bearhub/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

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

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[0.8.5] - 2020-03-06

Fixes

• Web
  • not able to inject javascript fixes ( WhatsApp Web not working) #74

Improvements

• AUR
  • preventing the dependencies checking algorithm to add duplicates

i18n

• Russian ( ru ):
  • leoneii - PRs: #66, #67, #68
  • mountain-biker85 - PRs: #70, #71, #72, #73

[0.8.4] - 2020-02-21

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] - 2020-02-13

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

[0.8.2] - 2020-01-31

Features

• New Settings panel ( displayed when the lower Settings button is clicked ). It allows to change all settings.

Improvements

• Flatpak
  • configuration file ( flatpak.yml ) will be created during the initialization ( on 0.8.1 it would only be created during the first app installation )
• AUR
  • the custom makepkg.conf generated at ~/.config/bauh/arch will enable ccache if available on the system
  • downgrading time reduced due to the fix described in Fixes
  • package databases synchronization once a day ( or every device reboot ) before the first package installation / upgrade / downgrade. This behavior can be disabled on ~/.config/arch.yml / or the new settings panel

  sync_databases: true  # enabled by default
  

• Configuration ( ~/.config/bauh/config.yml )
  • new property hdpi allowing to disable HDPI improvements

  ui:
      hdpi: true # enabled by default
  

  • new property auto_scale activates Qt auto screen scale factor ( QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR ). It fixes scaling issues for some desktop environments ( like Gnome ) #1

     ui:
        auto_scale: false  # disabled by default
    

Fixes

• AUR
  • not treating makedepends as a list during dependency checking ( anbox-git installation was crashing )
  • not considering the package name itself as provided during dependency checking ( anbox-git installation was crashing )
  • not pre-downloading some source files ( e.g: from anbox-image )
  • not able to install packages based on other packages ( package name != package base ). e.g: anbox-modules-dkms-git > anbox-git
  • downgrade: pre-downloading sources from the latest version instead of the older
• Flatpak
  • downgrade: displaying "No Internet connection" when an error happens during commits reading
  • Flatpak < 1.5: an exception happens when trying to retrieve the information from partials
• UI:
  • About window icons scaling
  • Toolbar buttons get hidden #5
  • not displaying icons retrieved from a HTTP redirect
  • minor bug fixes

UI

• Style selector and Application types menu action moved to the new Settings panel
• About menu action split from the Settings menu as a new button
• The file chooser component now has a clean button alongside

[0.8.1] 2020-01-14

Features

• Flatpak
  • allow the user to choose the application installation level: user or system #47
  • able to deal with user and system applications / runtimes #47
  • able to list partial updates for Flatpak >= 1.4
  • new configuration file located at ~/.config/bauh/flatpak.yml ( it allows to define a default installation level )

Improvements

• All icons are now SVG files
• HDPI support improvements ( by octopusSD )
• Flatpak
  • the application name tooltip now displays the installation level. e.g: gedit ( system )
  • info window displaying the installation level
  • "remote not set" warning dropped in favor of the new behavior: automatically adds Flathub as the default remote at the user level
• Snap
  • snapd checking routine refactored
• Web
  • not using HTTP sessions anymore to perform the searches. It seems to avoid URLs not being found after an internet drop event
  • supporting JPEG images as custom icons
• UI
  • widgets visibility settings: the main widgets now should always be visible ( e.g: toolbar buttons )
  • scaling

Fixes

• missing categories i18n #48
• Flatpak:
  • updating application dependencies during updating and downgrading
• Web:
  • not handling HTTP connection issues
• not passing the Home path as a String for subprocesses ( an exception happens for Python 3.5 )
• UI:
  • not verifying if an icon path is a file
  • minor fixes

UI

• Default Type icon removed from the Type filter to make the design more consistent

[0.8.0] 2019-12-24

Features

• Native Web applications support:
  • if an URL is typed on the search bar, a native web application result will be displayed on the table.
  • bauh relies on NodeJS, Electron and nativefier to install the Web applications, but there is no need to have them installed on your system. Bauh will create its own installation environment with these technologies in ~/.local/share/bauh/web/env.
  • suggestions are retrieved from suggestions.txt
  • requires only python-beautifulsoup4 and python-lxml to be enabled
• Suggestions button: it shows some application suggestions

Improvements

• configuration file ~/.config/bauh/config.json renamed to ~/.config/bauh/config.yml
• some parameters and environment variables were moved to the configuration file ( ~/.config/bauh/config.yml )

disk_cache:  # old '--disk_cache'
  enabled: true
download:
  icons: true # old '--download-icons'
  multithreaded: true  # old '--download-mthread'
gems: null 
locale: null  # old '--locale'
memory_cache:
  data_expiration: 3600 # old '--cache-exp'
  icon_expiration: 300  # old '--icon-exp'
suggestions:
  by_type: 10  # new -> defines the max number of suggestions by package type
  enabled: true  # old '--sugs'
system:
  notifications: true  # old '--system-notifications'
  single_dependency_checking: false  # old '---check-packaging-once'
ui:
  style: null  
  table:
    max_displayed: 50  # old '--max-displayed'
  tray:
    default_icon: null  # old environment variable 'BAUH_TRAY_DEFAULT_ICON_PATH'
    updates_icon: null  # old environment variable 'BAUH_TRAY_UPDATES_ICON_PATH'
updates:
  check_interval: 30  # old '--check-interval'

