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== User Interface changes ==
* fail when sigCheckPkg() returns 2 in yum-cron.
* Add "groups mark blacklist" command to get out of the upgrade problem.
* Show groups being installed/upgraded in groups as objects mode.
* Have "yum group upgrade" do all, as "yum upgrade" does in objs. mode.
* Change groupupdate command to call "group update" back compat. too confusing.
* Lots of groups UI/process fixes.
* Add check-update sub-command to repo-pkgs.
* Add command variation aliases to check-update.
* Add deltarpm_metadata_percentage config. so people can configure MD downloads.
* Add autocheck_running_kernel config. so people can turn it off.
* Add upgrade_group_objects_upgrade config. so people can turn it off.
* Add distupgrade command as alias for distro-sync, to be compat. with zypper.
* Add cache check to repolist, using "!". Document repoinfo.
* Add a "--disableincludes" option to yum.
* Fix downgrade keeping .reason, note that remove+install doesn't.
* Inherit reason from install package into txmbr.
* handle "No Groups Available" exception.
* Add debuglevels -2, -3, -4. Main user is yum-cron.
* Add simple way to specify a group of pkgs. for version.
* Change group install => group upgrade for installed groups.
* Give more text when telling user about y-c-t, mention history.
* Skip installonly limit, if something has set check_future_rpmdbv.
* Add a fssnapshot command, and a few fssnap_* config. options for taking FS snapshots.
* Use "real" yum logging for updateinfo parsing errors.
* support "proxy = libproxy" syntax to enable libproxy.
* Add a fuzzy matcher for numbers in format_missing_requires.
* Add the "minrate" config. option.
* Do a few changes to make the updateinfo command more user friendly (more fnmatches, can drop CVE prefix, reorder args. etc.).
* Don't highlight the empty space, Eg. --showdups list.
* Add downloadonly option to userconfirm download prompt.
* Use updateinfo from yum-cron (so we can do security only updates).
* Merge updateinfo command, --security, etc. into core.
* Reuse mirrors when max_retries > len(mirrors).
* Add hourly cron as well as daily.
* Ignore case for deplist command.
* Add "makecache fast", instead of having to do "clean expire-cache"+chk.
* Don't ask users to file a bug when rpmdb is inconsistent.
* Integrate deltarpm into core, can rebuild drpms while downloading rpms now.
* Add "list distro-extras", which is like extras but ignores version/arch.
* Automatically expire caches (yum clean expire-cache) on repo errors.
* Use xattr data as well as file size for "fast checksumming".
* Have load-ts list the possible transaction files with some data.
* Fix problems with mirrors like wtfnix.com, delete bad MD files.
* Fix yum-cron service file for systemd, add conversion code.
* Add a fake requires for pyxattr, knowing origin_url is worth 62k.
* Add ui_repoid_vars configuration, so repos. can show which vars they are using.
* Dump "all" yum variables into the yumdb.
* Add repopkgsremove_leaf_only and remove_leaf_only config. options.
* Add a repo-pkgs command, to treat a repo. as a set of packages.
* Add a swap command, for simple shell cases.
* Add a metadata_expire_filter configuration, and use it in the shipped commands.
* Don't error in history list, when we have no history.
* Fix "0" epoch matching for nevra on installed packages.
* Move to new yum-cron.py, uses yum API directly does background downloading/etc.
* Add requirement on pyliblzma.
* Merge downloadonly plugin into core, do background downloading with downloadonly.
* handle re.compile() errors, Eg. [b-a].
* Don't skip loadts new rpmdbv check, when transaction changes.
* If ignoremissing is on in load-ts and something is missing, turn ignorenew on.
* Ignore --installroot=// etc. as a command line option.
* Add repoinfo command to do repolist -v.
* Add --show-duplicates alias, for repoquery compat.
* Add code to merge the refs/pkgs of two "identical" updateinfo errata.
* Add .ui_id to repos. showing $releasever/$basearch.
* Move to using urlgrabber's multi file progress.
* Better UI for installed/available and lang/pkg/env, in groups list/summary.
* Add all the resources in the repomd, when using mdpolicy=group:all
* Show giant message about mutilib errors, to help people understand.
* Add support for installing/removing/etc. 'environment groups'.
* Add the opt. commands: remove-n, remove-na, remove-nevra. Like install-*
* Add autoremove alias for clean_reqs_on_remove, for apt ppl (also no arg. functionality).
* Make tolerant turn on recheck_installed_reqs ... maybe similar tradeoffs.
