Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> --- crudely semi-sorted, feel free to re-order NEWS | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fd2a6e9e0..2cc29a8b8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,69 @@ VERSION DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +6.0.0 - teach the internal downloader to use parallel downloads + (FS#20056) + - TotalDownload now adds an additional progress bar, and the + option to disable it has been removed + - add support for multiple 'Architecture' values + - remove support for the autotools build system + - -Qk now validates file checksums in addition to date/size + - download via -U with a cached package file now tries to + download required signatures, rather than failing (FS#33992) + - allow package signatures to come from the CacheDir if not + embedded in the database + - download detached signature for packages even if signature is + embedded in the database + - when verifying detached signatures, verify the package hash + from the database too + - zsh completion: add pacman-conf support + - clarify misleading error message on init (FS#59595) # not newsworthy? + - -Fx now reports error for invalid regex + - colored upgrade summary now dulls version numbers for contrast + - support xattr when extracting packages + - allow setting --noprogressbar in pacman.conf + - fix output alignment for CJK translated text (FS#59229) + - meson: properly compile internal symbols as hidden + - fix reading targets from stdin when using --sysroot (FS#68630) + - fix deleting signatures for existing databases with -Sc + - skip mirror servers with too many errors (FS#29293) + - fix build errors on systems like FreeBSD + - meson: make -uninstalled.pc correct + - libalpm frontends can now supply context to callbacks (FS#12721) + - fix download rates becoming negative + - check for and forbid duplicate download filenames (FS#67850) + - makepkg: + - add support for sources using the fossil VCS + - strip: fix removing file attributes such as xattr + - add link time optimization support to makepkg + - allow specifying alternative authentication commands when + running pacman as root (FS#32621) + - switch to CRC as default integrity checksum + - add optional argument support to parseopts + - remove dependency on GNU sed + - record $startdir for reproducible builds + - record name of build orchestration tool for reproducible builds + - reduce dependency on file for detecting ELF files + - avoid trailing whitespace in --printsrcinfo output + - libprovides: don't provide both versioned and unversioned + sonames + - fix signing of source packages + - don't double-layer distcc on ccache + - support zstd decompression for sources + - fix detection of source file names for debug packages with + gcc 11 + - strip: silence warnings emitted by readelf while detecting + source filenames + - fix use of spaces in source file renaming (FS#70254) + - pacman-key: + - be less noisy when populating the keyring (FS#64142) + - warn about time taken for master key generation + - --refresh-keys queries WKD before keyserver + - repo-add: + - support the same compression methods as makepkg + - various documentation updates + - after a decade and a half of promising libalpm.3 documentation + "once we get around to doing good Doxygen documentation", it + has happened and is now documented 5.2.2 - fix pacman test suite under python 3.8 - only prompt to import new keys once in a transaction - fix handling of fully downloaded .part files -- 2.31.1