2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 4.1.2 - validate %FILEPATH% when parsing repos to prevent arbitary
4 file overwrites from malicious databases
6 - restrict package name from starting with a dot
7 - fix BZR source revision support (FS#35281)
8 - Use LOGDEST for log pipe
9 - fix distcc disabling (FS#35741)
10 - correct stat usage on BSD/Darwin (FS#35469)
12 - Do not reinterpret keys from revoked keyrings
14 - paccache: remove broken su privilege escalation (FS#35173)
15 - pacscripts: update for current pacman options
16 - checkupdates: be consistent with naming (FS#35755)
17 4.1.1 - fix bug causing negative "Total Installed Size" (FS#34616)
18 - report libalpm version it is pkg-config file (FS#34967)
19 - various translation fixes and updates (FS#34395, FS#34704,
22 - improve SVN VCS PKGBUILD handling (FS#34675, FS#34636)
23 - allow "lp:" URLs for BZR sources (FS#34650)
24 - prevent pkgver() capturing stderr (FS#34974)
25 - fix attempt to remove package twice on failure (FS#34672)
27 - fix privilege escalation in paccache (FS#34656)
28 4.1.0 - check file properties when using -Qkk (FS#11091)
29 - add color to pacman output - new configuration option "Color"
30 - add informational messages for optdepends installation
31 status (FS#13035, FS#27116)
32 - add number suffix to pacsave files instead of overwriting
34 - improve needed key importing for Upgrade (FS#26520)
35 - add options to specify require signature level for
36 Upgrade operations (FS#26729)
37 - directory ownership can be queried
38 - allow wildcards in NoUpgrade, NoExtract, IgnorePkg,
39 IgnoreGroup and HoldPkg (FS#20360, FS#18988)
40 - remove -f short option for --force
41 - SyncFirst option has been removed (FS#26445)
42 - offer to delete downloaded packages failing signature check
44 - configure shell for running install scriptlets (FS#20557)
45 - make path to ldconfig configurable
46 - display repo in VerbosePkgLists output
47 - do not check file conflicts or disk space with --dbonly
49 - UseDelta takes a ratio for the largest delta to use
50 - track how installed packages were validated (FS#28040)
51 - add pkg-config file for libalpm
52 - avoid false ownership matches for files in / (FS#30388)
53 - only load filesystem space information when needed
54 - allow leading "local/" in query options
55 - allow cleaning only some cachedirs
56 - do not remove source package and package databases from
58 - improve conflict checking with directory symlinks (FS#30681)
59 - remove Cygwin support
60 - add program prefix to pacman log entries
61 - add --native filter to pacman -Q
64 - support for VCS URLs (git, bzr, svn and hg) (FS#7816,
65 FS#8890, FS#13727, FS#15895, FS#16384, FS#16872, FS#19459,
66 FS#19476, FS#20841, FS#21098, FS#28605)
67 - split debugging symbols into separate package (FS#10975)
68 - use SKIP in checksums to skip integrity check (FS#19735)
69 - add prepare() function to PKGBUILD (FS#30582)
70 - add pkgver() function to auto-update pkgver/pkgrel
71 - pkgrel must be in decimal format
72 - PKGBUILDs without package() functions are deprecated
73 - support specifying CPPFLAGS in makepkg.conf
74 - support PACKAGER environmental variable
75 - allow source renaming to work on signature files
76 - configurable compression options (FS#27430)
77 - allow multiple packages to be build when using
79 - add makedepends/checkdepends information to .PKGINFO
80 - url can be overridden in split packages
81 - allow wildcards in PURGE_TARGETS
82 - pass --asdep and --needed flags to pacman when installing
83 - use last match in BUILDENV/OPTIONS arrays (FS#26701)
84 - fix "arch" handling in split packages (FS#27204)
85 - add LOGDEST configuration option
86 - install makedepends with --repackage
88 - honor TMPDIR environmental variable
89 - add makedepends/checkdepends information to database
91 - fix importing keys with quotes in file name (FS#28445)
92 - allow verification of multiple sig files
93 - add zsh completion (FS#29062)
94 - pkgdelta: add ratio and package size limits
95 - pactree: improve output
97 - updpkgsums: update checksums in a PKGBUILD
98 - checkupdates: new - safely check for package updates
99 - pacsort: add --files option to support parsing filenames
100 - pacdiff: improve usability
102 4.0.3 - frontend database cleanup enhancements (FS#28714)
103 - frontend package cleanup enhancements (FS#25166)
104 - back out changes related to SyncFirst in 4.0.0
105 - remove recursive/needed automatic flags on SyncFirst
106 - remove poorly implemented `-S --recursive` option
107 - improve error messages on database locking failures
108 - use full delta size as max download size (FS#28345)
109 - improved handling and fix crash after failed downloads
110 - fix key lookup when using gpg 2.X as GPG program
111 - match only full path components in disk space checking
112 - skip disk space checks when using --dbonly
113 - scripts: unset CDPATH bash variable in all scripts
115 - fix syntax error in remove_deps (FS#28448)
116 - small fixes related to multiple libdeps, parsing issues
117 - exit via default handler in trap_exit (FS#28491)
118 - attempt to work around Btrfs file/block size reporting issues
120 - remove signature verification in --populate
121 - make -e option work as advertised without arguments
122 - exit with correct return codes when verifying signature
123 - pacsysclean: fix description, fix option parsing (FS#28434)
124 - pkgdelta: use bsdtar -q option for better performance
125 - translations: various updates and corrections
126 4.0.2 - allow comments after a repository header in pacman.conf
127 - search for and import PGP subkeys if necessary (FS#27612)
128 - fix rare segfault on removal operations (FS#27805, FS#28195)
129 - skip all unknown files when cleaning package cache
130 - restore looking for files in cache before downloading via -U
131 - ensure '[removal]' is displayed in trans confirmation (FS#27981)
132 - implement disk space checking code for Illumos
133 - use TCP keepalive in download to prevent dropped connections
134 - round and show -0.00 values as 0.00 (FS#27924)
136 - ensure all source files are included in --source (FS#26580)
137 - fix locale sort/comm related issues (FS#26580)
138 - abort on missing download agent
139 - restrict flags passed to pacman (FS#28012)
140 - work around certain zipman glob/existence issues
141 - fix non-writable SRCPKGDEST error message (FS#28197)
142 - fix printf interpreting gettext string as arg (FS#28069)
143 - don't abort on non-zero hg return codes (FS#28248)
144 - disable extglob when sourcing BUILDSCRIPT (FS#27780)
145 - pacman-key: improve return codes of operations (FS#26730)
