APT 1.1 received two new maintenance releases this week

Nov 30, 2015 03:10 GMT  ·  By

Julian Andres Klode from the development team of the well-known and acclaimed APT open-source package manager for Debian GNU/Linux operating system and its derivatives, such as Ubuntu Linux, has announced two new maintenance releases of APT 1.1.

APT 1.1 landed in the unstable software repositories of Debian GNU/Linux earlier this week. While it didn't include many changes, the need for maintenance releases was expressed by the project's developers at the end of this week, when they announced APT 1.1.1 and APT 1.1.2 on November 27 and November 28, respectively.

Looking at the changelogs, we can notice that APT 1.1.1 verifies if the Apt::Sandbox::User class exists in the CheckDropPrivsMustBeDisabled() function, properly handles destroyed acquire methods, and no longer hangs. It also addresses various issues related to the weak symbols used for the -private option.

On the other hand, APT 1.1.2 adds a workaround for a gcc -O3 over-optimization issue in pkgCdrom::FindPackages, repairs the detection of program names when using the RSH method, and no longer uses "-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions" while building. Plus, it disables the privilege dropping for the SSH and RSH methods, as well as the privilege-drop verification.

You can download the APT 1.1.2 sources right now from Softpedia and start compiling the software by hand if you're a bleeding-edge Debian/Ubuntu user, and you want to have the latest unstable release of APT (Advanced Package Tool). However, we don't recommend installing this version of APT on production machines.