This week was kind of busy, and the next few weeks will be too, I think - a lot of elementary projects will see new releases in preparation for the beta release of elementaryOS 5.0, and I'll be working on finally getting jekyll working and up to date again on fedora.

fedora updates

I've packaged two new elementary projects for fedora, which had their first stable releases this week - the GeoClue2 agent (which pops up a confirmation dialog when an application asks for the devices' location), and the new elementary sound theme.

package	version	release	changes
pantheon-agent-geoclue2	1.0	1.fc29	Initial package
pantheon-agent-geoclue2	1.0	1.fc28	Initial package
pantheon-agent-geoclue2	1.0	1.fc27	Initial package
elementary-sound-theme	1.0	1.fc29	Initial package
elementary-sound-theme	1.0	1.fc28	Initial package
elementary-sound-theme	1.0	1.fc27	Initial package

I've also updated the session settings to now require both the PolKit and GeoClue2 agents, so requests for location and authorization now work by default in the Pantheon session on fedora.

package	version	release	changes
pantheon-session-settings	28.1	2.fc29	Added geoclue 2 agent
pantheon-session-settings	28.1	2.fc28	Added geoclue 2 agent
pantheon-session-settings	27.1	2.fc27	Added geoclue 2 agent

A stable update for the vala compiler (version 0.38.10) introduced a new build error for noise, which was already fixed on fedora 28 and later, where this issue occurred earlier. So, I included the upstream patch to fix the build on fedora 27, too.

package	version	release	changes
noise	0.4.2	3.fc27	Fix FTBFS issue

I've updated the outdated jekyll-watch and jekyll-sass-converter rubygems packages on rawhide in preparation for updating jekyll to the latest version.

package	version	release	changes
rubygem-jekyll-watch	2.0.0	1.fc29	Changelog
rubygem-jekyll-sass-converter	1.5.2	1.fc29	Changelog

The github.com/sasha-s/go-deadlock golang project received a fix for a possible deadlock issue upstream, which I backported to the fedora package just to be on the safe side.

package	version	release	changes
golang-github-sasha-s-go-deadlock	0.2.0	3.fc29	Added upstream patch
golang-github-sasha-s-go-deadlock	0.2.0	3.fc28	Added upstream patch
golang-github-sasha-s-go-deadlock	0.2.0	2.fc27	Added upstream patch

An updated version of the cerbere watchdog for the Pantheon session was released. Additionally, I tagged a related pantheon-session-settings release for rawhide to account for changes in cerbere. Both packages were updated in fedora rawhide.

package	version	release	changes
cerbere	0.2.3	1.fc29	Changelog
pantheon-session-settings	28.90	1.fc29	Changelog

I also updated the gala window manager to a newer git snapshot, which fixed building it against the unstable version of mutter present on rawhide (3.29+), and should resolve some issues with taking screenshots and HiDPI support.

package	version	release	changes
gala	0.3.1	0.3.20180603.git3661cbd.fc29	Changelog
gala	0.3.1	0.3.20180603.git3661cbd.fc28	Changelog
gala	0.3.1	0.3.20180603.git3661cbd.fc27	Changelog

COPR updates

Due to an soname bump in the gnome-desktop3 package in fedora 28, I had to rebuild the switchboard-plug-locale and switchboard-plug-useraccounts packages in the elementary-stable COPR repository to fix install conflicts.

Project updates

As mentioned above, I released version 28.90 of pantheon-session-settings for fedora rawhide (and what will become fedora 29) to add compatibility with the latest version of cerbere.