by some

  black magic with aliased DConf paths. (wjt)

• http://bugs.debian.org/644589: fix build with UPower but no NM or

  ConnMan (jonny)

• fd.o#42548: Account.ChangingPresence is now more accurate

  (particularly on disabled accounts). (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.9.3 (2011-10-04)

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The “HELLO / YES, THIS IS DOG” release.

Dependencies:

• MC now has optional dependencies on nm-glib and upower-glib.

Enhancements:

• Mission Control can now use either Network Manager or ConnMan (or

  neither; the choice is controlled by a configure flag) to monitor the

  network connection going up and down, and bring IM accounts on and

  offline accordingly (whether due to ConnectAutomatically being True,

  or RequestedConnection being non-offline). (fd.o#38978, wjt)

  This appears to interact fine with Empathy, which also monitors the

  network state (using fundamentally the same code); in future, we

  intend that MC should be the sole party responsible for monitoring

  network state.

• Mission Control now listens for notifications from upower that the

  machine is about to suspend, and tears down active connections. This

  should help avoid the user appearing to be online for a few minutes

  after they suspend their machine, until the server notices that

  they've gone. (fd.o#28370, wjt)

Fixes:

• The regression tests now work with D-Bus ≥ 1.5.6. (fd.o#41090, smcv)

• An obscure assertion failure in the client bus name monitoring code is

  fixed, we hope! (fd.o#39767, wjt)

• MC no longer crashes when recovering from a client crashing if that client

  was an Observer or Approver which had claimed the channel. (xclaesse)

telepathy-mission-control 5.9.2 (2011-08-31)

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The “unique versioning strategy” release.

Changes:

• The Compat.Profile property on accounts has been removed; as has

  libmcclient, which used it but which is no longer widely used.

• Documentation for the old extension API, libmissioncontrol-server, is

  no longer built. Please use the mission-control-plugins API instead!

Fixes:

• fd.o #37861: Memory leak in collect_satisfied_requests in

  mcd-dispatch-operation.c (fledermaus).

• fd.o #40562: Connection attempts aborted by McdTransport plugins did

  not trigger a status change signal - now they do (fledermaus)

• fd.o #29022: Dispatch channels with no (known) handlers to observers

  anyway (smcv)

• fd.o #40551: Memory leaks in the approval mechanism plugged

  (fledermaus)

• mission-control-plugins now explicitly links to GIO. (Frédéric Péters)

• mc-tool now parses 'bool:foo=true' as setting 'foo' to True, as

  opposed to setting 'foo' to False! (wjt)

• fd.o#39796: always fully remove secret parameters when they are

  un-set. (cassidy)

Enhancements:

• fd.o#40337: improve error reporting when creating an account fails.

  (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.9.1 (2011-07-21)

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Fixes:

• fd.o #34025: when an Observer with Recover=TRUE catches up on channels,

  don't miss out channels that have run their observers but have not

  completed dispatching, mainly those waiting for approvers (smcv)

• Fix various memory leaks (fledermaus)

• If a storage plugin changes our nickname, propagate it to the CM (fledermaus)

• The McdTransport framework should have considered "no plugins" to be 

  equivalent to "procced", not "abort" (fledermaus)

• Some files were missing G_END_DECLS, which broke C++ includes (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.9.0 (2011-05-18)

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Dependencies:

• telepathy-glib ≥ 0.15 is now required.

• glib ≥ 2.28 is now required.

Enhancements:

• DelegateChannels and PresentChannel from spec version 0.23.2 have

  been implemented. (cassidy)

Fixes:

• fd.o#36483: All tests now pass, even with newer tp-glib. (jonny)

• Implementation of the draft ChannelDispatcher.Messages interface did 

  not correctly handle all internal requests which should have been

  dispatched to an existing channel (fledermaus)

• The transport plugin infrastructure considered "no connected transports"

  to be the same as "we have an alternative transport available & ready":

  This could result in unwanted attempts to bring up the network on 

  platforms which used the transport plugin mechanism (fledermaus)

• The Aegis ACL plugin needs to activate inactive handlers if they are

  not runnng, as you cannot check the aegis credentials of a DBus name

  alone, a PID or DBus connection is required (fledermaus)

Enhancements:

• Centralised debug control for MCP plugins via MCP_DEBUG environment

  variable (and macro + flags so out-of-tree plugins can take advantage

  of same) (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.11 (2011-05-11)

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The “Then you admit confirming not denying you ever said that?” release.

