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Update for flatpak 1.2
The recently released flatpak 1.0 has some features that we should have in the docs. Some noteworthy items from the release notes:
Permissions:
- Up-front verification of permissions
- A new application permission can be used to grant access to Bluetooth devices.
- New
fallback-x11
permission
CLI things:
-
uninstall --unused
automatically removes unused runtimes and extensions -
flatpak remove
is now an alias for flatpak uninstall.
Other:
-
permission-*
- allows interaction with the portals permissions store (can probably be added to the page on debugging) - Marking apps as end-of-life
- Apps can now export D-Bus services for all the D-Bus names they are privileged to own
Anything else?
flatpak-spawn
is worth mentioning as far as I'm concerned.
Repurposing this issue to see what we want to update for the upcoming flatpak 1.2 release.
New things in 1.2 that are worth mentioning:
- New commands
- flatpak ps
- flatpak kill
- flatpak history
- New install/update/uninstall UX
- shows download sizes
- shows permissions
- shows eol warnings
- flatpak install and uninstall will search for matching refs
- Support for --columns for all tables
- Logging to the journal (used for history)
- FlatpakInstance library (used for ps, kill)
- Reduced PolicyKit dialogs
- Text-mode PolicyKit support
- Improved support for custom installations
- flatpak update handles them
- Custom prompt in sandbox shells
- Better testsuite, including coverage reporting