146 - repo-add: enforce maximum signature file size (FS#27453)
147 - contrib/paclist: support --help (FS#27258)
148 - contrib/pacsysclean: new script
149 - contrib/*_completion: fix completion for uncompressed packages
150 - translations: extensive updates and corrections
151 4.0.1 - ensure VerbosePkgList table display supports multibyte chars
152 - always use stderr for warning/error messages (FS#26555)
153 - add guidance message for users when public keyring not found
154 - fix edge case in download progress bar rounding (FS#26853)
155 - ensure downloads started as tempfiles have correct umask
156 - ensure unowned symlinks are not overwritten incorrectly
157 - allow -U operation even without sync databases (FS#26899)
158 - update libtool files and update fix for -Wl,-as-needed
159 - fix build when using --disable-static (FS#26652)
160 - pacman-key: add a keyserver timeout value in --init
161 - repo-add: fix race condition around lock file removal
163 - accept changelog= or install= without a value
164 - trim trailing whitespace from sensitive variables
165 - handle PGP signatures with a .sign extension
166 - delay attachment of signal traps (FS#26196)
167 - translations: multiple updates and corrections
168 4.0.0 - well-integrated and powerful signed packages and databases
169 support in pacman, the library, and scripts (FS#5331)
170 - over 800 commits to pacman.git since 3.5.4 release
171 - many code cleanup commits across library/binaries/scripts
172 - many performance improvement commits across library/binaries
173 - add new -S --recursive operation to upgrade a full dep chain
174 - report upgrade size on sync operations (FS#12566)
175 - early terminal input is flushed before question prompts
176 - remove duplicate code shared in sync and upgrade operations
177 - remove ShowSize; replaced with VerbosePkgLists (FS#15772)
178 - print callback (warning, error) messages to stderr (FS#25099)
179 - download progress callback has more room for filenames
180 - fix selection entry for long values (FS#25253)
181 - make config parsing two-pass process, enhance error messages
182 - print helpful tips on -Qi <filename> or -S <filename>
183 - replace libfetch with libcurl for backend download library
184 - timeout when mirror is not responding (FS#15369)
185 - full HTTPS protocol support (FS#22435)
186 - support of non-traditional/redirected URLs (FS#22645)
187 - ensure downloads are only resumed if appropriate (FS#23803)
188 - only remove empty directories if no remaining owner (FS#25141)
189 - better cache directory choosing and honor $TMPDIR (FS#25435)
190 - replaces are parsed as dependency-style strings (FS#23410)
191 - split package verification and load stages
192 - sync database reading refactor for performance
193 - use a larger buffer for package checksum validation
194 - file lists now have a dedicated type with metadata
195 - disk space check no longer requires iterating package archives
196 - update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
197 - validate sync database sha256sum if available
198 - correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
199 - API: several type renames from pm* to alpm_* prefix
200 - API: several enum constant renames from PM to ALPM_* prefix
201 - API: several types are now public exposed structs
202 - API: handle is no longer a single global variable
203 - API: more changes than can be mentioned here, see README
204 - much improved API documentation for use by Doxygen
205 - pactest: several performance/checking improvements
207 - refactor some common components into shared bash library
208 - split translations into pacman-scripts catalog (FS#15148)
210 - allow signing packages after creation
211 - allow verifying source file signatures (FS#20448)
212 - add auto-versioned libdepends/libprovides support
213 - support UPX compression of executables (FS#17213)
214 - allow usage of an alternate build directory (FS#22308)
215 - cleancache option has been removed; use shell instead
216 - improved variable sanity checking (FS#16004)
217 - better handling of package extensions (.tar.Z or invalid)
218 - allow PKGEXT/SRCEXT environment overrides (FS#19860)
219 - only check for writable PKGDEST if necessary (FS#24735)
220 - check_software function exits early if missing req'd binaries
221 - do source packaging in fakeroot (FS#24330)
222 - be more POSIX-compatible in use of `ln` (FS#24893)
223 - handle spaces with filenames in noextract (FS#25100)
224 - allow epoch-versioned optdepends
225 - pacman-key: new keyring management tool for signed data
226 - pacsort: new utility, sort version numbers as pacman does
227 - pactree: support sync databases with -s option
228 - pkgdelta: add a manpage
230 - handle and include package signatures in databases
231 - verify database signature before modification
232 - sign database after creation/modification
233 - general script cleanup and bash-ification
234 - add sha256sums to database (FS#23103)
235 - contrib/bacman: code cleanups and small bug fixes
236 - contrib/bash_completion: updates for new options/commands
237 - contrib/paccache: new, pacman cache cleanup script
238 - contrib/paclist: rewrite using bash
239 - contrib/paclog-pkglist: new, recover from missing local DB
240 - documentation: extensive updates to all manpages
241 - translations: extensive updates, new languages: lt, zh_TW
242 3.5.4 - fix display of lists on non-TTYs and other output fixes
243 - fix group selection entry for large inputs (FS#24253)
244 - fix divide by zero when downloading zero length files
245 - flush terminal input before reading response (FS#20538)
246 - allow files to be replaced by directories (FS#24904)
247 - makepkg: fix filenames with spaces and noextract (FS#25100)
248 - scripts: remove ln -f option for POSIX compliance (FS#24893)
249 - various small documentation updates
250 - minor translation updates: de, fi
251 3.5.3 - segfault when creating lock in non-existent dir (FS#24292)
252 - segfault when uninstalling broken backed-up symlink (FS#24230)
253 - --print should not enable --noconfirm (FS#24287)
254 - fix default path substitution in documentation
255 - makepkg: quote variables that may contain spaces (FS#24002)
256 - makepkg: fix creation of source package with -p (FS#24567)
257 - repo-add: include dotfiles in file lists (FS#24534)
258 - minor translation updates: de, fi, fr, sk, zh_CN
259 3.5.2 - ensure we show correct missing dependency info (FS#23424)
260 - pacman usage/--help updates (FS#23433, FS#23369)
261 - ensure stdout/stderr are flushed before prompts (FS#23492)
262 - compile/portability fixes for FreeBSD platform
263 - extensive documentation updates for alpm.h interfaces
