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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index 572ad84..0d5f5a0 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,32 +1,29 @@ -Version 1.2.6 - Released 2010/01/12 -=================================== +Version 1.3.0_rc1 - Released 2010/01/15 +======================================= FULL CHANGES ------------ - - Warn on lack of write permissions (fixes #260218) + - Add support for several sources per overlay (also fixes #280472) + When adding an overlay all sources will be probed until a working + one is found. This should help Layman through some firewalls. - - Migrate to GNU tar's compression format auto-detection - which adds potential support for more types of compressed - tar archives (LZMA, xz or Z) as a side-effect - (Requires GNU tar 1.15 or later, released in 2005) + - Display related directory when deleting overlays - - Drop support for broken tar overlays with missing category level - (and missing profiles/repo_name as a consequence) + - Improve overlay info display (i.e. layman -i): + - Add quality indicator (keep in mind: no guarantee) + - Add feed URIs + - Fix whitespace handling for description field - - Make missing overlay directory not fail removal of that overlay - from the local list - - - Start shipping doc sources and release notes with release archives - - - Start shipping test suite files missing from the 1.2.5 release + - Improve layman usage display SHORT CHANGES ------------- - layman-1.2.6 introduces support for tar overlays that are compressed - with an algorithm other than gzip or bzip2. That, plus minor fixes. + layman-1.3.0_rc1 introduces support for several sources per overlay. + Also, "layman -i OVERLAY" now makes full use of metadata that arrived + with the migration from layman-global.txt to the repositories.xml format. FRESHMEAT |