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Elektra 0.9.12
0.9.9 Release

We are proud to release Elektra 0.9.9.

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.

You can also read the news on our website.

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, simply run:

docker pull elektra/elektra
docker run -it elektra/elektra

As you will read in this release notes, a massive amount of bugs were fixed within this release. Many of them were resolved from students participating in a university course about FLOSS This demonstrates that homework of students can be very useful and in public service.

In the upcoming term there will be a course about configuration management in which Elektra will also be used and improved upon.

The version of the process plugin, makes it much easier to implement plugins in Java. You can now call an implementation org.libelektra.Plugin via process and the org.libelektra.process.PluginProcess class. To mount Java plugins the new helper script kdb mount-java can be used.

For more information take a look at the updated tutorial and the new man page for `kdb mount-java`.

With this release we greatly updated our decisions for the 1.0 release. This brings us one big step closer to 1.0.

The following section lists news about the plugins we updated in this release.

The text below summarizes updates to the C (and C++)-based libraries of Elektra.

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.

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 working on following new topics since the last release:

Furthermore, we are still working on following topics:

We closed 90 issues for this release.

About 29 authors changed 491 files with 17997 insertions(+) and 6089 deletions(-) in 648 commits.

Thanks to all authors for making this release possible!

We welcome new contributors! Read here about how to get started.

As first step, you could give us feedback about these release notes. Contact us via our issue tracker.

You can download the release from here or GitHub

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Already built API documentation can be found here or on GitHub.

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Best regards, Elektra Initiative