264 - fix several missing pm_errno error code returns
266 - simplify log redirection and remove sync (FS#23378)
267 - improve parsing for sanity checks (FS#23524)
268 - avoid use of `tr` to avoid locale and other issues
269 - fix GNU-ism in `su` invocation
270 - bacman: update for new local database format (FS#23641)
271 - extensive translation updates and fixes
272 3.5.1 - don't error on unknown pacman.conf directives (FS#23055)
273 - only read arguments from stdin if '-' is provided as target
274 - fix case with ignore handling in argument list (FS#23342)
275 - don't show group selection prompt with -Sp (FS#23340)
276 - restore old --debug/--verbose behavior (FS#23370)
277 - ensure repo DBs are saved with sane umask (FS#23343)
278 - fix segfault when a repo includes deltas entries (FS#23314)
279 - fix potential data corruption issue on sync DB read
280 - get zsh completion in a working state (FS#23322)
281 - makepkg: improve optdepends extraction (FS#23307)
283 - de: fix makepkg fatal error (FS#23315)
284 - sr, sr@latin: new Serbian translation
285 - various other translation updates
286 - build system: ensure libtool respects LDFLAGS (FS#23325)
287 3.5.0 - sync DBs read directly from the database tarball
289 - local DB "depends" file has been merged into the "desc" file
290 - pacman-db-upgrade script provided to update the local
292 - sync database extension is .db (without compression suffix)
293 - requires repo-add from pacman-3.4+
294 - package versions can have an 'epoch' value defined that will
295 overrule any version comparison
296 - this replaces the use of the "force" option in allowing for
297 package updates with versions that do not conform to the
298 default version comparison operations
299 - package versions have the format [epoch:]pkgver-pkgrel
300 - check available disk space before installing packages (FS#11639)
301 - enabled by the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf
302 - attempt to stop install if we hit an extraction issue
304 - improved interactive selection for groups/provides
306 - finer grained control of ignoring dependency resolution
307 - -Sd to ignore dependency versions only
308 - -Sdd to ignore all dependency information
309 - clean-up of --help output (FS#19526)
310 - CleanMethod for package cache cleaning can use both
311 KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent simultaneously
313 - improved internal storage of the package cache
314 - faster pkgname/depends searches
315 - use OpenSSL crypto functions if available
317 - add support for running testsuites in a check() function
319 - controlled by BUILDENV option 'check' in makepkg.conf
320 which may be overridden by --check/--nocheck on the
322 - extract any file bsdtar recognizes
323 - STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favor of stripping all
325 - improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives
326 - $pkgname can be used in split package() functions (FS#22174)
327 - added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting of CFLAGS,
329 - repo-add: added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
330 - pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
331 3.4.3 - fix attempted double remove of all files issue during upgrades
332 - respect IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup for group members (FS#19854)
333 - back out epoch changes; 3.5.X will handle them differently
334 3.4.2 - fix progress bar display with empty packages
335 - make pactest testsuite Python 2.7 compatible
336 - write epoch values in preparation for 3.5.X releases
337 - fix null pointer dereference in architecture check (FS#21668)
338 - documentation: remove unnecessary "|| return 1"
339 - contrib/bacman: update package compression selection
340 - contrib/PKGBUILD.vim: add a few more license options
341 - translations: es, kk, sv, pt, ru updated
342 3.4.1 - fix interaction of --needed and multiple repo groups (FS#20221)
343 - bash completion: small fixes to prevent alias problems
344 - rankmirrors: fix bogus/empty variable assignment (FS#19911)
345 - repo-add: ensure bare DB symlinks are relative (FS#20498)
346 - repo-add: fallback to copy if symlink not permitted (FS#19907)
348 - use absolute path to 'du' to exclude wrapper progs (FS#19932)
349 - ensure $startdir check doesn't stall indefinitely (FS#19975)
350 - fix repackaging with multiple passed packages (FS#20272)
352 - zh_CN: fix crash when using during install (FS#20188)
353 - sk: new Slovak translation
354 - pt: new European Portuguese translation
355 - other small updates to various translations
356 3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
357 installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
358 set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
359 - use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically
360 select the correct architecture
361 - Installing packages with -U can handle installing
362 dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
364 - can upgrade the system and install a new package using
365 "pacman -Syu <pkg>" (FS#15581)
366 - new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
368 - new --print and --print-format options to output information
369 in suitable format for wrapper scripts (FS#14208)
370 - only extract new entries when updating a repo database
371 - show "Required by" in -Sii output (FS#16244)
372 - -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
373 - allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)
374 - cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
375 - cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
377 - bash completion: rewrite for size and performance (FS#16630)
378 - repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
379 - rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
380 - vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
382 - automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
383 - changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
384 - override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages (FS#15955)
385 - repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
386 - stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
387 - file stripping options are configurable
388 - New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
389 split PKGBUILDs (FS#15956)
390 - build() function is now optional (FS#15147)
391 - warn about reference to build root in a package (FS#14751)
392 - configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
393 - major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
