0.6.3

Fixes

• AUR update check for some scenarios
• table not showing some update versions due to a strange Python String comparison behavior ( e.g: the string version "0.1.90" is being handled as higher than "0.1.120" )

0.6.2

Improvements

• Update notifications showing the number of updates by type as well ( if they are from more than one packaging type )
• Snap:
  • Installed info field split into version and size
• AUR:
  • Installed files available in the Info window
  • Improving Arch distro checking

Fixes

• Update-check daemon not showing notifications
• Not retrieving the system default locale to translate the application texts
• Not updating translations when the default locale is different from 'en'
• Installed button available after a recent installation if a new search is done
• Flatpak:
  • error when retrieving information ( Flatpak 1.0.X )
• Snap:
  • apps with commands different from their names do not launch
• AUR:
  • not ignoring downgrade warnings for different locales

0.6.1

Improvements

• Better warning presentation when there are several messages
• Better AUR update check handling
• Show button available for all information fields

Fixes

• Error when retrieving suggestions
• snapd health check when snapd.service is available
• AUR: not showing all optional dependencies ( Info )

0.6.0

Features

• Supporting AUR packages ( see below )
• Now it is possible to enable / disable the packaging technologies via graphical interface using the Application types action in the lower Settings button
• Environment variables / parameters BAUH_FLATPAK (--flatpak) and BAUH_SNAP (--snap) removed in favor of the feature above
• Qt style / theme combo selector ( environment variable / parameter BAUH_THEME (--theme) removed )
• New Launch button: can launch application packages
• New Installed button: quickly retrieves the installed packages without a full refresh ( available after a search )
• Publisher / maintainer column in the packages table
• Extra actions button located in right lower corner
• Package "Name" filter field ( above the packages table )
• Showing the number of packages being shown by the total found in the right lower corner
• Show button for large fields in the Info window

Improvements

• Reading installed Snaps now takes around 95% less time
• Reading Snap suggestions now takes around 75% less time
• Reading installed Flatpaks now takes around 45% less time
• "snap" and "snapd" installation check response time reduced
• Refreshing only the associated package type after a successful operation (uninstall, downgrade, ...) ( installation has a different treatment. See below )
• Only the installed package is displayed after a successful installation
• Progress bar status can now be controlled by the software manager (gem) while an operation is being executed
• Flatpak: showing runtime branches as versions when they are not available
• better internet offline handling
• installation logs are saved at /tmp/bauh/logs/install
• Environment variable / parameter BAUH_UPDATE_NOTIFICATION renamed to BAUH_SYSTEM_NOTIFICATIONS and now works for any system notification
• Environment variable / parameter BAUH_DOWNLOAD_MULTITHREAD: if source files should be downloaded using multi-threads (not supported by all gems).
• Environment variables / parameter BAUH_MAX_DISPLAYED: controls the maximum number of displayed apps ( default to 50 )
• Environment variables / parameter BAUH_LOGS: activates console logging.
• small UI improvements

UI Changes

• Upgrade selected and Refresh buttons now have text labels and new colors
• Updates warning icon removed
• Progress bar height reduced
• Packaging type checkbox filters replaced by a combo box (single select)
• Search bar resized

Fixes

• flatpak: cached app current version
• flatpak: update notification for runtimes with the same name
• flatpak: some warnings are treated as errors after downgrading
• disk loader not filling all requested cached data from the disk
• Ubuntu root password check
• Ubuntu 19.04 pip3 install issue

AUR support (arch gem):

• Search, install, uninstall, downgrade, retrieve history and launch packages
• Faster source files downloads improving installation speed ( see README.md for more information )
• Automatically improves package compilations ( see README.md for more information )

Code

• Code was internally modularized as: api (conceptual classes used to create custom software managers or gems), gems (software managers), commons (common classes shared among the view and gems), view (UI code)
• api allows custom operations so the gems can provide actions that the current GUI does not support (Snap "refresh" was refactored as a custom operation)

Comments

• the application settings are stored in ~/.config/bauh/config.json

0.5.2

Features

• New environment variable / parameter to set a custom QT theme for the application: BAUH_THEME (--theme)

Fixes

• wrong management panel resizing for some scenarios
• bad application theme when fusion or breeze are not set as default QT theme / style

0.5.1

Improvements:

• suggestions are now retrieved asynchronously taking 45% less time.
• search response takes an average of 20% less time ( reaching 35% for several results )
• app boot takes 98% less time when snapd is installed, but disabled
• BAUH_TRAY (--tray) is not enabled by default (0).

Fixes

• not showing correctly the latest flatpak app versions when bringing the search results
• flatpak client dependency