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shared-mime-info 0.19 (2006-08-25)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add application/powerpoint and application/mspowerpoint as aliases for
Powerpoint
- Add VHDL mime-type
- Add application/mbox for the MBOX mailboxes
- Add text/x-txt2tags
- Remove *.dat as a glob for MPEG videos
- Add Monkey's Audio, AC3, and Musepack mime-types
- Fix matching Type1 fonts
- Remove useless application/octet-stream mime-type
- Add *.mo to application/x-gettext-translation
- Add loads of tracker audio files, console ROMs, raw images mime-types
- Fix QuickTime Media Links mime-types and detection
- Add audio/AMR and audio/AMR-WB mime-types and detection
- Add better TeX magic, and more globs
- Add better magic for patch files
- Fix .jar files' mime-types, and add better magic
- Fix magic for MPEG4 audio files
- Add an alias for .deb packages
- Add application/sieve mime-type
- Fix application/javascript's mime-type
- Fix text/csv's mime-type
* Other:
- Add paths to the .pc file
shared-mime-info 0.18 (2006-07-03)
* Mime-type Changes:
- Add *.qtl to video/quicktime
- Add *.wax to audio/x-ms-asx
- Add *.mpga to audio/mpeg
- Add audio/x-ms-wma (Windows Media Audio)
- Add application/xspf+xml (XSPF playlist)
- Add a lot of subclassing information
- Fix the RSS mime-types
- Fix *.asx files' mime-type
- Avoid audio/x-ms-asx files being detected as HTML
- Avoid application/pdf files being detected as Matlab documents
- Clarify C, C++, C# and ObjC mime-types
* New translations:
- Danish
shared-mime-info 0.17 (2006-03-14)
* Mime-types Changes:
- Added application/x-cue (CD image cuesheet)
- Added application/vnd.ms-access (Access database)
- Added application/x-7z-compressed (7-zip archive)
- Added application/mathematica (Mathematica)
- Added application/x-gedcom (GEDCOM genealogy)
- Added application/x-shorten (Shorten audio)
- Added video/3gpp (3GPP video)
- Added application/docbook+xml (Docbook)
- Added application/x-sqlite (SQLite database)
- Added application/x-go-sgf (Go saved games)
- Added application/x-m4 (M4 scripts)
- Added a few Ogg related mime-types
- Added application/x-cbr and application/x-cbz (Comic books archives)
- Added flv-application/octet-stream (Flash video)
- Added application/x-gnuplot (Gnuplot)
- Added application/x-srt (Text subtitle files)
* New translations:
- zh_TW
* Spec changes:
- Make the mime cache contain an mmappable binary format
- Add acronym and expanded-acronym
- Add recommendations for duplicate globs handling
shared-mime-info 0.16 (2004-03-22)
* Mime Types Changes:
- Added application/mathematica
- Added application/stuffit
- Fixed application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3 and other office types
- Added application/vnd.oasis.opendocument
- Even more types now inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-gettext-translation
- Fixed up text/x-python
* Lots of new translations:
- bg eo es eu it ja ms nb pl pt pt_BR ru sq uk zh_CN
shared-mime-info 0.15 (2004-08-30)
* Mime Types Changes:
- Added various aliases
- Make text files inherit from text/plain
- Added text/x-xmi
- Added application/x-javascripta
* Translations:
- new translations: Danish (Ole Laursen), Greek (Nikos Charonitakis),
Korean (Cha Young-Ho)
- updated translations: Finnish (Ville Skyttä), German (Christian Neumair)
Version 0.14 (21-Mar-2004)
* upped the mozilla/netscape bookmarks priority.
* change xbell to x-xbel
* Add matroska video mime type
* application/x-archive needs lower prio than application/x-deb
* Change C# mimetype to text/x-csharp
* Add application/x-ole-storage mimetype, remove OLE storage match from
application/msword, since it matches all sorts of document types using
OLE.
* add types from ImageMagick
* add .flac detection.
* make MIME descriptions more consistant with each other (patch from
Christian Neumair).
* add a package-config file
* conditionally disable running update-mimedb for packages.
* fix up RIFF and shell magic, as well as merging diff files and patch files.
* New az, cy, and no translations.
Version 0.13.1 (01-Jan-2003)
* Specify number of characters to test when checking for text files
(requested by Jaap Karssenberg).
* Added <alias> and <sub-class-of> fields.
Version 0.12 (28-Aug-2003)
* Added *.pm and *.al globs for PERL (Jaap Karssenberg).
* Added a section to the spec about the inode/* MIME types (suggested by
Jaap Karssenberg).
* Clarify the meaning of nested magic matches.
* Fixed example (lang -> xml:lang) (Christophe Fergeau).
* Change 'case insensitive match' to 'lowercase match'.
* Fixed byte-swapping for little-endian and host-endian matches (reported by
Jaap Karssenberg).
* Ignore trailing '/' characters on MIME directory name.
Version 0.11 (17-Apr-2003)
* 'make install' validates the common types file against the DTD.
* Install instructions updated for new XDG Base Directory Specification.
* Added new <root-XML> element to identify XML files by
(namespaceURI, localName) pairs (suggested by Mike Hearn).
* Minor updates to the database itself (Vincent Lefevre).
* Added short discussion of ACAP Media Type Dataset Class to spec (suggested
by Dave Cridland).
* Updated spec to use XDG Base Directory Specification for paths.
* Clarifications to glob matching section (requested by Jonathan Blandford).
* Added a 'Recommended checking order' section to help interoperability
(suggested by Lars Hallberg).
* Greatly improved error reporting in update-mime-database, and commented
the code more.
* Fixed possible segfault if a MIME type was defined twice with no xml:lang
in the same directory.
* When update-mime-database is run, warn the user if the MIME directory
given isn't in the search path.
Version 0.10 (03-Mar-2003)
* Much better validation of input files.
* Added note about the use of extended attributes to store the MIME type.
* Ensure that all changes to generated files happen atomically.
* Change to half-text, half-binary format to make parsing the magic file
much easier.
* Make it really clear that user prefs don't go in the database.
* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but older versions seem a
little buggy).
* Fix problem where copying nodes lost the namespace (workaround for libxml
bug).
* Added DTD to freedesktop.org.xml.
* Spec was confused about whether a match type was an attribute or element
name. Settled on attribute and updated XML (makes the DTD easier this way).
* Glob pattern for TGIF files.
* Added application/x-cd-image (requested by Stefano Peluchetti).
* Added text/x-uri (text/uri-list is used for something else).
* Added more extensions for powerpoint (Stefano Peluchetti).
* Marked AIFF as Amiga/Mac (Marcin Juszkiewicz), not just Amiga.
* Added *.xsl glob (*.xslt was already allowed) and added xhtml MIME type
(requested by Vincent Lefevre).
Version 0.9 (29-Jul-2002)
* Removed bashism in uninstall rule (reported by Filip Van Raemdonck).
* Added manpage (Filip Van Raemdonck).
* Require libxml 2.4.0 (not sure if it's needed, but play it safe).
* Workaround libxml problem where copying nodes lost the namespace
(reported by Stephen Watson and Jesse Wagner)
* Added skeleton description for 'action' element.
* Re-worded spec section on user preferences (Filip Van Raemdonck).
* Added extra authors to spec.
* Changed SHOULD to MUST for requiring shared package (suggested by
Filip Van Raemdonck).
* Added some error checking to make sure output is writeable.