0.8.18 Release

What is Elektra?

Elektra serves as a universal and secure framework to access configuration parameters in a global, hierarchical key database. For a small demo see here:

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Highlights

Crypto Plugin

Gpg is now used to decrypt a master password, which is used by the individual crypto backends. So all necessary parts for encryption of decryption of individual keys is present.

Furthermore, a new botan backend was implemented.

See here

Thanks to Peter Nirschl.

Open Interception

When Elektra directly modifies config files which are on the disc, and applications read the config files without Elektra, Elektra has no control over the access, e.g. we cannot dynamically calculate values. To avoid this, we wrote a library that intercepts the open-call.

Together with the mozprefs plugin, we got control over the configuration of Firefox and can dynamically change config values with all possibilities Elektra provides.

For easy setup, we implemented the script configure-firefox.

See here

Thanks to Thomas Waser.

Resolver

Resolvers in Elektra are the code that are responsible to determine where content should be read from and stored to. They are independent of the actual configuration file syntax.

The gitresolver allows you to get/store config data in git.

The blockresolver allows Elektra to take control of parts of the configuration file. This is useful for config files such as vim or zsh, which contain program code. The plugin allows you to split config files with special markers into parts containing code and others controlled by Elektra.

zsh completion

Added zsh completion file, and a script (kdb install-sh-completion) that installs bash+zsh completion when the default installation places do not work (e.g. for Mac OS X).

Thanks to Sebastian Bachmann.

Documentation

Quality

Compatibility

As always, the ABI and API of kdb.h is fully compatible, i.e. programs compiled against an older 0.8 version of Elektra will continue to work (ABI) and you will be able to recompile programs without errors (API).

Libtools

Libtools got a new major version (SOVERSION 0 -> 1):

Plugins

The plugins conditionals and mathcheck are incompatible in some cases because of changes in syntax.

Proposal

New API: keyRel2 which differs from keyRel by allowing you to specify which relation should be checked.

Development

Packaging

Other

Get It!

You can download the release from here and also here on github

name: elektra-0.8.18.tar.gz size: 2582183 md5sum: 62fe0fbf9ee57ffaa58a982f602f596a sha1: 743484e16b102a00cd58956a49f0c558939d56a8 sha256: 9ee65895ba5cba6736c13c264637664c1410b25f4aaaeac8f1f83712ff93d53b

This release tarball now is also available signed by me using gpg

already built API-Docu can be found here

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