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| Name: libnotify-tools | Distribution: openSUSE Tumbleweed |
| Version: 0.8.8 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 2.1 | Build date: Mon Mar 23 11:48:29 2026 |
| Group: System/Libraries | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 69525 | Source RPM: libnotify-0.8.8-2.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://galago-project.org/ | |
| Summary: Notifications Library -- Tools | |
D-BUS notifications library. This package contains the notify-send tool to create notifications.
LGPL-2.1-or-later
* Mon Mar 23 2026 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Migrate to xz compression and manual service run
* Fri Jan 09 2026 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.8:
+ This release contains various fixes to have better handing for
icons, addressing issues due to recent changes, as well with
improvements and new features for notify-send.
+ Added a fully-functional notify-send test suite, thus we
encourage distributors to run the tests through meson.
+ notification-hints: Define notification hints with constant
values
+ notification:
- Use better URI parsing for icons
- Improve property changes notifications
- Replace actions added with an existing name
- Fail on invalid action invocation
- Simplify the logic to support the legacy hints names
- Use the icon as icon-name, not as app-icon
- Improve reading images when inside a portal
+ notify-send:
- Support parsing hex byte hints
- Set both the image path and the app-icon
- Add an option to override the app-icon on notification
- Add support to write the notification ID to a FD
- Add support to write the activated action to a FD
- Add support to write the activation token to a FD
+ tests: Add exensive notify-send test suite and coverage check
+ Bugs fixed:
- The closed signal only fires once
- Icon handling requires call to notify_get_server_info
- Drop pkgconfig(gtk+-3.0) BuildRequires: No longer needed.
* Fri Sep 26 2025 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.7:
+ tests: Run non-interactive tests in headless mode
+ test-image: Use a local asset instead of relying on invalid
icon theme
+ notification:
- Add ability to get a GAppLaunchContext on activation
- Allow using a desktop file as is from a snap if readable
- Do not use the desktop file logic for icons
- Remove app name warning in sandboxes
+ notify:
- Ignore the snap UUID to compute the snap application
- Support snap application that contains a dot in their name
* Fri Mar 28 2025 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.6:
+ Revert usage of autopointers
+ notify-send:
- wait timeout variable should be int, not long
- Utilize app_icon property rather than icon-name
+ test: make tests run with `meson test`
+ notify: constructor should set app-icon property, not icon-name
+ Revert updating of meson stylesheet URL
- Add docbook5-xsl-stylesheets, now needed for manpages.
* Thu Feb 20 2025 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.4:
+ notification:
- Set the icon-name property as image hint instead of as
app-icon
- Modernize the NotifyNotification class definition (and add
support for auto-pointers)
+ notify-send:
- Require valid UTF-8 for Summary and Body
- Allow sending an empty summary
- Flush stdout after printing notification ID
+ build: Improve mapfile and support building in solaris
+ Bugs fixed:
- notify-send dumps core if notification message is invalid
UTF-8
- libnotify should be quiet
- fdo documentation link outdated in README.md
- Replace docbook5-xsl-stylesheets with docbook-xsl-stylesheets
BuildRequires: Following upstream changes.
* Tue Jan 16 2024 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Convert to source service for easier updating.
* Tue Oct 10 2023 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.3:
+ This release contains a critical stability/minor security
update which affects Electron applications that utilize Portal
notifications (eg, through Flatpak). It is highly recommended
that all users of libnotify 0.8.x update to this release.
+ Please note that this fix has increased the minimum required
version of glib to 2.62.0.
+ notification:
- Use g_signal_connect_object
- Move disconnect to dispose
* Thu Feb 23 2023 Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.2:
+ Set new summary for library.
+ Docs:
- Port to gi-docgen.
- Fix URL to Desktop Notification Spec.
+ meson:
- Replace deprecated meson.source_root() calls.
- Bump minimum meson version to 0.58.
+ Introspection docs fixes.
- Following upstreams port to gi-docgen, drop gtk-doc and add
meson, xsltproc and pkgconfig(gi-docgen) BuildRequires. Also pass
explicit man=true to meson, ensure we are building manpages.
* Fri Jul 22 2022 Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose@gmail.com>
- Update to version 0.8.1:
+ Keep version of bindings at 0.7.
- Changes from version 0.8.0:
+ Use Desktop Portal Notification when running confined (snap and
flatpak).
+ Now the library acts like a wrapper in such scenario, with some
limited.
+ capabilities, but this will enforce security and user control
over the allowed notifications.
+ notify-send: Handles SIGINT gracefully, closing waiting
notification.
+ Use NotifyClosedReason enum as closed reason return value.
+ Bump dependency on GLib 2.38.
+ Various introspection docs improvements and fixes.
- Use ldconfig_scriptlets macro for post(un) handling.
* Fri May 13 2022 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Drop libnotify-rpmlintrc: no longer needed, all rpmlint issues
are fixed.
/usr/bin/notify-send /usr/share/man/man1/notify-send.1.gz
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