Baptiste Daroussin nemrég bejelentette, hogy közel háromnegyed évnyi fejlesztés után elérhető a FreeBSD új csomagkezelő eszközének, a pkg-nek 1.3.0-s kiadása. A kiadás főbb jellemzői, tulajdonságai:
- New solver, now pkg has a real SAT solver able to automatically handle conflicts and dynamically discover them. (yes pkg set -o is deprecated now)
- pkg install now able to install local files as well and resolve their dependencies from the remote repositories
- Lots of parts of the code has been sandboxed
- Lots of rework to improve portability
- Package installation process has been reworked to be safer and handle properly the schg flags
- Important modification of the locking system for finer grain locks
- Massive usage of libucl
- Simplification of the API
- Lots of improvements on the UI to provide a better user experience.
- Lots of improvements in multi repository mode
- pkg audit code has been moved into the library
- pkg -o A=B that will overwrite configuration file from cli
- The ui now support long options
- The unicity of a package is not anymore origin
- Tons of bug fixes
- Tons of behaviours fixes
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