bearhub/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[0.7.2]

Fixes:

- The application crashes due to Snap API checking when snap is not installed

[0.7.1] 2019-10-25

Features

• Snap:
  • if the stable channel is not available while an application is being installed, a popup is displayed allowing the user to choose a different one ( e.g: dbeaver-ce )

Improvements

• 3 password attempts for root authentication
• not changing the table applied filters after a uninstall
• cleaning the progress bar substatus after each upgrade
• sorted categories
• AppImage:
  • showing an error popup when AppImageLauncher messes up with an application installation
• Flatpak:
  • Runtimes now are categorized as "runtime"
  • Formatting the API categories to the same format provided by the other packaging technologies
• AUR:
  • showing a "user-friendly" popup when there are integrity issues with the source-files of a building package
  • not waiting for the categories file to be retrieved from the cloud during application boot ( reduces boot time )
  • caching cloud categories to the disk so they can be used in scenarios when it is not possible to retrieve them ( e.g: internet is off )
  • mapping known search key words to the specific package name ( e.g:"google chrome" will become "google-chrome" )
• Snap:
  • not waiting for the categories file to be retrieved from the cloud during application boot ( reduces boot time )
  • caching cloud categories to the disk so they can be used in scenarios when it is not possible to retrieve them ( e.g: internet is off )
  • showing a warning popup when the Snap API is out
  • Snaps not treated as applications with be categorized as "runtime" at least
• minor thread improvements

UI

• Screenshots panel:
  • "downloading" label replaced by a progress bar

Fixes

• application not initializing when there is no internet connection
• not loading application icons after some filters are applied to the table results
• not reloading the available categories after asynchronous data is fetched
• not keeping the update toggle-button state after a filter is applied
• AUR:
  • update-checking for some scenarios
  • not respecting ignorepkg settings in pacman.conf
  • not able to handle missing dependencies with symbols ( e.g: libpng++ )
  • not able to work with .xpm icons
  • not mapping categories to the search results

[0.7.0] 2019-10-18

Features

• AppImage support ( see below )
• Screenshots button and panel
• Categories filter

Improvements

• Flatpak:
  • History panel now shows formatted dates
  • Info available for not installed applications
• Snap:
  • Improved how the the application verification is done ( if a given Snap is an application )
• AUR:
  • Optional dependencies are not checked by default in their installation popup.
• History panel can now me maximized, minimized and allows to copy column content.
• It is possible to use custom tray icons via the environment variables: BAUH_TRAY_DEFAULT_ICON_PATH and BAUH_TRAY_UPDATES_ICON_PATH ( displayed when there are updates )
• Minor UI improvements

Fixes

• cache thread lock that was eventually hanging the application
• Flatpak:
  • Runtimes update-checking for version 1.5.X
• Snap:
  • retrieving installed applications information for Ubuntu based distros
• Application icon replaced by the type icon in the Info, History and Screenshots panels due to unexpected Qt crashes
• minor UI fixes

AppImage support

• Search, install, uninstall, downgrade, launch and retrieve the applications history
• Supported sources: AppImageHub ( applications with no releases published to GitHub are currently not available )
• Adds desktop entries ( menu shortcuts ) for the installed applications ( ~/.local/share/applications)

[0.6.4] 2019-10-13

Fixes

• Flatpak update-checking for version 1.5.X

[0.6.3] 2019-10-11

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] 2019-10-02

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] 2019-09-26

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] 2019-09-25

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] 2019-09-06

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] - 2019-08-12

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