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Linyaps Release Notes

Version 1.14

🚀 New Features

  • Debug Mode: ll-cli run now supports --debug mode, which launches the application under gdbserver, with --debug-listen, --debug-debuginfod, and --debug-symbol-dir options for easy debugger attachment.
  • Dependency & Size Analysis: Added ll-cli analyze depends and ll-cli analyze size subcommands to view the dependency tree of installed applications and to report exclusive, shared, logical, and actual disk usage per module.
  • PipeWire Support: Added --enable-pipewire option to mount the current user's PipeWire socket inside the sandbox, providing audio and video service access for applications.
  • AT SPI Support: Added --enable-atspi option to mount the AT SPI socket inside the sandbox, improving accessibility service access.
  • Runtime Configuration Enhancements: Support for config.d/*.json drop-in configurations and CDI device references in runtime configuration, allowing devices to be declared in config files.
  • Process List Enhancement: ll-cli ps gained --no-truncated to show full container IDs.
  • Version Info Enhancement: Non-release builds now embed git hash and build channel metadata in the version string, making build provenance easier to identify.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Module Preservation: Fixed missing installed modules when upgrading or downgrading applications.
  • UAB Export: Fixed UAB export failure when cross-device hard links fail; added fallback copy logic.
  • Debug Security: Bound gdbserver to loopback by default to prevent debug services from being exposed to the network.
  • Export Path: Fixed relative --output path resolution during UAB export.
  • User Home Directory: Used HOME environment variable instead of hardcoded /home/ path prefix, fixing runtime on systems with non-default home directories.
  • D-Bus Fixes: Fixed QtDBus file descriptor marshaling and ll-package-manager abnormal startup issues.
  • Initialization: Fixed ll-init handling of empty command arguments.
  • OverlayFS: Improved kernel OverlayFS support detection and fixed related mode resolution.
  • Cache Cleanup: Fixed cache removal failures after modifying directory permissions.
  • Task State: Fixed missing final task state when a task is removed quickly.
  • Network Configuration: Fixed /etc/resolv.conf symlink resolution to ensure correct DNS configuration inside the sandbox.

Version 1.13

🚀 New Features

  • Instance Configuration: Added --instance option to ll-cli run, allowing per-instance runtime configuration with custom mounts for isolated container environments.
  • System-wide Runtime Configuration: Added system-level runtime configuration directory at /etc/linglong, with system defaults, per-application configs, and user configs merged in priority order.
  • Run in Runtime/Base Environment: ll-cli run now supports running commands directly inside a runtime or base environment without requiring an application.
  • NVIDIA GPU Auto-detection: Automatically detects NVIDIA GPU via CDI when no CDI devices are explicitly specified.
  • Package Manager Authorization: Added polkit authorization handling for ll-package-manager, improving permission management for install, uninstall, and other operations.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Build Run Identity: Fixed ll-builder run environment not using the current user's UID/GID.
  • Extension Resolution: Fixed extension definitions not being properly resolved from runtime configuration.
  • XDP Compatibility: Automatically disables XDP integration for applications that do not conform to XDG Desktop Portal ID specification, and fixed document mount options.
  • Build Dependencies: Improved build-time dependency pull logic to reduce build failures.

Version 1.12

🚀 New Features

  • XDG Desktop Portal Integration: Enabled xdg-desktop-portal support by default for GTK/Qt applications, ensuring file dialogs in sandboxed environments correctly use the host portal.
  • RISC-V 64 Architecture Support: Added complete support for RISC-V 64 architecture, including architecture recognition and toolchain triplet generation.
  • Working Directory Option: Added --workdir option to ll-builder run and ll-cli run commands, allowing specification of the application's working directory inside the container.
  • Shell Completion Support: Added Zsh and Fish shell auto-completion support for ll-builder commands.
  • XDP Integration Control: Added --disable-xdp flag, allowing users to disable xdg-desktop-portal integration.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Container Management: Fixed errors when entering containers, improved container ID prefix matching functionality, and provided clearer error messages.
  • Qt 6 Compatibility: Resolved Qt 6 D-Bus metatype registration issues, ensuring runtime stability on distributions like Ubuntu 24.04.
  • Symbolic Link Handling: Fixed the issue where symbolic links could not be properly resolved when traversing the entries directory, ensuring desktop file discovery works correctly.
  • X11 Display Handling: Improved parsing of XOrg display environment variables, handling various edge cases for protocol/hostname/display number/screen number.
  • D-Bus Address Parsing: Implemented specification-compliant D-Bus address parsing, added URL encoding/decoding utilities.

