0.10.7

Fixes

• AppImage
  • regression on the database backend preventing long time installed AppImages to receive updates
• UI
  • regression from 0.10.6: "name" filter not working for packages whose names contain the typed words

Distribution

• AppImage: using the latest Python standards to build and install bauh (using build and installer packages)
• PyPI: adding more exclusions to unneeded files

0.10.6

Features

• new verified filter for the management table

Improvements

• AppImage
  • supporting AppImages from GitLab repositories
  • info window: displaying "unknown" when there is no mapped license
• Arch
  • parallelized installed packages reading
  • parallelized search
  • adding the AUR's URL on the package information dialog #339
• General
  • new download implementation replaces wget (implemented in Python using the requests library)
  • replaced the internet checking old host (google.com) by a more general one (w3.org) #300
  • faster exit (threaded calls won't be waited)
  • adding a new project definition/setup (pyproject.toml) file to comply with the latest standards
• UI
  • faster package icons download
  • faster packages filtering (type, category, name, etc... up to 95% less time)
  • the "Skip" button on the initialization panel is now enabled after 10 seconds #310
  • displaying the download progress for screenshots
  • on the package information dialog is now possible to open fields associated with URLs in the browser #340
  • displaying a text warning before installing an unverified package (unverified = not verified by the system maintainers or a trustable source)
    • at the moment the following packaging formats are considered completely unverified: AppImage, AUR, Web
    • Snap supports both verified and unverified software
  • minor reduction in the table loading time
  • improvements to help with random widget centralisation issues
  • more translations

Fixes

• AppImage
  • upgrade fails when the package was initially imported, but later available on bauh's database #321
• General
  • random segmentation fault errors associated with threads and caching
• Web
  • search not working for some typed addresses (e.g: those returning 403)

Contributions

• German translations by Mape6
• Russian translations by KoromeloDev
• Fix #329 by w568w

Distribution

• bauh's AppImage is now based on Debian bullseye and had a small size reduction

0.10.5

Fixes

• Arch
  • not properly checking all provided packages by the system when checking for conflicts (upgrade requirements). it could lead to an unbootable system or package losses.
• UI
  • some windows not properly being centralized (regression introduced in 0.10.4)
  • some windows being displayed in the wrong place (regression introduced in 0.10.4)

Improvements

• Arch
  • added several test cases to ensure conflicting scenarios are properly covered when checking for upgrade requirements
• General
  • replaced the use of Python's LegacyVersion for version comparison since it will be deprecated in the next Python's major release (affects Arch, AppImage and Flatpak gems)
    • python-packaging dependency is no longer needed

Contributions

• flake warnings refactoring (brccabral)

0.10.4

Improvements

• Arch
  • replaced some system calls by Python calls

Fixes

• AppImage
  • some desktop entries not being displayed on the desktop environment menu (requires the AppImage to be reinstalled) #287
• Arch
  • not detecting some package replacements when upgrading due to conflict information having logic operators (e.g: at-spi2-core: 2.44.1 -> 2.46.0 should replace the installed at-spi2-atk: 2.38)
  • not considering some conflict expressions when retrieving upgrade requirements (it could lead to a system breakage depending on the conflict)
• Debian
  • not properly handling packages with names ending with :i386 #298
• Packaging
  • AppImage: download certificate issue #280
• GUI
  • initialization panel size not based on the current display device size
  • management panel:
    • not fully maximizing
    • not maximizing based on the current display device size (for multiple display setups)
    • not respecting a minimal/maximum width based on the current display device size (for multiple display setup)
    • dialogs not respecting the current display device width
    • not readjusting size after maximizing/minimizing

Localization (i18n)

• Italian (@albanobattistella, @luca-digrazia)
• Turkish (@agahemir)

0.10.3

Features

• General
  • new parameter --suggestions: forces loading software suggestions after the initialization process #260
  • allowing custom suggestions / curated software to be mapped by Linux distributions (more on README.md) #260

Improvements

• Arch

  • suggestions available for repository packages (and the associated caching expiration property suggestions_exp. Default: 24 hours)

