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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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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
                - 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)
                - 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
              - -Sp works without root (FS#8905)
              - fix a bug where the replacement of a package failed because
                of a file conflict, and the package was lost (FS#9088)
              - improved behavior of HoldPkg option (FS#9173)
              - allow to ignore a package from a group (FS#12059)
              - search package groups when searching a db (FS#13099)
              - asciidoc fixes
              - documentation updates
              - repo-add: cleanups, improvements and speedup
              - makepkg:
                - package splitting support! - see PKGBUILD-split.proto
                - limit fakeroot usage with addition of package() function
                - info is handled like man pages and not other documentation
                - configuration option for man/info page directories
                - added ability to automatically remove files from package
                - configuration option for default LDFLAGS
                - specify alternative configuration file with --config flag
                - check all integrity checksums provided in PKGBUILD
                - fix pkgver/pkgrel updating in SCM packages
                - BUILDSCRIPT option removed from makepkg.conf. Now specified
                  during configure
                - enforce no ">" or "<" in provides array
                - package compression autodetection
                - check PKGBUILD for CRLF line endings
                - fix reading PKGBUILD from pipe
                - increase compatibility with BSDs & Mac OSX
              - contrib
                - pacdiff - improvements and new -l flag for using locate
                - pacscripts - print install scripts for a package
3.2.2         - log pacsave warnings to pacman.log (FS#12531)
              - separate local DB creation and writing (FS#12263)
              - pacman-optimize: rewrite and refresh (FS#11767)
              - repo-add: use openssl instead of md5sum
              - simplify doc building process for ease of development
              - ensure correct handling of syscall interruptions
              - readd missing newline on -Qi/-Si output (FS#11331)
              - fix TotalDownload regression (FS#11339)
              - makepkg:
                - replace getopt with an internal function
                - detect incorrect usage of provides (FS#12540)
                - fix bash substitution to work in older versions
                - fix updating PKGBUILD and simplify logic for SCM packages
                - save/restore shell options before/after build() (FS#12344)
              - documentation updates and asciidoc build fix
              - existing translation updates
3.2.1         - drop special handling of file:// URLs
              - display optdepends on install and upgrade
              - fix segfault on x86_64 when using UseSyslog (FS#11096)
              - fix detection of TotalDownload (FS#11180)
              - fix "No such file" error during --force installs (FS#11218)
              - better handling of progressbar when behind a proxy (FS#8725)
              - repo-add: fix whitespace handling (FS#9171, FS#10630)
              - repo-add: add optdepends to the sync DB (FS#10630)
              - makepkg:
                - allow specifying a download filename (related to FS#11292)
                - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076)
                - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149)
                - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179)
                - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283)
              - documentation and help updates (including fix for FS#11203)
              - new Ukrainian translation
              - existing translation updates
3.2.0         - removed -A/--add option from pacman frontend
              - added --asexplicit option
              - new remove option --unneeded
              - add -Rss option to remove all dependencies
              - removed useless -e/--dependsonly option
              - config options are now case sensitive
              - added CleanMethod option for variety in cache cleaning
              - new Turkish translation, all others updated and revised
              - handle multiple groups in -Ss and -Qs operations
              - allow -q/--quiet option with -o/--own and -g/--groups options
              - removed hack for packages with unknown installed size
              - add SyncFirst option to pacman.conf
              - support installation of versioned deps : pacman -S "dep>=2.0"
              - add --enable-git-version configure flag to identify
                developmental build version
              - do not duplicate packages in required by list
              - pacman.static is no longer built
              - all error messages use pm_fprintf
              - disable geteuid in cygwin
              - use off_t type for large file support
              - add vercmp test script
              - moved gensync and updatesync to contrib/
              - rewrote pacsearch script in perl
              - paclist script to list installed packages from a repo
              - bacman script to make backup of package from filesystem
              - combined repo-add and repo-remove into one script
              - removed --force option from repo-add
              - add --quiet option to repo-add/repo-remove
              - update libtool version to 1.5.26
              - allow disabling of internal download with new configure
                flag --disable-internal-download
              - pactest can now check file permissions
              - add the possibility to mark the pactests known to fail,
                which allows more informative results of make check
              - libalpm-specific changes:
                - use dynamic string allocation in package structure
                - new functions for manipulating pmdepend_t objects
