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VERSION DESCRIPTION
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6.0.0 - internal downloader can retrieve files in parallel (FS#20056)
- an additional progress bar is added to track total download
progress. This replaces the previous TotalDownload option.
- fix download rates becoming negative
- skip mirror servers with too many errors (FS#29293)
- package signatures are always retrieved even if signature is
embedded in repo database or package is in cache (FS#33992)
- detached package signatures found in CacheDir can be used to
verify packages if signature is not in the database. Also
verify packages checksums from repo db when using detached
signatures.
- add support for multiple 'Architecture' values
- -Qkk now validates file checksums in addition to date/size
- colored upgrade summary now dulls version numbers for contrast
- libalpm frontends can now supply context to callbacks (FS#12721)
- support xattr when extracting packages
- allow setting --noprogressbar in pacman.conf
- fix output alignment for CJK translated text (FS#59229)
- fix reading targets from stdin when using --sysroot (FS#68630)
- fix deleting signatures for existing databases with -Sc
- check for and forbid duplicate download filenames (FS#67850)
- -Fx now reports error for invalid regex
- remove support for the autotools build system
- meson: properly compile internal symbols as hidden
- meson: make -uninstalled.pc correct
- fix build errors on systems like FreeBSD
- makepkg:
- add link time optimization support to makepkg
- add support for sources using the fossil VCS
- allow specifying alternative authentication commands when
running pacman as root (FS#32621)
- support zstd decompression for sources
- strip: fix removing file attributes such as xattr
- switch to CRC as default integrity checksum
- record $startdir for reproducible builds
- record name of build orchestration tool for reproducible builds
- fix signing of source packages
- add optional argument support to parseopts
- reduce dependency on file for detecting ELF files
- remove dependency on GNU sed
- avoid trailing whitespace in --printsrcinfo output
- libprovides: don't provide both versioned and unversioned
sonames
- don't double-layer distcc on ccache
- fix detection of source file names for debug packages with
gcc 11
- strip: silence warnings emitted by readelf while detecting
source filenames
- fix use of spaces in source file renaming (FS#70254)
- pacman-key:
- --refresh-keys queries WKD before keyserver
- be less noisy when populating the keyring (FS#64142)
- warn about time taken for master key generation
- repo-add:
- support the same compression methods as makepkg
- zsh completion: add pacman-conf support
- various documentation updates
- after a decade and a half of promising libalpm.3 documentation
"once we get around to doing good Doxygen documentation", it
has happened!
5.2.2 - fix pacman test suite under python 3.8
- only prompt to import new keys once in a transaction
- fix handling of fully downloaded .part files
- increase maximum database size (FS#65197)
- fix segfault in alpm_option_set_assumeinstalled
- change config parsing warnings to errors to match actual
behavior
- fix key extraction for signatures with two-octet sub-packet
headers
- fix documentation typos (FS#67000)
- change master signing key to RSA4096
- improve error message when building without autoconf-archive
- pacman-conf:
- allow querying ILoveCandy individually
- fix querying NoExtract individually
- makepkg:
- fix seccmp-related error while stripping binaries (FS#65100)
- fix extraction of file:// sources (FS#64648)
- allow $pkgname in install and changelog file names (FS#64932)
- sort libprovides for reproducibility
- strip: don't re-add the same debug source multiple times
- error on empty refspecs in git sources
- correctly handle missing download clients
- fix splitting multi-line error messages across stdout and
stderr
- handle GPGKEY with spaces (FS#66949)
- do not accept public-only keys for signing
- repo-add:
- handle GPGKEY with spaces (FS#66949)
- do not accept public-only keys for signing
5.2.1 - fix segfault on importing PGP keys for -U operations
- fix distribution of meson files
- fix inode command for darwin/bsd
- distribute all documentation files
- update bash/zsh completion for -F changes, remove --force
- makepkg:
- fix calculation of package sizes in presence of hardlinks
- do not warn about PACKAGER format if not set
- only run --clean when a package is built
- repo-add:
- fix compression of databases with zstd (FS#64213)
5.2.0 - completely remove delta support (CVE-2019-18183)
- add support to pacman and pacman-key for downloading PGP
signing keys using the WKD protocol (FS#63171)
- completely remove the --force option
- renovate and simplify the UI for -F (FS#47949)
- hooks: rename type File to Path, for accuracy
- add the meson build system as an alternative to autotools, and
distribute it in autotools dist tarballs
- switch from system() to exec() when using alternative download
agents for XferCommand; this prevents a potential source of
shell injection (CVE-2019-18182)
- ignore .hook suffix when sorting libalpm hooks
- update the minimum requirement of bash to 4.4
- scripts: pass on options such as set -x to child processes
- show group and installed status during -Fs
- user-visible log when validity check fails due to access
- port pactest to python3
- process --needed before group selection when resolving the
dependencies to prompt for (FS#22870)
