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VERSION         DESCRIPTION
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3.1.0         - paths are now specified as absolute paths (or defaulting to
                under the specified root directory)
              - all paths can be specified in pacman.conf or on command line
              - updates to pacman clean operation- now cleans uninstalled
                packages and old sync DBs
              - remove all hardcoded paths and allow them to be set at
                configure/build time
              - single mirrorfile- pacman substitutes the repository name in
                mirror file when $repo is found
              - New config file options: ShowSize, TODO xxx
              - all scripts have been gettext-ized and can be translated
              - added testdb utility to check pacman DBs for common problems
              - huge additions to pactest suite
              - remove -F/--freshen operation
              - add --ignoregroup option
              - --ignore and --ignoregroup accept comma separated lists
              - add --needed option for --sync
              - massive optimization and speedup for --owns
              - add -q/--quiet option for -Ss/-Sl and -Q? output
              - add --asdeps option (install packages as reason: dependency)
              - replace "Total Package Size" with "Total Download Size"
              - fix -Q options to work on installed packages AND package files
              - change -Q/--query options to act as filters and increase their
                flexibility
              - moved parseconfig from backend library to frontend
              - install and build dates are localized
              - optdepends support
              - delta support
              - versioned provisions support
              - bash completion updates
              - mirrorlist updates
              - allow multiple pacman cache directories
              - all manpages are now generated using Asciidoc
              - clean up and refactoring of the ENTIRE codebase
                - remove many useless #ifdefs
                - split many too-long functions
                - portability updates: compiles and passes tests on BSD and
                  Darwin (switching libdownload->libfetch)
                - clean up build process
                - use of static code analysis
                - memory leak fixes all over the place
                - fix overzealous use of macros
                - entire codebase builds with -pedantic GCC option
              - libalpm-specific changes:
                - moved location of sync DBs into their own folder to thwart
                  deletion and remove naming limitations
                - REQUIREDBY entries are no longer used in local DB but are
                  computed on the fly when needed
                - ensure we export everything that should be public
                - fix some const correctness issues
                - add list tail ptr shortcut to make last element lookups O(1)
                - database dates are stored as seconds from epoch
                - removed SHA1 support
                - drop in new MD5 library
                - implement topological sorting for dependencies
                - do case sensitive compare in parse_descfile (FS#8081)
                - remove hardcoded architectures
                - conflicts checking speedups and fixes
                - move lockfile location to inside the DB
                - remove gettext calls from DEBUG messages
                - remove faulty diskspace checking
                - move functions out of alpm.c to where they belong
              - makepkg-specific changes:
                - entire script has been functionalized
                - only runs in fakeroot when necessary
                - hard linked manpages are now compressed (FS#5392)
                - built-in versionpkg support
                - arch=('any') support
                - clean up and prettify the output
                - replace tar/cpio/unzip with bsdtar (FS#7485)
                - add --ignorearch option (FS#7355)
                - improved error handling
                - remove --usesudo option, use it by default
                - add --asroot option to discourage building as root
                - add $srcdir and $pkgdir variables
                - add source package creation option
              - rankmirrors- allow reading from stdin (FS#8043)
              - and many other small updates...
