v7.2.0

Note

7.2.0 is available on 🐍 PyPI and 🐙 GitHub.

• [mpm] Config-defined managers gain multi-binary support: a per-operation cli key runs an operation through a sibling binary, and version_cli probes an alternate binary for tool suites exposing no version flag.
• [mpm] Config-defined managers gain privilege support: sudo = true marks an operation privileged, the new default_sudo field sets the manager-wide default, and both honor the global --sudo/--no-sudo policy.
• [mpm] Manager definitions gain Brewfile export mappings: the new definition-only brewfile_entry_type and brewfile_skip_warning fields mirror the class attributes consumed by mpm dump --brewfile.
• [mpm] Relax and harden the definition schema: an installed query may capture no version, a search may omit the {query} placeholder and rely on client-side refiltering, and unrecognized {placeholder} tokens in operation args are rejected at load time.
• [apt-cyg] Add apt-cyg (Cygwin) package manager with installed, search, install, remove and sync support on Windows/Cygwin; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [cave] Add cave (Exherbo's Paludis client) with installed, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [chromebrew] Add Chromebrew (crew) package manager with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove and sync support on ChromeOS; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [fink] Add Fink package manager with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support on macOS; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [pkcon] Add PackageKit's console client (pkcon) with installed, outdated, search, install, upgrade, remove and sync support on Linux. Requires PackageKit >=0.7.0.
• [pkg-tools] Add OpenBSD's pkg tools (pkg_add/pkg_info/pkg_delete) with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [pkgin] Add pkgin (NetBSD pkgsrc) package manager with installed, outdated, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [slapt-get] Add slapt-get (Slackware) package manager with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [sorcery] Add Sorcery (Source Mage GNU/Linux) package manager with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [sun-tools] Add Solaris' SVR4 package tools (pkginfo/pkgrm) with installed and remove support: SVR4 packages come from local media, so there is no repository to search, install from or upgrade against.
• [swupd] Add Clear Linux's swupd with installed, search, install, upgrade --all, remove and cleanup support, operating on bundles; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [tazpkg] Add TazPkg (SliTaz GNU/Linux) package manager with installed, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support.
• [tlmgr] Add TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) with installed, outdated, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support, cross-platform; a bundled configuration-defined manager. Requires TeX Live >=2018.
• [urpmi] Add urpmi (Mageia and the Mandriva lineage) with installed, outdated, search, install, upgrade, remove, sync and cleanup support; a bundled configuration-defined manager.
• [mpm] mpm is now a strict superset of pacaptr, pacapt, sysget and whohas: every package manager those tools support is now wrapped.
• [mpm] Convert the cargo and opkg managers from Python classes to bundled configuration definitions; the optional description column of their search results is no longer populated.
• [mpm] Convert the cpan, steamcmd, topgrade, vscode and vscodium managers from Python classes to bundled configuration definitions, with no functional change.
• [gh-ext] Report installed extensions by their owner/repo slug instead of the bare extension name, so the ids returned by mpm installed and mpm backup feed back into install, remove, upgrade and restore.
• [mpm] Require click-extra 8.3 and extra-platforms 13.1 or newer.
• [mpm] Rename the stats configuration key to summary, matching the --summary option; add sudo, jobs and network to the typed configuration schema; stop advertising a flat 500 default for timeout, which is resolved per operation.
• [mpm] Render the configuration reference, the CLI reference and the benchmark's manager-support table live at documentation build time, through click-extra's click:config, click:tree and python:render directives; drop sphinx-click.
• [mpm] Fix benchmark data: merge the duplicate OpenBSD (pkg-mgr/pkg-tools), gh-ext and pwsh-gallery rows; add missing pkcon, fink, sorcery and urpmi rows; fix winget, dnf, scoop and cask competitor flags.
• [mpm] Make the binaries catalog table searchable and sortable, with relative-age hints on release dates.
• [mpm] Exercise every subcommand's --help screen against the compiled binaries in the CLI test plan.
• [mpm] Extend the destructive install/remove test round-trip to the bundled configuration-defined managers; CI exercises it for real against gh-ext.

Full changelog: v7.1.0...v7.2.0