Enhancements:

• fd.o #36845: dispatch operation policy plugins can implement

  handler_is_suitable_async(), to say whether a Handler is acceptable for

  a particular dispatch operation (fledermaus, smcv)

• All members of McpDBusAclIface may be NULL (the name defaults to the GObject

  class name, and NULL as a check allows everything) (smcv)

• The McpDispatchOperationPolicyIface struct is directly visible to plugins,

  removing the need to call mcp_dispatch_operation_policy_iface_implement_check

  (smcv)

• The implementation vtable of MCP plugin classes is no longer concealed, and

  maybe assigned to directly by implementations instead of using the _implement

  methods (wjt, smcv)

• More/better documentation for the MCP plugin classes (smcv)

Fixes:

• If enabled, the Aegis plugin is now statically linked into the MC executable

  rather than being a loadable module (fledermaus)

• Account plugins are no longer added to the cached list repeatedly (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.10 (2011-05-06)

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The “Save the Alot” release.

Enhancements:

• Use the new arg0namespace matching to watch only interesting

  DBus name-owner-changed signals if DBus is new enough to allow

  this (fledermaus)

Fixes:

• Setting changes originating in storage backends (eg libaccounts)

  were not necessarily propagated to CMs if they were not parameters

  (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.9 (2011-04-05)

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The “From Hell's Heart I Stab at const” release.

Fixes:

• Build failure due to warning/error promotion (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.8 (2011-04-05)

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The “À la Recherche du Temps Perdu” release.

Enhancements:

• accounts can be flagged as "channels must always be dispatched"

  needed for telephony class accounts, but available generally (fledermaus)

• Draft ChannelDispatcher.Messages interface implemented

  allows non-handlers to send messages to contacts (fledermaus)

Fixes:

• Segfault in the external password storage properties interface (sjoerd)

• SSO account deletions explicitly force Account.Removed to be emitted

  They used to assume object disposal would happen immediately, which

  did not always happen (fledermaus)

• The "Service" value for Maemo SSO accounts could be unset after

  account creation, a side effect of changes in 5.7.7 (fledermaus)

• Memory leak in one of the Maemo DBus ACL plugins (fledermaus)

Obsolescence:

• Dead interface com.nokia.Account.Interface.Stats dropped (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.7 (2011-03-09)

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The “Bulwer—Lytton Fiction Contest Entry” release.

Fixes:

• Updates the Maemo SSO plugin in line with SSO changes (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.6 (2011-03-07)

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The “GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES”  release.

Enhancements:

• Support the Observer.DelayApprovers property. (cassidy)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.5 (2011-03-01)

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The “Beware the Ides of March” release.

Fixes:

• Build failures with new --no-add-needed ld default behaviour (fledermaus)

• mc-tool: help no longer mentions obsolete add <profile> syntax (wjt)

• Tests no longer hang forever if DBus name cannot be claimed (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.4 (2011-02-23)

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The “Northern winters start to thaw” release.

Enhancements:

• fd.o#33271: implement ChannelDispatcher.RedispatchChannels() (cassidy)

• fd.o#34416: support for Account.I.ExternalPasswordStorage (danni)

Fixes:

• fd.o#34316: UpdateParameters: bad handling of DBus_Property and

  Has_Default in Unset argument (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.3 (2011-02-15)

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The "Future Events Like These Will Affect You in the Future" release.

Dependencies:

• telepathy-glib ≥ 0.13.13 is now required

Enhancements:

• The connection now uses Connection.Interface.ServicePoint.KnownServicePoints

  to determine which contacts correspond to emergency calls. (fledermaus)

• Request policy plugins cannot affect emergency calls any more. (fledermaus)

• mcd_debug now bypasses printf completely if neither debugging nor the debug

  cache is turned on. (fledermaus)

Fixes:

• Leak in the DBus ACL plugin mechanism fixed (barisione)

• Potential leak in mcd_master initialisation code fixed (barisione)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.2 (2011-01-18)

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The "Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow" release.

Dependencies:

• telepathy-glib ≥ 0.13.7 is now required.

