Version 0.1.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Backends: - apt: Commit a general cleanup patch (Michael Vogt's) - apt: Add GetRepoList support (Tom Parker) - apt: Fix resolution of not installed packages (Tom Parker) - apt: Do recursive requires (Tom Parker) - apt: Add GetRequires and GetDepends (Tom Parker) - apt: Reduce whining about lack of status messages (Tom Parker) - conary: Add better exception handling (Elliot Peele) - conary: Add some extra sanity checks (Elliot Peele) - pisi: Provide status information (S.Çağlar Onur) - yum: Add support for the "free" filter (Robin Norwood) - zypp: Added initial stab at backend_get_updates() for zypp backend (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: Add RemovePackage (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: SearchName will return both installed and available packages (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: Query the SQL database directly and instead just query the cached repository information (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: Added some sub_progress information for general repo events (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: Add Refresh cache method (Boyd Timothy) * New features: - Add exception handler so unhandled exceptions are sent as a error signal to packagekit (Tim Lauridsen) - Fully re-integrate sqlite search backend for apt - we've now reintegrated everything from apt.old, so we're dropping that at the same time (Tom Parker) - Add me, Tim Lauridsen, S.Çağlar Onur, Ken VanDine and Elliot Peele to the authors html page (All) - Document a whole lot more with gtk-doc and generate some HTML (Richard Hughes) - Add a bugreport script so we can get info about the system (Richard Hughes) - Add generic licence parsing and add all the enums (Robin Norwood) * API changes: - Add in a 'free' filter enum to filter non-free and free packages (Richard Hughes) * Bugfixes: - PackageKitExceptions now include the original DBusException (Tom Parker) - Use the correct bus name and object path in the yum plugin (Luke Macken) - Fix PackageKit to build against PolicyKit 0.7 (Matthias Clasen) - Change from 'licence' to 'license' throughout (Robin Norwood) - Check the user is root before we run packagekitd (Richard Hughes) - Do the threading correctly in the threaded backends (Richard Hughes) - waf: Fix x86_64 build, missing -fPIC (Gustavo Carneiro) Version 0.1.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Backends: - yum: Mark our status as QUERY when we have finished setting up the transaction so we get the correct icon (Richard Hughes) - yum: Improved yum UpdateMetadata handling for reboot-suggested (Luke Macken) - conary: Add GetFiles (Elliot Peele) - conary: Enable Cancel (Elliot Peele) - conary: Add Resolve support (Elliot Peele) - conary: Added new python files to distfiles (Ken VanDine) - zypp: add initial backend code (Boyd Timothy, Scott Reeves) - zypp: Add GetRepoList (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: emit the correct status from the backend (Boyd Timothy) - zypp: Add InstallPackage method (Boyd Timothy, Scott Reeves) - zypp: Query SQL database to resolve names (Scott Reeves) - box: set Status more often (Grzegorz Dabrowski) - box: Remove all the shell helpers and use C implementations (Grzegorz Dabrowski) * New features: - Lots more waf build system updates - it now builds and installs 100% but requires waf from svn (Gustavo Carneiro, Daniel Svensson, Richard Hughes) - Add the requires check before remove in pkcon (Richard Hughes) - Monitor when the calling program exits from the system bus (Richard Hughes) - waf: Add unit test reporting in waf buildsystem (Daniel Svensson) - Convert all the active methods async. This lets us get the sender so we can watch to see if they fall off the bus or not (Richard Hughes) - Add a yum-packagekit plugin to refresh the PackageKit data when a manual update command is run. Code is copied from yum-updatesd in yum-utils and was authored by James Bowes. - Install the bash completion file so it works by default (Richard Hughes) - Add into pkcon to get the time since something was checked (Richard Hughes) - Log when the last command is run so we can work out how long since a command was run. This allows us to accuratly preseve the "session" setting of GetUpdates policy (Richard Hughes) * API changes: - Add a status enum so we get the correct icon when getting data (Richard Hughes) - Add a info enum for blocked updates (Richard Hughes) - Add some more status constants for backend transaction progress (Richard Hughes) - Add messages to be shown from the transaction to the session (Richard Hughes) * Bugfixes: - Use a different PolicyKit permissions for UpdateSystem and UpdatePackage as both were defined as the same thing in the policy (Richard Hughes) - Build fixes with autogen.sh (Tom Parker, Boyd Timothy) - Free memory in case of dbus error (Grzegorz Dabrowski) - Fix a crash in pk_transaction_list_get_array (JP Rosevear) - We should only invalidate the internal cache if the transaction succeeded. This stops a failed update-system from clearing the cache (Richard Hughes) - Fix the manpage corruption issue described in Bug #12796 (Luke Macken) Version 0.1.3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Backends: - smart: Add installed filter (James Bowes) - smart: Add search-details (James Bowes) - smart: Add install-file (James Bowes) - PiSi: Add gui filter (S.Çağlar Onur) - yum: Add gui filter (Tim Lauridsen) - yum: Add repo-set-data (Tim Lauridsen) - yum: Add get-update-detail (Tim Lauridsen) - yum: Add get-requires (Tim Lauridsen) - box: Use C API with percent updates for cache refreshing (Grzegorz Dabrowski) * New features: - Split out the KDE, GNOME and XFCE desktop groups (Richard Hughes) - Add power-management package group (S.