              - switch to GIT for source code management
3.0.6         - config files updated to reflect current -> core change
              - fix symlink overwriting issue (#7484)
              - fix config parsing with tr_TR locale (#7235)
              - use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE if available (#7578)
3.0.5         - add -mtune=generic to default CFLAGS in makepkg.conf
              - small updates to translations
              - repo-add: fix conflicts issue for real this time
              - fix issue with libarchive incorrectly setting permissions
3.0.4         - updated translations
              - repo-add: fix issue where conflicts were not put in database
3.0.3         - updated translations
              - repo-add: fixed a desc file clobbering issue
3.0.2         - fix a bug where pre/post_remove scriptlets were not ran
              - ensure ldconfig is ran in all operations
              - added a few new translations, updated existing ones
              - updated mirror lists
              - makepkg: ensure CFLAGS are exported to build function
3.0.1         - fix a locale issue with tr_TR upper/lower-case conversion
              - allow removal when listing the same package multiple times
              - fix a repo-add bug that left a .PKGINFO file in the current
                directory
              - proper error messages when we cannot read mtab for freespace
3.0.0         - first release based on libalpm backend
              - added internationalization (gettext) support:
                - de, fr, hu, it, pt_BR, en_GB, ru_RU translations
              - switch to usage of libdownload and libarchive
              - improved proxy support using libdownload
              - documentation - man pages updated, new conf manpages added
              - repository mirror list updates
              - added support for package changelogs
              - logging of all install scriptlet messages to pacman.log
              - orphans search (-Qe) now shows true orphans
              - new -Qu option - show all packages that can be upgraded
              - new -Se option - install only dependencies
              - dependency sorting on install and removal
              - check for free space before installing packages
              - prompt to delete corrupted packages
              - improved backup handling - backup array proactive on upgrade
              - removed NoUpgrade lines from default pacman.conf
              - new uncompressed size field, shown on sync upgrade
              - improved progress and progressbar output
              - reduced unnecessary calling of ldconfig
              - selective loading of database to speed up certain operations
              - debugging output improved with --debug flag
              - pacman-optimize - now supports DBs on separate filesystem
              - makepkg and abs now support conf files in home directory
              - makepkg changes:
                - arch field is required
                - added -arch suffix to generated package filenames
                - new configuration file options format
                - changed default configuration
                - support alternate integrity checks
                - extract files using filetype, not extension
                - added noextract array
                - new options array format
                - new option to log build process
                - new --repackage option - repackage pkg/ without building
                - user-selectable paths for doc stripping
                - configurable source cache location
                - dependencies now removed on a build success or failure
              - abs changes:
                - supports both cvsup and csup
                - expanded configuration
                - added support for testing repository
              - new helper scripts:
                - rankmirrors - shows best available mirrors
                - repo-add - adds a package to a repo database file
                - repo-remove - removes a package from a repo database file
              - added pactest testing suite
              - MANY fixes and small improvements everywhere
2.9.8         - Changed behaviour with original=X,current=Y,new=Z scenario
                - keep old in place, install new as .pacnew
              - Search package provides when finding matching targets with -S
              - Frugalware: added -Qm option to find foreign packages
              - Frugalware: added DistCC support to makepkg
              - bugfix: before searching databases for a dependency, make sure
                one of the packages in the final list doesn't already provide
                that dependency
              - fix for segfaults that occurred when propagating requiredby
                fields to replaced packages where one package depended on
                another replaced package
              - a better fix for pacman-optimize integrity checks
              - fix for regex searches with -Ss (Miklos Vajna)
              - added a --noprogressbar for scripts to use
2.9.7         - fixed the dupe listings of packages when dealing w/ groups
              - patches from Miklos Vajna:
                - add regexp search support for -Qs and -Ss
                - fixed md5sums on x86_64
                - add --sudosync to makepkg
                - show syntax help if an invalid option is used
                - added makepkg option to disable ccache support
              - changed license field to operate as an array, not a string
              - added more logic for file conflict checks - if one target
                is a file and the other is a directory, then it's a conflict
              - fixed the integrity check in pacman-optimize
              - reverted NoUpgrade to old behaviour and instead, added the
                NoExtract directive to pacman.conf, which prevents a file
                from ever being extracted on to the system
                 eg, NoExtract = home/httpd/html/index.html
2.9.6         - added a pacman-optimize script to try and defragment the DB
              - modified NoUpgrade behaviour to avoid extracting files
                that are missing from the filesystem -- this helps in
                situations where the admin does not want the file there, eg,
                remove index.html so index.php takes precedence
              - fixed a bug where files would sometimes go missing if they
                moved from one package to another
              - add db_remove() which is responsible for clearing out stale
                hash table entries when packages are removed
              - added ccache support to makepkg
              - patch from Aurelien Foret fixes a few memory leaks
2.9.5         - bugfix: missing files after re-ordering packages wrt
                deps with --upgrade
              - added "Repository" line to -Si output
              - patch from Tommi Rantala to fix trim() behaviour with
                empty or whitespace-only strings
              - fixed removal order when using -Rc or -Rs
2.9.4         - fixed a bug that was introduced from another bugfix :-/
2.9.3         - fixed a couple manpage typos
              - added --ignore to -S operations, works just like IgnorePkg
              - respect IgnorePkg list when pulling in dependencies
              - numerous memleak fixes
              - some code changes to improve customizability/branding
              - Makefile fix for nonstandard lib search paths (Kevin Piche)
              - fixed the leftover directories in /tmp
              - speed improvement patches from Tommi Rantala
2.9.2         - bugfix for 2.9.1 
2.9.1         - --refresh now only downloads fresh packages lists if they've
                been updated (currently only works with FTP)
2.9           - Improved -Rs functionality -- pacman now tracks why a package
                is installed: explicitly, or as a dependency for another
                package.  -Rs will only remove dependencies that were not
                explicitly installed.