• The default update checking interval is now 30 seconds

• New tray icons loading priority:

  1. Icon paths defined in ~/.config/bauh/config.yml
  2. Icons from the system with the following names: bauh_tray_default and bauh_tray_updates
  3. Own packaged icons

• Now bauh considers the default system icon for the notifications and panel. If there is none, then it will use its own.

• AppImage:

  • cleaning the downloaded database files when --reset is passed as parameter
  • environment variables BAUH_APPIMAGE_DB_UPDATER and BAUH_APPIMAGE_DB_UPDATER_TIME dropped in favor of the new configuration file located at ~/.config/bauh/appimage.yml
  • suggestions are now retrieved from suggestions.txt

• AUR:

  • The AUR indexer daemon is not running every 20 minutes anymore. It will only run during the boot, and will generate the optimized index at /tmp/bauh/arch/aur.txt. This new behavior does not harm the current experience, and reduces memory usage. More information about this behavior in README.
  • Environment variable BAUH_ARCH_AUR_INDEX_UPDATER dropped in favor of the behavior described above.
  • Environment variables BAUH_ARCH_OPTIMIZE and BAUH_ARCH_CHECK_SUBDEPS dropped in favor of the new configuration file located at ~/.config/bauh/arch.yml
  • suggestions are now retrieved from suggestions.txt

• Flatpak:

  • suggestions are now retrieved from suggestions.txt

• Snap:

  • suggestions are now retrieved from suggestions.txt

• Minor memory improvements

• Minor UI improvements

Fixes

• AUR:
  • an exception happens when retrieving matches from the cached AUR index
  • not using the optimized compilation settings if the custom makepkg file is not found during the installation process
• minor fixes

[0.7.5] 2019-12-20

Fixes

• Fix missing i18n keys when there are no mapped translations for the system's default locale #40
• Tray icon is not updating its status after an application is uninstalled

[0.7.4] 2019-12-09

Improvements

• AUR
  • retrieving and displaying all transitive required dependencies ( it can be disabled via the new environment variable BAUH_ARCH_CHECK_SUBDEPS=0 )
  • displaying makedepends and checkdepends in the info window
  • Some AUR labels have been changed to not confuse the user
• --clean param renamed to --reset
• Minor UI improvements

Fixes

• AUR
  • not finding some dependencies declared as files instead of the package names (e.g: dolphin-emu-git )
  • replaces the term mirror by repository

[0.7.3] 2019-11-29

Improvements

• Not breaking the application when a i18n (translation) key was not found
• Adding all english (en) i18n keys to help people with the application translation
• AppImage
  • AppImage updater daemon replaced by a default Python thread to reduce memory usage
• AUR
  • The optimized makepkg.conf file is now generated at ~/.config/bauh/arch/makepkg.conf and passed as a parameter during package builds to not provoke the auto-merge of /etc/makepkg.conf and the old generated ~/.makepkg.conf. (P.S: if your ~/.makepkg.conf was generated by bauh, consider deleting it as it will be useless for bauh now and may impact your other Arch compilation tools). Behavior discussed in #30.
  • Removing an unnecessary prepare step executed during dependency checking reducing the packages installation time. Also this step was preventing some packages to install due to its repeated execution ( e.g: xdman )
  • Now AUR packages are enabled by default, but a warning is displayed in the installation dialog
  • New package suggestions
• Caching Snap and Flatpak suggestions #23
• i18n:
  • Catalan contributions by fitojb
  • German contributions by JonasLoos
  • Italian contributions by albanobattistella
• minor UI improvements

Features

• New command line argument to clean the configuration and cache files: --clean

Fixes

• Flatpak
  • Ignoring no related updates ( there are some scenarios the updates are not listed due to warnings / suggestions related to some specific runtimes if the param --no-related is not informed )

UI

• AUR
  • Textual dependencies replaced by read-only checkboxes on Required Dependencies confirmation dialog
  • Optional Dependencies installation dialog now has a type icon beside the dependency name

[0.7.2] 2019-11-01

Improvements

• Snap
  • not showing License in the info window if it defined as unset
• Flatpak:
  • "Remotes not set" warning informing to the user that Flatpak support can be disabled
• showing suggestions if the user changes the application types available and there are no applications installed
• i18n: spanish contributions by fitojb
• minor labels improvements

UI

• Displaying a verified green icon next to a verified publisher's name

Fixes

• Snap
  • The application crashes due to Snap API checking when snap is not installed ( introduced in 0.7.1 )

[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