  <project cat='bin'>
    <title>pkg 1.6</title>

    <contact>
      <person>
	<name>
	  <common>pkg team</common>
	</name>
	<email>pkg@FreeBSD.org</email>
      </person>
    </contact>

    <body>
<p>'pkg(8)' 1.6.0 has been released. Lot of work has been done since pkg 1.5:</p>

<ul>
<li>Lots of improvements in the solver</li>
<li>Lots of fixes in the 3 way merge code</li>
<li>pkg add can now work without a version specified in the dependency line</li>
<li>pkg check -d now also check the required libraries</li>
<li>Improved support for partial upgrades</li>
<li>Improved zsh completion support</li>
<li>Improved linux support (now all regression tests passes on linux)</li>
<li>Messages can now be context aware: (only print a given message during
installation, upgrade - version aware -, removal, or always)</li>
<li>@keywords now accepts new entries to add context aware messages</li>
<li>Add the ability to generate graphiz's dot format representation of the
solver's problem</li>
<li>pkg search now default on showing the comments of of the matched packages</li>
<li>Lots of bug fixes and code cleanup</li>
<li>Improvements in cross installation support</li>
</ul>
    </body>
    <help>
      <task>
	<p>Add priority notion to the list of files to ensure some files are the first to
replaced (blocking packaging base)</p>
      </task>

      <task>
	<p>Study replacing openssl by mbedtls</p>
      </task>
    </help>
  </project>
