Hello AUR users, With the advent of FastAPI aurweb development, we've done some reviewing of the RPC API. With each increasing version to the RPC, it has become quite a heavy component of aurweb to maintain in complete back-compatibility mode for legacy RPC version users. These legacy versions reduce flexibility in the implementation and there are several bugs with the legacy versions which will not be addressed in favor of moving forward and focusing on the current highest version: 5 and future unreleased versions. For these reasons, we have decided to deprecate the following RPC versions: - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Undeprecated versions: - 5 A deprecation warning has been patched into the RPC soon for all requests which use a version less than 5. This notice will be shown to users under the "warning" key of JSON output for a minimum of one month before true deprecation occurs: The use of versions lower than 5 is now deprecated and will soon be unsupported. To ensure your API client supports the change without issue, it should use version 5 and adjust for any changes in the API interface. See https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc for documentation related to v5. After one month has passed (from now), the RPC API should be seen to only support v5. Users should update their code to use v5 before this time to avoid any imminent client breakage. See https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc for documentation on working with version 5. NOTE: Upcoming changes which completely remove v1-4 from operation will require your clients to supply a valid `v` query argument. Currently, this defaults to version 1, and that will change with the completion of the deprecation. A changelog will be posted to aur-general regarding RPC when this occurs, but this is a bit of forewarning so that users may prepare without issues. Example: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?v=5&type=multiinfo&arg[]=package We thank you all for your understanding and look forward to improving the API in future versions (v6) which development will have begun after the FastAPI initial port is complete. We'd like to thank you all for your contributions to the AUR; without you, the AUR would simply not be a useful tool. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we do feel that this is the right direction for the project; especially since we'll be adding more features to the API in the very near future, this allows us to more easily develop and release these additions. Thank you for reading, aurweb Development Team -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera