v6.777

Changelog

• News printing
  • -Pw prints new news since last build date
  • -Pww prints all news available
  • -q --quiet can be added to print only news titles
  • -Pwq prints new news titles since last build date
• Completions update
• Print warnings about newer local packages then remote versions #396
• Usual small fixes to commands,filepaths and refactoring

v6.727

Changelog

• Fix custom build dir failing by not existing
• Fix small bug in parser

v6.717

Changelog

• Git clone used for PKGBUILD retrieval
• yay -Sc will also clean cached AUR package and any untracked files in the cache
  • Provided you use git clone
• Changes to interface color
• Highlight diff between old and new versions better
• Better handling of filepaths
• Usual fixes for wrong package installs and repo selection
• Really a lot of bugfixes
• Updated Shell completions

v5.675

Changelog

• Recursively remove dependencies when using yay -Yc
• Highlight diff between old and new versions better
• Fix regression where repo upgrades were marked as deps during sysupgrades
• Added --editorflags to add flags to editor execution

v5.657

Changelog

• By default running yay will trigger yay -Syu
• Updated Shell completions
• -Ss shows difference between installed and in-repo versions
• Allow sorting AUR results by fields other than votes
  *--sortby votes|popularity|id|baseid|name|base|submitted|modified
• Added flags for automatic menu input
  • --answerclean --answeredit --answerupgrade
  • --noanswerclean --noansweredit --noanswerupgrade
• Fixed versioned dep checking
• Usual fixes to parsing, dependency sourcing and other PKGBUILD atrocities

v5.608

Changelog

• Updated Shell completions
• Added -Qu to extended pacman options
• Provides now supported in -Si
• Improved build method
• Improved conflict checking
• PKGBUILDs with unsupported arch can force build now
• PGP Key automatic importing
• GPG option passing
• db/name support readded

v4.505

Manual steps

Due to the new devel update method a yay -Y --gendb is necessary to rebuild the development package database and track new devel updates.

Present Regressions

• In installs of type yay -S aur/yay aur/ is not ignored.

Changelog

• New flag extravaganza

Permanent configuration options:
    --save               Causes the following options to be saved back to the
                         config file when used

    --builddir <dir>     Directory to use for building AUR Packages
    --editor   <file>    Editor to use when editing PKGBUILDs
    --makepkg  <file>    makepkg command to use
    --pacman   <file>    pacman command to use
    --tar      <file>    bsdtar command to use
    --git      <file>    git command to use
    --config   <file>    pacman.conf file to use

    --requestsplitn <n>  Max amount of packages to query per AUR request

    --topdown            Shows repository's packages first and then AUR's
    --bottomup           Shows AUR's packages first and then repository's
    --devel              Check development packages during sysupgrade
    --nodevel            Do not check development packages
    --afterclean         Remove package sources after successful install
    --noafterclean       Do not remove package sources after successful build
    --timeupdate         Check package's AUR page for changes during sysupgrade
    --notimeupdate       Do not checking of AUR page changes
    --redownload         Always download pkgbuilds of targets
    --redownloadall      Always download pkgbuilds of all AUR packages
    --noredownload       Skip pkgbuild download if in cache and up to date
    --mflags <flags>     Pass arguments to makepkg
    --sudoloop           Loop sudo calls in the background to avoid timeout
    --nosudoloop         Do not loop sudo calls in the background

• yay used to auto save permanent configuration options, now --save must be passed to save permanent configuration options
• Competions updated
• Number menu is now used to edit PKGBuilds and Clean Builds
• Devel updates of -git packages now uses git ls-remote which makes it compatible with other platforms besides github.
• Devel update checking is faster as well
• Updated man page

v3.440

No new features in this maintenance release

Changelog

• Closed a lot of issues
• Updated bash and zsh completions
• New colour scheme
• Small parsing fixes
• Automatically delete package from transaction if $EDITOR exits with non-zero #140
• Added check depends support

v3.373

Compiled without PIE enabled.

Changelog

• Version bump to V3 to reflect all of the changes to syntax
• yay -Pd prints default config
• yay -Pg prints current config
• Fixes #174
• Fixes #176
• Fixes -G being unable to download split packages
• Fixes #171
• Fixes -Si failing when given a non existing package on #155
• Fixes other small bugs on 2.350 without adding new features

v2.350

Probably stabler than the last stable but not really stable edition

14 files changed, 566 insertions(+), 186 deletions(-)
The binary was compiled with PIE enabled, the next release will be compiled with PIE disabled again.

Changelog

• Adds sudo loop (off by default, enable only by editing config file) #147
• Adds replace package support #154 #134
• Minor display improvements #150 for example
• Fixes GenDB
• Fixes Double options passing to pacman
• Noconfirm works more as expected
• Minor fixes and refactoring