Comment 174 for bug 1207812

Additional notes for Feature Freeze Exception consideration.

Build log at https://launchpadlibrarian.net/169329079/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-armhf.libimobiledevice_1.1.5%2Bgit20140313.bafe6a9e-0ubuntu1~trusty1~test1_UPLOADING.txt.gz (showing this one simply to show it also built fine for armhf)

Summary of changes in the git snapshot after 1.1.5, from upstream NEWS file, in addition to iOS7 working:

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Version 1.1.6
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* Development release
* Changes:
  - Security: Fix insecure use of the /tmp directory (CVE-2013-2142)
  - A bunch of memory leak fixes
  - Python: Various fixes and support for "with" statement for AfcFile class
  - Python: Add Afc2Client class to allow jailbroken filesystem access
  - Fix linking issue with newer libtool as reported for Ubuntu
  - Fix stuck thread in idevicesyslog which broke quit from within the tool
  - Add syslog_relay service implementation and use it in idevicesyslog
  - API: Add instproxy_client_get_path_for_bundle_identifier() helper
  - API: Add afc_dictionary_free() helper
  - Move thread, socket, debug and userpref code to "common" source directory
    in order to improve code reuse
  - Fix broken byte order detection in configure.ac which could lead to broken
    AFC protocol communication on platforms without endian.h (Raspberry PI)
* API is UNSTABLE
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There have been 146 commits to trunk after 1.1.5, attaching a list of them.

I have personally done only packaging and installation/upgrade testing, while the functionality testing is provided by the community having iOS devices in these comments. Matthias helpfully called for additional testing so I hope we have a good testing coverage.