                - store replaces and force in local database
                - moved deptest functionality to backend
                - add alpm_checkdbconflicts function
                - fix PM_ERR_CONFLICTING_DEPS handling
                - cleanup of pmsyncpkg_t
                - add alpm_sync_newversion function
                - cleanup of alpm_list code
                - refactor of download code
                - download callback API changes
                - removed test_delta_md5sum and test_pkg_md5sum functions
                - add _alpm_archive_fgets function to read line-by-line from
                  an archive
                - read .PKGINFO directly from package file with no temp file
                - native support for both libdownload and libfetch
                - rework delta algorithm (we still need script updates)
                - swap parameters of alpm_pkg_find for consistency with
                  other find functions
                - swap parameters of PM_TRANS_CONV_INSTALL_IGNOREPKG to make
                  more sense
                - fix -Rs when removing multiple items in dependency chain
              - makepkg-specific changes:
                - support for resuming source downloads
                - added zipman option
                - removed -b/--builddeps
                - various portability fixes for BSD and Mac OS X
                - check for valid options in PKGBUILD
                - add --allsource option
                - remove deprecated --usesudo option
                - handle spaces in build directory
                - made keeping docs the default option
                - use pacman version dep resolving
                - fix regression in library stripping
                - make strip paths configurable
              - MANY other bug fixes and small improvements
3.1.4         - various small code cleanups and fixes
              - small documentation updates
              - improvements to PKGBUILD.vim
              - translation updates - ru, zh_CN
3.1.3         - major updates to i18n output in frontend (all UTF-8 characters
                should now work with varying byte and char widths)
              - new Simplified Chinese translation
              - updates to testpkg utility
              - updates to PKGBUILD.vim
              - internal updates for translations - use c-format on all
                strings, get rid of needless line numbers
3.1.2         - updates to proto.install, add ChangeLog.proto (FS#7231)
              - add 'force' option to packages, and have repo-add respect it
              - mark gensync and updatesync as deprecated
              - fix pacman -Qo behavior on symlinks (FS#9473)
              - fix segfault on a broken symlinks in backup code (FS#9235)
              - ensure filename is determined correctly for a pkg (FS#9547)
              - fix conflict progress bar with UTF-8 chars (FS#6437)
              - fix chk_fileconflicts brokenness, ensure it reads entire list
              - ensure -Sc operation locks DB, only checks DBs (FS#9609)
              - minor documentation and message updates
              - moved some translations to their more generic lang codes
              - allow scripts to be run without gettext installed
              - makepkg:
                - check to ensure we have non-URL sources (FS#9208)
                - ensure we strip binaries in /opt/ dirs (FS#9342)
                - check for VCS executable before using (FS#9230)
                - set sane umask before source extraction (FS#9242, FS#9362)
3.1.1         - fix versioned provisions handling- use '=' instead of ' ' which
                differs from original spec but better in long run (FS#9171)
              - rename query --orphans to --unrequired (FS#9144)
              - fix segfault when cachedir is unusable (FS#9186)
              - missing SYMEXPORT on libalpm functions (FS#9155)
              - notify of package replacements when using --noconfirm (FS#5179)
              - fix usage of PKGEXT by gensync/updatesync (FS#9190)
              - ensure correct dir permissions in database (FS#9176)
              - ensure /tmp is created with correct permissions (FS#9183)
              - disallow NULL section in parseconfig (reported on forums)
              - remove Arch-specific pacman.conf and mirrorlist from source
              - makepkg: --holdver option for devel PKGBUILDs (FS#9194)
              - documentation updates (FS# 9142, 9146, 9175, 9192, 9204)
              - many translation updates
3.1.0         - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to
                under the specified root directory)
              - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
              - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled
                packages and old sync DBs (FS#8061)
              - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at
                configure/build time
              - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in
                mirror file when $repo is found (FS#6389)
              - New config file options: ShowSize, TotalDownload, IgnoreGroup,
                UseDelta
              - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
              - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
              - huge additions to pactest suite
              - remove -F/--freshen operation
              - add --ignoregroup option (FS#1592)
              - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
              - add --needed option for --sync
              - massive optimization and speedup for --owns
              - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output (FS#8470)
              - add --asdeps option (install reason: dependency) (FS#7193)
              - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size"
                (FS#4182)
              - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
              - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their
                flexibility
              - -U/-A <url> now downloads to cachedir (FS#6404)
              - install and build dates are localized
              - optdepends support
              - delta support