Debian Sid/Ubuntu 22.04

Select the nala_all package

Debian Bullseye/Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04

Select the nala-legacy package for you architecture

[ Changes ]

• Add -n --names, -i --installed, -u --upgradable, -v --virtual to the search command
• Add list command which shares all switches with the search command except for -n, \--names and -A, --all-arches
• Perf: Replace fetch ping subprocesses with httpx to grab Release file this is a more meaningful metric than just pure latency
• Add default interactive menu for fetch. The old style can be accessed by using --auto
• Add --purge switch to purge any package that would be removed
• Add --lists and --fetch to clean command. This will remove the package lists from update and the sources from fetch respectively
• Replace argparser with typer
• Remove a lot of bloated dpkg switches and add -o --option
• Perf: Optimize the search command so it's a little faster. In my tests search times took half as long
• Remove options to update the cache from show, list and search
• Raise max connections per mirror to 3. This helps when downloading a lot of small files.
• Add lock file so you can't run two instances of nala where packages will be manipulated
• Add purged section to the history file to keep track of when a transaction is a purge vs remove
• Add User-Installed section to the history file to keep track of packages explicitly installed with nala. This will not add their dependencies into the list, only what was specified to be installed. Packages installed with apt will not make it into this list, but packages removed with apt will be removed the next time nala writes the history file
• Add history --installed to view these packages. And --nala-installed for the list and search commands
• Add --assume-no switch to complement --assume-yes
• Improve the column formatting during the install summary
• Use typer dynamic completion files. For zsh and fish users this will greatly improve your experience
• Perf: remove jsbeautifier and use no whitespace json for history. The performance improvements from this are rather large.
• Add --config switch to autoremove and autopurge which will additionally purge any packages in the rc state. autoremove requires the --purge switch for this to work
• Add initial translations for Bengali, Portuguese Brazil, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Swedish. These are beta and could contain bugs or are not yet complete

[ Bug Fixes ]

• Exception due to compatibility with older versions of history.json
• The number of connections to mirrors not actually being limited
• Sometimes not downloading a package properly. This was a rare bug
• Not being able to use SOCKS proxy with nala. This requires the python3-socksio package, which is now a Recommends
• Not being able to purge packages that have been removed but have config files that remain on the system. AKA rc state
• dpkg progress bar not always hitting 100% on completion
• Exception when piping input into nala

-- Blake Lee <blake@volian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:29:32 -0400