shared-mime-info 0.23 (2007-12-18) * Mime-type Changes: - Add QTIF QuickTime image - Add SDP stream description - Add Vala source file - Add Atom feed, OPML - Add SAMI, MicroDVD, MPSub, SSA subtitles - Add audio/x-m4b as a sub-class of audio/mp4 - Add *.aac as a suffix for MPEG-4 audio files - Add Compressed Flash detection, add FutureSplash support - Add *.asc as a suffix for PGP armoured keys - Add application/msword as a sub-class of application/x-ole-storage - Don't associate *.htm and *.html to Mozilla bookmarks - Add more aliases for PowerPoint and Word mime-types - Add *.vlc as a suffix for m3u files - Better magic for Word and Office documents - Split Windows Media Station playlists from ASX ones - Fix up JPEG 2000 mime-types * Other: - Add a testsuite in the CVS tree shared-mime-info 0.22 (2007-07-30) * Mime-type Changes: - Clean up the Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks mime-types - Fix Powerpoint magic detection - Add another magic matchlet to HTML - Add magic detection for OpenOffice.org files - Add MP2 audio, EMF mime-types - Add more aliases for 3GPP videos - Add magic detection to WMF - Add more suffixes for WordPerfect documents - Add mime-types for SIS/SISX archives - Add x-epoc media type - Add *.hxx as a suffix for C++ headers - Add Erlang mime-type - Add another Fortran magic detection - Add Plucker mime-type - Add winmail.dat files as TNEF files - Add WMLScript mime-type - Add JAD mime-type - Add iRiver PLA playlist mime-type - Add Nintendo DS ROM mime-type - Add video/avi as an alias for AVI files - Update Ogg mime-types to match Xiph's latest documents * Other: - Improve Window compatibility - Update the glib requirements shared-mime-info 0.21 (2007-04-18) * Mime-type Changes: - Add *.m2t as a pattern for MPEG-2 files - Add comments for the XMCD database and ARC mime-types - Fix comments for Adobe FrameMaker documents - Make application/m3u an alias for audio/x-mpegurl - Make audio/x-mpeg an alias for audio/mpeg - Add XPS to the mime-types - Fix RealVideo documents mime-types - Make application/x-shared-library-la a subclass of text/plain - Add TNEF to the mime-types - Add PAK archive to the mime-types - Add PSF, miniPSF, PSFlib, and gzipped PSF fonts to the mime-types - Add *.iso9660 as a pattern for ISO files - Add PKCS#10 certification requests to the mime-types - Add and correct loads of raw camera image types - Add magic for OpenOffice.org file types - Add KSysV init files to the mime-types - Add DirectDraw surface files to the mime-types - Add X11 cursor type to the mime-types - Fix magic for RTSPtext metalinks * Other: - Remove mention of ROX in the See Also section of the man page shared-mime-info 0.20 (2007-02-06) * Mime-type Changes: - Add text/javascript as an alias for application/javascript - Add *.latex as a pattern for TeX documents - Add image/x-macpaint for "MacPaint Bitmap image" - Add RTSPtextRTSP-style movie references to application/x-quicktime-media-link - Add image/pdf as an alias for application/pdf - Add video/flv as an alias for FLV videos - Add Google Video Pointer mime-types - Add application/pls as an alias for pls files - Add gzip/bz2 types for DVI, PDF and PostScript - Add *.kar as a pattern for MIDI files - Add video/mp4v-es as an alias for MPEG-4 videos - Add video/x-ms-wvx, video/x-ms-wax and video/x-ms-wmx as alias for ASX - Add patterns and aliases for Vivo video - Add alias for FLI files - Add video/x-ms-wm as an alias for video/x-ms-asf - Add a image/x-icns mime-type for MacOS X icons - Add a text/x-rpm-spec mime-type for RPM .spec files - Add NSC multicast playlists to video/x-ms-asf, with magic - Add the audio/x-tta mime-type - Add application/x-msexcel as an alias for Excel files - Add PGM, PBM and PPM as sub-classes of PNM - Move *.ram files to application/ram - Use the preferred Matroska mime-types, includes Matroska audio - Detect Makefile with a shebang at the start - Add application/x-bzip2 as an alias for bz2 archives - Add more magic for QuickTime files - Add eMusic download packages - Add *.rdfs and *.owl patterns to RDF files - Add newer magic for Gnumeric files - Add mime-type for WBMP images - Make DIA a sub-class of application/xml - Clean up PGP/GnuPG file types - Add Lua scripts - Avoid misdetecting Java files as C files - Add OCL scripts - Merge the application/vnd.palm and application/x-palm-database mime-types - Make mbox as a sub-class of text/plain - Add magic to detect AutoCAD DXF files - Add magic for Go SGF records - Add magic for PGN chess games - Add DAR archives - Add WavPack audio - Remove bogus magic for Targa files - Add Markaby scripts - Add ACE archives - Add Haansoft's Hangul word processor documents - Clean up XSLT mime-types depending on version - Add LDIF files - Add XLIFF translation files - Move compressed SVG files to image/svg+xml-compressed - Add Citrix ICA files - Add XUL and XBL detection - Move compressed pcf (font) detection to application/x-font-pcf * Other: - Fix CPIO description - Don't abort when update-mime-database can't open a file - Move the pkgconfig file to $(datadir) - Skip the translation of update-mime-database.c - Have a quiet output to update-mime-database by default 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.
