packagekit/NEWS
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Version 0.1.3
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* 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)
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Version 0.1.2
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* 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)
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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.