For comment. I have not written the epoch stuff yet... VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.5.0 - database format changes - sync databases are read directly from the repo database tarball (FS#8586, FS#20233) - local database "depends" files have been merged into the "desc" file - pacman-db-upgrade script provided to update the local database format - sync database extension is .db (without compression suffix) - requires repo-add from pacman-3.4+ - epoch - TODO!!! - disk space checking - check available space before installing packages (FS#11639) - enabled by the "CheckSpace" option in pacman.conf - attempt to stop install if we hit an extraction issue (FS#7692, FS#22034) - improved groups/providers selction dialog (FS#19704, FS#19853) - more fine grained controll of ignorine dependency resolution - -Sd to ignore dependency versions only - -Sdd to ignore all dependency information - clean-up of --help output (FS#19526) - CleanMethod for package cache cleaning can use both KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent simultaneously - various speed-ups: - improved internal storage of the package cache - faster pkgname/depends searches - use openssl crypto functions if available - makepkg: - add support for running testsuites in a check() function (FS#15145) - controlled by BUILDENV option 'check' in makepkg.conf which may be overridden by --check/--nocheck on the commandline - extract any file bsdtar recognizes - STRIP_DIRS has been removed in favour of stripping all recognized files - improve $srcdir/$pkgdir check to reduce false positives - $pkgname can be used in split package() functions (FS#22174) - added '!buildflags' option to allow unsetting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/etc - repo-add: - added -f/--files to create files database (FS#11302) - pactree: rewritten in C using libalpm