We are proud to release Elektra 0.9.11.
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.
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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
In a separated branch we rewrote the whole backend system. With this new backend system, backends are now also plugins, allowing backends also to be non-file-based, e.g., using databases. The main purpose of this release is to give a last stable release before master gets disrupted with a huge changeset. The next release is not to be expected in this year.
A huge thanks to (Klemens Böswirth @kodebach), (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger) for the many changes in the branch. Thanks to (Richard Stöckl @Eiskasten) for testing.
Elektra is used for server, desktop and embedded. With this release, we strengthen our embedded mainstay, specifically in open source hardware OSHW. We developed a major application running on OSHW Olimex boards. The application is called opensesame. It is heavily relying on Elektra and ansible-libelektra.
In the initial release opensesame already allows:
To give a smoother experience when running such an application we will develop Ansible scripts to customize the Olimex base images. They will allow changing the language, time zone, static network configuration etc.
Olimex likes this idea and will send us an A20 board. A big thanks to Olimex.
Also in the upcoming term Elektra will be object of study how FLOSS initiatives work. Students will make improvements in Elektra as part of their homework, teamwork and, if chosen, also for their project. Alternatively, they can also improve other self-chosen FLOSS initiatives.
The following text list 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.
keyIsBelow and new keyGetNextPart functions (@kodebach)3.12 (released in July 2018). (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)The website is generated from the repository, so all information about plugins, bindings and tools are always up-to-date.
We are currently working on following topics:
We closed 17 issues for this release.
About 11 authors changed 156 files with 4020 insertions(+) and 3298 deletions(-) in 134 commits.
Thanks to all authors for making this release possible!
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