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.

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You can try out the latest Elektra release using our docker image elektra/elektra. This is the quickest way to get started with Elektra without compiling and other obstacles, simply run:

docker pull elektra/elektra

docker run -it elektra/elektra

Highlights

The main purpose of this bugfix release is to fix regressions (#4859) introduced in Elektra 0.9.12 and 0.9.13.
Please refer to the Elektra 0.9.12 release notes for a complete list of changes. Due to breaking changes since 0.9.11 we highly recommend to read the upgrade instructions.

Plugins

The following text lists news about the plugins we updated in this release.

timeofday

Use separate symbols for set and commit functions to satisfy kdb plugin-check _(@kodebach)_
Use new elektraPluginGetPhase() instead of counting executions _(@kodebach)_

tracer

Use separate symbols for set and commit functions to satisfy kdb plugin-check _(@kodebach)_

Tests

Enable more kdb plugin-check tests _(@kodebach)_

Build

Docker

Fix conflicting Java versions in CentOS Stream 8 image _(@kodebach)_

Outlook

We are currently working on following topics:

1.0 API _(Klemens Böswirth @kodebach)_ and _(Stefan Hanreich)_
Session recording and better Ansible integration _(Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)_
Change tracking _(Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)_
Rewriting tools in C _(@hannes99)_
Elektrify KDE and GNOME _(Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)_
Elektrify XFCE _(Richard Stöckl @Eiskasten)_
Mounting SQL databases _(Florian Lindner @flo91)_
Recording Configuration _(Maximilian Irlinger)_
Ansible-Elektra _(Lukas Hartl)_ and _(Maximilian Irlinger)_
Configure Olimex Base Images _(Maximilian Irlinger)_
Improving Build Server Infrastructure _(Lukas Hartl)_ and _(Maximilian Irlinger)_
Improve Java Development Experience _(Michael Tucek)_