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Dear Linux community,

In these unpredictable and often challenging times, I feel it’s more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes. Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!

Let this holiday season be a moment of peace, where you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos. Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.

May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable. Here's to a festive season full of positivity and open-source spirit!

Warm wishes,

Your fellow penguin at heart.

P.S.: I had very little time, so the whole thing, was AI accelerated! Please forgive me :-)

New Features:

• Introduce the Notification v2 portal. This updated version of the Notification portal supports a plethora of new fields for notifications, such as sounds, categories, purpose, and more.
• Introduce the USB portal. This portal allows apps with relevant permissions to enumerate and acquire access to specific USB devices.
• Introduce a new SchemeSupported method to the OpenURI portal. This new method allows apps to know ahead of time if the host system is able to deal with a particular scheme.

Enhancements:

• Continued the move towards Python-based tests. This should simplify the test setup in the project quite significantly, and also will allow removing the cyclic dependency between libportal and XDG Desktop Portal.
• Introduce umockdev-based tests.
• Improve the icon validator so it can deal with memfd-based icons.
• Clarify behavior of the Settings portal for non-standardized keys.
• In the Global Shortcuts portal, clarify that the result the BindShortcuts
• of may be a subset of all requested shortcuts.
• Add a documentation page about icon validation requirements.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix memory leaks in the Background, Email, and Global Shortcuts portals.
• Fix a general file descriptor & memory leak.
• Fix a regression in the Settings portal.
• New and updated translations.