Version 1.11

🚀 New Features

  • Cross-Architecture Build Support: Added cross-architecture build and export capabilities, supporting application builds across different CPU architectures.
  • NVIDIA Driver Detection: Introduced ll-driver-detect utility for automatic NVIDIA graphics driver detection and configuration.
  • Device Nodes in Extensions: Support for configuring device nodes in container extensions, enhancing GPU and hardware device access.
  • XDG Desktop Portal Support: Integrated XDG Desktop Portal for improved desktop integration of sandboxed applications.
  • Manual Extension Loading: Support for manual extension loading via command line, enhancing application customization.
  • Repository Mirror Management: Repository configuration now supports enabling and disabling mirrors to optimize dependency pull speed.
  • Wayland Protocol Support: Added support for Wayland security-context-v1 protocol, improving security in Wayland environments.
  • Build Export Enhancement: Build tool now includes --ref option for exporting UAB packages by specific references.
  • Force Uninstall Option: Added the --force option to the uninstall command to force the uninstallation of the base environment or runtime.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • UAB Export Fixes: Fixed issues with UAB export and cross-architecture builds, updated build templates.
  • Layer Management: Fixed incorrect removal of re-installed layers during lazy uninstall.
  • Signal Handling: Improved container signal handling mechanism for better stability across PID namespaces.
  • Memory Safety: Fixed multiple memory safety issues, improving runtime stability.
  • Qt Compatibility: Resolved Qt5/Qt6 compilation and linking issues, enhancing cross-version compatibility.
  • Upgrade Process: Fixed the issue where multiple versions of an application appear when errors occur during the upgrade process.
  • Timezone Handling: Support for using TZDIR environment variable to bind the local timezone directory.

Version 1.10

🚀 New Features

  • GPU Support: The application runtime now supports graphics processing unit (GPU) capabilities to improve computing performance and rendering efficiency.

  • Container Process Management: Containerized runtimes have been enhanced to support waiting for child processes to terminate, ensuring resource management and system stability.

  • Repository Mirror Control: Repository configuration now includes the ability to enable and disable mirroring, allowing users to flexibly control and optimize dependency pull speed.

  • Startup Environment Variables: The application startup command now supports using the --env parameter to set runtime environment variables, facilitating dynamic configuration and debugging.

  • Build Tool Export: The build tool now includes a --ref option, supporting the export of UAB packages by specific references, optimizing the distribution and deployment process.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Desktop Integration: Fixed a logical error that could cause application icons to disappear from the taskbar after updating the Linglong component.

  • File I/O: Resolved encoding and parsing issues that caused operations to fail when opening file paths containing special characters.

  • Build File Inclusion: Fixed an issue where the build tools failed to correctly include and export hidden files when exporting packages.