394 - contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
395 3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir()
396 - fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
398 - quote arrays to preserve spaces in arrays (FS#16871)
399 - allow passing arguments with spaces
400 - adjust preselected option for clearing cache
402 - zh_CN: fix positional parameter usage in makepkg (FS#16983)
403 - el: fix Y/N response translation (FS#16568)
404 3.3.2 - fix infinite file size download issue (FS#16359)
405 - fix bogus download size on TotalDownload
406 - documentation updates
407 - small translation updates
408 - repo-add: use size of target files and not symlinks
409 - repo-remove: create empty DB when all packages are removed
410 3.3.1 - use full path to ldconfig when calling in chroot
411 - optimize the check for modified databases during sync
412 - ensure installed libfetch is new enough
413 - have -Q ops return 1 when no package matches (FS#15938)
414 - skip SyncFirst dialog if unnecessary (FS#15810)
415 - misc documentation updates (FS#15870, FS#15984)
416 - testdb: be less verbose during checks
417 - existing translation updates
418 - two new translations: Norwegian, Swedish
420 - add --skipinteg option (FS#15830)
421 - fix .PKGINFO creation with -R option (FS#15851)
422 - always keep symlinks to sources when unpacking
423 3.3.0 - xdelta: many fixes and improvements
424 - new pkgdelta script to create deltas
425 - repo-add can add both deltas and packages to a database
426 - xz archive format supported for packages and databases
427 - in case of unresolvable packages, pacman now asks
428 if they should be skipped instead of aborting
429 - -Suu synchronizes all packages with the version from the
430 repository (including upgrade and downgrade)
431 - replace libdownload dependency by the original libfetch
432 - better support of -q/--quiet flag with -Qo and -Ql
433 - -Sp works without root (FS#8905)
434 - fix a bug where the replacement of a package failed because
435 of a file conflict, and the package was lost (FS#9088)
436 - improved behavior of HoldPkg option (FS#9173)
437 - allow to ignore a package from a group (FS#12059)
438 - search package groups when searching a db (FS#13099)
440 - documentation updates
441 - repo-add: cleanups, improvements and speedup
443 - package splitting support! - see PKGBUILD-split.proto
444 - limit fakeroot usage with addition of package() function
445 - info is handled like man pages and not other documentation
446 - configuration option for man/info page directories
447 - added ability to automatically remove files from package
448 - configuration option for default LDFLAGS
449 - specify alternative configuration file with --config flag
450 - check all integrity checksums provided in PKGBUILD
451 - fix pkgver/pkgrel updating in SCM packages
452 - BUILDSCRIPT option removed from makepkg.conf. Now specified
454 - enforce no ">" or "<" in provides array
455 - package compression autodetection
456 - check PKGBUILD for CRLF line endings
457 - fix reading PKGBUILD from pipe
458 - increase compatibility with BSDs & Mac OSX
460 - pacdiff - improvements and new -l flag for using locate
461 - pacscripts - print install scripts for a package
462 3.2.2 - log pacsave warnings to pacman.log (FS#12531)
463 - separate local DB creation and writing (FS#12263)
464 - pacman-optimize: rewrite and refresh (FS#11767)
465 - repo-add: use openssl instead of md5sum
466 - simplify doc building process for ease of development
467 - ensure correct handling of syscall interruptions
468 - readd missing newline on -Qi/-Si output (FS#11331)
469 - fix TotalDownload regression (FS#11339)
471 - replace getopt with an internal function
472 - detect incorrect usage of provides (FS#12540)
473 - fix bash substitution to work in older versions
474 - fix updating PKGBUILD and simplify logic for SCM packages
475 - save/restore shell options before/after build() (FS#12344)
476 - documentation updates and asciidoc build fix
477 - existing translation updates
478 3.2.1 - drop special handling of file:// URLs
479 - display optdepends on install and upgrade
480 - fix segfault on x86_64 when using UseSyslog (FS#11096)
481 - fix detection of TotalDownload (FS#11180)
482 - fix "No such file" error during --force installs (FS#11218)
483 - better handling of progressbar when behind a proxy (FS#8725)
484 - repo-add: fix whitespace handling (FS#9171, FS#10630)
485 - repo-add: add optdepends to the sync DB (FS#10630)
487 - allow specifying a download filename (related to FS#11292)
488 - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
489 - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
490 - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
491 - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
492 - documentation and help updates (including fix for FS#11203)
493 - new Ukrainian translation
494 - existing translation updates
495 3.2.0 - removed -A/--add option from pacman frontend
496 - added --asexplicit option
497 - new remove option --unneeded
498 - add -Rss option to remove all dependencies
499 - removed useless -e/--dependsonly option
500 - config options are now case sensitive
501 - added CleanMethod option for variety in cache cleaning
502 - new Turkish translation, all others updated and revised
503 - handle multiple groups in -Ss and -Qs operations
504 - allow -q/--quiet option with -o/--own and -g/--groups options
505 - removed hack for packages with unknown installed size
506 - add SyncFirst option to pacman.conf
507 - support installation of versioned deps : pacman -S "dep>=2.0"
508 - add --enable-git-version configure flag to identify
509 developmental build version
510 - do not duplicate packages in required by list
511 - pacman.static is no longer built
512 - all error messages use pm_fprintf
513 - disable geteuid in cygwin
514 - use off_t type for large file support
515 - add vercmp test script
516 - moved gensync and updatesync to contrib/
517 - rewrote pacsearch script in perl
518 - paclist script to list installed packages from a repo
519 - bacman script to make backup of package from filesystem
520 - combined repo-add and repo-remove into one script
521 - removed --force option from repo-add
522 - add --quiet option to repo-add/repo-remove
523 - update libtool version to 1.5.26
524 - allow disabling of internal download with new configure
525 flag --disable-internal-download
526 - pactest can now check file permissions
527 - add the possibility to mark the pactests known to fail,
528 which allows more informative results of make check
529 - libalpm-specific changes:
530 - use dynamic string allocation in package structure
