On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:18:30 +1000 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> --- NEWS | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4d3dba..e2ae89b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,69 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -5.0.0 - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases +5.0.0 - pacman can run hooks pre- and post-transaction. See the + alpm-hooks(5) man page for details and an example hook (FS#2985) + - pacman can now sync and read .files databases (-Fy) and do basic + searching for files in sync repos (-Fs, -Fo) (FS#23787) + - pacman can check the validity of the local and sync databases (-Dk and -Dkk respectively). This replaces the 'testdb' - software + software (FS#42444) + - the package description output (-Si ,-Qi) is now correctly + aligned regardless of locale (FS#43983, FS#45997) + - ensure internal package version matches database version after + downloading (FS#45687) + - improved signal handling and lock file removal (FS#45995, + FS#46375, FS#47011) + - print more information when encountering dependency errors + - fix conflict with CheckSpace and NoExtract (FS#47470)

^ this issue didn't exist in pacman 4.2, so it doesn't need to be listed here.

+ - improved configuration parsing with a new ini parser + - handle a symlink to a directory being replaced by a directory + - The 'pkgbase' variable is now recorded in the local package db + - Remove support for ".pacorig" files. Instead, packages files + are extracted as a ".pacnew" and the original stays in place + - prevent install scriptlets using stdin for user interaction + - provides are considered when displaying optdepends install + status (FS#36412) + - always update corrupt database whether or not a newer version + is found on the remote server + - fix build issues when libarchive was in a non-standard location + - Many issues found using Coverity were address (primarily freeing + memory on error conditions) + - The pactest suite was upgraded to allow parallel testing using + the tap.sh library + - makepkg: + - makepkg is in the process of being split into a library. This + allows various areas to be extended by adding a file into + libmakepkg (e.g. package/PKGBUILD checking, adjusting + files before creating the final package). + - PKGBUILD variables checked to be arrays or not as appropriate + - pkgver() and prepare() are now run with --noextract (FS#43498, + FS#46800) + - the ability to build a single package in a PKGBUILD has been + removed + - the output when checking checksums for architecture specific + sources is improved (FS#43444) + - improved handling of bazaar sources (FS#43448) + - fix source package signing with SRCPKGDIR set + - add option to compress png images with optipng + - add --packagelist option, which lists all packages build from + a PKGBUILD + - add --printsrcinfo flag to print SRCINFO file for a PKGBUILD + - record build information in a .BUILDINFO file + - add whirlpool to list of hashing options (FS#45859) + - makepkg-template: + - support multiple --template-dir + - added a testsuite + - repo-add: + - Always generate the .files database + - Only update database if the entire operation succeeds + - unarmored package signatures are rejected + - contrib: + - checkupdates: give error when fakeroot is missing + - checkupdates: provide packages versions in output + - checkupdates: fix failure in some locales (FS#40405) + - paccache: Add -q/--quiet + - pacdiff: do not require DIFFPROG for -o/--output (FS#46184) + - zsh_completion: updated to fix many missing options 4.2.1 - Remove warnings about incorrect directory ownership until packaging files with dynamic users/groups is improved - Do not require a specific automake version when building from