1 News (mainly features/major bug fixes)
6 * Profiles support use.force, package.use.force, and package.use.mask files.
8 portage-2.1 (ongoing via pre releases)
11 * FEATURES="confcache" integration; global caching to speed up configure calls,
12 requires dev-util/confcache
13 * elog framework and accompanying modules for logging ebuild warnings, errors
14 and general notices. Collects eerror/ewarn/elog/einfo messages.
15 * New elog function (should replace einfo in many cases)
16 * version syntax enhancements allowing multiple suffixes and a new 'cvs'
17 prefix for denoting "live sources" ebuilds.
18 * config files as directories enabling more flexible settings management.
19 * Addition of an register_die_hook method that allows ebuild/eclasses to
20 register functions to be called for better debugging on errors.
21 * Addition of pre and post user hookable functions for each ebuild phase, accessible
22 via portage bashrc. Example would be pre_src_unpack .
23 * cache refactoring- runtime improvement from 35% -> 65%.
24 * Intelligently handle and display USE_EXPAND-based IUSE variables.
25 * FEATURES="parallel-fetch". Download in parallel to compilation.
26 * Include a "changed or new" USE flag output when --verbose isn't specified.
27 * Support for splitting out debug information into separate files in
29 * exec subsystem refactoring (now with less bugs!)
30 * Added sha256 and rmd160 hashes for digests/manifests
31 * Make --emptytree only apply to ${ROOT} rather than always including /.
32 * Allow packages to be upgraded that are only depended on via a
33 "|| ( =cat/pkg-1* =cat/pkg-2* )" construct.
34 * Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR.
35 * Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail
36 access to files not listed in SRC_URI.
37 * Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade.
38 * Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class.
39 * Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations.
40 * Tests show that file locking is now more reliable.
41 * A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh.
42 * New rsync option handling by using a generic PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS variable
43 * Manifest2 support that will allow digest-* files to be eliminated from the tree.