531 - new functions for manipulating pmdepend_t objects
532 - store replaces and force in local database
533 - moved deptest functionality to backend
534 - add alpm_checkdbconflicts function
535 - fix PM_ERR_CONFLICTING_DEPS handling
536 - cleanup of pmsyncpkg_t
537 - add alpm_sync_newversion function
538 - cleanup of alpm_list code
539 - refactor of download code
540 - download callback API changes
541 - removed test_delta_md5sum and test_pkg_md5sum functions
542 - add _alpm_archive_fgets function to read line-by-line from
544 - read .PKGINFO directly from package file with no temp file
545 - native support for both libdownload and libfetch
546 - rework delta algorithm (we still need script updates)
547 - swap parameters of alpm_pkg_find for consistency with
549 - swap parameters of PM_TRANS_CONV_INSTALL_IGNOREPKG to make
551 - fix -Rs when removing multiple items in dependency chain
552 - makepkg-specific changes:
553 - support for resuming source downloads
554 - added zipman option
555 - removed -b/--builddeps
556 - various portability fixes for BSD and Mac OS X
557 - check for valid options in PKGBUILD
558 - add --allsource option
559 - remove deprecated --usesudo option
560 - handle spaces in build directory
561 - made keeping docs the default option
562 - use pacman version dep resolving
563 - fix regression in library stripping
564 - make strip paths configurable
565 - MANY other bug fixes and small improvements
566 3.1.4 - various small code cleanups and fixes
567 - small documentation updates
568 - improvements to PKGBUILD.vim
569 - translation updates - ru, zh_CN
570 3.1.3 - major updates to i18n output in frontend (all UTF-8 characters
571 should now work with varying byte and char widths)
572 - new Simplified Chinese translation
573 - updates to testpkg utility
574 - updates to PKGBUILD.vim
575 - internal updates for translations - use c-format on all
576 strings, get rid of needless line numbers
577 3.1.2 - updates to proto.install, add ChangeLog.proto (FS#7231)
578 - add 'force' option to packages, and have repo-add respect it
579 - mark gensync and updatesync as deprecated
580 - fix pacman -Qo behavior on symlinks (FS#9473)
581 - fix segfault on a broken symlinks in backup code (FS#9235)
582 - ensure filename is determined correctly for a pkg (FS#9547)
583 - fix conflict progress bar with UTF-8 chars (FS#6437)
584 - fix chk_fileconflicts brokenness, ensure it reads entire list
585 - ensure -Sc operation locks DB, only checks DBs (FS#9609)
586 - minor documentation and message updates
587 - moved some translations to their more generic lang codes
588 - allow scripts to be run without gettext installed
590 - check to ensure we have non-URL sources (FS#9208)
591 - ensure we strip binaries in /opt/ dirs (FS#9342)
592 - check for VCS executable before using (FS#9230)
593 - set sane umask before source extraction (FS#9242, FS#9362)
594 3.1.1 - fix versioned provisions handling- use '=' instead of ' ' which
595 differs from original spec but better in long run (FS#9171)
596 - rename query --orphans to --unrequired (FS#9144)
597 - fix segfault when cachedir is unusable (FS#9186)
598 - missing SYMEXPORT on libalpm functions (FS#9155)
599 - notify of package replacements when using --noconfirm (FS#5179)
600 - fix usage of PKGEXT by gensync/updatesync (FS#9190)
601 - ensure correct dir permissions in database (FS#9176)
602 - ensure /tmp is created with correct permissions (FS#9183)
603 - disallow NULL section in parseconfig (reported on forums)
604 - remove Arch-specific pacman.conf and mirrorlist from source
605 - makepkg: --holdver option for devel PKGBUILDs (FS#9194)
606 - documentation updates (FS# 9142, 9146, 9175, 9192, 9204)
607 - many translation updates
608 3.1.0 - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to
609 under the specified root directory)
610 - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
611 - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled
612 packages and old sync DBs (FS#8061)
613 - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at
615 - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in
616 mirror file when $repo is found (FS#6389)
617 - New config file options: ShowSize, TotalDownload, IgnoreGroup,
619 - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
620 - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
621 - huge additions to pactest suite
622 - remove -F/--freshen operation
623 - add --ignoregroup option (FS#1592)
624 - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
625 - add --needed option for --sync
626 - massive optimization and speedup for --owns
627 - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output (FS#8470)
628 - add --asdeps option (install reason: dependency) (FS#7193)
629 - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size"
631 - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
632 - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their
634 - -U/-A <url> now downloads to cachedir (FS#6404)
635 - install and build dates are localized
638 - versioned provisions support
639 - versioned conflicts support
640 - add < and > operators for versioned dependencies and conflicts
641 - bash completion updates
643 - removed ABS script from codebase (now a separate project)
644 - allow multiple pacman cache directories
645 - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc (FS#7312)
646 - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend
647 - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase
648 - remove many useless #ifdefs
649 - split many too-long functions
650 - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and
651 Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch)
652 - clean up build process
653 - use of static code analysis
654 - memory leak fixes all over the place
655 - fix overzealous use of macros
656 - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option
657 - libalpm-specific changes:
658 - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart
659 deletion and remove naming limitations
660 - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are
661 computed on the fly when needed, which should resolve
662 phantom dependency issues (FS#7639)
663 - ensure we export everything that should be public
664 - fix some const correctness issues
665 - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1)
666 - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch
667 - removed SHA1 support
668 - drop in new MD5 library
669 - implement topological sorting for dependencies
670 - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081)
671 - remove hardcoded architectures
