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| author | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> | 2021-05-20 03:13:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2021-05-20 04:24:47 +0200 |
| commit | 8d3735d86adbce8e77c17b4030d25c47ff73e9ae (patch) | |
| tree | c5fcb4d167699ffd2abc816e227daad33fef8cdb /NEWS | |
| parent | 739183b8c5dead5d34128e2f88b57defa47b6bd6 (diff) | |
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update NEWS for 6.0.0 release
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -1,5 +1,65 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +6.0.0 - internal downloader can retrieve files in parallel (FS#20056) + - an additional progress bar is added to track total download + progress. This replaces the previous TotalDownload option. + - fix download rates becoming negative + - skip mirror servers with too many errors (FS#29293) + - package signatures are always retrieved even if signature is + embedded in repo database or package is in cache (FS#33992) + - detached package signatures found in CacheDir can be used to + verify packages if signature is not in the database. Also + verify packages checksums from repo db when using detached + signatures. + - add support for multiple 'Architecture' values + - -Qkk now validates file checksums in addition to date/size + - colored upgrade summary now dulls version numbers for contrast + - libalpm frontends can now supply context to callbacks (FS#12721) + - support xattr when extracting packages + - allow setting --noprogressbar in pacman.conf + - fix output alignment for CJK translated text (FS#59229) + - fix reading targets from stdin when using --sysroot (FS#68630) + - fix deleting signatures for existing databases with -Sc + - check for and forbid duplicate download filenames (FS#67850) + - -Fx now reports error for invalid regex + - remove support for the autotools build system + - meson: properly compile internal symbols as hidden + - meson: make -uninstalled.pc correct + - fix build errors on systems like FreeBSD + - makepkg: + - add link time optimization support to makepkg + - add support for sources using the fossil VCS + - allow specifying alternative authentication commands when + running pacman as root (FS#32621) + - support zstd decompression for sources + - strip: fix removing file attributes such as xattr + - switch to CRC as default integrity checksum + - record $startdir for reproducible builds + - record name of build orchestration tool for reproducible builds + - fix signing of source packages + - add optional argument support to parseopts + - reduce dependency on file for detecting ELF files + - remove dependency on GNU sed + - avoid trailing whitespace in --printsrcinfo output + - libprovides: don't provide both versioned and unversioned + sonames + - don't double-layer distcc on ccache + - fix detection of source file names for debug packages with + gcc 11 + - strip: silence warnings emitted by readelf while detecting + source filenames + - fix use of spaces in source file renaming (FS#70254) + - pacman-key: + - --refresh-keys queries WKD before keyserver + - be less noisy when populating the keyring (FS#64142) + - warn about time taken for master key generation + - repo-add: + - support the same compression methods as makepkg + - zsh completion: add pacman-conf support + - various documentation updates + - after a decade and a half of promising libalpm.3 documentation + "once we get around to doing good Doxygen documentation", it + has happened! 5.2.2 - fix pacman test suite under python 3.8 - only prompt to import new keys once in a transaction - fix handling of fully downloaded .part files |