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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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4.1.0         - check file properties when using -Qkk (FS#11091)
              - 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
              - 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
              - 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
              - 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