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Elektra 0.11.0
0.9.8 Release

We are proud to release Elektra 0.9.8.

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

We have created a version of Redshift that uses Elektra for configuration management!

We removed and refactored Redshift's code for loading configuration files, parsing CLI options and validating configuration to use Elektra. Redshift with Elektra has about 700 fewer lines of code (-16%) and is a great example of what Elektra is all about: More applications with less code for configuration management!

To test it, take a look at our PR Refactor to use Elektra and follow the instructions provided in https://github.com/qwepoizt/redshift/blob/improve-config/elektrify/CONTRIBUTING.md "CONTRIBUTING.md".

Refactoring Redshift to use Elektra brings the following benefits:

Redshift with Elektra uses the high-level API.

We have made a large number of improvements to the high-level API in the course of refactoring Redshift. The highlights are:

More improvements and details are explained in later sections of these release notes.

Thanks to Klemens Böswirth, Markus Raab and Tobias Schubert!

We are now shipping experimental releases for Windows 32- and 64-bit! They can be downloaded here.

A big success is that Redshift already works with Elektra under Windows.

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.

_(Michael Tucek)_

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.

_(Michael Tucek)_

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 59 issues for this release.

About 17 authors changed 396 files with 13155 insertions(+) and 8331 deletions(-) in 597 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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The release tarball is also available signed using GnuPG from here or on GitHub

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

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For more information, see https://libelektra.org.

Best regards, Elektra Initiative