Release of the package management tool (Advanced Package Tool), developed by the Debian project. Apart from Debian and its derivatives, Apt is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. A new release will be available soon. into the Debian Unstable branch and the package repository .
From notable mentions include:
- New commands ‘apt satisfy’ and ‘apt-get satisfy’ have been added, allowing the installation of packages needed to satisfy dependencies specified in the string passed as an argument. You can list multiple strings and specify ‘Conflicts:’ blocks to exclude dependencies. For example, ‘apt-get satisfy “foo” “Conflicts: bar” “baz (>> 1.0) | bar (= 2.0), moo”’;
- Commands merge-translations and bump-abi have been added;
- The requirement for the C++ standard version has been raised to C++14;
- Support for specifying multiple hashes for a single file has been added to apt-helper;
- The libapt-inst library has been merged with libapt-pkg;
- Changes have been made to the ABI, and the version of libapt-pkg.so has been raised to 5.90;
- Clearing of deprecated flags has been carried out, and various function prototypes have been merged.
Source: opennet.ru