• General

  • preventing command injection through the search mechanism #266
  • code refactoring

• UI

  • manage window minimum width related to the table columns
  • table columns width for maximized window
  • settings window size rules moved to stylesheet files
  • enforcing maximum width and height for the management window based on the primary screen resolution #261
  • some columns of the management window now have their widths limit based on a percentage of the primary screen's width:
    • name limit: 15%
    • description limit: 18%
    • publisher limit: 12%
    • version: the limit for displaying both the installed and latest versions is 22% (otherwise just the latest version will be displayed)
  • auto-resizing the management panel when filters are applied

• Settings

  • new property to disable SSL checking when downloading files (disabled by default)

  

  • the default value for suggestions.by_type is now 15.

Fixes

• Arch

  • conflict resolution: removing hard dependencies that would be satisfied with the inclusion of the new package #268
    • e.g: pipewire-pulse conflicts with pulseaudio. pulseaudio-alsa (a dependency of pulseaudio) should not be removed, since pipewire-pulse provides pulseaudio
  • AUR:
    • build: error raised when the temporary directory does not exist (when changing the CPUs governors)
    • date parsing when checking for updates
    • not caching the 'LastModified' field of installed AUR dependencies (could lead to wrong display updates)

• Flatpak

  • not all selected runtime partials to upgrade are actually requested to be upgraded

• Web

  • not reading from the cached suggestions file after the first request
  • not detecting some generated apps as installed

• UI

  • double suggestions loading call when no app is returned

0.10.2

Improvements

• Arch

  • install:

    • missing dependencies dialog now displays the packages sizes and descriptions (only from repositories)
    • optional packages installation dialog appearance (aligned with other dependencies dialogs)

  • uninstall:

    • displaying hard and unnecessary requirements versions and descriptions

  • settings:

    • displaying different tabs for general Arch configurations and AUR's

    

• Debian

  • install: installation/download sizes order (to follow the upgrade dialog order)
  • uninstall: dependencies dialog size
  • settings: new property to enable "purge" as the default removal method

  

• Flatpak

  • faster updates reading (threaded)

• General

  • code refactoring

• UI

  • update summary:
    • displaying a '+' for positive sizes (previously the sign was only displayed for negative numbers) #250
    • changing some words and symbols to improve readability and cohesion #250
    • displaying update sizes as localized numbers #250
  • settings: some components' width reduced

• Web

  • installation form width

Fixes

• Arch:

  • displaying already installed packages when suggesting optional dependencies (pacman >= 6.0)

• Debian

  • install/upgrade: hanging when packages require manual configuration
  • info: crashing when the package size has unexpected symbols #251
  • displaying wrong symbols among numbers in install/uninstall/upgrade outputs for systems without english encoding installed
  • removing unused packages on any type of transaction (this is the default behaviour for aptitude)

• Flatpak

  • some updates or download sizes not being displayed when there are new required runtimes for installed Flatpaks
  • not displaying new required runtimes as updates (requires Flatpak >= 1.12)
  • upgrade: informing the download size as the additional installation size
  • random index out of bounds exception when reading updates

• General

  • not properly converting bibyte (KiB, MiB, ...) and byte (kB, MB, ...) based sizes to bytes
  • uninstall and downgrade logs are not available #255

• UI

  • not displaying the right unit symbol for byte based sizes (kB, MB, TB, ...) #250
  • some components do not properly adjust the text size #253

0.10.1

Features

• Flatpak

  • new custom action "Full update": fully updates all installed Flatpak apps and components (useful if you are having issues with runtime updates)

  

Improvements

• General

  • code refactoring
  • backup:

    • single mode: now supports two remove methods #244

      • self: it removes only self generated backups/snapshots (default)
      • all: it removes all existing backup/snapshots on the disc

      

• AppImage

  • Limiting the UI components width of the file installation and upgrade windows

• Arch

  • text length of some popups reduced

• Snap

  • allowing the actions output locale to be decided by the Snap client

• UI

  • only displaying the "Installed" filter when installed packages are available on the table
  • settings: margin between components reduced #241
  • "close" button added to the screenshots window (some distributions hide the default "x" on the dialog frame) #246

