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- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper
  o add a 'Lifetime policy' button
  o display 'no more supportion' dialog only once

Version 2.77.15.13 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet 
  o prevent displaying twice the same 'no longuer supported' dialog

Version 2.77.15.12 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet 
  o do not display 'distro upgrade' in the menu when in 'no longuer
    supported' mode

Version 2.77.15.11 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet 
  o fix a banner title
  o hide the icon if "do nothing" was choosen

Version 2.77.15.10 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- fix setting version

Version 2.77.15.9 - 3 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o fix crashing when clicking on notification

Version 2.77.15.8 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper
  o fix retrieving password with older gtk+
  o remember the email when an error occured

Version 2.77.15.7 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o actually honor DO_NOT_ASK_FOR_NO_MORE_SUPPORTED
  o do not backport the "live upgrade" feature on 2008.0 since it's
    unsupported/untested (missing urpmi support)
  o restore old behaviour when detecting a new distro
  o make link button usable in no more supported dialog

Version 2.77.15.6 - 2 February 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- fix reported version
- revert change in 2.77.15.5 that pulled too many packages
- translations updates

Version 2.77.15.5 - 27 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o fix a test
  o skip some messages once extended maintenance has been enabled

Version 2.77.15.4 - 27 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper
  o better banner titles
  o fix adding media on 2008.0 where --xml-info option is not supported
  o fix getting password when not embedded in mcc
- mdkapplet
  o advertize when one has extended maintenance when regular one is
    expired
  o better notification message for no longuer supported distro

Version 2.77.15.3 - 26 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper
  o retrieve product URL instead of relying on caller to provide it
- mdkapplet
  o enable to run on 2008.0

Version 2.77.15.2 - 25 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o enable to share some code with mcc

Version 2.77.15.1 - 25 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-extended-maintenance-helper
  o do not show banner in error dialog when embedded in mcc
  o fix getting password when embedded in mcc

Version 2.77.15 - 21 January 2010, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o allow to get extended maintenance on some distributions
  o fix accepting values vritten by configurator (#56348)
- mdkapplet-config
  o hide non available options instead of making them insensitive
    (#56637)
- include distribution version in user agent

Version 2.77.14 - 9 December 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- drop diagnostics, strict, vars and warnings pragmas
- mdkapplet-config
  o make sure dialog is properly sized

Version 2.77.13.1 - 9 December 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- translations updates

Version 2.77.13 - 26 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-config
  o offer a couple more options regarding checks

Version 2.77.12 - 26 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper:
  o fix running on 2008.1 (#55956)

Version 2.77.11 - 24 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-config
  o make it work on 2008.x & 2009.x
- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper
  o new authentication scheme (#55735)

Version 2.77.10 - 19 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o add mdkonline version to distribution list requests
  o log crashes of mdkapplet checker process
  o only enable 'download all packages at once' on 2010.1 and further
  o prevent checker process from crashing on 2008.1 and 2009.0

Version 2.77.9 - 10 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o add distribution version to distribution list requests
  o fix a crash (#55346)
  o fix adding restricted media (#55320)
  o warn about new distro or no more supported distro only after all
    updates were applied
- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o make sure utf8.pm is loaded before starting an upgrade (#55090)

Version 2.77.8 - 5 November 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o do not do anything if current distribution isn't listed on
    api.mandriva.com, thus fixing offering to upgrade 2010.0 to 2009.1
    (#55017)

Version 2.77.7 - 29 October 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o better check for detecting if current distro is obsolete

Version 2.77.6 - 16 September 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o display a "download all packages at once" option
  o offer to select where to download packages
- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper, mdkapplet-restricted-helper:
  o escape password because urpmi and its downloaders do not like
    some characters

Version 2.77.5 - 8 September 2009, Aurelien Lefebvre

- mdkapplet-config
  o use GtkHScale instead of GtkEntry (Require drakxtools >= 12.48)
- mdkapplet
  o use https to fetch mirrorlist from api.mandriva.com

Version 2.77.4 - 29 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-config
  o better looking when embedded in MCC

Version 2.77.3.1 - 29 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper
  o fix my.mdv.com URL

Version 2.77.3 - 28 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper
  o gracefully handle (rare) server issues (#51299)
  o use proper URL for MES

