v3.4.2

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This release introduces a fix to avoid potential false positive when listing Flatpak unused packages.

It also removes the AlwaysShowNews option from the arch-update.conf configuration. Indeed, it's fair to say that this option probably isn't used nor desired by anyone as its behavior most likely leads to undesired annoyances.

As a side note, I'd like to take this new release as an occasion to once again sincerely thank everyone supporting Arch-Update in any way!
So huge thanks to Arch-Update users, everyone that gave it a star on GitHub, opened issues, feature requests, pull requests or contributed to this project in any other way! ❤️

Fixes

• Avoid false positive on unused runtimes for Flatpak with pinned runtimes - (2dae27b) by @RayJW

Miscellaneous

• Remove the AlwaysShowNews option (#288) - (8f5fdee) by @leyyce
• (CONTRIBUTING.md) Expand the "Thank you" section (#287) - (7ea5325) by @Antiz96
• (issues) Add a dedicated label to the 'Other' issue type (#283) - (ff81590) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @RayJW made their first contribution in #286
• @leyyce made their first contribution in #288

Full Changelog: v3.4.1...v3.4.2

v3.4.1

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This new release introduces a Swedish translation for arch-update CLI, libraries and systray icon's menus.

Features

• Add Swedish translation (#280) - (bad989a) by @bittin

Styling

• (CONTRIBUTING.md) Typo fixes (#279) - (e8f11a0) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @bittin made their first contribution in #280

Full Changelog: v3.4.0...v3.4.1

v3.4.0

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This new release adds support for the pikaur AUR helper (in addition of paru & yay) to handle AUR packages updates.

The default priority to determine which AUR helper to use is paru then yay then pikaur.
To force Arch-Update to use pikaur, despite having paru and / or yay installed on your system, you can set the AURHelper=pikaur option in your arch-update.conf configuration file.

Features

• Add support for pikaur (#276) - (7b5d08b) by @Antiz96

Styling

• Update lines numbers in po files (#277) - (33f2377) by @Antiz96
• Add spacing to improve wording style (#274) - (a8cfb27) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Improve style / wording in internal documentation (#278) - (d58dcee) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.4.0

v3.3.0

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This release includes a new dynamic dropdown menu entry in the systray applet's right-click menu which contains the list of available updates:

This serves as an alternative to the dynamic tooltip for the eventual panel / environment that do not support it.

Features

• Add a dynamic dropdown menu entry to the systray applet menu containing the list of available updates (#272) - (af51378) by @Antiz96

Documentation

• Update screenshots in the READMEs with the new systray's dropdown menu (#273) - (d79ed9b) by @Antiz96
• Document the workaround for the race condition potentially happening when starting the systray applet at boot (#271) - (64378f1) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.2.3...v3.3.0

v3.2.3

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This release fixes a bug which could lead to differences between the available updates list showed when running arch-update / arch-update --list and the one showed in the systray applet tooltip.

Fixes

• Update the "updates" state file on package listing (#268) - (a1686d9) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.2.2...v3.2.3

v3.2.2

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This release includes a fix to the french translation in the systray applet tooltip.

Fixes

• Fix french translation in the systray applet toolip (#266) - (3dd3681) by @Delor3an91

New Contributors

• @Delor3an91 made their first contribution in #266

Full Changelog: v3.2.1...v3.2.2

v3.2.1

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This release fixes a bug where the icons of the "Arch-Update" and the "Arch-Update Systray Applet" applications were missing.

Features

• Add a description to desktop files (#264) - (0f23547) by @Antiz96

Fixes

• Fix icons name in desktop files (#263) - (da1db14) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.2.1

v3.2.0

If you haven't already, please read the v3.0.0 changelog and the v3.1.0 changelog which contain important information.

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This new release introduces multiple improvements to the systray applet:

• A new right click menu entry to easily trigger a check for available updates at any time:
  (so you don't need to wait for the systemd timer to pass or to trigger a check manually via the command line anymore)

• Available updates are now shown in the systray applet tooltip when hovering your mouse over it:
  (so you don't need to launch arch-update to get the list anymore)

Features

• Show the number and the list of pending updates in systray's tooltip (#257) - (c4d8015) by @Antiz96
• Add a right click menu entry to trigger a check for updates in the systray applet (#258) - (0f89ad2) by @Antiz96

Documentation

• Update screenshots with the new systray applet features in READMEs (#259) - (6f793a4) by @Antiz96
• Update man pages about how to start the systray applet at boot (#256) - (33f8bf1) by @Antiz96

Styling

• Improve style in documentation, scripts and resources (#255) - (d598a7a) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• (icons) Move icons from the src to the res directory (#254) - (6495b29) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.2.0

v3.1.1

If you haven't already, please read the v3.0.0 changelog and the v3.1.0 changelog which contain important information.

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This release fixes a bug that caused the Arch-Update icon to be missing in desktop notifications.

Fixes

• Fix missing icon in desktop notifications (#253) - (04913bd) by @Antiz96

Documentation

• Improve documentation about starting the systray applet at boot (#252) - (1349ad5) by @Antiz96

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1

v3.1.0

If you haven't already, please read the v3.0.0 changelog which contains important information.

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This release brings a lot of code improvements and optimizations but, more importantly, it includes 2 new additional style/color variants for the systray icon (in addition to the light/classic one):

• light (classic):

• dark (useful to make the systray applet icon more visible when using a light theme):

• blue (matches the blue variant used by the official Arch Linux logo):

Thanks a lot to @hunabku94 for suggesting and working on this! 🎉

To select which style/color variant to use for the systray icon, use the new TrayIconStyle option in the arch-update.conf configuration file (e.g. TrayIconStyle=dark). The systray icon will then update itself at the next arch-update run.

Contributing new additional style/color variants for the systray icon is also relatively easy to do!
If anyone is interested to submit a new one, I described the necessary steps here 🎨

Important note: The systray icon might disappear right after the upgrade as the systray applet has to be restarted to be able to catch up with the new icons name included in this new release.
To do so, either log out/log in or restart the Arch-Update Tray systemd service (with systemctl --user restart arch-update-tray.service), depending on which method you are using to automatically start the systray applet.
You can also simply right-click on the icon's location (even if it's invisible), select “Exit” and then graphically relaunch the systray applet via the “Arch-Update Systray Applet” application.

Features

• Add the --force argument to arch-update --gen-config to allow overwriting any existing arch-update.conf (#251) - (8e136c0) by @Antiz96
• Add dark and blue variants to the systray icon set and add the "TrayIconStyle" option in arch-update.conf (#242) - (7be96c7) by @hunabku94

Fixes

• Exit if the diff prog editor set in arch-update.conf isn't found (#250) - (b6c5eca) by @Antiz96

Styling

• Improve wording in documentation (#248) - (6cd2ddd) by @Antiz96

Miscellaneous

• Use "true" instead of "y" when setting variables (#249) - (d18742e) by @Antiz96
• Streamline option checking in arch-update.conf (#247) - (0bd5ee7) by @Antiz96
• Add make test to the CI (#246) - (7d43e0a) by @Antiz96
• Move example config to the XDG DATA directory (#245) - (1b76e1c) by @Antiz96
• Update the options order in arch-update.conf (#244) - (f9781c1) by @Antiz96
• Make icon installations more dynamic in the Makefile (#243) - (d9ba070) by @Antiz96
• Rename "state" functions & file to "(tray) icon" (#241) - (90e1f0a) by @Antiz96

New Contributors

• @hunabku94 made their first contribution in #242

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.1.0