elektrad in GoWe are proud to release Elektra 0.9.2.
With the 0.9.x series of releases we shift our focus to bugfixes and stability improvements as needed for the KDE and GNOME integration. We do not guarantee any compatibility in this series.
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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elektrad rewritten in GoWe created a fork of KDE's KConfig configuration system and patched it to use libelektra. We have done some initial testing and replaced the KConfig library for Kate and KDevelop successfully.
Additionally, we added a new Elektra plugin called kconfig, which can read and write kconfig's INI files.
The plugin enables smooth migration of existing KDE configurations. (Dardan Haxhimustafa) and (Felix Resch)
We continued work on Elektra's bindings for GNOME GSettings. Our implementation should be able to replace the widely used dconf backend. Elektra's gsettings bindings are not yet ready for production use, but they are already able to replace dconf for a complete GNOME session without problems. We are still lacking proper dbus integration for change notifications. (Mihael Pranjić)
elektrad rewritten in Goelektrad provides an HTTP API to access Elektra remotely. elektrad is now completely rewritten in Go, which drastically improves the performance by leveraging the new go-elektra bindings instead of calling the kdb command-line tool on every request. The new elektrad creates a session per user to reuse the same KDB handle for correct conflict handling and better performance. (Raphael Gruber)
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.
Get started with Elektra by running docker run -it elektra/elektra.
We removed the maintained status of the following plugins:
New maintainers are very much welcomed!
connect-gpg-agent failed. (Peter Nirschl)array. (René Schwaiger)rename fails. This problem might occur if another file system is mounted at /tmp. (Peter Nirschl)swig_foo to foo. (Manuel Mausz)xmltool plugin. (René Schwaiger)The plugin now always prints a newline at the end of the YAML output. (René Schwaiger)
The plugin does not interpret a key set such as
user/example
user/example/#0
user/example/#1
user/example/#2
as array unless the parent key user/example contains the metakey array. (René Schwaiger)
YAML CPP now always sets and requires the metakey type with the value boolean for boolean data. (René Schwaiger)
We limited the scope of a logging function of the module. This makes it possible to build Elektra again, if
ENABLE_LOGGER=ON),BUILD_FULL=ON) version of Elektra, andldd any more. (René Schwaiger)argv given by the /offset config key. If /offset is set, gopts will
ignore a number of arguments at the start of argv. This can be used in e.g. python scripts to ignore the interpreter
arguments. (Klemens Böswirth)gopts now also writes help message into the key proc/elektra/gopts/help/message in addition to setting
proc/elektra/gopts/help = 1. This is especially useful in non-C/C++ environments. (Klemens Böswirth)gopts is also affected by the changes and improvements to the opts library outlined below.XDG_CACHE_HOME when resolving the mmap cache directory. (Mihael Pranjić)The text below summarizes updates to the C (and C++)-based libraries of Elektra.
system/elektra/version/constants/KDB_VERSION_MICRO
to system/elektra/version/constants/KDB_VERSION_PATCH to be compatible
with Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. (Markus Raab)elektraGetOpts now supports sub-commands.
Sub-commands are best explained by looking at an application that uses them, like git.
For example add is a sub-command in git add, and interprets -p differently from git:
git -p add is git --paginate add, but git add -p is git add --patch.
elektraGetOpts now implements this notion of sub-commands.
For more information take a look at the tutorial for command-line-options.
By extension this functionality is also available via the gopts plugin. (Klemens Böswirth)args=remaining metadata (because their opt/help may not be the same).
(Klemens Böswirth)Bindings allow you to utilize Elektra using various programming languages. This section keeps you up-to-date with the multi-language support provided by Elektra.
elektra and elektra-sys to crates.io. (Philipp Gackstatter)kdb cache tool synopsis to reflect man page. (Mihael Pranjić)The fish completion script now recognizes the new names of subcommands (e.g. meta-set instead of setmeta ) introduced with Elektra 0.9.1. (René Schwaiger)
The script reformat-cmake now reformats the code with cmake-format 0.6.3. (René Schwaiger)
The scripts
now uses clang-format 9 to reformat the code base. (René Schwaiger)
The script reformat-shell now makes sure that you do not use shfmt 3, which formats parts of the code base slightly differently. (René Schwaiger)
validation tutorial (Anton Hößl)web tool. (René Schwaiger)docker reformatting tutorial (Jakob Fischer)1.10 to test Elektra. (René Schwaiger)... any more. (René Schwaiger)KDB_EXEC_PATH is not being set globally to contain the build directory any longer. (Peter Nirschl)fork and execv instead of system. (Peter Nirschl)We do not use implicit typing in the code of the
augeas,base64, andblockresolverplugin any more. After this update, the code compiles without any warnings, even though we now use the compiler switch -Wconversion. (René Schwaiger)
3.4 (released in November 2015). (René Schwaiger)add_msr_test and add_msr_test_plugin do not export the list of required plugins as environment variable any more. (René Schwaiger)debian-unstable-full-clang due to upstream issue. (Mihael Pranjić)debian-unstable-clang-asan and debian-unstable-full-clang now use Clang 9 to compile Elektra. (René Schwaiger)Jenkins.monthly in the Jenkins' scripts file. (Djordje Bulatovic)Cargo.lock file. (Philipp Gackstatter)The website is generated from the repository, so all information about plugins, bindings and tools are always up-to-date. Furthermore, we changed:
We are currently working on following topics:
We closed 40 issues for this release.
About 23 authors changed 653 files with 15221 insertions(+) and 18890 deletions(-) in 815 commits.
Thanks to all authors for making this release possible!
René Schwaiger finished his thesis about parsing techniques and parsing tools for configuration files.
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