Fixes

• Arch

  • regression: not displaying ignored updates
  • dependency size: display a '?' instead of '0' ('?' should only be displayed when the size is unknown)

• Debian

  • packages descriptions are not displayed on the system's default language (when available)

• Flatpak:

  • executed commands are not displayed on the system default language and encoding (requires Flatpak >= 1.12) #242
  • applications and runtimes descriptions are not displayed on the system default language (when available) #242

• Web

  • using the wrong locale format for the Accept-Language header

• UI:

  • rare crash when updating table items
  • some action errors not being displayed on the details component when they are concatenated with sudo output

0.10.0

Features

• Debian

  • allowing Debian packages to be managed

    • required dependencies: aptitude
    • basic actions supported: search, install, uninstall, upgrade
    • custom actions supported:
      • synchronize packages: synchronize the available packages on the repository (aptitude update)
      • index applications: maps runnable installed packages (automatically done during initialization)
      • software sources: launches the application responsible for managing software sources (at the moment only software-properties-gtk is supported)
    • custom package actions supported:
      • purge: removes the packages and all related configuration files

    

• AppImage

  • new custom action to self install bauh if it is running as an AppImage

  

• Arch

  • AUR:
    • able to filter orphan packages by the new "orphan" category #236
    • able to filter outdated packages by the new "out of date" category #236

Improvements

• General

  • minor memory improvements
  • code refactoring
  • update checking interval on tray mode is now measured in minutes instead of seconds (default: 5)

• Arch

  • info dialog:
    • displaying the "executable" field if the package is recognized as an application
    • displaying "description" and "version" as primary fields for repository packages
    • displaying the "out of date" field for AUR packages #236
    • displaying the "orphan" field for AUR packages #236
  • removing the "%U" parameter before launching applications to prevent error messages
  • minor code refactoring

• Flatpak

  • cli/tray: removed some unneeded API calls when listing updates #234

• UI

  • search:

    • sorting packages by closest match instead of considering installed first
    • new "Installed" filter

    

  • upgrade summary dialog size

  • displaying tips for some custom actions (on mouse hover)

  • screenshots: displaying the current image index as a label in the button bar (e.g: 1/3)

  • some unneeded cursor icons removed from the apps table

  • some icons replaced

• Distribution

  • AppImage: -~9% size reduction (96.32 MB -> 88.16 MB)

Fixes

• General

  • not accepting blank root passwords #235
  • human-readable sizes (packages, files, updates, ...)

• AppImage

  • info: displaying attributes related to the installation after the application has been removed (search)
  • history: not properly sorting releases by version

• Arch:

  • AUR:
    • info: exception when trying to retrieve the PKGBUILD of a package without a base defined

• UI

  • some package icons would not appear if there is no URL associated with them
  • info: not displaying boolean fields

0.9.28

Fixes

• Distribution
  • AppImage: not able to detect updates on the tray mode because the bauh-cli call was referencing the system's Python interpreter instead of the containerized one #230

0.9.27

Improvements

• Arch:

  • preventing AUR's installed packages from not being mapped in cases the communication with the API fails
  • code refactoring (String formatting method)

• Setup

  • able to install bauh with python/pip without enforcing requirements through the environment variable BAUH_SETUP_NO_REQS=1

• Distribution

  • AppImage: -~32% size reduction (141.93 MB -> 96.32 MB)

Fixes

• Arch

  • silent crash when handling and displaying transaction sub-status
  • AUR: not detecting installed packages anymore due to recent AUR API changes
  • installation fails when several dependent packages conflict with the installed ones
  • removing a duplicate call to checking for AUR updates

• AppImage

  • search: displaying duplicate installed apps for some cases

ArchLinux users

• If you are not able to upgrade bauh from 0.9.26 to 0.9.27 using bauh (due to recent AUR's API changes), type the following commands on a terminal:

git clone aur.archlinux.org/bauh.git
cd bauh
makepkg -si