Changelog

5.21.1 (unreleased)

[!IMPORTANT] This version is not released yet and is under active development.

• [scoop] Fix parsing of scoop version to support raw Git output.

• [gem] Remove hard-coded gem CLI search path.

• [mpm] Remap pURL types to managers. Closes #1460.

• [mpm] Allow multiple regular expressions to be used for version matching.

5.21.0 (2025-05-28)

• [mpm] Drop support for Python 3.10.

• [mpm] Fix parsing of package specifiers with multiple version separators.

• [npm] Fix retrieval of installed packages.

• [fwupd] Remove --offline parameter which has been silently disabled and has now been remove in v2.0.0 of fwupd. Refs #1511.

• [bar-plugin] Bump minimal Python version to 3.9 to aligns it with macOS default.

• [bar-plugin] Check minimal version of SwiftBar is 2.1.2.

• [bar-plugin] Reduce size of error messages from 12 to 10.

• [mpm] Remove reference to python3 command in documentation to reduce confusion.

• [mpm] Build arm64 binary for Linux.

• [mpm] Try to build arm64 binary for Windows but mark it as unstable.

• [mpm] Use post-build binary test plans to check CLI behavior.

• [mpm] Run tests on windows-2025 instead of windows-2022.

• [mpm] Reactivates concurrency limits on tests.

• [mpm] Uploads codecov test results.

5.20.0 (2024-11-23)

• [eopkg] Add support for new eopkg manager. Closes #1093.

• [fwupd] Add support for new fwupd manager. Closes #1289.

• [dnf5] Add support for new dnf5 manager. Refs #1423.

• [mpm] Hide --manager and --exclude options from help output and silence deprecation warnings. Closes #1358.

• [mpm] Add detailed documentation on manager selection with configuration file.

• [mpm] Fix mixing of manager selector lists and flags.

5.19.0 (2024-11-13)

• [vscodium] Add support for VSCodium plugins.

• [dnf,mas,vscode,yum] Implement remove operation.

• [dnf,yum] Use query template instead of regex parsing to retrieve package data.

• [flatpak] Fix parsing of descriptions with spaces.

• [uv] Implement outdated and cleanup operation.

• [uv] Bump minimal requirement to 0.5.0.

• [uv] Always invoke uv with --no-progress parameter.

• [mas] Bump minimal requirement to 1.8.7.

• [mas] Reactivate mas tests.

• [mpm] Add official support for Python 3.13.

• [mpm] Drop support for Python 3.9.

• [mpm] Replace local platform utilities by extra-platforms dependency.

• [mpm] Run tests on Python 3.14-dev.

• [mpm] Run tests and actions on ubuntu-24.04 instead of ubuntu-22.04.

• [mpm] Run tests on macos-15 instead of macos-14.

• [mpm] Add a Sankey diagram of all supported package managers.

5.18.0 (2024-08-02)

• [mpm] Add new command to export installed packages to a SBOM file in SPDX or CycloneDX standard. Closes #936.

• [mpm] Add new dependencies on spdx-tools and cyclonedex-python-lib.

• [mpm] Update list of recognized pURL scheme types.

• [apt] Add architecture in package metadata.

5.17.0 (2024-07-07)

• [uv] Add support for uv package manager for Python.

• [mpm] Add --no-<manager-id> negative selection flags for each single manager. Closes #882.

• [mpm] Deprecate -m/--manager and -e/--exclude options in favor of single --<manager-id>/--no-<manager-id> selectors.

• [bar-plugin] Identify uv-based virtual envs to run mpm executable.

• [mpm] Stop CLI execution if manager selection parameters ends up with no managers being retained.

• [mpm] Switch from Poetry to uv.

• [mpm] Drop support for Python 3.8.

• [mpm] Add dependency on more-itertools.

• [mpm] Add metadata and icon to binaries produced by Nuitka.

• [mpm] Mark Python 3.13-dev tests as stable.

• [bar-plugin] Reactivate login shells invocation tests.