Version 2.77.2 - 24 July 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet, mdkapplet-enterprise-update-helper
  o do not display PowerPack but real product name (#52292)
  o on MES5, offer to add update media from authenticated server
- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o gracefully handle (rare) server issues (#51299, #51548)
- mdkapplet
  o if current distribution is no more supported, warn so and offer to
    upgrade to latest release
- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o remove the "upgrade in progress" flag when adding media failed
    (might fix #50450)

Version 2.77.1 - 12 May 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o add 2009.1 restricted media on 2009.1 (#50478)
  o remember a new distro exists when checking for updates (distro
    check is less frequent) (#50535)
  o perform initial check after 3 seconds when using --testing
- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o prevent having to cancel several time (#48999)

Version 2.77 - 17 April 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet
  o do not complain when network is down if net_applet is running
    (which will already warn about this)

Version 2.76.2 - 15 April 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- translation updates

Version 2.76.1 - 30 March 2009, Thierry Vignaud

- translation updates

Version 2.76 - 25 March 2009

- mdkapplet-config
  o display update frenquency in hours
  o display intial delay in minutes
  o ensure update frenquency is at least 1 hour

Version 2.75 - 19 March 2009

- mdkapplet
  o check all media for update on cooker instead only update media
  o update all media on cooker instead of only update media

Version 2.74 - 16 February 2008

- mdkapplet-config
  o add an updates configurator (#37903)

Version 2.73 - 11 February 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not hide urpmi.update arguments (#47002)
  o be nicer with CPU (more efficient system power usage)
  o only warn about locked urpmi DB after 10 tries

Version 2.72 - 16 December 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not claim there're updates when there're not if check for
    missing resctricted media is disabled (#46291)
    (regression introduced in 2.68)

Version 2.71.4 - 11 December 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o use 'always' policy for downloading XML metadata so that non root
    users can read themx

Version 2.71.3 - 9 December 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o add arch in media names

Version 2.71.2 - 9 December 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o warn if user's rigths have expired or he's not subscribed

Version 2.71.1 - 4 December 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o display a success message when media were successfully added

Version 2.71 - 3 December 2008

- mdkapplet
  o explain what is restricted media before actually asking for root
    privileges
- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o add 32 bit repositories on x86_64 too
  o fix banners' titles
  o fix vertical spacing between entries
  o prevent typing in empty password or login
  o report urpmi.addmedia errors
  o rephrase some strings (explaining what are restricted media)

Version 2.70.1 - 1 December 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o only tag restricted/updates as 'update', not restricted/release

Version 2.70 - 1 December 2008

- mdkapplet
  o check we have both restricted/release & restricted/updates
- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o add both newly created restricted/release & restricted/updates media

Version 2.69 - 24 November 2008

- mdkapplet
  o really check again after adding update media
  o update status once restricted media got added
- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o make sure added media names match our naming policy

Version 2.68.2 - 20 November 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o fix spacing

Version 2.68.1 - 20 November 2008

- mdkapplet-restricted-helper
  o pack buttons at start

Version 2.68 - 20 November 2008

- mdkapplet
  o offer to add the restricted update medium if not available

Version 2.67 - 23 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not advise to use AC & wired network when not using a laptop

Version 2.66 - 22 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o further fix testing for /var/lib/urpmi/stale_upgrade_in_progress
  o make sure confirm dialog is large enough on 2008.1
  o use wizard button order in confirm dialogs

Version 2.65 - 22 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o fix testing for /var/lib/urpmi/stale_upgrade_in_progress
  o explicitely wrap labels (for 2008.1)
  o use Next/Cancel instead of Yes/No in confirmation dialogs

Version 2.64 - 21 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o be able to detect unfinished upgrades, even if mandriva-release
    already got upgraded
  o confirmation dialog for system upgrade:
    * advise that it may take a couple hours
    * advise the need for high BW network
    * advise to close other applications
    * advise to use AC & wired network when using a laptop
    * display estimated size of downloads
  o new distro notification bubble:
    * change button from "Upgrade the system" to "More Information"
    * set urgency as 'low'
- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o disable custom downloader settings in order to default to aria2
  o disable the X screen saver while upgrading the system
  o offer to retry the upgrade if it failed
  o when updates succeeded:
    * offer to reboot
    * s/should/must/