- don't error when a group exists but all packages are ignored
- bash completion now completes when it should, and doesn't
complete when it shouldn't (FS#59965)
- improve error message when gpg support is missing (FS#60880)
- don't emit confusing errors when a package is simultaneously
replaced and upgraded (FS#50875, FS#55534)
- better warning message when skipping duplicate targets
(FS#49377)
- libalpm: parse {check, make}depends when reading database
(FS#60347)
- add [ignored] to -Qu output for packages in repos that are not
Usage = Upgrade (FS#59854)
- prevent 301 redirect loop from hanging libalpm
- use standard, consistent units in the download progress
(FS#59201)
- fix segfault when Usage is specified without a value
- include timezones in pacman.log
- bash-completion: use POSIX character classes for portability
- correctly report a download failiure for 404s
- fix handling of signals during SIGSEGV
- fix buffer overread in pacman/callback
- fix crash when downloading files with a Content-Disposition
that has no directory component
- pacman-conf, testpkg are now properly localized
- when -F returns zero results, set a failing exit code
- improve wording for the error message when a package cannot be
removed due to dependencies
- fix segfaults and other incorrect behavior when using -Qip if
pacman was compiled without GPGME support
- makepkg:
- implement extendable source/signature verification routines
within libmakepkg (FS#49076)
- if pacman is in use, wait until it is available before
continuing (FS#28840)
- add support for lzip, lz4 and zst compressed packages
(FS#56676, FS#59081)
- add new checksum algorithm, b2sum
- various improvements to PKGBUILD linting
- when signing packages, report package filename on failure
- fix pkgver() function not aborting on errors
- remove checksum algorithm whirlpoolsum as it has not worked
for a long time
- reject PKGBUILDs with both split and non-split package
functions
- send status messages to stderr rather than stdout (FS#17173)
- ensure debug buildflags are unset when they are supposed to be
- buildenv and executable detection, definitions for the
PKGBUILD schema, and makepkg.conf loading are now part of
libmakepkg
- fix broken check for the fakeroot binary
- improve the error message for invalid dependency versioning
- add routine for linting $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
- fix the error code when no PKGBUILD exists
- use --unneeded when removing build deps to allow runtime-only
deps to work well with makepkg -sir (FS#32723)
- compute package sizes correctly across different filesystems
- use shared clones for git sources to save space when building
- fix reporting of invalid archive extensions
- correctly handle hg sources with updates on a non-default
branch
- install pkg-config file for libmakepkg's library directory
- propagate error codes when package failed to sign correctly
- be compatible with file 5.37's application/gzip MIME type
- forbid non-ASCII pkgname and pkgver (FS#49342)
- fix exiting on failure without ensuring dependencies are
prompted for removal (FS#63000)
- quiet superfluous warnings for missing debug source files for
artificial symbols
- add routine for linting $PACKAGER to check that it has a
valid name and email address, and document the desired format
in makepkg.conf(5)
- add rust support for *FLAGS and debug-prefix-map
- correctly handle a system file command with seccomp enabled
(FS#58626)
- try to more thoroughly clean up logpipe during unusual exit
states such as CTRL-C
- when installing packages with -sir, be more robust against
conflicting makedepends by always uninstalling them first
- fix exit code when removing deps fails
- reproducible builds: suppress filesystem-specific archive
metadata from built packages as they are not needed
- pacman-key:
- just accept one file to verify, and enforce detached sigs
(FS#52022)
- after recent GnuPG updates, ensure the Web of Trust is still
used
- clean keys during import to reduce size consumed by unusable
signatures
- repo-add:
- add support for zst compressed databases
- print the name of the database when extracting
- do not infinitely loop on malformed arguments with embedded
globs
- add option to prevent downgrading (FS#17752)
- various documentation updates
5.1.3 - Sanitize file name received from Content-Disposition header
during -U (CVE-2019-9686)
5.1.2 - pacman-conf: add missing DisableDownloadTimeout support
- Include version when checking optdepend install status
during -Qi (FS#60106)
- Improve error message for unresolvable urls (FS#48285)
- Do not raise SIGINT when a downloaded file exceeds the expected
size
- Fix previous download interruption status carrying over to new
downloads
- Reset known signal handlers before running install scripts or
hooks (FS#56756)
- Properly handle signal interrupts while running install scripts
or hooks (FS#60396)
- Allow explicitly disabling signature checks when compiled
without signature support (FS#60880)
- makepkg: fix linting error on environment variables (FS#60681)
5.1.1 - Allow full path including root prefix to be passed to
--overwrite
- Revert deprecation of --root
- Document comment syntax restrictions in pacman.conf
- makepkg:
- handle pre-existing directories when checking for write
permissions
- reduce restrictions on pkgver in depends listings (FS#58776)
- permit versioned optdepends
- remove unintended chmod of $BUILDDIR (FS#58790)
- fix issue when $startdir was not an absolute path (FS#58865)
- fix syntax error when $pkgname is empty
- fix --nocolor being passed to pacman (FS#58820)
