Changelog

This is a condensed changelog (starting with version 0.8.5) for portato. The complete one can be found in the sources.

Note: Releases with a forth version number (e.g. 0.9.0.2) are bugfix releasse and therefore not mentioned extra. From 0.10 onwards, the third part is omitted. This means, that now everything with a third number is a bugfix release.

• 0.14.1
• 0.14
• 0.13
• 0.12
• 0.11
• 0.10
• 0.9.0
• 0.8.6.2
• 0.8.6
• 0.8.5

» 0.14.1

• CHANGE: handle portage-2.1.8.* and above also as portage-2.2
• FIX: fix several bugs
• FIX: workaround for bug #557715
• FIX: honor portage-API changes

» 0.14

• NEW: allow eix as backend DB
• NEW: show the list of world packages
• NEW: allow to search descriptions
• NEW: add an icon to signal the 'best' version for a package
• CHANGE: use an internal messagequeue module instead of external shm
• FIX: bugmail sending
• I18N: Italian translation - thanks to Ponsi
• I18N: French translation - thanks to Clément 'moonpyk' Bourgeois

» 0.13

• NEW: allow lines w/o keyword in package.keywords
• NEW: added support for ktsuss as su-frontend
• NEW: add man-page
• NEW: honor EAPI-masking
• NEW: overhaul plugin system: now allow plugins to add widgets
• CHANGE: remove the deprecated -L cmdline option: use -F instead
• CHANGE: move some UI-Elements to extra plugins
• CHANGE: do not allow ":" to be an assignment operator in config files anymore
• I18N: pt_BR translation - thanks to Alberto Federman Neto

Follow-up release: 0.13.1

» 0.12

• NEW: can use an SQLite DB as internal database
• NEW: sort by useflags in dependency list
• NEW: make uselist and deplist lazy - i.e. load only if needed
• NEW: remembers the height and width of the preference window
• NEW: check prerequisites before starting
• NEW: add color buttons to the preferences, so the colors can be changed
• I18N: added Spanish translation (thx to Daniel Halens)
• CHANGE: reorganize preferences
• CHANGE: improvements in session handling
• CHANGE: move from libglade to GtkBuilder
• FIX: fixed searching
• FIX: bugs fixed: #44, #41, #15, #47 and several others

Follow-up release: 0.12.1

» 0.11

• NEW: allowed collapsed categories -- similar to porthole
• NEW: make max. title length of the console changeable by the user
• NEW: added shortcut for "Reload Portage"
• NEW allow to send bug report directly per mail
• NEW: allowed to dismiss the warning dialogs for keywords/useflags
• NEW: complete new plugin system rewrite
• NEW: portage-2.2 support
• NEW: added new configuration possibilites: colors; max num of scrollback lines
• NEW: support for multiple emerge-jobs (see: parallel builds for portage-2.2)
• CHANGE: move --oneshot from menu to button
• CHANGE: now only use external "shm" package
• FIX: lots of bugs :)

Follow-up release: 0.11.1

» 0.10

• NEW: interactive search - get results while typing
• NEW: the list of useflags is also displayed in the "general" tab
• NEW: dependency-tab
• NEW: show slots in the version list
• NEW: to get all important version information if an error occurred, they are now displayed right below the error message :)
• NEW: also show use flag descriptions of packages in overlays (added since the beta)
• I18N: turkish translation :)
• FIX: fixed bugs, which made the window increase in version 0.9.0.x
• FIX: lots of other bugs ;)
• REGRESSION: GTK is the only supported frontend now

» 0.9.0

• added view for "installed only"
• removed "--ebuild" mode
• added log, ebuild, files, and changelog as tabs
• saved preferences (aka sessions)
• added scrollbars to the update window
• handle new "use defaults" correctly
• allowed the permanent change of a plugin status
• added "ALL" category
• new design and handling
• allowed interactive emerges
• only remove already emerged packages from queue
• improved "update world"

Follow-up releases: 0.9.0.1, 0.9.0.2

» 0.8.6.2

• changed the pipe version and use shm instead (fixes issues with kdesu)

» 0.8.6

• "porting" to python-2.5
• adding support for the --with-bdeps=y option in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
• fix update world
• added support for pygtksourceview-2
• adding support for the catapult backend
• adding "Save As" button for the exception dialog
• some tooltips and new button labels

Follow-up releases: 0.8.6.1

» 0.8.5

• added an uncaught exception dialog
• i18n
• new threading model for the emerge process
• minor enhancements
• added splash screen
• added notifies
• added listener / launch gksu/kdesu by ourselves
• now showing differences between "installed" and "enabled" useflags
• improved terminal