672 - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
673 - move lockfile location to inside the DB
674 - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
675 - remove faulty disk space checking
676 - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
677 - rewrite of file extraction code (FS#7484)
678 - makepkg-specific changes:
679 - entire script has been functionalized
680 - only runs in fakeroot when necessary
681 - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392)
682 - built-in versionpkg support
683 - arch=('any') support (FS#8153)
684 - clean up and prettify the output
685 - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485)
686 - add --ignorearch option (FS#7355)
687 - improved error handling
688 - downloads straight to $SRCDEST to avoid copies (FS#7271)
689 - support for multiple download protocols (FS#4404)
690 - remove --usesudo option, use it by default
691 - add --asroot option to discourage building as root
692 - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables (FS#7278)
693 - add source package creation option
694 - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043)
695 - and many other updates: 198 bugs/FRs closed since 3.0.0 release
696 - switch to GIT for source code management
697 3.0.6 - config files updated to reflect current -> core change
698 - fix symlink overwriting issue (FS#7484)
699 - fix config parsing with tr_TR locale (FS#7235)
700 - use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE if available (FS#7578)
701 3.0.5 - add -mtune=generic to default CFLAGS in makepkg.conf
702 - small updates to translations
703 - repo-add: fix conflicts issue for real this time
704 - fix issue with libarchive incorrectly setting permissions
705 3.0.4 - updated translations
706 - repo-add: fix issue where conflicts were not put in database
707 3.0.3 - updated translations
708 - repo-add: fixed a desc file clobbering issue
709 3.0.2 - fix a bug where pre/post_remove scriptlets were not ran
710 - ensure ldconfig is ran in all operations
711 - added a few new translations, updated existing ones
712 - updated mirror lists
713 - makepkg: ensure CFLAGS are exported to build function
714 3.0.1 - fix a locale issue with tr_TR upper/lower-case conversion
715 - allow removal when listing the same package multiple times
716 - fix a repo-add bug that left a .PKGINFO file in the current
718 - proper error messages when we cannot read mtab for freespace
719 3.0.0 - first release based on libalpm backend
720 - added internationalization (gettext) support:
721 - de, fr, hu, it, pt_BR, en_GB, ru_RU translations
722 - switch to usage of libdownload and libarchive
723 - improved proxy support using libdownload
724 - documentation - man pages updated, new conf manpages added
725 - repository mirror list updates
726 - added support for package changelogs
727 - logging of all install scriptlet messages to pacman.log
728 - orphans search (-Qe) now shows true orphans
729 - new -Qu option - show all packages that can be upgraded
730 - new -Se option - install only dependencies
731 - dependency sorting on install and removal
732 - check for free space before installing packages
733 - prompt to delete corrupted packages
734 - improved backup handling - backup array proactive on upgrade
735 - removed NoUpgrade lines from default pacman.conf
736 - new uncompressed size field, shown on sync upgrade
737 - improved progress and progressbar output
738 - reduced unnecessary calling of ldconfig
739 - selective loading of database to speed up certain operations
740 - debugging output improved with --debug flag
741 - pacman-optimize - now supports DBs on separate filesystem
742 - makepkg and abs now support conf files in home directory
744 - arch field is required
745 - added -arch suffix to generated package filenames
746 - new configuration file options format
747 - changed default configuration
748 - support alternate integrity checks
749 - extract files using filetype, not extension
750 - added noextract array
751 - new options array format
752 - new option to log build process
753 - new --repackage option - repackage pkg/ without building
754 - user-selectable paths for doc stripping
755 - configurable source cache location
756 - dependencies now removed on a build success or failure
758 - supports both cvsup and csup
759 - expanded configuration
760 - added support for testing repository
761 - new helper scripts:
762 - rankmirrors - shows best available mirrors
763 - repo-add - adds a package to a repo database file
764 - repo-remove - removes a package from a repo database file
765 - added pactest testing suite
766 - MANY fixes and small improvements everywhere
767 2.9.8 - Changed behaviour with original=X,current=Y,new=Z scenario
768 - keep old in place, install new as .pacnew
769 - Search package provides when finding matching targets with -S
770 - Frugalware: added -Qm option to find foreign packages
771 - Frugalware: added DistCC support to makepkg
772 - bugfix: before searching databases for a dependency, make sure
773 one of the packages in the final list doesn't already provide
775 - fix for segfaults that occurred when propagating requiredby
776 fields to replaced packages where one package depended on
777 another replaced package
778 - a better fix for pacman-optimize integrity checks
779 - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vajna)
780 - added a --noprogressbar for scripts to use
781 2.9.7 - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
782 - patches from Miklos Vajna:
783 - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
784 - fixed md5sums on x86_64
785 - add --sudosync to makepkg
786 - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
787 - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
788 - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
789 - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
790 is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
791 - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
792 - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
793 NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
794 from ever being extracted on to the system
795 eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
796 2.9.6 - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
797 - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
798 that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
799 situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
800 remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
801 - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
802 moved from one package to another
803 - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