- fix issues with trap handling
- fix several issues with debug packages (signing, printing of
package names, clearing of global package options, source
file inclusion)
- fix --help text for --packagelist
- pacman-conf: Fix detection of Usage option
5.1.0 - Add new --overwrite option and deprecate --force. This accepts a
glob pattern with far more control than the widely abused force
option which mostly just causes issues (FS#31549)
- Add new --sysroot option and deprecate --root. This uses the
guest configuration instead of the host configuration, which is
what most people erroneously thought --root would do
- introduce a 'disable-download-timeout' option
- remove contrib - this is now maintained in a separate project
- report the owner of an existing file, if any, when erroring out
on a file conflict
- resolve cyclic dependencies when calculating unneeded dependency
trees (FS#41031)
- report the needed command to download missing databases for the
-F and -S actions
- don't error if -Qo cannot find the file it is querying on disk
(FS#55856)
- support new-style OpenPGP format packets lengths
- support EDDSA from gpgme 1.7.0
- fix continuously trying to open invalid databases and reporting
excessively excessive redundant error messages excessively
- fix the download callback erroneously reporting itself too many
times with --noprogressbar, or reporting inaccurate times for
small files (FS#56408, FS#56468)
- fix erroneous negative speed in download progressbar (FS#43434)
- parse stdin as newline-separated instead of whitespace-separated
(FS#52992)
- when printing urls in the package cache, print the file url
instead (FS#15868)
- add color to group selection dialogs and -{F,Q}o
- the -Q option now respects provides (FS#20650)
- remove notification of system upgrade when only printing URLs
- print replacements when using -Sup (FS#35812)
- fix -Qk and -r checking for the root prefix twice (FS#48563)
- Do not recognize # as a comment unless it is at the beginning of
a line. This allows using it as a value in ini files (FS#48702)
- ignore comments when examining INSTALL files (FS#51916)
- match multi-byte user input properly (FS#47992)
- abort transactions if even one database fails to sync (FS#47599)
- do not resolve uid/gid to names when extracting files with -r
- --dbonly now properly extracts metadata files (FS#52052)
- remove support for internal checksumming implementations, and
require at least one of openssl or nettle to exist
- consider provides to satisfy optdepends when warning for removal
or logging new optdepends during a transaction, as was already
the case for -Qi
- -Dk now reports if it is successful (FS#50087)
- consider version for optdepends (FS#44957)
- remove vim modelines in favor of EditorConfig
- implement pacman-conf, a new tool to safely parse pacman.conf,
and use it in internal scripts
- bash completion now completes -Qn
- various small documentation updates
- makepkg:
- Reproducible build support. makepkg now respects environment
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH when creating package metadata, and unifies
source file timestamps to match
- add more info to .BUILDINFO to aid in reproducing the build
environment of a package
- it is now possible to check the signature of VCS sources
(currently only git is supported)
- use informative exit codes when exiting with errors (FS#54204)
- lint_pkgbuild has vastly improved linting of pkgname and
variables that can contain pkgname/pkgver (FS#57833)
- implement linting for makepkg.conf
- fix using libmakepkg in external scripts without extglob
- fix handling of configurable directories e.g. PKGDEST to align
with their documented behavior, and consistently check that
they can be used (FS#43537)
- parseopts, srcinfo, and integrity are now part of libmakepkg
- consistently use coreutils for checksumming instead of openssl
(which may be replaced by nettle in pacman)
- lint build_references now prints affected filenames (FS#31558)
- lint_package can now abort on fatal packaging errors
- lint_package now checks for filenames with newline characters
- lint_package now checks for root-level /.dotfiles
- debug packages are now per pkgbase, not per pkgname
- debug packages now contain source files to allow the debugger
to step through code
- remove optipng and upx support - these can now be plugged into
libmakepkg
- fix emptydirs support with newer findutils (FS#48515)
- ignore architecture for --printsrcinfo
- makepkg --printsrcinfo now correctly lists depends_$CARCH
instead of merging this into depends
- fix bug in is_array that broke packages with arch-dependent
sources only (FS#48340)
- move package signing outside of fakeroot which is incompatible
with recent gnupg versions (FS#49946)
- makepkg --clean now cleans up logfiles (FS#51039)
- when using $PKGDEST, do not symlink build artifacts into
current directory
- --packagelist now lists the built filenames, rather than all
possible basenames without extensions
- fix --geninteg not properly ignoring renamed signature files
- use localized date strings
- ensure sane umask is set both before and after installing deps
- adapt to file(1) changes in order to continue to strip PIE
executables
- repo-add:
- don't recreate the database when only verifying signature
(FS#48085)
- fix error when repo directory path contains spaces (FS#50285)
- pacman-key:
- reject armored signatures
- don't set a default keyserver, deferring to gpg's sane default
- disable scdaemon as we don't use it and it breaks --lsign when
a smartcard is plugged into the machine
- vercmp:
- remove duplicate, undocumented --usage option
- fail when the wrong number of arguments are used (FS#49093)
5.0.2 - fix database file checks with -Qkk and non-standard root
(FS#48563)
- improve optdepend detection for status messages (FS#44957)
- make Y/N prompt multi-byte-character aware (FS#47992)
- properly detect dependency cycles with --recursive (FS#41031)
- improve free disk space calculation (FS#37402)
- extract database files with --dbonly (FS#52052)
- repo-add:
- do not alter the database if only verifying signature
(FS#48085)
- fix error for directories containing whitespace (FS#50285)
- makepkg:
- fix building packages with only architecture-specific
sources (FS#48340)
- ignore PKGBUILD architecture for --printsrcinfo
- do not die on non-empty directories under !emptydirs
(FS#48515)
- preserve checksum type for architecture-specific sources
5.0.1 - fix alignment issues with wide character locales (FS#47980)
- fix removal of .pacnew files (FS#47993)
- fix triggering of Install hooks (FS#47996)
- fix handling of stdin scripts called by pacman
- hook activity is logged
- documentation updates for alpm-hooks (FS#48080)
- makepkg:
- increase robustness of variable array checks
- makepkg -g does not perform current architecture checks
- do not run prepare() with --noextract
- all directories in the packaging directory are cleared
before each build
- fix translations issues (FS#48057, FS#48298)
- repo-add:
- fix checking for non-existent database
- contrib:
- zsh_completion: updated makepkg options
5.0.0 - pacman can run hooks pre- and post-transaction. See the
alpm-hooks(5) man page for details and an example hook (FS#2985)
- pacman can now sync and read .files databases (-Fy) and do basic
searching for files in sync repos (-Fs, -Fo) (FS#23787)
- pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases
(-Dk and -Dkk respectively). This replaces the 'testdb'
software (FS#42444)
- the package description output (-Si ,-Qi) is now correctly
aligned regardless of locale (FS#43983, FS#45997)
- ensure internal package version matches database version after
downloading (FS#45687)
- improved signal handling and lock file removal (FS#45995,
FS#46375, FS#47011)
- print more information when encountering dependency errors
- improved configuration parsing with a new ini parser
- handle a symlink to a directory being replaced by a directory
- The 'pkgbase' variable is now recorded in the local package db
- Remove support for ".pacorig" files. Instead, packages files
are extracted as a ".pacnew" and the original stays in place
- prevent install scriptlets using stdin for user interaction
- provides are considered when displaying optdepends install
status (FS#36412)
- always update corrupt database whether or not a newer version
is found on the remote server
- fix build issues when libarchive was in a non-standard location
- Many issues found using Coverity were address (primarily freeing
memory on error conditions)
- The pactest suite was upgraded to allow parallel testing using
the tap.sh library
- makepkg:
- makepkg is in the process of being split into a library. This
allows various areas to be extended by adding a file into
libmakepkg (e.g. package/PKGBUILD checking, adjusting
files before creating the final package).
- PKGBUILD variables checked to be arrays or not as appropriate
- pkgver() and prepare() are now run with --noextract (FS#43498,
FS#46800)
- the ability to build a single package in a PKGBUILD has been
removed
- the output when checking checksums for architecture specific
sources is improved (FS#43444)
- improved handling of bazaar sources (FS#43448)
- fix source package signing with SRCPKGDIR set
- add option to compress png images with optipng
- add --packagelist option, which lists all packages build from
a PKGBUILD
- add --printsrcinfo flag to print SRCINFO file for a PKGBUILD
- record build information in a .BUILDINFO file
- add whirlpool to list of hashing options (FS#45859)
- makepkg-template:
- support multiple --template-dir
- added a testsuite
- repo-add:
- Always generate the .files database
- Only update database if the entire operation succeeds
- unarmored package signatures are rejected
- contrib:
- checkupdates: give error when fakeroot is missing
- checkupdates: provide packages versions in output
- checkupdates: fix failure in some locales (FS#40405)
- paccache: Add -q/--quiet
- pacdiff: do not require DIFFPROG for -o/--output (FS#46184)
- zsh_completion: updated to fix many missing options
4.2.1 - Remove warnings about incorrect directory ownership until
packaging files with dynamic users/groups is improved
- Do not require a specific automake version when building from
the source tarball (FS#43655)
- A number of typos and translation errors have been fixed
(FS#43257, FS#43280, FS#43279, FS#43617, FS#43739)
- set sane umask in pacman-db-upgrade (FS#43200) and make it
more verbose
- Use correct permissions when creating the log file
- Fix memory management for file list storage
- Set package origin when adding to db cache
- makepkg:
- Fix error when encountering an expired PGP key (FS#43269)
- Fix error extracting PKGBUILD attributes (FS#43387)
- Fix removal of static libraries when the shared library
uses the absolute path in symbolic links (FS#43395)
- Improve Bazaar cloning (FS#43448)
- Fix issues with architecture dependent checksum
verification (FS#43192)
- Fix .SRCINFO file with architecture dependent fields
(FS#43247)
- Fix compatibility with older bash versions
- Allow git checkouts to be downloaded into directory ending
with ".git".