Version 2.63 - 16 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o really prevent upgrading more than once at a time

Version 2.62 - 15 October 2008

- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o check available free space, disallow upgrade if not enough room
- mdkapplet
  o update media in chroot when using --urpmi-root

Version 2.61 - 15 October 2008

- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o display error dialog instead of success one when we cannot add the
    media
  o updade media between gurpmi passes in case mirrors got updated if
    needed

Version 2.60 - 14 October 2008

- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o ensure gurpmi is not killed after 10min
  o ensure gurpmi error status is correctly catched
  o instead of passing hand-crafter mirrorlist for new distro, use a magical
    environment variable that is used by new urpmi

Version 2.59 - 14 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not restart the applet on package update anymore
- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o call gurpmi with --clean
  o log where gurpmi logs are ending
  o log gurpmi STDERR too
  o make all gurpmi passes using --replacefiles instead of just the
    first one
  o restore urpmi media if adding new distribution media failed

Version 2.58 - 14 October 2008

- mdkapplet-upgrade-helper
  o enable to test distro upgrade even when service is disabled
    through either --testing option or "TEST_DISTRO_UPGRADE=yes" in
    /etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet

Version 2.57 - 14 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o make sure to not report new distro after distro upgrade
  o reread distro release after distro upgrade

Version 2.56 - 14 October 2008

- drop PAM permissions for urpmi.removemedia (introduced in 2.46)
- mdkapplet
  o log reason as well as current & target distro for distro upgrade
  o do not crash if image cannot be loaded (#44750)
  o split upgrade code into mdkapplet-upgrade-helper:
    * ask for root password earlier, before removing media (#44771)
    * log where is backuped urpmi.cfg
    * run up to 4 gurpmi passes if needed

Version 2.55 - 10 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not display gurpmi log errors when done installing updates,
    only do it for distribution upgrade

Version 2.54 - 10 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not wrongly propose distribution upgrade after installing updates
  o do not display "Congratulations" dialog when done installing updates, only
    do it for distribution upgrade

Version 2.53 - 9 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not check for new distro on Flash
    (not enough disk space)

Version 2.52.2 - 8 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o prevent upgrading more than once at a time

Version 2.52.1 - 8 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o explicitely wrap labels b/c 2008.1's mygtk2 didn't wrap

Version 2.52 - 7 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o add a banner and pack Ok button to the right in success dialog

Version 2.51 - 7 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o display a success or an error message at end of installation
  o keep update log and tell users where they are if upgrade failed
  o make "Distro Upgrade" confirmation dialog wider
  o run gurpmi with --replacefiles option (so that temporary file
    conflicts doesn't break upgrade due to missing conflict tags)
    (needs urpmi 6.14.1 from updates)

Version 2.50 - 6 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o enable to globally enable/disable new distribution check
  o "Distro Upgrade" confirmation dialog:
    * display a banner
    * display an URL link button
    * display nicer distribution name
  o when performing distro upgrade:
    * enable to remove media in chroot specified by --urpmi-root
    * run a 2nd gurpmi pass if first failed

Version 2.49 - 3 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o compute regular updates even if there's a new distro
  o enable to not check again for new distro
  o when a new distro is available:
    * add an "upgrade system" in the menu 
    * ask for confirmation before performing distro upgrade
    * if there're updates, install regular updates instead of
      performing distro upgrade on left click
    * only show "Install updates" in right menu only if there actually
      are updates
    * use blue icon

Version 2.48 - 2 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o do not complain if urpmi DB is locked by another program, just
    wait for next check slot

Version 2.47 - 2 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o prevent SIGCHILD handler's waitpid to interfere with urpmi waiting
    for curl exit code, which broke downloads
  o workarounding issue with downloading files as user

Version 2.46 - 2 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o fix backuping urpmi.cfg
  o fix removing media as user

Version 2.45 - 2 October 2008

- mdkapplet
  o workarounding downloading distro list as user for 2008.1 where
    sometimes urpmi reports it failed to download the list when it
    actually did with success

Version 2.44 - 30 September 2008

- mdkapplet
  o add support for downloading distro list as user for 2008.1
  o better check in order to exclude cooker from distro upgrade