Çağlar Onur) - Add 'make gcov' and 'make gprof' for unit testing (Richard Hughes) - Add a metric ton of unit tests (Richard Hughes) - Check backends do not send finished more than once (Richard Hughes) - Add enums builder for python (Tom Parker) - Add the start of a waf build system - untested and unsupported. (Richard Hughes, Alberto Ruiz, Daniel Svensson) - Add initial work for multiple apt searching backends (Tom Parker) * API changes: - PkClient restart should be an enumerated type, not free text (Richard Hughes) * Bugfixes: - Replace the g_strjoinv and use pk_strbuild_va to append a va_list to fix a crash on i86_64 (Richard Hughes) - Immediate exit has to wait a few cycles for registration (Richard Hughes) - Check for existance of apt_pkg python module with apt backend (Tom Parker) - yum: Emit no-cache in resolve if the cache is invalid (Tim Lauridsen) - Correct typos and thinkos, and add a few more application notes to the developer documentation (Richard Hughes) - Fix memleaks in a few places of the daemon code (Grzegorz Dabrowski) - Fix memleaks in PkClient and PkJobList (James Bowes) - Don't emit error for the transaction if cancel is not valid - cancel operates on an existing tid and shouldn't have control of the finished or error signals (Richard Hughes) - Parse updatedetail from stdout and discover get_update_detail (Richard Hughes) - Update packagekit.pc.in to require glib and gobject (Tom Parker) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 0.1.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Backends: - Add a new python based APT backend (Ali Sabil) - Significant smart backend updates (James Bowes) - Significant PiSi backend updates (S.Çağlar Onur) - More yum functionality (James Bowes, Tim Lauridsen) - More box functionality (Grzegorz Dabrowski) * New features: - Allow PkClient to be set promiscuous, i.e. to report all activity and use to get the errors and completions (Richard Hughes) - Add pk-backend-python.[c|h], for common spawning functions for python backends and switch the backends to use them (James Bowes) - Use pk_strzero, pk_strlen and pk_strcmp to increase performance and potentally improve security (Richard Hughes) - Add resolve support to pkcon get depends/requires/description/updatedetail (S.Çağlar Onur) - Try to guess the remaining time of the transaction using a super nifty algorithm (Richard Hughes) - Add Cleanup and Obsoleting as info states so we don't scare the user with DELETING when they are doing an upgrade (Richard Hughes, Tim Lauridsen) * API changes: - Switch the discrete GetPercentage and GetSubPercentage to a GetProgress method that allows us to report remaining and elapsed time into the client UI (Richard Hughes) * Bugfixes: - Sanitise more text from the backends in case the backend sends invalid or malicious text (Richard Hughes) - Defer destroying the backend for 5 seconds so we can query it in the finished handler in clients (Richard Hughes) - Add GetFiles method so we don't slow down the GUI box getting the file list every time we click a package (James Bowes) - Calculate progress bar length based on terminal columns (James Bowes) - Convert RefreshCache to a privileged operation but with default to allow when on active console. The distro can then patch this default to whatever depending on the security policy - and the admin can of course change the default. (S.Çağlar Onur) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 0.1.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * New backends: - A SMART backend (James Bowes) - A PiSi backend (S.Çağlar Onur) * New features: - A better, easier to use website; http://www.packagekit.org (Richard Hughes) - Added missing install-file.py so we can do local rpm installs (Tim Lauridsen) - Be ultra-paranoid about validating input from the user (Richard Hughes) - Send SIGQUIT and then SIGKILL after a little delay, so we can clean up the backends nicely by unlocking when we cancel (Richard Hughes) - Add resolve functionality in pkcon to allow non-package_id use, for instance 'pkcon remove gimp' now does the right thing (Richard Hughes) - Display a pulsing progress bar for no-progress-updates and percentage-update that is shown when using a console (James Bowes) - Remove the hard dependency on NetworkManager so other networking stacks can be used instead (S.Çağlar Onur, Richard Hughes) - Add a filter parameter for Resolve() so we can do the filtering in the spawned backend without duplicating code (James Bowes, Richard Hughes) - Substantial additions to the box backend (Grzegorz Dabrowski) - Add GetRepoList and RepoEnable to the yum backend (Tim Lauridsen) - Add bash completion script for pkcon (James Bowes) - Get the repo list for the aplm backend (Andreas Obergrusberger) * API changes: - Store the transaction database in /var/lib rather than /var/db (James Bowes) - Don't expose the private list in PkTaskList, instead use verified functions to ensure we can't corrupt data accidentally (Richard Hughes) - Don't export the private data array in PkClient or PkPackageList - this breaks API, so the library version has been bumped (Richard Hughes) * Bugfixes: - Fix the resolve method parameter passing - now pk-install-package should work correctly (James Bowes) - Fix all the copyright notices to be a standard GPL2+ boilerplate license text (Tom Parker, Robin Norwood) - Dist the local apt headers so the apt backend can be compiled from a tarball rather than just from git (Richard Hughes) - Fix a 1-in-10 random daemon startup crash when backends do libnm_glib init, shutdown, init, shutdown repeatedly (Richard Hughes) - Added locking in the yum backend to allow simultaneous use of the yum command line tool or yum-updatesd (Tim Lauridsen) - Fix NoPercentageUpdates validity checking (James Bowes) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 0.1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * The first public release of PackageKit: - New gobject client library for session software to easily talk to PackageKit. - Asynchronous API that does not block. - Daemon that can queue and manage multiple simultaneous blocking and non-blocking transactions - Client applications (pkcon and pkmon) that interact with PackageKit on the command line without any GUI dependencies - Many compiled and scripted backends: conary, yum, apt, box, alpm - Comprehensive docbook documentation - Daemon configuration parameters in etc - Module level unit tests as standard - Python backend and frontend helper libraries - Transaction logging and capability exports for GUI tools - HAL locking supported for not-to-be interrupted phases of the transaction - NetworkManager integration for network state - PolicyKit integration for fine-grained permission control.