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@@ -1,5 +1,76 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +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 |