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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 0ee4869ce..28e34b2e2 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.1.5 ================================== +* The metadata-transfer feature is now disabled by default. This disables the + "Updating Portage cache" routine that used to run at the tail end of each + `emerge --sync` operation. If you use something like the sqlite module and + want to keep all metadata in that format alone (useful for querying), enable + FEATURES="metadata-transfer" in make.conf. + * The parallel-fetch feature is now enabled by default. It is optimized to avoid doing redundant checksums for previously downloaded files that have the correct size. Run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in a |