Update NEWS for 6.1 release

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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Allan McRae 2024-02-20 10:53:47 +10:00
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VERSION DESCRIPTION
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6.1.0 - Add cache server support
- Improvements to --sysroot option - NOTE: targets to -U are no
longer interpreted relative to sysroot
- Add more format specifiers for --print operations
- Add extended data field for arbitrary package data
- Do not run hooks with --dbonly
- Provide more details when encountering file conflicts or
corrupt packages
- Improved WKD support (FS#73703, FS#73534)
- Improved handling of malformed download headers (FS#73704)
- Use openssl interfaces for calculating sha256 and md5 sums
- Fix multi download bar chomps
- makepkg:
- Replace libdepends and libprovides with autodeps
- Support configuration via makepkg.conf.d drop-ins
- Add GITFLAGS environmental variable to customize checkouts
- Add -D option to change directory before building
- Implement verify() function for custom source verificaton
- Add checksum support for git/mercurial/bzr sources
- Improved stripping and debug package support
- Configurable LTO support
- Add source signing PGP keys to package if available
- Store "pkgtype" in xdata
- Remove md5sum from mtree files
- Document MAKEPKG_LIBRARY
- repo-add:
- Do not include package signature details in the repo. Add
the --include-sigs to revert to old behaviour.
- Do not add md5sum to the repo database
6.0.1 - Prevent download error pages ending up in package files
(FS#71083)
- Give -U downloads a random .part file name if needed