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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)_

Statistics

We closed 2 issues for this release.

About 4 authors changed 22 files with 299 insertions(+) and 139 deletions(-) in 14 commits.

Thanks to all authors for making this release possible!

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Get the Release!

You can download the release from

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GitHub

The hashsums are:

name: elektra-0.9.14.tar.gz
size: 9299478
md5sum: eb0f1d2e5d93bbae122999b5a27be343
sha1: 8d7a44ae6b4d53c52ab4219f955d6010f87682c8
sha256: e4632bb6baa78f6a68c312469e41fd1ef07406571749e32f2645b1858d01a58d

The release tarball is also available signed using GnuPG from

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GitHub

The following GPG Key was used to sign this release: 12CC44541E1B8AD9B66AFAD55262E7353324914A

Already built API documentation can be found

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