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Will the gnome-online-accounts 3.52.0-1 package ever be included in Ubuntu 24.04? Is there a place where I can request to include this update in the noble repository, the actual version is 3.50?

In the recent version there are many interesting changes.

Overview of changes in 3.52.0

  • Translation updates:
    • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov, twlvnn kraftwerk)
    • Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
    • Czech (Daniel Rusek)
    • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    • English (United Kingdom) (Andi Chandler)
    • French (Irénée THIRION)
    • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
    • German (Tim Sabsch)
    • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
    • Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
    • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
    • Russian (Artur S0)
    • Slovak (Dušan Kazik)
    • Spanish (Daniel)
    • Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
    • Turkish (Sabri Ünal)

Overview of changes in 3.51.3

  • Accessibility fixes and event announcements
  • Translation updates

Overview of changes in 3.51.2

  • Adopt a less aggressive notification policy
  • Translation updates

Overview of changes in 3.51.1

  • Enable Mail, Calendar & Contacts for Microsoft 365
  • Improvements to Microsoft 365 setup dialog
  • Use AdwButtonRow when applicable
  • Allow overriding dependencies supporting built as a meson wrap
  • Refactor web browser authentication flow as a discrete task
  • Improve error reporting and notification for providers
  • Document configuration files used by the daemon
  • Correctly save and reset settings for TLS certificate errors

Overview of changes in 3.51.0

  • Support Mail Autoconfig XML for IMAP/SMTP services
  • Support SRV lookups for DAV services
  • Support Linux's KEYRING notification pipe for Kerberos
  • Ability to restrict which services of a particular account type are available
  • Add version CLI flag for goa-daemon
  • Port to AdwDialog and AdwAlertDialog
  • Accept GtkWidget as a top-level for account setup
  • Port documentation to gi-docgen
  • Documentation and manual pages are enabled by default
  • Fixes for bugs found by Coverity Scan
  • Fix libsoup error handling
  • Translation fixes and missing strings
  • Translation updates
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No, it won't be backported to 24.04.

The whole point of a "release" in a Debian-based system (like Ubuntu) is that the software versions are frozen for the entire life of the release. All the software is built to rely upon the same set of dependency versions, so changing any of those dependencies may break the whole system. gnome-online-accounts will keep version 3.50 for the entire life of the Ubuntu 24.04 release.

There are a few exception: Bugfix patches, Security patches, and a few critical application like Web browsers. But you are asking to rebuild and re-integrate the entire Gnome stack for this version bump. You may not realize it, but that's an enormous request.

You have some options:

gnome-online-accounts version 3.52 is in Ubuntu 24.10. The Ubuntu developers already did that. You can release-upgrade to Ubuntu 24.10 and start using the version you want today easily. It does mean that you will need to keep release-upgrading every 6 months -- you won't be using LTS anymore.

You can request a backport of the newer package at launchpad.net. It is unlikely that any developer wants to take it on, so that is a bit of a long-shot.

If you have the skills, you can try backporting the package yourself (not for beginners).

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