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0.9.<> Release

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We are proud to release Elektra 0.9.<>.

What is Elektra?

Elektra serves as a universal and secure framework to access configuration settings in a global, hierarchical key database. For more information, visit https://libelektra.org.

You can also read the news on our website

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Plugins

The following section lists news about the modules we updated in this release.

Augeas

  • Improved error message for augeas to show lensPath. (Michael Zronek)

KConfig

  • We implemented the methods that save a KeySet into a file with the KConfig Ini format. (Dardan Haxhimustafa)

SWIG

  • Configure line (-DBINDINGS="..") for SWIG based bindings have been changed from swig_foo to foo. (Manuel Mausz)

SWIG/python2

  • Removed. (Manuel Mausz)

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Libraries

The text below summarizes updates to the C (and C++)-based libraries of Elektra.

Compatibility

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Core

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Bindings

Bindings allow you to utilize Elektra using various programming languages. This section keeps you up to date with the multi-language support provided by Elektra.

python2

  • Removed. (Manuel Mausz)

Rust

  • Published elektra and elektra-sys versions 0.9.1 to crates.io. (Philipp Gackstatter)

Tools

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Scripts

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Documentation

Tests

  • We now use Google Test 1.10 to test Elektra. (René Schwaiger)
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Build

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Docker

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Infrastructure

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Jenkins

  • Fixed coveralls coverage report. (Mihael Pranjić)
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Travis

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Website

The website is generated from the repository, so all information about plugins, bindings and tools are always up to date. Furthermore, we changed:

  • Re-enable website auto-deployment. (Mihael Pranjić)
  • Update docker images for website frontend and backend to debian buster. Update dependencies to newer versions. (Mihael Pranjić)
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Outlook

We are currently working on following topics:

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Statistics

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Join the Initiative!

We welcome new contributors! Read here about how to get started.

As first step, you could give us feedback about these release notes. Contact us via our issue tracker.

Get the Release!

You can download the release from here or GitHub

The hashsums are:

<<scripts/generate-hashsums elektra-0.9.<<VERSION>>.tar.gz>>

The release tarball is also available signed by Markus Raab using GnuPG from here or on GitHub

Already built API-Docu can be found here or on GitHub.

Stay tuned!

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If you also want to participate, or for any questions and comments please contact us via our issue tracker on GitHub.

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For more information, see https://libelektra.org

Best regards, Elektra Initiative