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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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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
              - filelists now have a dedicated type with metadata
              - diskspace check no longer requires iterating package archives
              - update and add checksum routines from PolarSSL
              - validate sync database sha256sum if available
              - correctly parse sizes in database > 2GiB
              - API: several type renames from pm* to alpm_* prefix
              - API: several enum constant renames from PM to ALPM_* prefix
              - API: several types are now public exposed structs
              - API: handle is no longer a single global variable
              - API: more changes than can be mentioned here, see README
              - much improved API documentation for use by Doxygen
              - pactest: several performance/checking improvements
              - scripts:
                - refactor some common components into shared bash library
                - split translations into pacman-scripts catalog (FS#15148)
              - makepkg:
                - allow signing packages after creation
                - allow verifying source file signatures (FS#20448)
                - 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 filelists (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