Enhancements:

• The functionality from the draft ChannelDispatcher.Interface.Hints and

  ChannelRequest.Interface.Hints interfaces is now on the main CD and CR

  interfaces, since it became stable in telepathy-spec 0.21.5. (cassidy)

• fd.o#32979: AccountManager.Interface.Hidden.DRAFT1 (wjt)

Changes to unstable API:

• Support for the draft MinimumPresence interface has been removed. (wjt)

Fixes:

• Various bugs in the test suite, some caused by telepathy-glib changes and

  others which have been lingering for a while, have been fixed. (jonnylamb,

  wjt)

• Certain account properties, such as Nickname, are now more reliably saved to

  disk when they are updated. (wjt)

• The 'commit' virtual method for account storage plugins is once again

  optional, as documented and as was previously the case. (fd.o#32153, wjt)

• libaccounts backend cannot be as eager to flush to disc as the regular

  keyfile backend as it is shared and excessive locking can interfere

  with other libaccounts clients (eeejay)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.1 (2010-12-06)

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The "Ack... I've been gritted" release.

Enhancements:

• mc-tool: Improved error message for nonexistent accounts

• Removed obsolete mapping of TP_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE to

  MC_CONTACT_DOES_NOT_SUPPORT_VOICE_ERROR

Fixes:

• fd.o #24779: CurrentPresence is Offline for online connections not

  implementing SimplePresence (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.7.0 (2010-11-18)

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The "Incursion into Transcarcharid Space" release, starting a new 

development branch.

Enhancements:

• fd.o#31467: Account.Interface.Addressing interface (fledermaus, wjt)

• fd.o #31263: implement stable Conn.I.PowerSaving, and optionally integrate

  it with Maemo's MCE service (eeejay)

• fd.o #30000: implement draft ChannelDispatcher.I.Hints and

  ChannelRequest.I.Hints (smcv)

Fixes:

• fd.o#31678: AccountManager.AccountRemoved signal could be skipped (fledermaus)

• fd.o#31680: g_error() on dbus name acquisition_progressition failure 

  was interpreted as a core dump by automated test suites, resulting

  in a lot of false alarms (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.6.1 (2010-11-17)

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The "I suppose Guinness is good for you" release.

Enhancements:

• Make mc-tool support object paths, and improve the help (wjt)

Fixes:

• fd.o #30447: don't "return x()", where x returns void, in void functions

  (Jeff Cai)

• fd.o #30448: make type of mcp_account_storage_get_restrictions consistent

  with the header (smcv)

• Fix support for libaccounts-glib (fledermaus)

• Remove unnecessary use of _POSIX_C_SOURCE (Jeff Cai)

telepathy-mission-control 5.6.0 (2010-09-16)

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The "Back in the old days, we didn't have plural" release.

Highlights since 5.4.x

----------------------

• MC implements features from telepathy-spec 0.20, including:

  · channels can be dispatched before a connection is CONNECTED, which is

    required for telepathy-gabble ≥ 0.9.17

  · the Account.ConnectionError property indicating the last error

  · the Account.ChangingPresence property indicating that presence changes

    are in progress

  · the Account.Service property indicating where an account is stored

  · ChannelDispatchOperation.HandleWithTime to set focus-stealing-prevention

    timestamps

• libmission-control-plugins provides a more stable plugin API for MC. Plugins

  written with this library can:

  · observe, delay and influence channel dispatching, much like Observers

  · observe, delay and/or reject channel requests

  · store accounts elsewhere

• Bugfixes include:

  · tries harder to invoke the same handler for an already-handled channel

  · calls ended locally with reason No_Answer are treated as missed

  · fewer writes to gnome-keyring when committing changes

  · in-band XMPP account creation works better

Fixes since 5.5.4

-----------------

• Fix various build warnings in the tests (Vincent Untz, smcv)

• Fix a build warning when keyring support is disabled (fledermaus)

• Install a missing header file (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.5.4 (2010-09-14)

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The "salamander king" release.

Enhancements:

• fd.o #26699: add support for plugins that delay requests while deciding

  whether to allow them or not (smcv)

• Restructure channel-requesting code (smcv)

• Delete the old examples, which are no longer exemplary; use telepathy-glib

  or telepathy-qt4 instead of libmcclient (smcv)

• fd.o #29812: add a trial implementation of the MinimumPresence (draft 2)

  API (ptlo)

• fd.o #30000: add a trial implementation of SucceededWithChannel and

  {Create,Ensure}ChannelWithHints (cassidy, smcv)

Fixes:

• fd.o #28915: fix a regression in which parameters that are unset aren't

  necessarily saved to the configuration file (fledermaus)

• Signal remote avatar deletion, for instance by another XMPP resource, in the

  same way as a remote avatar change (fledermaus)

• Cancel the "probation" timer when the connection is released, avoiding a

  possible crash (fledermaus)