              - Added compressed package size to sync DBs -- shows the total
                size of packages before downloading
              - Patch from Tommi Rantala:
                - Allow --info and --list together in queries
              - Patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Use list_add_sorted() with -Sg
              - Patch from Hegedus Marton Csaba:
                - Better manpage compression
              - Added checks for additional hyphens in package versions
              - mktemp was failing if %pmo_root%/tmp was missing -- fixed
2.8.4         - Added updatesync script from Jason Chu
              - Changed the pacman binary to be dynamically linked
                - Included a pacman.static binary as well
                - Added fakeroot checks when seeing if we're root
              - Fixed makepkg to use 'tail -n 1' instead of 'tail -1'
              - Added patch from Kevin Piche:
                - Cleanup db_loadpkgs(), add list_add_sorted()
              - Fixed a memory leak in db_find_conflicts()
2.8.3         - Fixed a little makepkg bug with bash 3.0
              - Fixed resolvedeps to always prefer literals over provisios
              - Added --config option to specify an alternate config file
              - Added "Include" directive to include repositories from
                config files (inspired by Michael Baehr's patch)
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Even smarter file-conflict checking
2.8.2         - Fixed a segfault bug in file-conflict checks
              - Made --noconfirm actually work.  Go me.
2.8.1         - Added a HoldPkg option in pacman.conf, for the more
                exploratory users who run things like "pacman -R pacman".  It
                will ask for confirmation before removing any packages listed
                in the HoldPkg list
              - Added a --noconfirm switch for use with script automation
              - Modified dependency resolution to prefer packages explicitly
                requested on the cmdline instead of those pulled in by
                resolvedeps().  Example, if neither "xorg" nor "xfree86" is
                installed and "blackbox xfree86" is requested, "xfree86" will
                be used instead of "xorg"
              - Added patch from Jason Chu:
                - Smarter file-conflict checking with symlinked paths and
                  with files that move from one package to another
2.8           - Bugfixes:
                - #861:  file:/// urls not handled properly with XferCommand
                - #1003: set umask before scriptlet calls
                - #1027: download problems with http urls using -U/-A
                - #1044: segfaults when using -Rs
                - #863:  "missing post_remove" errors with some packages
                - #875:  detect low disk space properly
                - #986:  makepkg -e doesn't validate files
                - #1010: add -j option to makepkg
                - #1028: make pacman -Sp runnable as non-root
              - added pre_install and pre_upgrade scriptlet support
              - added an "Architecture" field in the package meta-data
              - added patch from Aurelien Foret which improves performance
                adding or removing packages
              - added implementation of GNU's strverscmp function for better
                portability
              - added explicit unlink() calls when --force is used, which
                prevents those nasty "Text file busy" errors when you
                force-upgrade something like pacman or glibc.
