Repository activities from 2024-10-08 to 2024-10-23

Repository roundup

wireguard-tool, the wg binary to control WireGuard VPN, Laakkonenjussi created a new repository to package the tools.
wpa_supplicant, for accessing WPA and WPA2 protected WiFi networks, Laakkonenjussi reverted a change in 2.10 that breaks access-point feature.
connman, the connection manager, Laakkonenjussi avoided the vpn daemon to take precedence over the connman daemon when dealing with connections and disconnections. There is also a fix in the pipeline for wrong prefix length sent over D-Bus for VPN.

gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, pvuorela cleaned some compilation warnings. mal updated to the latest upstream version in the ESR 91 family.
qtmozembed, Qt bindings for the Gecko engine, pvuorela did various cleans up, including for instance the removal of old Qt4 remainings.
embedlite-components, QML components for the browser, mal adapted the login manager page to the new ESR 91 engine. It fixes the basic authentication process.
sailfish-components-webview, the high-level QML components exposing a web page, mal corrected the float preferences since notations like 13.0f are not recognised anymore. pvuorela cleaned up the code, removing an empty private header file, marking functions with static keyword when relevant...
sailfish-browser, the browser application itself, pvuorela updated the unit tests to the API changes brought by ESR 91 and also adjusted to the name changes in qtmozembed.

qmf-notifications-plugin, a plugin to send notifications on email changes, pvuorela fixed email tone being played multiple times when receiving sereval emails.
lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), pvuorela added a 2s temporisation to audible notifications so sounds of notifications without pop-up are not emitted on top of other possible sounds.

fingerterm, the console application, pvuorela fixed touch handling with large rounded corner.
gcc, the GNU compiler collection, direc85 is working on enabling Go language by compiling the required binaries.
scratchbox2, the cross-compilation tool used by the SDK, direc85 proposed to add the GCC Go language binaries.
go-rpm-macros, build-stage rpm automation for Go packages, direc85 added this new repository to add helpers when packaging projectes based on the Go language.
util-linux, a collection of basic system utilities, Thaodan added symlinks for kill and umount.
pvuorela updated the qmltypes file in various repositories with API changes or additions. This file is used by QtCreator for completion, highlighting...
- in libcommhistory,
- in libconnman-qt,
- in nemo-qml-plugin-connectivity,
- in nemo-qml-plugin-email.