0.9.6

Improvements

• AppImage
  • creating a symlink for the installed applications at ~.local/bin (the link will have the same name of the application. if the link already exists, it will be named as 'app_name-appimage') #122
  • new initialization task that checks if the installed AppImage files have symlinks associated with (it creates new symlinks if needed)

  

  - able to update AppImages with continuous releases
• UI
  • not performing a full table refresh after installing and uninstalling packages
  • filters algorithm speed and sorting
  • "ignore updates" action now takes less time to update the table content
  • displaying the "wait cursor" over some components while performing some actions
  • sorting installed packages by their names #124
  • some components compatibility with the system's color scheme
  • allowing "Oxygen" as a default style
  • big refactoring regarding the components states (now it is easier to maintain the code)
• Settings
  • new property ui.scale_factor responsible for defining the interface scale factor. Useful if bauh looks
    small on the screen. It can be changed through the settings window (Interface tab):

  

Fixes

• AppImage
  • allowing some apps to be filled with empty category elements
• Web
  • handling unexpected connection errors
  • handling web page fetch errors
  • not able to search applications by their names after being enabled on settings
• UI
  • displaying empty categories
  • not scrolling the table to top after updating its content
  • not calling initial required tasks for a given type after enabling it on settings
  • not updating the type filters if only one type is available after refreshing the table
  • displaying the type filters on the search results when there is only one type available after some actions finish
  • using the sleep function wrongly within the Qt threads (causes random crashes)
  • minor fixes
• Tray
  • update notifications not working on Ubuntu 18.04
• Regressions (from 0.9.5):
  • not displaying the default type icon besides the package when its icon path does not exist (Snap runtimes were rendered without icons)

0.9.5

Features

• new custom action (+) to open the system backups (snapshots). It is just a shortcut to Timeshift.

  

Improvements

• Arch

  • new automatch_providers settings: bauh will automatically choose which provider will be used for a package dependency when both names are equal (enabled by default).

  

• UI

  • not limiting the name filter size
  • rendering package icons with no full paths declared
  • refreshing custom actions (+) after installing/uninstalling/downgrading/upgrading packages
  • minor improvements

• download clients parameters

Fixes

• regressions (from 0.9.4)
  • resetting the main configuration when tray mode is active #118
  • bauh-cli crashing
  • tray mode not publishing update notifications
  • Arch: not checking if pacman-mirrors is available before starting to download repository packages (when multi-threaded download is enabled) #117
• Arch
  • uninstall: not checking if there are other installed providers for the target package
  • not recursively asking for dependencies providers when installing / upgrading / downgrading
  • not displaying "removing" substatus during the upgrade process
• UI
  • table overwrite effect when updating its content

i18n contributions

• Turkish (tr): tulliana

0.9.4

Features

• Ignore updates: now it is possible to ignore updates from software packages through their actions button (+). Supported types: Arch packages, Flatpaks and AppImages

  

  

• Packages with ignored updates have their versions displayed with a brown shade

  

• It is possible to filter all you packages with updates ignored through the new category Updates ignored

  

• Arch

  • supporting multi-threaded download for repository packages (enabled by default)

  

• Settings

  • axel added as an alternative multi-threaded download tool. The download tool can be defined through the new field Multi-threaded download tool on the settings window Advanced tab (check Default for bauh to decide which one to use)

  

Improvements

• Arch

  • faster caching data process during initialization
  • i18n

• AppImage

  • Categories are now translated on the Info window

• UI

  • only centralizing the apps table after the initialization process
  • defining a minimum width and height based on the screen size
  • info window now has a height limit, a lower bar with Back and Close buttons, and is scrollable
  • minor changes

• Downloads

  • retrieving the downloading file sizes asynchronously

Fixes

• Flatpak

  • not displaying application updates on the search results

• Arch

  • crashing while reading the installed packages when the internet is unstable

• initialization dialog hangs when there is no task to wait for #112

• not caching data of installed packages with no signatures and unknown repositories

0.9.3

Features

• new restore action to restore all bauh settings and cache through the 'custom actions' button (+). It is equivalent to the command bauh --reset.

