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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-10-06 00:39:18 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-10-06 02:13:41 -0500
commit9168977b3b33e1aa3f9d130bbd82be4536684171 (patch)
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downloadpacman-9168977b3b33e1aa3f9d130bbd82be4536684171.tar.xz
Update NEWS for 4.0.0 release
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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+4.0.0 - well-integrated and powerful signed packages and databases
+ support in pacman, the library, and scripts (FS#5331)
+ - over 800 commits to pacman.git since 3.5.4 release
+ - many code cleanup commits across library/binaries/scripts
+ - many performance improvement commits across library/binaries
+ - add new -S --recursive operation to upgrade a full dep chain
+ - report upgrade size on sync operations (FS#12566)
+ - early terminal input is flushed before question prompts
+ - remove duplicate code shared in sync and upgrade operations
+ - remove ShowSize; replaced with VerbosePkgLists (FS#15772)
+ - print callback (warning, error) messages to stderr (FS#25099)
+ - download progress callback has more room for filenames
+ - fix selection entry for long values (FS#25253)
+ - make config parsing two-pass process, enhance error messages
+ - print helpful tips on -Qi <filename> or -S <filename>
+ - replace libfetch with libcurl for backend download library
+ - timeout when mirror is not responding (FS#15369)
+ - full HTTPS protocol support (FS#22435)
+ - support of non-traditional/redirected URLs (FS#22645)
+ - ensure downloads are only resumed if appropriate (FS#23803)
+ - only remove empty directories if no remaining owner (FS#25141)
+ - better cache directory choosing and honor $TMPDIR (FS#25435)
+ - replaces are parsed as dependency-style strings (FS#23410)
+ - split package verification and load stages
+ - sync database reading refactor for performance
+ - filelists now have a dedicated type with metadata
+ - diskspace check no longer requires iterating package archives
+ - update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
+ - validate sync database sha256sum if available
+ - correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
+ - API: several type renames from pm* to alpm_* prefix
+ - API: several enum constant renames from PM to ALPM_* prefix
+ - API: several types are now public exposed structs
+ - API: handle is no longer a single global variable
+ - API: more changes than can be mentioned here, see README
+ - much improved API documentation for use by Doxygen
+ - pactest: several performance/checking improvements
+ - scripts:
+ - refactor some common components into shared bash library
+ - split translations into pacman-scripts catalog (FS#15148)
+ - makepkg:
+ - allow signing packages after creation
+ - allow verifying source file signatures (FS#20448)
+ - support UPX compression of executables (FS#17213)
+ - allow usage of an alternate build directory (FS#22308)
+ - cleancache option has been removed; use shell instead
+ - improved variable sanity checking (FS#16004)
+ - better handling of package extensions (.tar.Z or invalid)
+ - allow PKGEXT/SRCEXT environment overrides (FS#19860)
+ - only check for writable PKGDEST if necessary (FS#24735)
+ - check_software function exits early if missing req'd binaries
+ - do source packaging in fakeroot (FS#24330)
+ - be more POSIX-compatible in use of `ln` (FS#24893)
+ - handle spaces with filenames in noextract (FS#25100)
+ - pacman-key: new keyring management tool for signed data
+ - pacsort: new utility, sort version numbers as pacman does
+ - pactree: support sync databases with -s option
+ - pkgdelta: add a manpage
+ - repo-add:
+ - handle and include package signatures in databases
+ - verify database signature before modification
+ - sign database after creation/modification
+ - general script cleanup and bash-ification
+ - add sha256sums to database (FS#23103)
+ - contrib/bacman: code cleanups and small bug fixes
+ - contrib/bash_completion: updates for new options/commands
+ - contrib/paccache: new, pacman cache cleanup script
+ - contrib/paclist: rewrite using bash
+ - contrib/paclog-pkglist: new, recover from missing local DB
+ - documentation: extensive updates to all manpages
+ - translations: extensive updates, new languages: lt, zh_TW
3.5.4 - fix display of lists on non-TTYs and other output fixes
- fix group selection entry for large inputs (FS#24253)
- fix divide by zero when downloading zero length files