[Lvfs-announce] New features on the LVFS

Hi all,

This weekend we deployed two new, smaller, features on the LVFS.

* The first feature is only important if you are distributing GPL
licensed firmware on the LVFS. If you are, there is a new source type
URL to include the <releases> section in your metainfo file. This
should point to the release-specific source code that can be used to
rebuild the binary from the code. GPL firmware without source
information can no longer be moved to testing or stable. You can also
edit or add the source URL in the existing "Update Details" section in
the component view.

* The second feature may be useful to larger OEMs and is available for
both free and proprietary firmware. There are currently quite strict
limits on the format of the release ChangeLog included in the
<description> part of the metainfo, or edited on the LVFS. For
instance, OEMs are not allowed to include links within the text and
have to adhere to a style guide. All firmware can now specify a URL
like <url type="details"> within the <release> section. This could
point to a website page or PDF description of the specific release.
This would allow vendors to provide more information about specific
CVEs or detailed technical information. Whist the update details
should still be considered the "primary" method to convey information
about the firmware release, the URL may be useful too in some cases.

In time, fwupdmgr and gnome-software will show both new URLs if set.
Both new tags are documented in more detail here:
https://fwupd.org/lvfs/docs/metainfo/urls

A reminder for those that joined the mailing list recently, last week
we added the 2 factor authentication feature which I encourage you to
enable if not using OAuth:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lvfs-announce/2019-January/000010.html

Richard