• Ignore any partial pre-existing accounts that have no manager or protocol

  listed, and if a storage plugin creates a totally unusable account,

  ignore it (fledermaus)

• Don't crash if Proceed() is called twice (smcv)

• Various fixes for the Maemo SSO plugin (fledermaus, eeejay)

• Fix linking with recent ld versions (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.5.3 (2010-07-22)

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Dependencies:

* telepathy-glib 0.11.9 is now required

Enhancements:

* Added support for the new Account.Service property in the MC core code and

  the SSO plugin (fledermaus)

* Added support for the Service property to mc-tool (wjt)

* Made account storage plugins able to notify MC that a single account has

  changed externally (fledermaus)

* Added support for plugins that check D-Bus calls' callers against an ACL

  (fledermaus)

Fixes:

* Treat calls ended locally with No_Answer as missed (wjt)

* fd.o #24645: when an existing channel is returned by EnsureChannel and its

  handler has more than one Handler bus name/object path sharing a unique name,

  MC now tries harder to invoke the same one as before (smcv)

* Disable accounts when they're deleted by an account storage plugin

  (fledermaus)

* Attempt re-connection of failed connections less rapidly (wjt)

telepathy-mission-control 5.5.2 (2010-06-16)

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The "513M accounts.cfg, which seems terribly wrong" release.

Dependencies:

* telepathy-glib 0.11.7 is now required

Enhancements:

* fd.o #28428: implement the new ConnectionError property from telepathy-spec

  0.19.7, and if an Account's Connection-related property changes, put all

  the related properties in the change notification signal to make it easier to

  interpret (smcv)

Fixes:

* fd.o #28557: write account parameters to accounts.cfg correctly, rather than

  repeatedly escaping backslash, newline, tab etc., which resulted in doubling

  the number of backslashes with every write. If this has made your

  accounts.cfg so large that deleting accounts via Empathy is difficult, see

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28557 for a workaround. (smcv)

* fd.o #28390: drastically reduce writes to gnome-keyring when committing

  changes to accounts (wjt, smcv)

* fd.o #28118: clear the 'register' parameter when an account connects

  successfully, fixing in-band XMPP account creation (smcv)

This version includes the stable-branch bug fixes from 5.4.3.

telepathy-mission-control 5.5.1 (2010-06-03)

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The "red head headache" release.

Enhancements:

* Port mc-tool from libmcclient to telepathy-glib (danni)

* Implement McpAccountStorage::toggled so that account plugins can toggle

  the Enabled property of accounts (danni)

* Document mission-control-plugins (smcv)

Fixes:

* Change names of variables that shadow global functions (danni)

telepathy-mission-control 5.5.0 (2010-05-26)

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The "it's yours provided you take it away today" release.

Dependencies:

* telepathy-glib 0.11.6 is now required

* GLib 2.24 is now required

* D-Bus 0.95 is now required

* dbus-glib 0.82 is now required

Enhancements:

* MC now has a new, smaller plugin API, libmission-control-plugins, which is

  expected to have medium- to long-term API/ABI stability. The API mostly

  mirrors the Telepathy D-Bus API. (smcv/fledermaus)

* accounts now support the ChangingPresence property from telepathy-spec

  0.19.6 (andrunko)

* channel dispatch operations now support the HandleWithTime method from

  telepathy-spec 0.19.6 (ptlo)

* channels can be dispatched before a connection goes CONNECTED, which is

  needed for SASL authentication channels (eeejay)

* compiler warnings are correctly enabled (smcv)

Removals:

* libmcclient is no longer installed as a separate library unless the old

  plugin interface is enabled

* fd.o #26634: the obsolete utility mc-account-convert, for migration from

  Mission Control 4, has been removed

Fixes:

* don't time out channel requests until many hours have passed (sjoerd)

* instead of emitting AccountPropertyChanged signals in time-based batches

  with a small delay, change signals are now grouped into atomic changes (smcv)

* fd.o #24876: no longer reimplements a GLib 2.22 method (smcv)

* fd.o #25122, Debian #556488: link mc-wait-for-name to GLib correctly (jonny)

* fd.o#26597: use TpDebugSender to send debug messages over D-Bus (eeejay)

* don't crash mc-tool when the account name is invalid (wjt)

* fd.o #27015: remove a misleading reference to GConf (tomeu)

* fd.o #27129: update and simplify test/twisted/README (tomeu/smcv)

* fd.o #25684: fix detection of accounts that already exist (Jani Monoses/smcv)

* in libmcclient, don't crash on malformed profiles where a group is missing

  (smcv)

Maemo-specific enhancements:

* added a libaccounts-glib-based account storage backend (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.4.2 (2010-05-26)

============================================

The "everyone loves magical re-entrancy" release.

