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Update for flatpak 1.2

Open allanday opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

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?

allanday avatar Aug 22 '18 14:08 allanday

flatpak-spawn is worth mentioning as far as I'm concerned.

somarlyonks avatar Sep 08 '18 05:09 somarlyonks

Repurposing this issue to see what we want to update for the upcoming flatpak 1.2 release.

matthiasclasen avatar Jan 01 '19 02:01 matthiasclasen

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

matthiasclasen avatar Jan 01 '19 03:01 matthiasclasen