Geoclue 2.1.8

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

Hi,

Here is the another release of the re-write of geoclue. Changes since 2.1.7:

- Switch to Mozilla Location Service for geoip as well.
- Allow specifying nickname to submit network data with.
- Report actual available accuracy level and keep it up2date.
- Add 'Active' property to indicate client state.
- Expose altitude info (if known).
- Timeout on inactivity, rather than no clients.
- Automatically:
  - stop the client if max accuracy level is set to 0.
  - start the client if max accuracy level is set to non-0 and it was
    automatically stopped.
- Don't disable modem after using it. Disabling the modem, disables it for
  everyone so if there was an active connection going on through the modem,
  geoclue will cause it to disconnect. While we need to have some centralized
  means to enable/disable modem and ideally geoclue shouldn't do any
  enabling/disabling of modems at all, for now lets just only enable the
  modem.
- Fix issue of missed location updates.
- Whitelist correct ID for gnome-settings-daemon in default config.
- Replace '--disable-wifi-source' configure option with
  '--disable-network-manager'. i-e now you disable usage of NetworkManger
  explicitly rather than wifi source, which is now always built and enabled.
- Drop now redundant geoip server.
- Don't distribute .desktop.in files for demos.
- Plug some leaks.
- More debug log.
- Other minor fixes.

All contributors to this release:

Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
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Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. The
primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware
applications as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to
ensure that no application can access location information without
explicit permission from user.

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)
* 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.

Release tarball:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/releases/2.1/geoclue-2.1.8.tar.xz
sha256sum: d5ccc0898f46fb15efcae5615d56cefcca46cf775a53baebee5d3f1082000116

D-Bus API documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124