2.7.9         - added the "force" option to packages, so --sysupgrade can
                downgrade packages when it needs to
2.7.8         - added post_remove scriptlet support
              - added -Qs option (bug #854)
              - a provisio does not imply conflict, to make a provisio target
                conflict with anything else that provides the same thing, you
                can now do this by specifying the provisio target as both a
                provides and a conflict, eg:
                   conflicts=('x-server')
                   provides=('x-server')
              - cleaned up the download progress bar a bit
              - added %o parameter to XferCommand so wget can resume properly
              - fixed a segfault in downloadfiles() (bug #787)
              - patches from Oliver Burnett-Hall
                - gensync uses a better temp dir (bug #774)
                - PKGDEST can be set in makepkg.conf (bug #783)
              - patches from Aurelien Foret
                - segfault fix, couple memory leaks
                - more sanity checks in "provides" searches
                - fixed a little display bug in the progress bar
                - made -Qip look like -Qi
                - -Sc now removes OLD packages from cache, use -Scc for all
2.7.7         - added an XferCommand directive that will make pacman use an
                external download utility like wget
              - added a license field to package meta-data
              - add url support to -A and -U operations (download packages)
              - -Ss now searches thru provides fields
              - added --dbonly option to -R
2.7.6         - added --print-uris option
              - fixed an http download bug (bug #667)
              - fixed a segfault related to replaces/conflicts handling
2.7.5         - "replaces" packages were ignoring IgnorePkg in pacman.conf
              - fixed another bug in conflict handling
              - found an out-dated reference to /usr/abs, fixed
              - added a --recursive option for package removal, which removes
                all deps of a target that aren't required by other packages
2.7.4         - fixed a bug in conflict handling, where installing a
                conflicting package would fail even if the new package
                "provided" it
              - if pacman sees a newer version of itself during an upgrade,
                it will ask to install itself first, then be re-run to upgrade
                the other packages.
              - You can now use the --info option with --sync to display an
                uninstalled package's dependency info.
              - Added a sane umask before db writes
              - buffer overflow fix (bug #442)
2.7.3         - makepkg not longer strips files with .exe or .dll extensions
              - Added Aurelien's patch:
                - proxy support (no authentication yet)
                - HTTP/1.1 support
                - an improved progress bar with transfer rates and ETA
              - cleaned up warning output a bit
2.7.2         - Supressed "No such file" messages during stripping
              - Removed extra newlines in /var/log/pacman.log
              - Added a --noextract option to makepkg to skip source extraction
2.7.1         - Fixed a couple obscure segfaults
              - LogFiles were logging incorrect dates - fixed
              - Cleaned up md5sum output in makepkg -g
              - Added (optional) colorized output messages to makepkg
              - Renamed the "stable" repo to "release" in pacman.conf
              - Renamed the "unofficial" repo to "extra" in pacman.conf
2.7           - Added build-time dependencies to makepkg (Jason Chu)
              - Added md5sum integrity checking to packages in --sync
                mode (Aurelien Foret)
              - Memory leak fixes (Aurelien Foret)
              - Added CARCH variable to makepkg.conf for use in PKGBUILDs
              - Added LogFile option for direct-to-file logging
              - Added -Qii handling to show modified config files
              - Allow --sync targets to specify an explicit repository to
                sync from (eg, pacman -S current/patch)
2.6.4         - Altered pacman_upgrade() to allow a package to replace itself
2.6.3         - A couple memory fixes in the new replaces code
2.6.2         - Fixed a memory cleanup bug
              - Aurelien's patch:
                - bug #159 implemented (for -S and -R)
                - fixed a bug with pacman -Sg (pacman was browsing only one
                  db to get groups)
                - fixed a bug with list_merge()
                - fixed some MLK (in dumppkg() and with "-Qi --orphans")
                - now "pacman -Sg" only displays groups (without content)
                  whereas "pacman -Sg target1 target2" displays groups
                  target1 and target2 with content
2.6.1         - Added http download support (Aurelien Foret)
              - Improved makepkg's --builddeps behaviour when called via
                makeworld
              - makepkg's md5 validation now occurs before source extraction
              - makepkg delays fakeroot entry until after option parsing
              - Fixed an argument-passing bug in fakeroot
              - Modified pacman's behaviour wrt provides -- it now allows
                multiple packages to be installed, even if they provide the
