[11/10/2008]

Version 0.5.0

Wheee!

This version introduces the GTK+ frontend. Thanks are due to Obey Arthur Liu for providing code, ideas and energy to the project, and to Google for funding his work through their Summer of Code program in 2008.

This is an EXPERIMENTAL, DEVELOPMENT release. It can be used for package management, but there may be bugs, there are probably places that need improvement, and it is certainly incomplete.

New features:
- Integrated the GTK+ frontend written by Obey Arthur Liu for the 2008 Google Summer of Code. To manually suppress the GUI, run aptitude --no-gui or set the option Aptitude::Start-Gui to false.
- Added Xapian support. Unadorned strings in search patterns now search the apt Xapian database built by Enrico Zini. There is also a new search term ?term that does the same thing.
- Added the command-line option --show-resolver-actions to display why aptitude made the decisions it did in aptitude safe-upgrade.
Known Regressions:
- Incremental searching in the curses frontend is made much less useful by introducing Xapian. It still works, but because Xapian searches don't find substrings, the search will fail to match anything until you finish typing the entire search string.
- Documentation for the GTK+ frontend has not yet been written.