Release v0.7.0

Release v0.7.0

What's New

📰 Extended News Mode

Pacsea now includes a comprehensive News Mode with advanced features:

News Sources:

• Arch Linux News: Latest announcements and updates from archlinux.org
• Security Advisories: Security alerts with severity indicators and affected packages
• Package Updates: Track version changes for your installed packages with change detection
• AUR Comments: Recent community discussions and feedback

Smart Features:

• Change Detection: Automatically detects package changes (version, maintainer, dependencies)
• Offline Support: Caches package data to disk for offline access and faster loading
• Background Processing: Failed requests are automatically retried in the background
• Streaming Updates: After initial 50 items, additional news items load automatically
• AUR Balance: Ensures AUR packages are always represented alongside official packages

User Experience:

• Switch to News mode or set app_start_mode = news in settings to start in News mode
• Filter by type (Arch news, advisories, updates, comments)
• Sort by date, title, severity, or unread status (use Shift+Tab to cycle through sort modes)
• Mark items as read/unread with r key
• Bookmark important items for quick access
• Persistent read/unread tracking across sessions

⚡ Performance & Reliability Improvements

• Smart error handling: Automatically handles repeated failures gracefully without blocking your workflow
• Rate limiting: Prevents server blocking with intelligent request management
• Smart caching: Multi-layer caching system reduces bandwidth and speeds up loading
  • Fast in-memory cache for instant access
  • Persistent disk cache for offline access
• Efficient updates: Only downloads changed data to minimize bandwidth usage
• Background retries: Failed requests are automatically retried in the background
• Better compatibility: Improved connection handling for better reliability

🔧 Code Quality Improvements

• Better organization: Code has been reorganized for improved maintainability
• Enhanced documentation: Improved code documentation throughout
• Security scanning: Added automated security checks
• Better logging: Improved visibility of important operational messages

🎨 UI Improvements

• Enhanced footer: Multi-line keybinds display for better readability
• Loading indicators: Visual feedback during data fetching with informative messages
• Improved filters: Better filter chips with clickable areas
• Extended keybinds: Shift+char keybind support across all panes and modes
• Better alignment: Fixed text wrapping issues in updates window

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed updates window text alignment when package names/versions wrap to multiple lines
• Fixed options menu key bindings to match display order in Package and News modes
• Fixed installed_packages.txt export to respect installed_packages_mode setting
• Fixed alert title showing "Connection issue" instead of "Configuration Directories" for config directory messages
• Fixed Shift+Tab keybind to work in News mode (previously only worked in Package mode)
• Fixed scroll position issues
• Improved AUR comment date filtering (excludes invalid dates)
• Enhanced date parsing to handle various date formats correctly
• Fixed package date fetching for better reliability
• Improved error detection and handling

🌍 Internationalization

• Improved config directory alert detection for all languages
• Added translations for config directory alerts in English, German, and Hungarian
• Improved loading messages with full translation support

Technical Details

This release includes significant improvements to code organization, performance, and reliability.

Configuration

New settings available:

• app_start_mode: Set to "news" to start in News mode (default: "package")
• news_filter_*: Toggle filters for Arch news, advisories, updates, AUR updates/comments
• news_max_age_days: Maximum age filter for news items (default: unlimited)

Installation

Update to v0.7.0:

# 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

Full Changelog

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.7.0