Nuvola 4.12 Releases

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Dear friends,

Nuvola Runtime 4.12, Nuvola SDK 4.12 & Diorite 4.12 were released. I'd like to thank to all people who participated - developers, script maintainers as well as bug reporters.

What’s New for Users

Nuvola 4.12 gathers all goodies that were continuously released to the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola since May 8th, 2018:

• Nuvola Adds Three New Scripts: Brain.fm, Focus@Will, and NPR One (May 20th, 2018): Three new scripts were added to the stable Flatpak repository: Brain.fm, Focus@Will, and NPR One.
• Nuvola Adds Pandora Radio, Updates Sound Cloud & Sirius XM (June 3rd, 2018): A new script was added to the stable Flatpak repository: Pandora Radio. Sound Cloud got a new maintainer and was significantly improved. Sirius XM was adjusted to recent changes in its web interface. Finally, Nuvola Runtime received a few tweaks.
• Nuvola Adds Qobuz, Updates KEXP Radio and Yandex Music (June 17th, 2018): A new script was added to the stable Flatpak repository: Qobuz. KEXP Radio got a new maintainer and was adjusted to new player interface. Yandex Music was ported to Chromium-based backend for audio playback without Flash plugin. Finally, Nuvola Runtime received a few tweaks.
• Nuvola Adds YouTube Music, Updates Jango & Tune In, Drops Logitech Media Server (June 30th, 2018): A new script was added to the stable Flatpak repository: YouTube Music. Jango & Tune In integrations got a new maintainer, were ported to the Chromium-based backend for audio playback without Flash plugin and updated to the latest Nuvola standards. Logitech Media Server script is now unsupported until a new maintainer is found. Finally, Nuvola Runtime received a few tweaks.
• Nuvola Brings Redesigned Preferences Dialog, More Appearance Settings, and Bug Fixes (July 14th, 2018): The latest flatpak builds of Nuvola Apps bring redesigned Preferences dialog with expanded Appearance section as well as a few bug fixes.

What’s New for Script Maintainers

• Commands nuvolasdk new-project, nuvolasdk convert-project and nuvolasdk check-project were updated to follow the latest Nuvola standards: two space indentations and no trailing whitespace are used for metadata.in.json andStandard JS code style is enforced for integrate.js.
• The README.mdtemplate was updated and the command nuvolasdk convert-projectcreates template--README.md &template--README.md.diff files to help with the update of your README.mdfile.
• Nuvola SDK build system: If src/webview.png image is found, it is used to generate screenshots combining that web view snapshot image with base Nuvola screenshots. The resulting images can be found in the screenshots subdirectory. More screenshot types will be added in the next development cycle. [GitHub ticket]
• Changes in guidelines: Web view snapshots are mandatory, Standard JS coding style for integrate.json is mandatory, the minimal API level was raised to 4.11.
• Nuvola.Core::NavigationRequest: You can overwrite request.url field to force redirect during URL filtering.
• Nuvola.queryAttribute: You can specify a parent element and a relative selector as an array of [parent element, selector].
• Nuvola.queryText: You can specify a parent element and a relative selector as an array of [parent element, selector].
• Nuvola.setInputValueWithEvent: The change event is emitted as well.
• Nuvola ADK is no longer built with the WebKitGTK+ backend.
• The default web app requirements Feature[Flash] Codec[MP3]were dropped.
• An issue with radio actions in developer sidebar toggling themselves without user interaction was fixed. [GitHub ticket]
• Service Integrations Tutorial and Media Player Integration pages were updated to use a new demo player.

What’s New for Third-Party Packagers

• A build error with--no-cef flag was fixed and a continuous integration task was set up to test a build configuration with this flag after each commit. [GitHub ticket]
• Since the genuine flatpak builds of Nuvola no longer use WebKitGTK+ backend, all scripts are tested only with the Chromium backend and specify Chromium[X.Y.Z] requirement for that reason. If you are stuck with the WebKitGTK backend, you may remove Chromium[X.Y.Z] Feature[MSE] requirements to make the script run with the WebKitGTK+ backend and add Feature[Flash] to use Flash plugin for audio playback. However, this should be done on a case-by-case basis and after careful testing.
• Nuvola SDK build system: New dependency for building Nuvola scripts: Pillow ≥ 4.3.
• Nuvola SDK build system: If src/webview.png image is found, it is used to generate screenshots combining that web view snapshot image with base Nuvola screenshots. The resulting images can be found in the screenshots subdirectory. More screenshot types will be added in the next development cycle. [GitHub ticket]

Best regards,

Jiri Janousek