* quote uids to keep cachedir ascii-clean.
* add 'max_connections' and 'async' config. options, do parallel downloads and merge timedhosts.
* Handle empty arguments passed to commands a lot better (Eg. yum provides "").
* Check for a compat. arch. as well, when hand testing for upgradability in install.
* exit(1) when all reinstall/downgrade args. are bad.
* Make resolvedep output nicer, as people misparse the mock build output.
* If we are doing: "yum info installed blah" don't do the highlights.
* add support for 64 bit arm hardware.
* Added ssl_check_cert_permissions config. option, to workaround unreadable certs.
* Add kernel-highlight colour config. option (for running kernel).
* Add a recheck_installed_requires config. option.
* make --setopt take globs for the repo setopts, Eg. yum --setopt='*.skip_if_unavailable=1' update.
* Search for other installed packages, for available lists in "all".
* Add group_command=object config., documentation, module and UI.
* Try comparing provides versions, if they all match.
* do globs on provides in 'yum install'.
* Have users always use own dirs.
* Give name of pkg. and GPG urls when failed to install key. CKS/YumCryptoFail.
* Add mddownloadpolicy, so people can config. yum to use XML instead of sqlite.
* verifyTransaction progress, creates verify_txmbr() functions on RPMTransaction() and RPMBaseCallback() classes.
* Add simple install-n etc. functions for rel-eng.
* arm hardfp support
* Extend the output of listTrans details for quiet mode, and not assumyes.
* Add reset_nice configuration, and turn it on by default.
* Ignore time skew by using sqlite IDs instead to order yum history transactions.
* Output the GPG fingerprint when showing the GPG key.
* Allow force-reinstall and force-remove as leading arguments for history redo.
* Let resolvedep look for installed packages, and make it a hidden command.
* Add lots of pkg attributes like pkg.na and pkg.evra etc. (mainly useful for repoquery).
* Separate out dep. pkgs from pkgs. in trans. summary, and use dynamic lengths in trans summary.
* Add summary for skipped/not installed/not available.
* Add upgrade_requirements_on_install config. option.
* Add ip_resolve config. option.
* Add hack to work around broken python readline handling in "yum shell".
* Accept old outputs of "yum -q history addon-info saved_tx" in load-ts command/API.
* Make "yum -q history addon-info last saved_tx" valid input for load-ts.
* Add "history packages-info/stats/sync" sub-commnands.
* Add extra data to the history DB, we now have historic records for a few rpmdb/yumdb entries.
* Add load-ts to the man page.
* Don't warn about already installed packages in "group install".
* yum-cron now has a command, and the code got tidied up a lot.
* Output the yum_save.yumtx file on user cancel and GPG fail (and tidy the filename a bit).
* Add --assumeno, which does the opposite of --assumeyes.
* Allow "remove" to use the alwaysprompt logic (default is still alwaysprompt=true).
* Give a message when rpmdb fails to find releasever, when it said it could.
== Significant bugfixes ==
* fail when sigCheckPkg() returns 2 in yum-cron.
* Lots of groups UI/process fixes.
* Add loop limit for depsolving.
* Fix some bugs in setopt for repo config. entries. Eg. Split repoid.config_name on the last dot instead of the first.
* Try to smooth out the edge cases for cacheReq not ever updating data.
* Add epoch to updateinfo xml output.
* checkMD: re-check when xattr matches but size==0.
* Add "weak" comps. groups, for installed groups. For comps.return_groups(). Use new comps. mock objects to re-integrate group removal.
* Deal with multiple winners in providers vercmp (usually multilib).
* Pass the req. name (_reqFromTrans) into compare_providers, for provs. vercmp.
* Override users umask for groups files, so users can read it.
* handle "No Groups Available" exception.
* Fix parsing of power7+ platform string.
* Get correct rpmdb path from rpm configuration.
* Reset igroups in .closeRpmDB(), undo'ing all .add_groups() data.
* Check for bad checksum types at runtime.
* Skip installonly limit, if something has set check_future_rpmdbv.
* Resurrect diskspacecheck=0 functionality and enable inode problem filtering too on diskspacecheck=0
* Include the update date if available in the generate updateinfo xml.
* Fixes extra '' tags on multi-collection errata.
* Fix circular obsoletes in transaction members check.
* Fix "0" epoch matching for nevra on installed packages.
* Don't quick fail for excludes that start with [foo] character lists.
* A solution to the obsoletes but don't provide problem.