Improvements

• some custom actions not related to installed packages state will not refresh the table after succeeded

Fixes

• Arch

  • "clean cache" operation was not working in some scenarios
  • upgrading progress when conflicting files are detected
  • not detecting some installed "not-signed" repository packages
  • not properly caching data of installed dependencies

• UI

  • some fields in the table are overlapped by others when maximized #107

• upgrade: crashing when there are packages to be displayed on the summary window that cannot upgrade

• settings: crashing when an empty Qt style is detected or defined #104

Recommendations

• Arch-based distro users: clean the bauh's Arch cache after upgrading to this release so it will remap all installed packages during the next initialization. 3 possible ways to do it:

  • type on the command line: rm -rf ~/.cache/bauh/arch/installed (it will reset only the Arch cache)
  • type on the command line: bauh --reset (it will reset all caches and settings)
  • click on the new Restore custom action on the UI (it will reset all caches and settings)

0.9.2

Features

• UI
  • it is possible to view details of some initialization tasks by clicking on their icons

  

  

Improvements

• Backup
  • new type field on settings to specify the Timeshift backup mode: RSYNC or BTRFS

  

• Trim
  • the dialog is now displayed before the upgrading process (but the operation is only executed after a successful upgrade)
• Settings
  • new option to disable the reboot dialog after a successful upgrade (updates.ask_for_reboot)

  

• Arch
  • able to handle upgrade scenarios when a package wants to overwrite files of another installed package

  

  - displaying more upgrade substatus

Fixes

• Arch
  • file not found error while organizing the data of installed packages #101
• Settings
  • crashing when an unknown Qt style is set #69

UI

• icons, buttons and colors changes

• more unnecessary x buttons were removed from dialogs
• "click" cursor set for most "clickable" components
• minor improvements

i18n contributors

• Turkish (tr): tuliana
• Russian (ru): mountain-biker85

Code changes (PullRequest): #103

0.9.1

Features

• Tray
  • displaying a notification when there is a new bauh release
• Arch
  • allowing to uninstall no longer needed packages after a package uninstall #87

Improvements

• Internet availability checking code
• Arch
  • displaying if an AUR package was successfully upgraded on the details output #89
• Settings
  • disk.trim_after_update has changed to disk.trim.after_upgrade and accepts 3 possible values: false (No): disabled, true (Yes): automatically trims, null (Ask): displays a confirmation dialog

Fixes

• Arch
  • not stopping the upgrade process if a transaction error happens
  • search not displaying installed packages that are no longer available on the databases ( e.g: indicator-application )
  • wrong upgrade substatus in some scenarios
  • wrong dialog titles
• AppImage
  • not detecting some updates ( e.g: RPCS3 )

UI

• Changed the main toolbar buttons and custom actions button ('+') styles
• Changed some colors
• Removed the x button from some dialogs

0.9.0

Detailed publication at https://forum.manjaro.org/t/bauh-formerly-known-as-fpakman-a-gui-for-flatpak-and-snap-management/96180/167

Features

• Backup

  • Timeshift integration ( if available on the system ): it can generate snapshots before installing, uninstalling, upgrading...
  • you can enable / disable this feature via the settings file or UI.

• UI

  • new initialization dialog showing tasks that need to be done before use
  • new custom actions button ( displays specific action available for each packaging provider )

• Arch

  • supporting packages from configured repositories ( search, install, upgrade and info. History and downgrade are not supported yet )
  • custom actions ( available through the new custom actions button )
    • synchronize packages database: synchronizes the databases against the configured mirrors
    • refresh mirrors: allows the user to define multiple mirrors locations and sort by the fastest
    • quick system upgrade: it executes a default pacman upgrade ( pacman -Syyu --noconfirm )
    • clean cache: it cleans the pacman cache diretory ( default: /var/cache/pacman/pkg )
  • mirrors refreshing on startup ( disabled by default. Can be enabled on settings -> refresh_mirrors_startup )
  • new settings to enable / disable AUR and repository packages management: aur and repositories
  • uninstall: allowing to remove all transitive dependencies
  • able to handle the installation of dependencies with multiple providers
  • multi-threaded downloads ( using aria2c ) are not supported yet for repository packages

• AppImage

  • Custom actions
    • Install AppImage file: allows to install a external AppImage file
    • Upgrade file: allows to upgrade a manually installed AppImage file

• Web

  • Custom actions
    • Clean installation environment custom action: removes all the installation environment folders ( it does not remove installed apps )

• CLI mode:

  • a beginning for the command line mode (bauh-cli). Only list updates command is available for now ( bauh-cli updates ) #54

• Core

  • allowing to trim the disk after all upgrades are applied ( disabled by default. It can be enabled on settings, Make sure your SSD supports TRIM before enabling this option. )
  • new warning dialog informing when there is a new bauh update / release available

Improvements

• Core

  • root password is asked only once ( can be disabled through the new settings property store_root_password )
  • upgrade logs are now generated at /tmp/bauh/logs/upgrade
  • new upgrade model: now all packages selected to upgrade are handled at once by the underlying gem