Fixes:

* don't assume that data structures borrowed from a TpConnectionManager remain

  valid after re-entering the main loop, which can cause a segfault on startup

  (smcv)

* fix a memory leak in Claim() (fledermaus)

* fix a failure to check for NULL, and a couple of potential leaks, in mc-tool

  (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.4.1 (2010-05-25)

============================================

The "badgers and tigers: only in Cambridge" release.

Fixes:

* set 0 as UserActionTime when HandleWith is used (cassidy)

* make tests pass with more recent telepathy-glib, which can call GetInterfaces

  twice (cassidy)

* don't cache whether we have the Requests interface, which caused one of the

  tests to regress (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.4.0 (2010-04-15)

============================================

The "coffee made without human interaction" release.

Enhancements:

* fd.o #27309: implement the Observer.Recover flag from the forthcoming

  telepathy-spec 0.19.4, which lets activatable observers recover (in a

  best-effort way) after crashing, and lets non-activatable observers catch

  up on active channels (again in a best-effort way) (ptlo)

Fixes:

* fd.o #24875: avoid a dependency on GLib >= 2.22 which was accidentally

  introduced in 5.3.2 (smcv)

* Avoid a dependency on dbus-glib 0.80 (Danni)

* fd.o #25122, Debian #556488: link mc-wait-for-name to GLib properly (Jonny)

* mc-tool: don't crash on invalid account names (wjt)

* Only time out channel requests after 5 hours (Sjoerd)

* Remove a misleading reference to GConf (Tomeu)

* fd.o #27021: fix error propagation when creating accounts with invalid

  properties/parameters (Tomeu)

* Release startup locks even for incomplete accounts, avoiding failure to start

  (fledermaus)

telepathy-mission-control 5.3.2 (2009-11-02)

============================================

The "Flight Of The Living Dead" release.

Enhancements:

* mc-wait-for-name: give up after 5 minutes and exit EX_TEMPFAIL. Also exit

  with EX_UNAVAILABLE (instead of 1) if the session bus doesn't work, EX_USAGE

  (instead of 1) on wrong arguments, and EX_USAGE (instead of g_critical()

  and never terminating) if the requested bus name is not valid (smcv)

* fd.o #23651: strongly prefer the PreferredHandler for a channel request, and

  try dispatching to it even if its HandlerChannelFilters do not indicate that

  it could handle the channel, since this is very useful for clients like

  nautilus-sendto (smcv)

* fd.o#24120: refactor McdDispatcher quite extensively:

  + always have a McdDispatchOperation for each McdDispatcherContext, even if

    no approval is needed

  + migrate the dispatching state machine into the dispatch operation

  + move client logic into McdClientProxy, removing the McdClient struct

  + migrate Client discovery and the client registry into a new class

    McdClientRegistry

  + remove many unused signals

  + use McdDispatcherContext for the plugin API and nothing else

  (smcv)

* McdHandlerMap: operate in terms of TpChannel, not McdChannel, to make the

  code less tightly coupled; watch for channels closing and client crashing

  internally, rather than relying on other modules (smcv)

* Run the regression tests with GLib and GObject warnings set to fatal (smcv)

Fixes:

* fd.o #23687: if all Handlers with BypassApproval fail, notify approvers

  and wait for approval before trying other Handlers (smcv)

* fd.o #24474: notify Observers about channels that were requested without

  going via MC, e.g. by Empathy 2.28.x (smcv)

* fd.o #21003: delay the return from HandleWith until HandleChannels has

  succeeded or failed, and pass on errors; do not consider HandleWith(H) to

  be general approval for the channel to be handled with handlers other

  than H (smcv)

* fd.o #24637: don't emit Finished until the channel dispatch operation has

  really finished (smcv)

* Fix a possible use-after-free when noting that a client has gone away (smcv)

* Avoid re-dispatching a re-requested channel to a different handler (smcv)

* When calling HandleChannels, use the most recent user-action time from among

  all requests that led to this channel, and all HandleWith() calls for this

  channel dispatch operation (smcv)

* Don't call ReloadConfig() on the dbus-daemon (reopening fd.o#23921), to avoid

  triggering fd.o#24350 in dbus-daemon and causing service-activations to

  fail (sjoerd)