804 hash table entries when packages are removed
805 - added ccache support to makepkg
806 - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
807 2.9.5 - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt
809 - added "Repository" line to -Si output
810 - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with
811 empty or whitespace-only strings
812 - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs
813 2.9.4 - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/
814 2.9.3 - fixed a couple manpage typos
815 - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg
816 - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies
817 - numerous memleak fixes
818 - some code changes to improve customizability/branding
819 - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche)
820 - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp
821 - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala
822 2.9.2 - bugfix for 2.9.1
823 2.9.1 - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've
824 been updated (currently only works with FTP)
825 2.9 - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package
826 is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another
827 package. -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not
828 explicitly installed.
829 - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total
830 size of packages before downloading
831 - Patch from Tommi Rantala:
832 - Allow --info and --list together in queries
833 - Patch from Kevin Piche:
834 - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg
835 - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba:
836 - Better manpage compression
837 - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions
838 - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed
839 2.8.4 - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu
840 - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked
841 - Included a pacman.static binary as well
842 - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root
843 - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1'
844 - Added patch from Kevin Piche:
845 - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted()
846 - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts()
847 2.8.3 - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0
848 - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios
849 - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file
850 - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from
851 config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch)
852 - Added patch from Jason Chu:
853 - Even smarter file-conflict checking
854 2.8.2 - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks
855 - Made --noconfirm actually work. Go me.
856 2.8.1 - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more
857 exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman". It
858 will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed
860 - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation
861 - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly
862 requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by
863 resolvedeps(). Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is
864 installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will
865 be used instead of "xorg"
866 - Added patch from Jason Chu:
867 - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and
868 with files that move from one package to another
870 - FS#861: file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand
871 - FS#1003: set umask before scriptlet calls
872 - FS#1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A
873 - FS#1044: segfaults when using -Rs
874 - FS#863: "missing post_remove" errors with some packages
875 - FS#875: detect low disk space properly
876 - FS#986: makepkg -e doesn't validate files
877 - FS#1010: add -j option to makepkg
878 - FS#1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root
879 - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support
880 - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data
881 - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance
882 adding or removing packages
883 - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better
885 - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which
886 prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you
887 force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc.
888 2.7.9 - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can
889 downgrade packages when it needs to
890 2.7.8 - added post_remove scriptlet support
891 - added -Qs option (FS#854)
892 - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target
893 conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you
894 can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a
895 provides and a conflict, eg:
896 conflicts=('x-server')
897 provides=('x-server')
898 - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit
899 - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly
900 - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (FS#787)
901 - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall
902 - gensync uses a better temp dir (FS#774)
903 - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (FS#783)
904 - patches from Aurelien Foret
905 - segfault fix, couple memory leaks
906 - more sanity checks in "provides" searches
907 - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar
908 - made -Qip look like -Qi
909 - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all
910 2.7.7 - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an
911 external download utility like wget
912 - added a license field to package meta-data
913 - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages)
914 - -Ss now searches thru provides fields
915 - added --dbonly option to -R
916 2.7.6 - added --print-uris option
917 - fixed an http download bug (FS#667)
918 - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling
919 2.7.5 - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf
920 - fixed another bug in conflict handling
921 - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed
922 - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes
923 all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages
924 2.7.4 - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a
925 conflicting package would fail even if the new package
927 - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade,
928 it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade
930 - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an
931 uninstalled package's dependency info.
