XBPS

A new configuration file format, faster unpacking, new checks for package integrity, multiple performance improvements, new options for xbps-bin(8) and xbps-repo(8), a cleaned up API in preparation to start the packagekit backend, and more.

Bugfixes, performance improvements, etc.

This release adds major performance improvements, a new configuration scheme, revamped virtual package support, improvements in all code for stability and robustness, and bugfixes.

More meaningful messages were written for the show, show-deps, and show-files targets of xbps-bin and xbps-repo. Three new metadata objects were added for packages to specify homepage, license, and build date. Minor cosmetic changes were made.

This release fixes a bug that made libxbps fail to detect properly configuration files. This caused all updates in configuration files to be lost. It is now possible to properly build against an external portable proplib (with pkg-config support) and libfetch. Several compiler warnings have been enabled in the configure script (if supported by the compiler), and symbol visibility has been made dependent on configure tests. A --silent argument has been added to the configure script, hiding compilation details in the build process (disabled by default).