Hi, Here is another release of Geoclue. Changes since 2.5.1:
- Scan for WiFi networks, greatly improving accuracy of WiFi source. - Allow multiple clients on the same D-Bus connection and add API for it. This is mainly targetted for Flatpak location portal. - Add API for apps to explicitly delete their client objects. Long running apps, like gnome-settings-daemon and Flatpak location portal, should use that to ensure Geoclue knows when these apps are not actually using it and hence it doesn't need to keep running needlessly. - Restore accidently removed, build of modem sources. - Update location on connectivity actually changing. - Try not spamming Mozilla Location Service. - Fix unexpected exit when non-active clients are connected. - Fix a check for system apps. - Use absolute paths for sysconfdir. - Fix links in docs. - More debug log. - A bunch of internal and/or non-functional fixes & improvements. Dependency-related changes: - Require glib >= 2.44. Contributors: Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steff...@gmail.com> Laurent Bigonville <bi...@bigon.be> Valentin Blot <freedesktop-de...@valentinblot.org> Will Thompson <w...@willthompson.co.uk> Zeeshan Ali <zee...@collabora.co.uk> Release tarball: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/archive/2.5.2/geoclue-2.5.2.tar.bz2 sha256sum: d0a2f95d8a98ea983466ba9eb2426c7ec1ce3d2063d228d3ad688f8799afddad --------------------------------------- Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications as simple as possible. Geoclue is Free Software, licensed under GNU GPLv2+. It is developed for Linux. The aim of project is to utilize all possible sources of geolocation to best find user's location: * WiFi-based geolocation (accuracy: in meters) * GPS(A) receivers (accuracy: in centimeters) * GPS of other devices on the local network, e.g smartphones (accuracy: in centimeters) * 3G modems (accuracy: in kilometers, unless modem has GPS) * GeoIP (accuracy: city-level) Geoclue used to also do (reverse-)geocoding but that functionality has been dropped in favor of geocode-glib library. D-Bus API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/ Library API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/libgeoclue/ -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list