0.9.13 Release

• guid: e8fd116d-12ab-4281-aaf3-b6441056dd63
• author: Mihael Pranjić
• pubDate: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:05:11 +0100
• shortDesc: Bugfix, Ubuntu Packages

We are proud to release Elektra 0.9.13.

What is Elektra?

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

Highlights

• The main purpose of this bugfix release is to fix a regression (#4859) introduced in Elektra 0.9.12.
• We added fresh Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS) and Kinetic Kudu (22.10) packages.
• Please refer to the Elektra 0.9.12 release notes for a complete list of changes. Due to breaking changes since 0.9.11 we highly recommend to read the upgrade instructions.

Plugins

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

spec

• Add hook placement to spec plugin in README (Tomislav Makar @tmakar)

gopts

• Add hook placement to gopts plugin in README (Tomislav Makar @tmakar)

internalnotifications

• Add Maximilian Irlinger as maintainer (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)

logchange

• Add Maximilian Irlinger as maintainer (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)

dbus

• Add Maximilian Irlinger as maintainer (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)

Libraries

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

tools

• Check for hook placement on plugin-check (Tomislav Makar @tmakar)

merge

• Add Maximilian Irlinger as maintainer (Maximilian Irilnger @atmaxinger)

Documentation

• .github rework (Markus Raab)
• Added hook to placements contract in CONTRACT.ini (Tomislav Makar @tmakar)
• Added hook information to hooks.md
• Add correct error code in hosts readme (Tomislav Makar)

Build

CMake

• Add infos/maintainer in plugins. (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)

Docker

• Add Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS) images. (Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)
• Add Ubuntu Kinetic Kudu (22.10) images. (Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)

Infrastructure

Jenkins

• Add Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS) builds and drop Bionic builds. (Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)
• Add Ubuntu Kinetic Kudu (22.10) builds. (Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)

Outlook

We are currently working on following topics:

• 1.0 API (Klemens Böswirth @kodebach) and (Stefan Hanreich)
• Session recording and better Ansible integration (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)
• Change tracking (Maximilian Irlinger @atmaxinger)
• Rewriting tools in C (@hannes99)
• Elektrify KDE and GNOME (Mihael Pranjić @mpranj)
• Elektrify XFCE (Richard Stöckl @Eiskasten)
• Mounting SQL databases (Florian Lindner @flo91)
• Recording Configuration (Maximilian Irlinger)
• Ansible-Elektra (Lukas Hartl) and (Maximilian Irlinger)
• Configure Olimex Base Images (Maximilian Irlinger)
• Improving Build Server Infrastructure (Lukas Hartl) and (Maximilian Irlinger)
• Improve Java Development Experience (Michael Tucek)

Statistics

We closed 5 issues for this release.

About 7 authors changed 35 files with 1186 insertions(+) and 534 deletions(-) in 48 commits.

Thanks to all authors for making this release possible!

Join the Initiative!

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.

Get the Release!

You can download the release from

• here or
• GitHub

The hashsums are:

• name: elektra-0.9.13.tar.gz
• size: 9297899
• md5sum: 871eaaad39bc834ceb7fb42cb8de66f0
• sha1: 68984021d08500693d692c2cb61eb3409fe75226
• sha256: 9b7512d493c284afcca9875d093081c85c4cfe4926dea193202fbdc5fe89b468

The release tarball is also available signed using GnuPG from

• here or
• GitHub

The following GPG Key was used to sign this release: 12CC44541E1B8AD9B66AFAD55262E7353324914A

Already built API documentation can be found

• here or
• GitHub.

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