* mc_account_conditions_call_when_ready: explain why it's OK to ignore the

  result of mc_iface_call_when_ready_int, which was a Coverity false-positive

  (smcv)

* Consider calls to be potentially-missed if they terminate for reason ERROR,

  even if we're the actor, because that's what happens in Gabble >= 0.8.4

  if the streaming implementation (i.e. telepathy-farsight) discovers that

  none of the candidates work and calls Error() (smcv)

* Fix a race condition in the test account-manager/make-valid.py, which

  would sometimes incorrectly make it fail (smcv)

* Add a regression test for dispatching and requests being delayed while

  waiting for a plugin to make an asynchronous request for permission (smcv)

* Don't leak check_parameters_get_param_cb closure on error (smcv)

* In libmcclient, invoke callbacks for GetAll() in the right order (mardy)

All fixes from stable release 5.2.6 have been incorporated in this release.

telepathy-mission-control 5.3.1 (2009-09-18)

============================================

The "only available in Belgium" release.

Dependencies:

* Python >= 2.5 is now required for compilation

* telepathy-glib >= 0.7.37 is now required

Enhancements:

* Automatically migrate passwords and other secrets from accounts.cfg into the

  GNOME keyring (if enabled and available) on MC startup (jonnylamb)

Fixes:

* Deal with the user's alias in a race-free way by calling GetAliases as well

  as binding to the AliasesChanged signal (smcv/mardy)

* Fix some race conditions in the regression tests (smcv)

* Fix mcd_dispatcher_get_channel_type_usage sometimes counting aborted

  channels, by introducing MCD_CHANNEL_STATUS_ABORTED (mardy)

* If we see too many transitions from CONNECTED to DISCONNECTED state (i.e.

  we get kicked off by the server more than 3 times in 2 minutes), stop

  reconnecting; also, don't reset the exponential backoff until we've been

  connected for 2 minutes. This avoids reconnecting in a tight loop if the

  server lets us connect, then immediately drops our connection. (smcv)

* Fix some minor memory leaks (smcv)

All fixes from stable releases 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 have been incorporated in this

release.

telepathy-mission-control 5.3.0 (2009-09-14)

============================================

The "displatcher" release, starting a new development branch.

Dependencies:

* The GNOME Keyring library is a new optional dependency (only if configured

  with --enable-gnome-keyring=yes or --enable-gnome-keyring=auto).

  If it is enabled, having the library at runtime is required, but having the

  daemon itself is optional - the current plain-text storage will be used for

  passwords if the keyring daemon is not available.

Enhancements:

* fd.o#20903: support the final version of ContactCapabilities, from

  telepathy-spec 0.17.28 (smcv)

* fd.o#22231: add optional gnome-keyring integration. This is off by default,

  but distributions should consider configuring MC with --enable-gnome-keyring

  to get this functionality. (jonnylamb/smcv)

* mc-tool: show full Presence information (sjoerd)

* Use the "mcd" G_LOG_DOMAIN (smcv)

* fd.o#23501: support TpDebugSender (smcv)

* Stop #define'ing g_object_ref, g_object_unref (smcv)

* fd.o#22705: support MC_DEBUG=all (smcv)

Fixes:

* Escape "-" in protocol names in Account names, as required by the Telepathy

  spec (sjoerd)

* fd.o #23818: if HandleChannels fails, try all Handlers in sequence before

  giving up (smcv)

* Refactor client locking in McdDispatcher to be more obviously correct (smcv)

* Don't define macros used in glibc feature-test internals, possibly fixing

  failure to build from source on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (smcv)

* Fix a reference leak when shooting down an unwanted Connection (wjt/smcv)

* fd.o#23921: force dbus-daemon to re-detect .service files on MC startup,

  as a partial workaround for D-Bus bug fd.o#23925 (George Goldberg)

* fd.o#23935: call AddRequest if appropriate even on clients that match only

  channels with Requested=true, and use requested channels' complete

  properties in preference to the properties that were requested (smcv)

* Make signed values in .client files work instead of g_critical'ing (smcv)

* This release also includes all bugfixes from stable-branch versions up to

  and including 5.2.3.

telepathy-mission-control 5.2.3 (2009-09-10)

============================================

The "Morden, via Bank" release.

