A new update has been released for the APT tool

May 26, 2015 14:13 GMT  ·  By

APT (Advanced Package Tool), a set of core tools inside Debian that make it possible to install, remove, and keep applications up to date, is now at version 1.0.9.10 and it's available for download.

APT or Advanced Package Tool is probably one of the most used tools in Debian and the other Debian-based distros like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. It might not be immediately obvious just how much you're using APT, but it's an important component, and that is one of the reasons why it gets updated all the time.

The most common use is for the upgrading process, but even if you're using a GUI tool available in the system, you're actually using APT underneath. The 1.0 branch of Advanced Package Tool has been available for some time now, and the developers are still adding all sorts of small changes and improvements.

According to the changelog, a crash in pkgDPkgPM::WriteApportReport has been fixed, sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) has been moved out of the for() loop to avoid unneeded syscalls, an endless loop in apt-get update that can cause disk fillup has been fixed, and Arch-qualified is now parsed correctly.

A complete list of modifications and updates can be found in the official changelog. You can download APT (Advanced Package Tool) 1.0.9.10 right now from Softpedia, but if you get the source package, you won't be able to do much with it.