• Arch

  • dependency checking algorithm
    • faster for scenarios involving several packages ( taking =~ 95% less time )
    • faster for AUR installations ( taking an average of 23% less time )
  • the AUR compilation optimizations now include setting the device processors to performance mode
  • if the pacman database is locked, a dialog is displayed requesting if the database should be unlocked to proceed with the ongoing action
  • displaying missing repository dependencies sizes
  • dialog design when the package cannot be uninstalled due to required packages
  • removing old cached versions from the disk cache when uninstalling a package ( can be disabled on settings -> clean_cached )
  • database synchronization on startup ( enabled by default. Can be disabled on settings -> sync_databases_startup )
  • single pacman call to install repository dependencies
  • improved conflict checking algorithm
  • overall speed improvements
  • code refactoring

• UI

  • the name filter now delays 2 seconds before being applied
  • upgrades: upgrade order and required dialogs were merged in a single summary dialog
  • displaying the upgrade size ( Flatpak, AppImage and Arch )
  • time to determine the selected packages to upgrade takes less time
  • table update performance
  • tray
    • treated as an application apart and not sharing the memory with the management panel ( first step to reduce its memory usage )
    • sorting types on update notification

Fixes

• table not displaying all updates when the "updates filter" is clicked several times
• installation logs written to the wrong temp directory
• crashes when Python is not able to retrieve the default locale #84
• Arch / AUR:
  • sorting algorithm was providing wrong results for some cases
  • not caching data about packages with no desktop entry files
  • error output when it was not able to optimize the makepkg.conf #84
  • error when building AUR packages with .tar.zst extensions

Settings

• Default
  • pre_dependency_checking dropped ( now is always enabled )
  • sort_packages dropped ( now the gems decide if it makes sense to sort the packages )
  • disk_cache dropped ( now is always enabled )
• Arch / AUR:
  • transitive_checking dropped ( now is always enabled )
  • simple_checking dropped ( now is always disabled )

Params / Environment Variables

• param --show-panel dropped
• env vars BAUH_TRAY and BAUH_LOGS dropped ( the equivalent parameters remain )
• new parameter --settings: opens only the settings panel
• now to open the tray use only the parameter --tray instead of --tray=1
• now to activate the logs use only the parameter --logs instead of --logs=1
• adding mutual exclusion to some parameters (--settings, --tray, --reset)

i18n contributions

• Russian (ru): mountain-biker85

0.8.5

Fixes

• Web
  • not able to inject javascript fixes ( WhatsApp Web not working) #74
  • not informing StartupWMClass on generated desktop entries ( prevents Gnome to link the Favorite shortcut with the app instance #76 )
  • some installed apps were not being displayed as installed in the search results
• UI
  • categories filter being displayed during ongoing actions
  • settings: not matching the default system locale with the available options

Improvements

• AUR
  • preventing the dependencies checking algorithm to add duplicates
• UI
  • error handling when it is not possible to load icon files

i18n additions / fixes

• Russian ( ru )
  • leoneii - PRs: #66, #67, #68
  • mountain-biker85 - PRs: #70, #71, #72
• German ( de )
  • EduardDopler - PRs: #78

0.8.4

Improvements

• UI
  • treating multiple lines on the application's description displayed on the table
• AUR
  • generating the semantic search map on demand instead of storing it in memory
• Russian translations by:
  • leoneii - PRs: #61 #63
  • mountain-biker85 - PRs: #62 #64

Fixes

• Snap
  • not able to launch applications on some distros ( e.g: OpenSuse ) #58
• AUR
  • package name tooltip was displaying only the repository ( table row )
• UI
  • not displaying some priority search results at the top of the table

0.8.3

Improvements

• New update lifecycle:
  • now every package manager must provide all requirements before upgrading all selected packages ( can be disabled through the settings file ~/.config/bauh/config.yml or the UI )
  • now every package manager must provide the best upgrade order for all the selected packages ( can be disabled through the settings file ~/.config/bauh/config.yml or the UI )
• AUR
  • allowing the user to bypass checksum errors when installing / upgrading / downgrading packages
  • improved how missing dependencies are checked when installing a new package ( the old way was not identifying some missing dependencies of anbox-git ). It is possible to use the old algorithm by setting simple_checking to true in ~/.config/bauh/arch.yml. More information at README.
  • checking architecture dependencies (x86_64, i686)
  • architecture dependencies are displayed on the info window as well
  • optimizations to speed up zst packages building
  • showing a warning message when trying to install / update / downgrade a package with the root user
• UI:
  • Settings available as a tray action as well
  • minor improvements
• the temp dir used now has a different name if you launch bauh as the root user to avoid permissioning issues ( /tmp/bauh_root )

Fixes

• AUR:
  • not able to downgrade some packages with multiple equal versions on their release history
• Web:
  • not able to launch applications for the root user
  • not able to upgrade the environment's NodeJS version
• handling internet timeout errors
• minor fixes