Version 0.6
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Released: 2014-04-16

Notes:
 This release breaks both the library API and the Appstream specification.
 Please adjust your tools to work with Appstream 0.6, especially take a look
 at the documentation for the new Appstream XML specification.

Features:
 * Add new AsComponent class
 * Rewrote libappstream in plain C
 * client: Add option for detailed output
 * Use "kind" instead of "ctype" for component types
 * Implement compulsory-for-desktop
 * Some refactoring, additions and improvements
 * Correctly handle component types according to the 0.6 spec
 * Bring back thumbnail support for ss.d.n services
 * client: Improve screenshot url display
 * Implement support for <provides/>
 * Implement support for <release/>
 * Some API future-proofing
 * Add helper to generate Vala VAPI file

Specification:
 * docs: Initial documentation on components and lots of restructuring
 * docs: Add FontData meta-info spec
 * docs: Add description of input-method metainfo
 * docs: Some changes on ASXML for component-support
 * docs: Clarify font classifier
 * spec: Don't use specialized tags, everything is a component. Kill <id/> types
 * spec: All upstream meta-info goes to /usr/share/appdata now
 * specs: Update Appstream example XML for latest changes
 * specs: Add new <architectures/> tag to Appstream distro spec
 * spec: Add "origin" property for components tag
 * spec: Define icon repository
 * spec: Component-type is "desktop" for apps now
 * spec: Add <releases/> parent for release tags
 * spec: Allow more url types
 * spec: Clarify how the description tag should be translated
 * spec: Hide fonts for now - the spec is not yet ready
 * spec: Add component type for codecs
 * specs: Update project mission statement
 * spec: Use metadata_license instead of the BE version
 * spec: Add note on multiarch-support


Bugfixes:
 * Make parallel compilation possible
 * Allow compiling with -Wall -Werror
 * Prevent identifier collisions in the database
 * Some fixes for the introspection build process
 * Some basic fixes for the XSD schemes

Version 0.5
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Released: 2014-02-23

Features:
 * Parse screenshot data and make it available via library API (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add screenshot data to the Xapian database (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add function to dump screenshot data as XML (Matthias Klumpp)
 * cli: Add colored output to the command-line tool (Matthias Klumpp)
 * cli: Display some screenshot information, if it is found (Matthias Klumpp)
 * cli: Allow the tool to trigger cache rebuilds (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add new API to return available screenshot sizes (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Always compile tests (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Improve Xapian search capabilities (Matthias Klumpp)

Specification:
 * spec: Deprecate appcategory element in favour of category element (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Update architecture images (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Remove reference to OCS (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Add caption for screenshots (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Always install appstream.pc in correct libdir (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Always rebuild the database if watchfile is missing (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Don't throw an error if we are on a system without the ASXML dir (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Fix some memory leaks (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Fix some strange vala compile issue with newer valac versions (Matthias Klumpp)

Version 0.4
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Released: 2013-10-20

Features:
 * Include /var/cache/app-info as location for AppStream XMLs (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Search for icons in the caches too (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Remove API for manually refreshing the Xapian cache (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Remove refresh action from appstream-index tool (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement PackageKit plugin to refresh the cache (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement support for compressed AppStream files (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Support all icon types in AppStream XML parser (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Parse description tags in AppStream XML (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Update database schema, breaking USC compatibility (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Only rebuild AppStream Xapian cache if data has changed (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Store app homepage and iconpath correctly in new database layout (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Document important parts of AppStream (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Document appcategories tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Add example XML for AppStream files (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Briefly describe the screenshot service (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Include preexisting architecture graphics and fix some quirks (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Specify how icons will be handled and which ones take priority (Matthias Klumpp)

Specification:
 * spec: Add project_group element (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: The "remote" type is much more precise than "url" (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Add documentation tag to the AppStream spec (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Enforce at least one id, pkgname, name, summary and icon tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Define and describe project_license tag (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Add screenshots to the AppStream XML spec (Matthias Klumpp)
 * spec: Add new compulsory_for_desktop tag (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Ensure that we have GI set up, before compiling libappstream (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Set has_type_id=false for Xapian binding (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Ensure we do always target the right GLib version (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Fix crash in AppStream PackageKit plugin (Matthias Klumpp)

Version 0.3.1
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Released: 2013-06-26

Bugfixes:
 * Use a GPtrArray for search results
 * Adjust unit-tests and client tool

Version 0.3.0
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Released: 2013-06-10

Features:
 * Add command-line method to search for apps (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Restructure code to clearly separate client and daemon (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make DBus API an internal implementation detail (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Rewritten and more advanced XDG menu file parser (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implemented new Category handling (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Many improvements in documentation (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Implement API to access any AppStream-compliant screenshot service (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Fix creation of missing database (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make UAI more failsafe (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Improve error handling and command-line output (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Greatly improve search results (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Fix translation template (Matthias Klumpp)

Version 0.2.0
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Released: 2013-03-15

Features:
 * Add distro-agnostic category definition (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make DBus API more failsafe (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Place Xapian cache in different directory (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Add release script and release instructions (Matthias Klumpp)

Bugfixes:
 * Kill some compiler warnings (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Print error message if xmlto was not found (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Make --nowait option finally work again (Matthias Klumpp)
 * docs: Build C API documentation (Matthias Klumpp)
 * Print better message if category dir is null (Matthias Klumpp)

Version 0.1
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Released: 2012-10-02

Notes:
  * Initial release
