Nuvola 4.7, Nuvola SDK 4.7 and Diorite 4.7 Released

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Dear friends,

Nuvola 4.7 & friends were released. There are practically no changes for script maintainers but packagers should focus on increased and new dependencies. Announcement for users is in Medium blog as usually.

Best regards,

Jiri Janousek

P.S. Full changelog follows:

Release 4.7

Nuvola 4.7 was released on September 1st, 2017.

New Features

• New web app: Jupiter Broadcasting by Andrew Stubbs.
• The genuine flatpak builds offers free trial and $1/month subscription.
• For sake of transparency, preferences dialog shows placeholders for features which were disabled by a distributor.

Bug Fixes:

• VAAPI/VDPAU checks are not run under Wayland. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#280 Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#359
• URL sandbox was not honoured properly: Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#367

News for Script Maintainers:

• API 4.6 is required for new scripts.

Under the Hood:

• Nuvola no longer bundles *.vapi files but depends on those of Valac 0.36.3. However, glib-2.0.vapi and webkit2gtk-web-extension-4.0.vapi must be patched to work properly (see vapi/*.patch). You may need to modify wscript if you don't use Valac 0.36. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#369
• Valac and GLib dependencies were raised to 0.36.3 and 2.52. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#369
• GIR XML and typelib files are generated. Introduces new dependency on g-ir-compiler.
• There was a lot of refactoring to allow usage of Python-GObject and to support multiple web engines in future.
• Future warning: Nuvola is likely to introduce dependency on Python 3.6.

Nuvola SDK 4.7.0

• desktop launcher: Spaces around the equals sign were removed because they confuse kbuildsycoca5. Issue: tiliado/nuvolaruntime#365 Upstream ticket
• Added individual version info properties - nuvolasdk.VERSION_MAJOR/MINOR/MICRO.
• new-project: New metadata.in.json files use the latest Nuvola SDK version.

Diorite 4.7.0

• Diorite no longer bundles *.vapi files and depends on those of Vala 0.36.3.
• GLib dependency has been raised to 2.52.0 to make use of Valac's GTask support.
• Diorite GTK namespace was changed to Drtgtk.
• GIR XML and typelib files are generated. Introduces new dependency on g-ir-compiler.