Version 2.43 - 30 September 2008

- mdkapplet
  o don't show the applet when there's no network (#40708)

Version 2.42 - 4 September 2008

- mdkapplet:
  o fix dowloading distributions list
  o offer to add media directly from bubble (#39987)
  o prevent running media manager more than one at a time
  o run media manager with --no-splash' option and handle "--urpmi-root=$root"
  o check again after adding update media

Version 2.41 - 7 August 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o add support for --rpm-root=foobar and --urpmi-root=foobar
  o add support for live upgrade when a new distributions is released

Version 2.40 - 8 May 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o run MandrivaUpdate with --no-splash option in order to skip splash
    screen (#40366)

Version 2.39 - 21 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o check for network just before first check
  o do not check for network while checking for updates
  o do not show icon while checking if previously hidden
  o do not show icon while waiting for initial check
  o do not skip first RPM check (change made in 2.16 in march 2007)
  o do not start network cyclic checks before first media test (#38991)
  o kill suppport for bundles
  o reduce resident size by 9MB aka 30% (#31860)

Version 2.38 - 20 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- do not display "install updates" button when notifying about network
  being down
  (regression introduced in 2.35: "offer to install updates in
  notifications")

Version 2.37 - 19 March 2008, Olivier Blin

- simplify network detection

Version 2.36 - 14 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o bump copyright year
  o do not check for network before first media test (#38991)

Version 2.35 - 14 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o offer to install updates in notifications

Version 2.34 - 12 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o do not keep complaining if nightly update cron had failled (#38531)

Version 2.33 - 10 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o adapt to urpmi-5.9 (#38724)

Version 2.32 - 5 March 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- mdkapplet:
  o check more often for network (#37701, #38004)
  o do not crash if notfiy failed on ->show (#38496)
  o do not notify if no network if already done
  o make sure notifications' text doesn't got truncated
  o use more modern API to check for updates

Version 2.32 - Tue Feb 26 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- lazy load Rpmdrake::open_db so that urpm really is lazy loaded at
  runtime when forking checker

Version 2.31 - Tue Feb 26 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- make sure notifications' text doesn't got truncated

Version 2.30 - Mon Feb 18 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- update inactive backport media (#34620)

Version 2.29 - Tue Feb  5 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- increase initial check delayed from 60 seconds to 5 minutes
- make sure to not display any bubbles at all if no updates (#37451)
- really set nice priority
- use Gtk2::Notify instead of Gtk2::NotificationBubble (#37113)
- ues Gtk2::StatusIcon instead of Gtk2::TrayIcon
- hide icon when no updates are availlable (#29728)

Version 2.28 - Fri Feb  1 2008, Thierry Vignaud

- do not crash when icon is removed from the panel socket (#35908)
- do not display a bubble while checking updates (#36526)
- make mdkapplet aware again of network status (#35107)
- readd back tooltips regarding "initial check delay"
- try harder not to report false positives (#36358)

Version 2.27 - Dec 11 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- delay initial check by 1 mn instead of by 25 seconds
- do not display bubbles while waiting for the initial check

Version 2.26 - Dec 05 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- kill disconnect state (thus make mdkapplet works again w/o network)
- mdkapplet.conf: fix default update frequency

Version 2.25 - Dec 04 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- drop --debug option
- drop online registration wizard (obsolete since we locally compute
  updates)
- drop web link from menu (was only relevant for web based Online
  service)
- install config file for applet
- kill dead code
- renice checking updates at level 7
- show Mandriva Linux site instead of old mdvonline one

Version 2.24 - Oct 23 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- use notification bubbles
- do not harcode icon extension

Version 2.23.1 - Oct 02 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- fix bogus catalog
- mdkapplet:
  o fix a crash when /etc/mandriva-release isn't readable due to high msec
    level (#34323))
  o run with reduced I/O priority (#33888)
- own /etc/cron.daily/mdkupdate (#33454)

Version 2.22 - Sep 04 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- improve About dialog

Version 2.21 - Tue Dec  4 2007, Thierry Vignaud

- drop --debug option
- drop online registration wizard (obsolete since we locally compute
  updates)
- drop web link from menu (was only relevant for web based Online
  service)
- install config file for applet
- kill dead code
- renice checking updates at level 7
- show Mandriva Linux site instead of old mdvonline one