libgdata 0.8.0 released



libgdata 0.8.0 is now available from:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/libgdata/0.8/

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This is the first release in the 0.8.x stable series; from this point
onwards, libgdata is adopting an odd–even/stable–unstable versioning
policy, so 0.9.x will be unstable, leading to a stable 0.10.x series.

This version brings major improvements to downloading and uploading,
with correspondingly large API breaks. See the NEWS file for a
comprehensive list of them. As well as shiny streaming I/O, cancellation
support has been worked on a lot, many stability fixes have landed and
escaping and leak fixes have been committed aplenty.

There aren't many new features in this release; it's mostly an API break
and stability release.

Notably, libgdata's (optional) gdk-pixbuf dependency has been bumped to
2.14 as we now use gdk-pixbuf's streaming I/O support. gdk-pixbuf is
only used in the test suite.

About libgdata
==============

libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using
the GData protocol — most notably, Google's services. It provides APIs
to access the common Google services, and has full asynchronous support.

Overview of changes from libgdata 0.7.0 to libgdata 0.8.0
=========================================================

Major changes:
* Added async counterparts to all remaining blocking methods
* Added various cancellation tests to the test suite
* Many fixes and improvements for cancellation of various operations
* Fixed many race conditions in authentication and cancellation of
operations
* Removed the separate youtube-user property for YouTube authentication
* Fixed attribute escaping across all of libgdata
* Removed some deprecated PicasaWeb properties (file clients and
positions)
* Switched to stream-based downloading for all download operations
* Tidied up (i.e. broke) the Documents service API a lot
* Tidied up a few test cases and made them idempotent
* Fixed several minor and major memory leaks
* Ensured that batch operations' callbacks are always called, even if
the entire batch operation errors out
* Bumped our gdk-pixbuf dependency to 2.14
* Fixed all the XML comparison tests in light of an invalid assumption
we made about hash table ordering being broken
* Added GeoRSS support to YouTube videos
* Overhauled download and upload streams, fixing many race conditions
and deadlocks and adding some test cases
* Added support for flushing GDataUploadStream instances
* Added many code examples to the documentation and expanded a few other
bits of the documentation

API changes:
* Added gdata_picasaweb_service_insert_album_async()
* Added gdata_picasaweb_service_query_files_async()
* Removed GDataYouTubeService:youtube-user,
gdata_youtube_service_get_youtube_user()
* Removed GDataPicasaWebFile:client, gdata_picasaweb_file_get_client(),
gdata_picasaweb_file_set_client()
* Removed GDataPicasaWebFile:position,
gdata_picasaweb_file_get_position(), gdata_picasaweb_file_set_position()
* Changed gdata_documents_document_download() to be stream-based
* Changed gdata_documents_service_upload_document(),
gdata_documents_service_update_document() to be stream-based
* Added gdata_documents_service_finish_upload()
* Renamed gdata_documents_service_move_document_to_folder() to
gdata_documents_service_add_entry_to_folder()
* Renamed gdata_documents_service_remove_document_from_folder() to
gdata_documents_service_remove_entry_from_folder()
* Added gdata_documents_service_add_entry_to_folder_async(),
gdata_documents_service_add_entry_to_folder_finish()
* Added gdata_documents_service_from_entry_from_folder_async(),
gdata_documents_service_from_entry_from_folder_finish()
* Changed GDataDownloadStream::content-length,
GDataDownloadStream::content-type to be emitted in the download thread
rather than the main thread
* Changed gdata_picasaweb_service_upload_file() to be stream-based
* Removed gdata_picasaweb_service_upload_file_async(),
gdata_picasaweb_service_upload_file_finish()
* Added gdata_picasaweb_service_finish_file_upload()
* Changed gdata_media_content_download() to be stream-based
* Changed gdata_media_thumbnail_download() to be stream-based
* Changed gdata_youtube_service_upload_video() to be stream-based
* Added gdata_youtube_service_finish_video_upload()
* Added gdata_calendar_service_query_events_async()
* Added gdata_calendar_service_insert_event_async()
* Changed gdata_contacts_contact_get_photo(),
gdata_contacts_contact_set_photo() to use guint8 instead of gchar for
image data
* Added gdata_contacts_contact_get_photo_async(),
gdata_contacts_contact_get_photo_finish()
* Changed gdata_contacts_contact_set_photo() to require a content type
to be passed in
* Added gdata_contacts_contact_set_photo_async(),
gdata_contacts_contact_set_photo_finish()
* Added GDataYouTubeVideo:latitude, GDataYouTubeVideo:longitude,
gdata_youtube_video_get_coordinates(),
gdata_youtube_video_set_coordinates()
* Changed gdata_upload_stream_new() to take a GCancellable
* Added GDataUploadStream:cancellable,
gdata_upload_stream_get_cancellable()
* Changed gdata_download_stream_new() to take a GCancellable
* Added GDataDownloadStream:cancellable,
gdata_download_stream_get_cancellable()

Bugs fixed:
* Bug 607620 — Cancelled uploads appear partially complete in PicasaWeb
* Bug 635959 — Proper cancellation support for GDataUploadStream
* Bug 635736 — Asynchronous authentication tests broken
* Bug 634033 — Use standard login URI for YouTube
* Bug 635335 — GIR missing exported packages information
* Bug 631033 — Fix escaping and add tests
* Bug 633363 — Add missing *_async() methods
* Bug 594814 — Handle GeoRSS for YouTube videos
* Bug 637036 — Overhaul cancellation support
* Bug 579885 — Add code examples to documentation

Updated translations:
* ca valencia (Joan Duran)
* cs (Marek Černocký)
* da (Kris Thomsen)
* de (Mario Blättermann)
* en_GB (Philip Withnall)
* es (Jorge González)
* eu (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
* fr (Bruno Brouard)
* hu (Gabor Kelemen)
* sl (Matej Urbančič)
* sv (Daniel Nylander)
* zh_CN (Eleanor Chen)

Philip Withnall
December 30, 2010
http://live.gnome.org/libgdata

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