- contrib:
- updpkgsums no longer changes file permissions (FS#43272)
- paccache does not remove all packages on libalpm error
(FS#43286)
4.2.0 - symlinks to directories on the filesystem are no longer
treated as directories
- pacman-db-upgrade - fix local database for files installed
into directory symlinks
- added --assume-installed option to help upgrades where not all
installed packages have been rebuilt
- --unrequired now filters needed optdepends too. Use twice
to only filter direct dependencies
- improved dependency resolving ensures correct ordering when
installing updates (FS#32764)
- A new configure keyword Usage can limit what operations a
repository is used for
- NoExtract and NoUpgrade can use inverted pattern matches
(FS#31749)
- Group queries can be filtered with --explicit/--deps (FS#19716)
- Filesystem checking now only produces a warning for altered
backup files (FS#34739)
- pacman prints a warning if an installed directory has different
permission to that already on the filesystem (FS#34740)
- both current and new versions are displayed when querying
updates
- --print-format now implies --print
- package scriptlets are not run when using --dbonly
- invalid option combinations cause pacman to abort (FS#20950)
- improve output when a package is missing a required signature
(FS#28014)
- PGP signature key IDs are listed with -Sii (FS#34742)
- indicate ignored packages in -Qu output
- use appropriate file size units with -Si/-Qi
- plugged several memory leaks
- read filelists from a packages .MTREE file if possible
- ensure packages have all the required metadata before installing
(FS#35514)
- always remove lock file on exit (FS#35603)
- fix overflow in integrity checking progress bar (FS#36608)
- ensure downloads use correct filename even if the mirror uses a
redirect (FS#36791)
- cache PGP key IDs during availability checking (FS#38042)
- fix reading responses with leading whitespace (FS#39976)
- fix potential issues when handling of UTF8 filenames
(FS#40805, FS#40762)
- makepkg:
- PKGBUILDs can now specify architecture specific sources,
dependencies, etc.
- A .SRCINFO file is added to source packages for easy parsing
- VCS package building attempts to be incremental (FS#35050)
- bzr sources can have a '+' in them (FS#35244)
- allow sources containing "::"
- add --noprepare option
- add -C/--cleanbuild option (FS#17175)
- add --noarchive option
- remove --asroot and enforce fakeroot usage
- all PKGBUILDs require a package() function
- PKGBUILDs can no longer be read from stdin
- enable make style environmental overrides
- Read CARCH environmental variable (FS#35030)
- makedepends and checkdepends are installed together (FS#31557)
- added support for sha224 checksums (FS#36776)
- remove warning when license is not specified in PKGBUILD
(FS#37011)
- only remove static libraries if they have a shared version
- prevent makepkg creating armored signatures (FS#38503)
- support stripping kernel modules
- support the kernel.org PGP signing scheme (FS#31592)
- sign created source package when using --sign
- enforce source signatures to be trusted or have their full
fingerprint listed in the validpgpkeys array of the PKGBUILD
- look for configuration in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pacman/makepkg.conf
(FS#43030)
- ensure vcs tools are available when source entries require
them
- disallow pkgver/pkgrel/epoch overrides in split packages
- improve parsing of PKGBUILD variables (FS#40361)
- makepkg-template - new package build templating utility
(FS#10375)
- repo-add:
- add option to remove package files from disk
- contrib:
- checkupdates: rename CHECKUPDATE_DB to CHECKUPDATES_DB
- pacdiff: add a "Quit" option, and many other improvements
- pacsysclean is removed
4.1.2 - validate %FILEPATH% when parsing repos to prevent arbitrary
file overwrites from malicious databases
- makepkg:
- restrict package name from starting with a dot
- fix BZR source revision support (FS#35281)
- Use LOGDEST for log pipe
- fix distcc disabling (FS#35741)
- correct stat usage on BSD/Darwin (FS#35469)
- pacman-key:
- Do not reinterpret keys from revoked keyrings
- contrib:
- paccache: remove broken su privilege escalation (FS#35173)
- pacscripts: update for current pacman options
- checkupdates: be consistent with naming (FS#35755)
4.1.1 - fix bug causing negative "Total Installed Size" (FS#34616)
- report libalpm version it is pkg-config file (FS#34967)
- various translation fixes and updates (FS#34395, FS#34704,
FS#34716, FS#35097)
- makepkg:
- improve SVN VCS PKGBUILD handling (FS#34675, FS#34636)
- allow "lp:" URLs for BZR sources (FS#34650)
- prevent pkgver() capturing stderr (FS#34974)
- fix attempt to remove package twice on failure (FS#34672)
- contrib:
- fix privilege escalation in paccache (FS#34656)
4.1.0 - check file properties when using -Qkk (FS#11091)
- add color to pacman output - new configuration option "Color"
- add informational messages for optdepends installation
status (FS#13035, FS#27116)
- add number suffix to pacsave files instead of overwriting
(FS#24192)
- improve needed key importing for Upgrade (FS#26520)
- add options to specify require signature level for
Upgrade operations (FS#26729)
- directory ownership can be queried
