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authorAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2013-03-27 15:28:57 +1000
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2013-03-30 09:06:12 +1000
commit3f00a03db4409a9f19b7ff55e82417d79040327c (patch)
tree8a061cef1c7f357e24358b96ee48d0f383fb3d5a
parentd41317835438a32fb2430238f3bc06c63f5bb3d4 (diff)
Final NEW update for pacman-4.1
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r--NEWS20
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 17166961..3a0361d0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
VERSION DESCRIPTION
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
@@ -17,16 +18,10 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION
(FS#28014)
- configure shell for running install scriptlets (FS#20557)
- make path to ldconfig configurable
- - speed up reading from archives
- - improve speed when checking for directory removal
- - more thorough checking for disk space availability
- display repo in VerbosePkgLists output (FS#26334)
- - process all targets on Sync/Upgrade/Removal operations
- to list all errors
- do not check file conflicts or diskspace with --dbonly
(FS#25667)
- - specify a ratio in UseDelta
- - handle descriptions for dependencies
+ - 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)
@@ -37,6 +32,8 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION
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,
@@ -51,14 +48,9 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION
- support specifying CPPFLAGS in makepkg.conf
- support PACKAGER environmental variable
- allow source renaming to work on signature files
- - libprovides and libdepends rewritten
- configurable compression options (FS#27430)
- allow multiple packages to be build when using
BUILDDIR (FS#28417)
- - improved option parsing
- - add program prefix to pacman log entries
- - add --native filter to pacman -Q
- - add zsh completion
- add makedepends/checkdepends information to .PKGINFO
- url can be overridden in split packages
- allow wildcards in PURGE_TARGETS
@@ -77,9 +69,11 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION
- pkgdelta: add ratio and package size limits
- pactree: improve output
- contrib:
- - add updpkgsums
+ - 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