20240305.md

Repository activities from 2024-02-16 to 2024-03-05

Repository roundup

Thanks to the hard work of mal on the GCC upgrade, some blockers with systemd have been addressed and the patches merged some days ago.

Communication bits

• nemo-qml-plugin-social, social QML adapters for Nemo, Karry is working on giving read-only access to the shared calendars with Google.

• buteo-sync-plugin-carddav, a plugin for synchronising contacts, jmlich pull request to support Qt6 was merged by pvuorela.

• mobile-broadband-provider-info, the database of access point configurations,ruditimmermans corrected the MNC and the APN for Mobile Vikings in Belgium. pvuorela cleaned the spec file used to build the package.

• ofono, the telephony library, mal backported two fixes for CVE-2023-4233 and CVE-2023-4234. pvuorela switched back mobile-broadband-provider-info as a requirement for ofono.

• libqofonoext, Qt bindings for specific Sailfish OS extension to Ofono, pvuorela proposed to convert the NCI property into a string. The current declaration as an enum with 64 bits values is not ideal since not working in QML. NCI is the id of the cell used in a 5G network.

• connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi picked several upstream fixes dealing with routing : append the correct attribute type for RTA_DST or support for subnet routes. LaakkonenJussi also added support for --data-cyphers option with OpenVPN.

• libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi introduced a default route update only when there are some changes in the service cache. iceaway implemented the MoveBefore / MoveAfter methods.

• openvpn, a VPN solution, mal updated it to 2.6.9.

• nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, QML bindings to handle system parameters, LaakkonenJussi added support for --data-cyphers option for OpenVPN. pvuorela hide the implementation of the public classes, so dependencies on external libraries (except libconnman-qt5) are not exposed in the header files.

• messagingframework, the email Qt framework, dcaliste merged latest upstream, bringing a different naming convention to avoid name clashing when saving attachments.

• nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, dcaliste simplified a bit the email creation code, removing duplications with elements already implemented in messagingframework.

Other applications

• sailfish-office, the document application, dcaliste introduce the possibility to store passwords for read-protected PDF documents.

Low level libraries

• libsocialcache, a library and a QML plugin that is used to manage cache from social networks, jmlich upgraded it for Qt6.

• giflib, a library to manipulate GIF format image files, mal updated it to 5.2.2 and added a patch to fix CVE-2021-40633.

• maliit-framework, the code handling the keyboard, MrCyjaneK while working on Flutter integration, enabled glib2 support as a separated package, named maliit-framework-wayland-glib.

• usb-moded, the USB tracking daemon, spiiroin enabled by default the power supply type detection based on the usual power_supply device. This is usefull for USB Power Devices (PD) that may not report being different from a computer.

• lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), pvuorela removed usage of too old egrep in favour of grep -E.

• quota, tools to limit disk usage, LaakkonenJussi ensured that quota run is finished before launching elements that requires write access to the home directory. Indeed, quota is making the home filesystem read-only during its operation.

• systemd, a system and service manager, mal investigated an issue with systemd when compiled with a newer version of GCC. He developped and backported various patches to fix the issue.

Developper's corner

• vulkan-loader, a graphic library to load Vulkan runtime, mal proposed to update it to 1.3.277 and also for the compilation headers.

• glib2, the Glib library from GTK / Gnome, mal merged his upgrade to 2.78.4.

• glib-networking, network extensions for GLib, attah updated it to 2.78.0.

• libdbusaccess, providing more fine-grained D-Bus access control, mal fixed a unit test failing after the glib2 upgrade.

• android-tools-hadk, the Android tools for the hardware development kit, thaodan proposed a commit ensuring that all mount points are unmounted upon exit.

• python-M2crypto, Python module for using OpenSSL, thaodan proposed to update it to 0.41.0.

• pkcs11-helpers, a library for using PKCS#11 providers, mal updated it to 1.30.0.

• libsailfishapp, , dcaliste added a missing dependency on qt5-qttools-linguist, so translated applications using libsailfishapp can properly be built on OBS for instance where the linguist tools are not automatically installed.

• binutils, command line tools, mal updated it to 2.42.

• perl-TimeDate, a Perl module for time and date manipulation , mal updated it to 2.33.

• xdg-utils, desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org , pvuorela updated it to 1.2.1.