- allow wildcards in NoUpgrade, NoExtract, IgnorePkg,
IgnoreGroup and HoldPkg (FS#20360, FS#18988)
- remove -f short option for --force
- SyncFirst option has been removed (FS#26445)
- offer to delete downloaded packages failing signature check
(FS#28014)
- configure shell for running install scriptlets (FS#20557)
- make path to ldconfig configurable
- display repo in VerbosePkgLists output
- do not check file conflicts or disk space with --dbonly
(FS#25667)
- UseDelta takes a ratio for the largest delta to use
- track how installed packages were validated (FS#28040)
- add pkg-config file for libalpm
- avoid false ownership matches for files in / (FS#30388)
- only load filesystem space information when needed
- allow leading "local/" in query options
- allow cleaning only some cachedirs
- do not remove source package and package databases from
cache (FS#25166)
- improve conflict checking with directory symlinks (FS#30681)
- remove Cygwin support
- add program prefix to pacman log entries
- add --native filter to pacman -Q
- makepkg:
- require bash>=4.0
- support for VCS URLs (git, bzr, svn and hg) (FS#7816,
FS#8890, FS#13727, FS#15895, FS#16384, FS#16872, FS#19459,
FS#19476, FS#20841, FS#21098, FS#28605)
- split debugging symbols into separate package (FS#10975)
- use SKIP in checksums to skip integrity check (FS#19735)
- add prepare() function to PKGBUILD (FS#30582)
- add pkgver() function to auto-update pkgver/pkgrel
- pkgrel must be in decimal format
- PKGBUILDs without package() functions are deprecated
- support specifying CPPFLAGS in makepkg.conf
- support PACKAGER environmental variable
- allow source renaming to work on signature files
- configurable compression options (FS#27430)
- allow multiple packages to be build when using
BUILDDIR (FS#28417)
- add makedepends/checkdepends information to .PKGINFO
- url can be overridden in split packages
- allow wildcards in PURGE_TARGETS
- pass --asdep and --needed flags to pacman when installing
- use last match in BUILDENV/OPTIONS arrays (FS#26701)
- fix "arch" handling in split packages (FS#27204)
- add LOGDEST configuration option
- install makedepends with --repackage
- repo-add:
- honor TMPDIR environmental variable
- add makedepends/checkdepends information to database
- pacman-key:
- fix importing keys with quotes in file name (FS#28445)
- allow verification of multiple sig files
- add zsh completion (FS#29062)
- pkgdelta: add ratio and package size limits
- pactree: improve output
- contrib:
- updpkgsums: update checksums in a PKGBUILD
- checkupdates: new - safely check for package updates
- pacsort: add --files option to support parsing filenames
- pacdiff: improve usability
- add zsh completion
4.0.3 - frontend database cleanup enhancements (FS#28714)
- frontend package cleanup enhancements (FS#25166)
- back out changes related to SyncFirst in 4.0.0
- remove recursive/needed automatic flags on SyncFirst
- remove poorly implemented `-S --recursive` option
- improve error messages on database locking failures
- use full delta size as max download size (FS#28345)
- improved handling and fix crash after failed downloads
- fix key lookup when using gpg 2.X as GPG program
- match only full path components in disk space checking
- skip disk space checks when using --dbonly
- scripts: unset CDPATH bash variable in all scripts
- makepkg:
- fix syntax error in remove_deps (FS#28448)
- small fixes related to multiple libdeps, parsing issues
- exit via default handler in trap_exit (FS#28491)
- attempt to work around Btrfs file/block size reporting issues
- pacman-key:
- remove signature verification in --populate
- make -e option work as advertised without arguments
- exit with correct return codes when verifying signature
- pacsysclean: fix description, fix option parsing (FS#28434)
- pkgdelta: use bsdtar -q option for better performance
- translations: various updates and corrections
4.0.2 - allow comments after a repository header in pacman.conf
- search for and import PGP subkeys if necessary (FS#27612)
- fix rare segfault on removal operations (FS#27805, FS#28195)
- skip all unknown files when cleaning package cache
- restore looking for files in cache before downloading via -U
- ensure '[removal]' is displayed in trans confirmation (FS#27981)
- implement disk space checking code for Illumos
- use TCP keepalive in download to prevent dropped connections
- round and show -0.00 values as 0.00 (FS#27924)
- makepkg:
- ensure all source files are included in --source (FS#26580)
- fix locale sort/comm related issues (FS#26580)
- abort on missing download agent
- restrict flags passed to pacman (FS#28012)
- work around certain zipman glob/existence issues
- fix non-writable SRCPKGDEST error message (FS#28197)
- fix printf interpreting gettext string as arg (FS#28069)
- don't abort on non-zero hg return codes (FS#28248)
- disable extglob when sourcing BUILDSCRIPT (FS#27780)
- pacman-key: improve return codes of operations (FS#26730)
- repo-add: enforce maximum signature file size (FS#27453)
- contrib/paclist: support --help (FS#27258)
- contrib/pacsysclean: new script
- contrib/*_completion: fix completion for uncompressed packages
- translations: extensive updates and corrections
4.0.1 - ensure VerbosePkgList table display supports multibyte chars