* Fix for ppc64p7 arch. detection.
* Fix weird edge case for isntallonly, when we install N kernels at once.
* Don't traceback in hisotry stats, when we have no transactions.
* honor proxy=_none_ again.
* Fix UpdateNotice.getitem when asked for iteration, add contains.
* Fix test_loop, previously it always failed the first obs. chain.
* Create "strong requires", and use that for recheck on upgrade.
* Search for other installed packages, for available lists in "all".
* Quote 'proxy_username' and 'proxy_password'.
* Add getcwd() check as well as open(".") check.
* Init "found" variable for distro-sync full.
* Fix _conv_pkg_state when calling with history as checksum.
* When a repo. fails in repolist, manually populate the ones after it.
* Ignore lock held by a zombie process.
* Add fix for upgrade with same reqs. "Forces" upgrade.
* Workaround the rpm change of obsoletes are conflicts mess.
* Use the correct test to see if the INSERT worked, for RHEL-5 sqlite.
* handle signatures which are not directly following the pub key but are elsewhere in the key info.
* Fix problems with using old generated data.
* Don't traceback on --setopt=foo and --setopt=foo=1=1.
* Workaround rpm-python size braindamage.
* Handle ENOSPC when creating lock files.
* Sort data for XML generation.
* Fixes required for createreop SQL update code.
* Fix traceback when enabling/disabling repos.
* Don't output \r to non-tty's.
* Override the umask settings for yum makedir() as well as open().
* Ingore EACCESS errors on yumdb stat calls.
* Fix "not found" code when calling with pkgtups.
== Resource improvement changes ==
* Fix needTs check with repo-pkgs list/info.
* Add deltarpm_metadata_percentage config. so people can configure MD downloads.
* Add autocheck_running_kernel config. so people can turn it off.
* Add upgrade_group_objects_upgrade config. so people can turn it off.
* Add yum-makecache systemd service, force network updates on for better UI.
* Add loop limit for depsolving.
* Try to smooth out the edge cases for cacheReq not ever updating data.
* Make mdpolicy=group:small default, add group and pkgtags.
* Preload from root cache when --cacheonly.
* Remove repos.findRepos("*"), for repos.sort().
* Don't slow path simple non-installed package names. (Eg. yum list zzuf).
* override mdpolicy in yum-cron and turn metadata_expire off, so we always try to download all data in yum-cron.
* speed up /proc/cpuinfo parsing.
* Add a metadata_expire_filter configuration, and use it in the shipped commands.
* Add the opt. commands: remove-n, remove-na, remove-nevra. Like install-*
* If we are doing: "yum info installed blah" don't do the highlights.
* Don't require pkgSack setup for local install/reinstall/upgrade/downgrade.
* Change tsInfo.setDatabases() so we don't have to setup the pkgSack.
* Make searchFiles() a bit faster.
* Only update the XML => sqlite progress ~1% of the time.
* Add simple install-n etc. functions for rel-eng.
== API changes ==
* Mostly backwards compat. change to how distroverpkg config. works.
* Reset igroups in .closeRpmDB(), undo'ing all .add_groups() data.
* Add fssnap module, and YumBase.fssnap property (can view/manipulate snapshots).
* Use "real" yum logging for updateinfo parsing errors.
* Extend findRepos() so it can work like repolist.
* Add updateinfo module.
* Add .upinfo YumBase property for updateinfo.
* Add timestamps to the transaction object, for created and changed time.
* Add obvious __ne__ to call __eq__ for updateinfo notices.
* Include environments when writing comps.
* Add .ui_id to repos. showing $releasever/$basearch.
* Minimally teach yum about rpm >= 4.10 scriptlet start and stop callbacks.
* Add support for parsing 'environment groups'.
* Add a simple checkfunc if we don't have one, for pkg d/l.
* Add a pkgdict argument to packages.parsePackages().
* Fix UpdateNotice.getitem when asked for iteration, add contains.
* Allow changing the exit code on non-fatal errors.
* Added generic installonlypkg(kernel-module) and installonlypkg(vm).
* Create "strong requires" for packages.
* Add helper function to access the fingerprint in the GPG key info data.
* Add returnInstalledPackageByDep() to pair with returnPackageByDep().
* Add ui_evr property to packages.
* Can now lookup a package in history, without creating a pkgtup entry for it.
* Have a pkg_warn keyword for install now, only used by "group install" atm.
* Adds a bunch of API documentation, see: [/api/yum here].
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