ANNOUNCE: folks 0.7.1

[Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting kde org>]

libfolks 0.7.1 is now available for download from:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/folks/0.7/

34f2242b7b4c2726fa6b26664474ac8507548aec407bca93c429b5d291967744
folks-0.7.1.tar.xz

libfolks 0.7.1
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Libfolks pulls together contacts from any number of accounts supported
by the libfolks backends. This release includes a number of backends,
including Telepathy, evolution-data-server, libsocialweb, Tracker, and
a simple key-file backend.

The 0.7.x unstable series corresponds to GNOME 3.6, leading up to a
0.8.x stable series when GNOME 3.6 is released. We will continue to
maintain API and ABI stability for the foreseeable future, with the
intention of having 0.8.x API compatible with 0.6.x. We will make an
announcement when we officially commit to API/ABI stability for the
project as a whole.

See the NEWS file for details on every break we made. In future
releases, we will have example programs that will be kept up-to-date
with the latest API as well.


For more information, see the Folks wiki page:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks

Reference documentation is available here:
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-eds/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-libsocialweb/
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/folks-telepathy/

Overview of changes from libfolks 0.7.0 to libfolks 0.7.1
=========================================================

Dependencies:
• telepathy-glib ≥ 0.17.5
• libzeitgeist ≥ 0.3.14
• evolution-data-server ≥ 3.5.3
• GLib ≥ 2.26.0
• GConf dependency dropped
• intltool ≥ 0.50.0

Bugs fixed:
• Bug 674256 — telepathy-glib minimal version is insufficient
• Bug 647909 — Port Folks to GSettings
• Bug 663890 — @throws annotations missing for some functions
• Bug 675292 — Assertion when joining IRC channel
• Bug 676023 — Invalid read when preparing the aggregator
• Bug 627403 — Move default presence messages from Empathy to libfolks
• Bug 675121 — port Folks to eds api changes
• Bug 672709 — Add new interaction details properties to individuals

API changes:
• Add PresenceDetails.get_default_message_from_type()
• Add new Individual properties:
    - im_interaction_count
    - call_interaction_count
    - last_im_interaction_timestamp
    - last_call_interaction_timestamp
• Add InteractionDetails interface to report interactions with Personas and
  Individuals

Dependencies
============
libfolks and depend upon core GNOME libraries (GLib, GIO, etc.), as well
as the recent releases of Vala and gobject-introspection.

The Telepathy backend also requires a recent release of telepathy-glib,
built to include its Vala bindings, and libzeitgeist.

The EDS backend also requires a recent release of evolution-data-server,
built to include its Vala bindings.

The Tracker backend requires a recent version of Tracker.

The Libsocialweb backend requires a recent version of libsocialweb,
built to include the Vala bindings.

Contributing/Contact
====================
For any questions, comments, feature proposals, etc., please refer to
the Telepathy mailing list or #telepathy on Freenode.
For bug reports, please file them with the GNOME Bugzilla module "folks"