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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +News (mainly features/major bug fixes) + +portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases) +------------ + +* elog framework and accompanying modules for logging ebuild warnings, errors + and general notices. Collects ewarn/einfo messages. +* version syntax enhancements allowing multiple suffixes and a new 'cvs' + prefix for denoting "live sources" ebuilds. +* config files as directories enabling finer-grained settings management. +* Addition of an register_die_hook method that allows ebuild/eclasses to + register functions to be called for better debugging on errors. +* Addition of pre and post user hookable functions for each ebuild phase, accessible + via portage bashrc. Example would be pre_src_unpack . +* cache refactoring- runtime improvement from 35% -> 65%. +* Intelligently handle and display USE_EXPAND-based IUSE variables. +* FEATURES="parallel-fetch". Download in parallel to compilation. +* Include a "changed or new" USE flag output when --verbose isn't specified. +* Support for splitting out debug information into separate files in + /usr/lib{,32,64}. +* exec subsystem refactoring (now with less bugs!) +* checksum/digest subsystem refactoring +* Make --emptytree only apply to ${ROOT} rather than always including /. +* Allow packages to be upgraded that are only depended on via a + "|| ( =cat/pkg-1* =cat/pkg-2* )" construct. +* Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR. + |