- always use stderr for warning/error messages (FS#26555)
- add guidance message for users when public keyring not found
- fix edge case in download progress bar rounding (FS#26853)
- ensure downloads started as tempfiles have correct umask
- ensure unowned symlinks are not overwritten incorrectly
- allow -U operation even without sync databases (FS#26899)
- update libtool files and update fix for -Wl,-as-needed
- fix build when using --disable-static (FS#26652)
- pacman-key: add a keyserver timeout value in --init
- repo-add: fix race condition around lock file removal
- makepkg:
- accept changelog= or install= without a value
- trim trailing whitespace from sensitive variables
- handle PGP signatures with a .sign extension
- delay attachment of signal traps (FS#26196)
- translations: multiple updates and corrections
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
- use a larger buffer for package checksum validation
- file lists now have a dedicated type with metadata
- disk space 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)
- add auto-versioned libdepends/libprovides support
- 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)
- allow epoch-versioned optdepends
- 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
- flush terminal input before reading response (FS#20538)
- allow files to be replaced by directories (FS#24904)
- makepkg: fix filenames with spaces and noextract (FS#25100)
- scripts: remove ln -f option for POSIX compliance (FS#24893)
- various small documentation updates
- minor translation updates: de, fi
3.5.3 - segfault when creating lock in non-existent dir (FS#24292)
- segfault when uninstalling broken backed-up symlink (FS#24230)
- --print should not enable --noconfirm (FS#24287)
- fix default path substitution in documentation
- makepkg: quote variables that may contain spaces (FS#24002)
- makepkg: fix creation of source package with -p (FS#24567)
- repo-add: include dotfiles in file lists (FS#24534)
- minor translation updates: de, fi, fr, sk, zh_CN
3.5.2 - ensure we show correct missing dependency info (FS#23424)
- pacman usage/--help updates (FS#23433, FS#23369)
- ensure stdout/stderr are flushed before prompts (FS#23492)
- compile/portability fixes for FreeBSD platform
- extensive documentation updates for alpm.h interfaces
- fix several missing pm_errno error code returns
- makepkg:
- simplify log redirection and remove sync (FS#23378)
- improve parsing for sanity checks (FS#23524)
- avoid use of `tr` to avoid locale and other issues
- fix GNU-ism in `su` invocation
- bacman: update for new local database format (FS#23641)
- extensive translation updates and fixes
3.5.1 - don't error on unknown pacman.conf directives (FS#23055)
- only read arguments from stdin if '-' is provided as target
- fix case with ignore handling in argument list (FS#23342)
- don't show group selection prompt with -Sp (FS#23340)
- restore old --debug/--verbose behavior (FS#23370)
- ensure repo DBs are saved with sane umask (FS#23343)
- fix segfault when a repo includes deltas entries (FS#23314)
- fix potential data corruption issue on sync DB read
- get zsh completion in a working state (FS#23322)
- makepkg: improve optdepends extraction (FS#23307)
- translations:
- de: fix makepkg fatal error (FS#23315)
- sr, sr@latin: new Serbian translation
- various other translation updates
- build system: ensure libtool respects LDFLAGS (FS#23325)
3.5.0 - sync DBs read directly from the database tarball
(FS#8586, FS#20233)
- local DB "depends" file has been merged into the "desc" file
- pacman-db-upgrade script provided to update the local
database format
- sync database extension is .db (without compression suffix)
- requires repo-add from pacman-3.4+
- package versions can have an 'epoch' value defined that will
overrule any version comparison
- this replaces the use of the "force" option in allowing for
package updates with versions that do not conform to the
default version comparison operations
- package versions have the format [epoch:]pkgver-pkgrel
- check available disk space before installing packages (FS#11639)
- enabled by the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf
- attempt to stop install if we hit an extraction issue
(FS#7692, FS#22034)
- improved interactive selection for groups/provides
(FS#19704, FS#19853)
- finer grained control of ignoring dependency resolution
- -Sd to ignore dependency versions only
- -Sdd to ignore all dependency information
- clean-up of --help output (FS#19526)
- CleanMethod for package cache cleaning can use both
KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent simultaneously
- various speed-ups:
- improved internal storage of the package cache
- faster pkgname/depends searches
- use OpenSSL crypto functions if available
- makepkg:
- add support for running testsuites in a check() function
(FS#15145)
- controlled by BUILDENV option 'check' in makepkg.conf
which may be overridden by --check/--nocheck on the
command-line
- extract any file bsdtar recognizes
- STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favor of stripping all
recognized files
- improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives
- $pkgname can be used in split package() functions (FS#22174)
