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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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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 filesize 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)