Version 1.9

🚀 New Features

  • Container Process Management Optimization: Introduced dumb-init as the container init process, responsible for signal forwarding and zombie process cleanup, significantly optimizing container internal process management efficiency.
  • UAB File Generation Refactoring: Completely refactored the UAB file generation logic, encapsulating all related dependencies into the ll-builder-utils toolchain, resolving compatibility issues during export on some distributions.
  • Qt Version Compatibility: The project now supports both Qt5 and Qt6, automatically selecting the appropriate Qt version when compiling applications, improving flexibility.
  • Command Line Tool Multi-language Support: Command line tools now support more languages from different countries and regions, enhancing internationalization capabilities.
  • Architecture-specific Configuration Loading: Supports loading architecture-specific configuration files (e.g., linglong.arm64.yaml) through ll-builder, enabling automatic adaptation for different hardware architectures.
  • Build Product Compression Algorithm Selection: Linyaps build tools now allow users to specify compression algorithms when exporting target products.
  • Local Multi-repository Support: Added support for local multi-repository management, which can be used for installing and searching applications.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue where error messages were too vague, now the prompts are clearer and more explicit.
  • Fixed anomalies in application cache loading and update logic.
  • Fixed defects where update tasks would abnormally terminate during application runtime.
  • Fixed potential abnormal error reporting issues when uninstalling applications.

Version 1.8

🚀 New Features

  • Enhanced Build Capabilities:
    • Dependency Management Optimization: Improved dependency management mechanism, supporting installation of build toolchain dependencies through APT package manager.
    • Compression Algorithm Extension: When exporting applications, now supports more compression algorithms, including LZ4, LZMA, and ZSTD.
    • Build Environment Upgrade: Linyaps client now supports building in Qt6 environment.
  • Internationalization Support: Command line tools added support for multiple languages, including English (en_US/en_GB), Spanish (es), Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), Catalan (ca), Finnish (fi), Polish (pl), Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR), Albanian (sq), and Ukrainian (uk).

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Stability Improvements:
    • Fixed the issue where mounted directories were not completely cleaned up after installing layers.
    • Resolved defects in upgrading base environment and runtime components.
    • Optimized application uninstall logic to ensure residual directories can be thoroughly cleaned.
  • Symbolic Link Processing Mechanism Improvement: Fixed the anomaly where relative path symbolic links were incorrectly converted to empty directories; also corrected the issue where invalid symbolic links were not properly copied.

Version 1.7

🚀 New Features

  • Repository Storage Layer Structure Optimization: Optimized the repository's storage layer structure, making application management no longer forcibly dependent on the file system, improving flexibility.
  • Linyaps Data File Export Optimization: Linyaps data file export function no longer exports all files under the share directory, reducing export volume.
  • Loongson New World Architecture Support: Linyaps now supports application packaging and running on Loongson New World architecture.
  • Installation, Uninstallation, and Update Behavior Adjustment and Optimization:
    • The new version no longer supports installing multiple versions of the same application locally. For multiple old versions retained after client upgrade, all package management operations will only take effect on the highest version except for uninstall operations.
    • When upgrading or downgrading while the application is running, the uninstall action of the old version will be delayed to ensure smooth transition.
  • Linyaps Command Line Tool Help Information Internationalization: Command line tool help information has begun internationalization, currently supporting Chinese, English, and Spanish, with professional internationalization translation platforms to be integrated later.
  • Linyaps Command Line Parameter Parsing Optimization: Adopted a new command line parameter parsing framework, making parameter information display clearer and more readable.
  • Linyaps Application Packaging Build Optimization: When using the new build tool to package applications, application debug symbols will be stripped to effectively reduce the final application package size.
  • runtime/base Management Command Adjustment: runtime/base no longer supports uninstallation using the uninstall command, instead providing the prune command for cleaning up unused runtime and base components.
  • New ll-cli list --upgradable Command: This command is used to display all upgradeable version lists of currently installed applications.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Solved the problem of Linyaps application debugging failure.
  • Fixed the defect that could cause application crashes when using the ll-cli search command to find applications after enabling system proxy.

Version 1.6

🚀 New Features

  • USB Drive Directory File Reading: Linyaps applications now support direct reading of directories and files in USB drives.
  • New ll-pica-flatpak Tool: Added the ll-pica-flatpak tool, supporting conversion of Flatpak format applications to Linyaps format.

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the issue where script execution failed when upgrading Linyaps packages.
  • Fixed the defect where executing other commands might be blocked when installing Linyaps applications.
  • Fixed the problem where application names were too long and displayed incompletely when viewing the application list.