v3.7.4

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This release enhance documentation about eventual issues and solutions / workarounds with the systray applet autostart.

Documentation

• Enhance documentation about race condition (#326) - (ab028d1) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• (i18n) Update po files (#325) - (6c1b665) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.7.3...v3.7.4

v3.7.3

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This release removes the list of pending updates from the systray's tooltip. Indeed, having the list of pending updates in the tooltip was a bad design from the start and it creates more issues than it solves. The right click / dropdown menu is arguably a way better design for the same purpose (both in terms of UI and UX).
See #319 for full rational.

Additionally, this release brings some minor improvements to the libraries and systray scripts to ease their maintenance.

Styling

• Fix typos in systray python script (#323) - (d322020) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Little rework of the systray applet python script (#322) - (169e00e) by @Antiz96
• Remove the list of pending updates from the systray's tooltip (#321) - (f51cf89) by @Antiz96
• Make scripts more robust when using mkdir (#320) - (b2af443) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.7.2...v3.7.3

v3.7.2

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This release brings changes to the build system so that the man pages are not compressed by default anymore. Indeed, compressing man pages is a distribution / user preference that should be handled on the packaging side rather than on the build system side.
Additionally, it can lead to unexpected side effects. For instance, gzip recording timestamps in metadata by default, which prevents reproducible builds (see 905f641).

See https://cmpct.info/~sam/blog/posts/automatic-manpage-compression/ for detailed rational.

Styling

• Remove unconventional dots from output (#318) - (1201252) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• (man) Don't compress man pages during build (#317) - (b60600e) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.7.1...v3.7.2

v3.7.1

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This release updates the link to the arch-update.conf(5) man page in the default / example configuration file.
It also updates the build instructions in the Makefile to make Arch-Update reproducible (see https://reproducible-builds.org).

Documentation

• Update man page link in default / example configuration file (#312) - (65e24bc) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Get rid of gzip timestamps during build to make Arch-Update reproducible (#314) - (905f641) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.7.0...v3.7.1

v3.7.0

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This release introduces the new NoAUR and NoFlatpak options in the arch-update.conf configuration file, which allow to ignore AUR & Flatpak packages support respectively (even if one of the supported AUR helpers or flatpak is installed).

Features

• Add the NoAUR option to arch-update.conf (#309) - (c90b05e) by @Antiz96
• Add the NoFlatpak option to arch-update.conf (#308) - (c56a084) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Update translation files (#310) - (98362d1) by @Antiz96
• Improve logic for the 'NoNotification' option (#307) - (daa9d7a) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.6.1...v3.7.0

v3.6.1

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This release fixes an issue where AUR packages listed in the IgnoredPkg array in the pacman.conf configuration file were still being reported in the list of pending updates (despite being ignored), leading to potential false positives during available updates listing.

Fixes

• Filter out ignored packages when checking for AUR packages update with paru (#305) - (8252253) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Update translations files (#306) - (bb7a435) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.6.0...v3.6.1

v3.6.0

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This release introduces the NoNotification option in the arch-update.conf configuration file, which allows to disable desktop notifications (the systray icon still acts as a visual indicator for available updates).

It also includes a general rework, improvement & simplification of the overall documentation for a better readability and maintenance.
Most notably, the documentation now recommends the usage of the xdg-terminal-exec specification to run Arch-Update in a specific terminal emulator, which is a way more sane and proper approach than the previously documented one.

Important note:
Some changes have been made to the way Arch-Update should be installed from source. Make sure to read the updated instructions (people using the AUR package are not affected).

Features

• Add the NoNotification option to arch-update.conf (#302) - (39b0efc) by @Antiz96

Documentation

• General rework & simplification of the documentation (#301) - (c6ed5d8) by @Antiz96
• Document the usage of xdg-terminal-exec to run Arch-Update in a specific terminal emulator (#300) - (f568955) by @Antiz96
• Use scdoc to write and generate man pages (#299) - (6749a94) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Use more specific names for 'notif' and 'flatpak' variables (#303) - (d021523) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.5.0...v3.6.0

v3.5.0

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This release introduces support for the DiffProg option in arch-update.conf when using doas (it was initially only supported with sudo or run0, due to the lack of option to preserve environment variables in doas).

Features

• Add support for the DiffProg option when using doas (#295) - (0fa90ec) by @l-pt

Miscellaneous

• Update release workflow (#294) - (ee4867b) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @l-pt made their first contribution in #295

Full Changelog: v3.4.3...v3.5.0

v3.4.3

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This release fixes an issue with the "Author" and "Date" tags parsing when showing Arch News.
It also slightly optimize the way news URLs are parsed.

Fixes

• Update Author and Date tags parsing in news (#292) - (96b9481) by @qhorgues

Miscellaneous

• Rename LIBDIR env var (#293) - (6106880) by @Antiz96
• Optimize news path parsing when listing Arch news (#290) - (4b2f6c5) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @qhorgues made their first contribution in #292

Full Changelog: v3.4.2...v3.4.3

v3.4.2

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This release introduces a fix to avoid potential false positive when listing Flatpak unused packages.

It also removes the AlwaysShowNews option from the arch-update.conf configuration. Indeed, it's fair to say that this option probably isn't used nor desired by anyone as its behavior most likely leads to undesired annoyances.

As a side note, I'd like to take this new release as an occasion to once again sincerely thank everyone supporting Arch-Update in any way!
So huge thanks to Arch-Update users, everyone that gave it a star on GitHub, opened issues, feature requests, pull requests or contributed to this project in any other way! ❤️

Fixes

• Avoid false positive on unused runtimes for Flatpak with pinned runtimes - (2dae27b) by @RayJW

Miscellaneous

• Remove the AlwaysShowNews option (#288) - (8f5fdee) by @leyyce
• (CONTRIBUTING.md) Expand the "Thank you" section (#287) - (7ea5325) by @Antiz96
• (issues) Add a dedicated label to the 'Other' issue type (#283) - (ff81590) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @RayJW made their first contribution in #286
• @leyyce made their first contribution in #288

Full Changelog: v3.4.1...v3.4.2