Release v0.5.3

What's New

💬 AUR Comments Viewer

View community comments for AUR packages directly in Pacsea! Press CTRL+T or click "Show comments" to toggle. Features markdown support, clickable URLs, and auto-updates when navigating packages.

🏷️ AUR Package Status Markings

AUR packages now show status indicators:

• [OOD] - Out-of-date packages
• [ORPHAN] - Orphaned packages (no maintainer)

📱 Collapsed Menu

Automatically appears when the window is too narrow, providing access to all menu options in a compact layout.

⬇️ Package Downgrade

Fixed support for downgrading installed packages using the downgrade tool. Available in installed-only mode.

🔒 Enhanced Security Scanning

• Enhanced aur-sleuth (LLM-based audit tool) for the security scanning workflow
• Runs in a separate terminal window with setup wizard in Optional Deps modal

🔄 Preflight Improvements

• Faster tab switching with cached dependency reports for remove operations
• Better warnings for meta-packages and dependency conflicts
• Improved service impact detection

📦 Updates Modal

• Press Enter to open Preflight for detailed review before installing updates
• Auto-refreshes after installation with real-time progress display

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed preflight tabs not resolving when opening packages directly from results
• Fixed Artix filter menu expanding in tight spaces

🌍 Translations

• Updated Hungarian translations
• Added translations for new features

Contributors

• @summoner001
• @Max-Guenther
• @Firstp1ck

Installation

Update to v0.5.3:

# For stable release
paru -S pacsea-bin   # or: yay -S pacsea-bin

# For latest from git
paru -S pacsea-git   # or: yay -S pacsea-git

Technical Details

Code Improvements

• AUR comments viewer with HTML parsing and markdown rendering
• AUR status markings (out-of-date, orphaned) tracking
• Collapsed menu with automatic visibility
• Preflight caching for remove operations
• Refactored update commands to follow ArchWiki guidelines
• Removed package database refresh functionality
• Enhanced configuration reload and error handling
• Added module-level documentation
• Code cleanup and refactoring

Dependencies

• Added scraper 0.20 (HTML parsing)
• Added chrono 0.4 (date/time)
• Updated rpassword 7.4.0, unicode-width 0.2.0

Pull Requests

• #69 - AUR markings by @Firstp1ck
• #70 - AUR comments viewer by @Firstp1ck
• #61 - Updates modal preflight integration by @Max-Guenther
• #67 - Preflight remove packages fixes by @Firstp1ck
• #62 - Commandline update fixes by @Firstp1ck
• #73 - Dropdown vanish fixes by @Firstp1ck
• #56, #59, #65, #68, #71, #74 - Translation updates by @summoner001

Full Changelog

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.5.3