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Add release information to appstream file

Nate Graham requested to merge Pointedstick/inkscape:add-release-information-to-appstream-file into master

This patch adds <release> information to Inkscape's AppStream file, which yields the following benefits for you:

  • Linux software center apps like GNOME Software and KDE Discover reward apps that provide this information by featuring them more prominently
  • Users LOVE seeing this kind of information before performing an upgrade; it provides them a sense of confidence and increases their appreciation for your software
  • The Linux flatpak package on Flathub will properly display the version number of the current release to users

I've taken the liberty of providing <release> tags for the last two releases. Every time a new release comes out, you just add a new one, basically following the pattern.

Here's the relevant AppStream spec documentation: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-releases

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