Fixes:

* fd.o #23807: even if someone without gconf headers makes the tarball, ship

  the necessary files so people with gconf headers can compile it (smcv)

* Resync what's in git with what's in tarball releases: remove some unused

  source files from git, add more support files to tarballs, and don't

  distribute any generated source in tarballs (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.2.2 (2009-09-07)

============================================

The "St. Pancreas" release.

Enhancements:

* Better debug output under various circumstances, including outputting the

  version number on startup (smcv)

* Add the concept of always-on accounts, which can't be disabled or otherwise

  put offline (smcv)

* Try to set initial presence before calling Connect (smcv)

Fixes:

* fd.o #23778: make sure account details (including passwords) are stored in

  directories readable only by the user. Distributions wanting this fix

  without any other changes should cherry-pick git commits 16c55625,

  2a42ac03, c16f40ec and 3558c3b2 (smcv)

* Replace deprecated g_strcasecmp with g_ascii_strcasecmp (Jonh Wendell)

* Don't close old-style Tubes channels if they can't be dispatched, since

  that closes the new-style StreamTube/DBusTube channels that everyone

  should be using, as a side-effect (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.2.1 (2009-08-26)

============================================

The "secret cake" release.

Enhancements:

* Add change notification in the Compat interface (mardy)

* Make the low-memory check overridable by subclasses (smcv)

* Complete online requests with error on DISCONNECTED -> DISCONNECTED

  transition (i.e. cancellation) (mardy)

* Set the initial connection status reason to Requested, since None_Specified

  usually means "generic error" (mardy)

Fixes:

* fd.o #23509: wait for observers and approvers to finish initial processing

  before letting Claim() finish (smcv)

* Don't allow transition from one transport to another (smcv)

* If a transport plugin stops a connection before RequestConnection has even

  returned, remember that, and disconnect that Connection later when it does

  turn up (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.2.0 (2009-07-30)

============================================

The "too many timeouts, reducing the advertised EDNS UDP packet size to 512

octets" release.

This is the first release of a new 5.2.x stable branch, available in git as

the 'telepathy-mission-control-5.2' branch. Feature development will continue

in the 5.3.x series.

Enhancements:

* Update ContactCapabilities draft to the version in telepathy-spec 0.17.26

  (smcv)

* Add regression tests for Capabilities, and for ContactCapabilities draft 1

  (smcv)

Fixes:

* McdConnection: fix a rare crash if no fallbacks for a presence are

  supported (smcv)

* libmcclient: avoid invoking callback twice if the object is already

  ready (mardy)

telepathy-mission-control 5.1.4 (2009-07-09)

============================================

The "I only came here seeking peas" release.

Dependencies:

* fd.o #22332: GConf is no longer required (if it is not available, then the

  MC 4 to MC 5 migration tool, mc-account-convert, will not be built)

Enhancements:

* fd.o #21378: support connection manager parameters whose value is a single

  byte (smcv)

* Add simple man pages for the daemon and utilities (smcv)

Fixes:

* fd.o #22670: don't assume a client has crashed just because it has lost a

  well-known name (smcv)

* Don't use the AutomaticPresence status from account configuration unless the

  presence type is an online presence (mardy)

* fd.o #22585: remove symbols from libmissioncontrol-server that collide with

  symbols in libmcclient, allowing the telepathy-mission-control daemon to be

  statically linked on platforms that don't want to support plugins (smcv)

telepathy-mission-control 5.1.3 (2009-07-01)

============================================

The "wilting" release.

Enhancements:

* Improve test coverage, including EnsureChannel (smcv)

* In tests, add the ability to test an installed MC binary (installcheck)

  (smcv)

Fixes:

* Make sure that ChannelDispatchOperations emit Finished before they are

  unreffed for the last time (smcv)

* Stop mcd_mission_abort() from implicitly closing channels, meaning that

  when Close() has an extra protocol-level meaning (for instance, when using

  an IRC proxy), we don't respond to connection loss by departing from all

  channels. Instead, explicitly close channels whenever desired (smcv)

* Add API for plugins to destroy channels, close channels with a reason,

  or "forget" (do not dispatch) channels (smcv)

* In situations where channels can't be handled, use Destroy() to terminate

  them, if available (smcv)

* In wait-for-name, initialize error properly if we can't connect to D-Bus

  (smcv)

* In tests, restructure `make check-torture` so it doesn't exceed command-line

  length limits (smcv)

* Use g_file_set_contents to overwrite files (mardy)

telepathy-mission-control 5.1.2 (2009-06-26)

============================================

The "don't cross the stream engines" release.