- added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting of CFLAGS,
CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS
- repo-add: added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302)
- pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm
3.4.3 - fix attempted double remove of all files issue during upgrades
- respect IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup for group members (FS#19854)
- back out epoch changes; 3.5.X will handle them differently
3.4.2 - fix progress bar display with empty packages
- make pactest testsuite Python 2.7 compatible
- write epoch values in preparation for 3.5.X releases
- fix null pointer dereference in architecture check (FS#21668)
- documentation: remove unnecessary "|| return 1"
- contrib/bacman: update package compression selection
- contrib/PKGBUILD.vim: add a few more license options
- translations: es, kk, sv, pt, ru updated
3.4.1 - fix interaction of --needed and multiple repo groups (FS#20221)
- bash completion: small fixes to prevent alias problems
- rankmirrors: fix bogus/empty variable assignment (FS#19911)
- repo-add: ensure bare DB symlinks are relative (FS#20498)
- repo-add: fallback to copy if symlink not permitted (FS#19907)
- makepkg:
- use absolute path to 'du' to exclude wrapper progs (FS#19932)
- ensure $startdir check doesn't stall indefinitely (FS#19975)
- fix repackaging with multiple passed packages (FS#20272)
- translations:
- zh_CN: fix crash when using during install (FS#20188)
- sk: new Slovak translation
- pt: new European Portuguese translation
- other small updates to various translations
3.4.0 - new "Architecture" option that will restrict pacman to
installing only packages from the given architecture. Can be
set to "auto" in which case the output of "uname -m" is used
- use "$arch" when specifying a mirror url to automatically
select the correct architecture
- Installing packages with -U can handle installing
dependencies, conflict resolution and replacing packages
(FS#3492, FS#5798)
- can upgrade the system and install a new package using
"pacman -Syu <pkg>" (FS#15581)
- new -D/--database operation for modifying package install
reasons (FS#12950)
- new --print and --print-format options to output information
in suitable format for wrapper scripts (FS#14208)
- only extract new entries when updating a repo database
- show "Required by" in -Sii output (FS#16244)
- -U and -R options always ask for confirmation
- allow -Qo to perform a functional 'which' (FS#8798)
- cache cleaning cleans all directories, not just first
- cleanupdelta: new utility to help remove unused deltas from
a repo database
- bash completion: rewrite for size and performance (FS#16630)
- repo-add: handle removing the final package from a repo
- rankmirrors: rewrite using bash
- vercmp: does not link to libalpm to prevent upgrade issues
- makepkg:
- automatically aborts on any errors during packaging
- changelogs are now included via the "changelog" variable
- override pkgver, pkgrel and arch in split packages (FS#15955)
- repackaging without a package() function is deprecated
- stricter syntax checking for backup and optdepends entries
- file stripping options are configurable
- New --pkg flag to allow building specific package(s) from
split PKGBUILDs (FS#15956)
- build() function is now optional (FS#15147)
- warn about reference to build root in a package (FS#14751)
- configure source package destination with SRCPKGDEST
- major internal refactoring of handling tests ("[" to "[[")
- contrib/pactree: print reverse dependency tree
3.3.3 - correctly check the return code from opendir()
- fix possible infinite loop in alpm_list_remove()
- makepkg:
- quote arrays to preserve spaces in arrays (FS#16871)
- allow passing arguments with spaces
- adjust preselected option for clearing cache
- translations:
- zh_CN: fix positional parameter usage in makepkg (FS#16983)
- el: fix Y/N response translation (FS#16568)
3.3.2 - fix infinite file size download issue (FS#16359)
- fix bogus download size on TotalDownload
- documentation updates
- small translation updates
- repo-add: use size of target files and not symlinks
- repo-remove: create empty DB when all packages are removed
3.3.1 - use full path to ldconfig when calling in chroot
- optimize the check for modified databases during sync
- ensure installed libfetch is new enough
- have -Q ops return 1 when no package matches (FS#15938)
- skip SyncFirst dialog if unnecessary (FS#15810)
- misc documentation updates (FS#15870, FS#15984)
- testdb: be less verbose during checks
- existing translation updates
- two new translations: Norwegian, Swedish
- makepkg:
- add --skipinteg option (FS#15830)
- fix .PKGINFO creation with -R option (FS#15851)
- always keep symlinks to sources when unpacking
3.3.0 - xdelta: many fixes and improvements
- new pkgdelta script to create deltas
- repo-add can add both deltas and packages to a database
- xz archive format supported for packages and databases
- in case of unresolvable packages, pacman now asks
if they should be skipped instead of aborting
- -Suu synchronizes all packages with the version from the
repository (including upgrade and downgrade)
- replace libdownload dependency by the original libfetch
- better support of -q/--quiet flag with -Qo and -Ql