packagekit/NEWS
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Version 0.1.1
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* 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 licence
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)
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Version 0.1.0
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* 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.