Dependencies:

* telepathy-glib >= 0.7.32 (or 0.7.33 if you want to run the regression tests)

Enhancements:

* Stop generating duplicate bindings in the daemon for interfaces that are

  now available in telepathy-glib 0.7.32

Fixes:

* Fix a subtle use-after-free that can crash MC if more than 4 distinct

  properties change in a 10ms interval (!)

* Make various fixes to putting accounts online:

  - ConnectAutomatically takes effect immediately

  - Fix a race between loading accounts and requesting channels

  - Never consider accounts to be Valid until they've loaded, meaning that we

    never try to put an account online before we've loaded its parameters (!)

  - Don't connect (automatically or by request) unless the account is Valid

  - Don't connect in order to satisfy a channel request unless the account is

    both Valid and Enabled

  - Allow setting RequestedPresence on disabled accounts, fixing creation of

    accounts that already have a RequestedPresence

  - Improve regression test coverage considerably

  - If an account's parameters change and it becomes Valid, consider putting it

    online

  - If an account becomes enabled after an online presence was requested, try

    to put it online

* Change the default RequestedPresence on startup from UNSET to OFFLINE

* Simplify API for low memory indication

* Delete some unnecessary code from McdMaster, and simplify some redundant code

* Forbid setting AutomaticPresence to a non-online status

* Forbid setting RequestedPresence to a status that can't be set on yourself

* Fix a memory leak and some races in the regression tests

* Turn the daemon into a convenience library so one of the tests can link it

  statically even if it's eventually going to be a shared library, fixing

  make check with --enable-plugins

telepathy-mission-control 5.1.1 (2009-06-16)

============================================

The "Beautiful And Damned" release.

Fixes:

* fd.o #22169: allowed PreferredHandler to be empty when requesting a

  channel (smcv)

* Updated code generation from telepathy-glib and followed the recommendations

  of telepathy-glib 0.7.6's NEWS, fixing some possible assertion

  failures (smcv)

* Ensured that AccountValidityChanged will be emitted if an account is added

  in an already-valid state (smcv)

* fd.o #21377: added support for 64-bit integers, doubles and object paths as

  CM parameters, did some work towards supporting bytes as CM parameters,

  and fixed serialization of large 32-bit unsigned integers and

  deserialization of integers of large magnitude (smcv)

* fd.o #21299: prevented automatic reconnection after Name_In_Use error (smcv)

* fd.o #22201: avoided rewriting accounts.cfg if nothing changed (smcv)

* Ensured that the transport was reset when a Connection disconnected (mardy)

telepathy-mission-control 5.1.0 (2009-06-05)

============================================

The "beta 75 would have been silly" release.

After months of development, this is the first numbered release of Mission

Control 5. We jumped straight to 5.1 in order to use the Linux-style odd/even

versioning seen in the other Telepathy components, so the 5.1.x development

branch will lead to the 5.2.x stable branch.

Changes since Mission Control 4 are too numerous to list here, but here are

the major architectural changes.

The proprietary MissionControl API no longer exists; the daemon is a

telepathy-spec-compliant AccountManager, and also a telepathy-spec-compliant

ChannelDispatcher. Consequences of this include:

* Clients are no longer expected to implement the ChannelHandler interface.

  Instead, they may implement the Observer, Approver and/or Handler interfaces

  specified in telepathy-spec.

* The design of channel dispatching copes better with having multiple user

  interface components installed.

* Accounts' presence, avatar and nickname are now independent (stored

  per-account), allowing for more precise control by UIs.

* Accounts no longer have to belong to a "profile", although they still can

  (albeit only by using a non-standard extension).

Accounts are now stored in a flat file, rather than by abusing GConf. The

included mc-account-convert tool might be able to convert MC 4 accounts to

the MC 5 format, if you're lucky.

libmissioncontrol-server has changed its API and ABI considerably, and is not

yet considered stable in its new form either. It is no longer installed by

default (in a normal configuration it'll just be compiled into the daemon).

libmissioncontrol (based on libtelepathy and also known as

libmissioncontrol-client) no longer exists, and has been replaced by

libmcclient (based on telepathy-glib).

Mission Control 5 is not a drop-in replacement for Mission Control 4, and

cannot be used by Mission-Control-4-based applications like Empathy 2.26

and the Maemo 4 platform. However, both versions can be installed

independently in the same directory prefix, to facilitate porting from one to

the other.

Known regressions since Mission Control 4:

* There is no gnome-keyring integration yet.

* The client and server library APIs are not considered to be stable yet.