932 - Added a sane umask before db writes
933 - buffer overflow fix (FS#442)
934 2.7.3 - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions
935 - Added Aurelien's patch:
936 - proxy support (no authentication yet)
938 - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA
939 - cleaned up warning output a bit
940 2.7.2 - Suppressed "No such file" messages during stripping
941 - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log
942 - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction
943 2.7.1 - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults
944 - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed
945 - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g
946 - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg
947 - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf
948 - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf
949 2.7 - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu)
950 - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync
951 mode (Aurelien Foret)
952 - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret)
953 - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs
954 - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging
955 - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files
956 - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to
957 sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch)
958 2.6.4 - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself
959 2.6.3 - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code
960 2.6.2 - Fixed a memory cleanup bug
962 - FS#159 implemented (for -S and -R)
963 - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one
965 - fixed a bug with list_merge()
966 - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans")
967 - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content)
968 whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups
969 target1 and target2 with content
970 2.6.1 - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret)
971 - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via
973 - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction
974 - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing
975 - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot
976 - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows
977 multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the
978 same thing (they were treated as conflicts before)
979 2.6 - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and
980 install all files from the KDE group
981 - Fixed a duplication bug in cascade package removal
982 - Added support for virtual provisions with "provides" tags
983 - When conflicts are encountered, pacman now offers the chance
984 to remove the conflicting packages (provides or literals)
985 - Added support for renamed/combined packages with a "replaces"
987 - Added --nostrip option to makepkg
988 - Improved --search to list all packages from all repos when
989 a search term is omitted
990 - Added logging support through syslog()
991 - Added fakeroot support to makepkg (RomanK)
992 - Added MD5sum generation/validation to makepkg (RomanK)
993 - Fixed a progress bar bug (Aurelien Foret)
994 - Sorted makepkg's .FILELISTs (Aurelien Foret)
995 - Targets are now re-ordered w.r.t. dependencies when
997 - Modified --search to work when called as -Sys
998 - Modified abs to use ABS_ROOT from /etc/abs/abs.conf (Aurelien)
1000 2.5.1 - Minor bug fixes
1001 2.5 - Added an URL tag to package info
1002 - Sped up package load times by about 500% by introducing
1003 a .FILELIST into the package
1004 - Renamed the install scriptlet from ._install to .INSTALL
1005 - Added patch from Aurlien Foret:
1006 - Better lock handling (RW and RO)
1007 - Sorted package order in -Qi's dependency lists
1008 - Added a DBPath option to pacman.conf
1009 - Fixed memory leaks
1010 - Added the --nodeps option to -S
1011 2.4.1 - Fixed a bug in makepkg's option parsing
1012 2.4 - Added getopt-style options to makeworld
1013 - Added -w <destdir> to makepkg
1014 - makeworld now properly handles packages with --builddeps
1015 - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
1016 - Cascading package removals. -Rc will remove a package and
1017 all packages that require it
1018 - Support for getopt-style options in makepkg
1019 - the REQUIREDBY field is now updated when a package is
1020 removed with --nodeps, then re-installed.
1021 - Avoids duplicate dependency checks with sync
1022 - Added a "NoPassiveFtp" option in pacman.conf
1023 - Improvements to the --query listings
1024 2.3.2 - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
1025 - FTP resume feature
1026 - removed the hit-^C-and-delete-the-downloading-file safety
1027 - IgnorePkg option in pacman.conf
1028 - FTPAGENT setting in makepkg.conf
1029 - Added --cleancache option to makepkg
1030 2.3.1 - Fixed the progress bar overflow
1031 - Pacman does not ask "Are you sure" when you use --downloadonly
1032 - Switched up a couple makepkg options to be more consistent
1033 with pacman's options
1034 - If you ^C out of a file download, the package will now be
1035 removed from the cache directory
1036 2.3 - The beginnings of source-side dependency resolution, makepkg
1037 can now either A) download/install missing deps with pacman
1038 -S; or B) find missing deps in the /usr/abs tree and
1040 - Added a --nodeps option to makepkg
1041 - Improved the --search output
1043 - Added --downloadonly switch to --sync
1044 2.1 - Lots of bugfixes
1045 - Added support for multiple repositories
1046 - Improved the config file layout
1047 - Improved dependency resolution and sorting
1048 2.0 - Added dependency functionality
1049 - Completely new database format, similar to FreeBSD
1050 - Better internal data structures
1051 - Merged pacsync functionality into pacman
1052 - Now uses libftp for all file retrieval (currently only ftp)
1053 - Automatic dependency resolution, a la apt-get
1054 - Moved config stuff from /etc/pacsync.conf to /etc/pacman.conf
1055 - Much better backup file handling, now uses md5 hashes a la rpm
1056 1.23 - Added install/upgrade/remove scripting control
1057 1.22 - Some manpage typo fixes
1058 - Added --root switch to pacsync
1059 - Added --help and ability to specify a PKGBUILD to makepkg
1060 - Switched default downloader to snarf
1061 1.21 - Added better backup control -- upgrade/add and remove
1062 do different things with the -n switch
1063 1.2 - Added wildcard handling
1064 - Added man pages for makepkg and pacsync
1065 - Added the pacsync utility for remote file fetching/sync
1066 1.1 - Fixed some string-handling bugs
1067 - Added better handling of configuration files and the like.
1068 If "file" is about to be removed, but it is designated to
1069 backed up, then it will be copied to "file.save"
1070 - Changed db_find_conflicts() to ignore directories
1071 1.0 - Initial Release
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