                same thing (they were treated as conflicts before)
2.6           - Added group handling, so one can run 'pacman -S kde' and
                install all files from the KDE group
              - Fixed a duplication bug in cascade package removal
              - Added support for virtual provisions with "provides" tags
              - When conflicts are encountered, pacman now offers the chance
                to remove the conflicting packages (provides or literals)
              - Added support for renamed/combined packages with a "replaces"
                tag
              - Added --nostrip option to makepkg
              - Improved --search to list all packages from all repos when
                a search term is omitted
              - Added logging support through syslog()
              - Added fakeroot support to makepkg (RomanK)
              - Added MD5sum generation/validation to makepkg (RomanK)
              - Fixed a progress bar bug (Aurelien Foret)
              - Sorted makepkg's .FILELISTs (Aurelien Foret)
              - Targets are now re-ordered w.r.t. dependencies when
                using -A/-U
              - Modified --search to work when called as -Sys
              - Modified abs to use ABS_ROOT from /etc/abs/abs.conf (Aurelien)
              - Other bug fixes
2.5.1         - Minor bug fixes
2.5           - Added an URL tag to package info
              - Sped up package load times by about 500% by introducing
                a .FILELIST into the package
              - Renamed the install scriptlet from ._install to .INSTALL
              - Added patch from Aurlien Foret:
                - Better lock handling (RW and RO)
                - Sorted package order in -Qi's dependency lists
                - Added a DBPath option to pacman.conf
                - Fixed memory leaks
                - Added the --nodeps option to -S
2.4.1         - Fixed a bug in makepkg's option parsing
2.4           - Added getopt-style options to makeworld
              - Added -w <destdir> to makepkg
              - makeworld now properly handles packages with --builddeps
              - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
                - Cascading package removals. -Rc will remove a package and
                  all packages that require it
                - Support for getopt-style options in makepkg
                - the REQUIREDBY field is now updated when a package is
                  removed with --nodeps, then re-installed.
                - Avoids duplicate dependency checks with sync
                - Added a "NoPassiveFtp" option in pacman.conf
                - Improvements to the --query listings
2.3.2         - Added patches from Aurelien Foret:
                - FTP resume feature
                - removed the hit-^C-and-delete-the-downloading-file safety
                - IgnorePkg option in pacman.conf
                - FTPAGENT setting in makepkg.conf
                - Added --cleancache option to makepkg
2.3.1         - Fixed the progress bar overflow
              - Pacman does not ask "Are you sure" when you use --downloadonly
              - Switched up a couple makepkg options to be more consistent
                with pacman's options
              - If you ^C out of a file download, the package will now be
                removed from the cache directory
2.3           - The beginnings of source-side dependency resolution, makepkg
                can now either A) download/install missing deps with pacman
                -S; or B) find missing deps in the /usr/abs tree and
                build/install them.
              - Added a --nodeps option to makepkg
              - Improved the --search output
2.2           - More bugfixes
              - Added --downloadonly switch to --sync
2.1           - Lots of bugfixes
              - Added support for multiple respositories
              - Improved the config file layout
              - Improved dependency resolution and sorting
2.0           - Added dependency functionality
              - Completely new database format, similar to FreeBSD
              - Better internal data structures
              - Merged pacsync functionality into pacman
              - Now uses libftp for all file retrieval (currently only ftp)
              - Automatic dependency resolution, a la apt-get
              - Moved config stuff from /etc/pacsync.conf to /etc/pacman.conf
              - Much better backup file handling, now uses md5 hashes a la rpm
1.23          - Added install/upgrade/remove scripting control
1.22          - Some manpage typo fixes
              - Added --root switch to pacsync
              - Added --help and ability to specify a PKGBUILD to makepkg
              - Switched default downloader to snarf
1.21          - Added better backup control -- upgrade/add and remove
                do different things with the -n switch
1.2           - Added wildcard handling
              - Added man pages for makepkg and pacsync
              - Added the pacsync utility for remote file fetching/sync
1.1           - Fixed some string-handling bugs
              - Added better handling of configuration files and the like.
                If "file" is about to be removed, but it is designated to
                backed up, then it will be copied to "file.save"
              - Changed db_find_conflicts() to ignore directories
1.0           - Initial Release

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