• [bar-plugin] Skip rendering tests on GitHub.

• [mpm] Remove sys.path cleaning hack in __main__ invocation.

• [mpm] Reactivate config file test for restore subcommand.

5.16.0 (2024-05-24)

• [winget] Add support for WinGet on Windows. Closes #500 and #1241.

• [scoop] Add mpm installation instructions with scoop.

• [bar-plugin] Dynamiccaly search for Python, virtual envs and mpm executable instead of relying on hard-coded PATH environment variable.

• [bar-plugin] Replace --check-mpm parameter by --search-mpm with complete results reporting.

• [mpm] Slim down package by moving unit tests out of the main package.

• [mpm] Split dev dependency groups into optional test, typing and docs groups.

• [mpm] Remove direct dependency on click and mypy.

• [mpm] Make typing-extensions dependency optional.

5.15.0 (2024-02-25)

• [pkg] Add support for pkg on FreeBSD.

• [choco] Bump minimal choco requirement to 2.0.0.

• [bar-plugin] Keep original indention of Python traceback.

• [mpm] Build arm64 binaries on macos-14.

• [mpm] Run tests on macos-14 instead of macos-13.

• [mpm] Run tests on Python 3.13-dev branch.

• [mas] Deactivate integration tests for mas on macOS, which always timeout.

• [mpm] Reintroduce coloring of version. Refs #1152.

• [mpm] Use external workflow to manage issues and PRs content-based labelling.

5.14.2 (2024-01-17)

• [mpm] Fix installation from pipx. Closes #1154.

5.14.1 (2024-01-16)

• [bar-plugin] Always call mpm --version without color.

• [bar-plugin] Increase robustness of mpm version parsing, whether its colored or not.

• [mpm] Temporary disable version output in color to fix already installed plugin/binary pairs. Closes #1152.

5.14.0 (2024-01-12)

• [mpm] Add a -t/--timeout option to set the maximum duration of each CLI call. Defaults to 10 minutes.

• [mpm] Drop support of Python 3.7.

• [scoop] Fix parsing of Scoop version.

• [mpm] Group platforms by family in the managers subcommand.

• [mpm] Run tests and actions on released Python 3.12 version.

• [mpm] Run tests on macos-13. Remove tests on macos-12, macos-11, ubuntu-20.04 and windows-2019.

• [mpm] Run bar plugin unittests in their independent, non-parallel step.

• [mpm] Skip testing on intermediate Python versions to speed up CI. Only the oldest and latest supported.

• [mpm] Skip configuration-related tests while we investigate test isolation.

• [mpm] Fix fetching of full local copy of cask tap in tests to allow for checkout of past formula.

• [mpm] Replace unmaintained bump2version by bump-my-version.

5.13.1 (2023-05-04)

• [apt] Fix omission of the final result in an apt (non-mint) search.

• [mpm] Defaults to case-insensitive, lexicographical sort of package IDs in backup subcommand.

• [mpm] Update brew installation instructions now that mpm is available in official Homebrew repository.

5.13.0 (2023-03-31)

• [mpm] Add new which/locate subcommand to search for CLIs in user’s environment.

• [mpm] Allow usage of sudo for CLI invocation on all UNIXes, not Linux only. Closes #976.

• [apt] Fix parsing of search results for apt and apt-mint. Closes #881 and #966.

• [mpm] Adds --run-destructive, --skip-destructive, --run-non-destructive and --skip-non-destructive custom options to Pytest.

• [mpm] Run non-destructive tests in parallel and destructive ones in sequential order.

• [mpm] Move all documentation assets to assets subfolder.

5.12.0 (2023-02-25)

• [mpm] Refactor CLI search to allow all matching to be reported. This will open the way to future support of multiple versions of the same package manager. Refs #629.

• [mpm] Exclude empty files for our CLI search results to skip Microsoft’s dummy placeholders on Windows. Closes #927.

• [mpm] Fix composition of CLI search path on Windows.

• [mpm] Deduplicate entries in the list of composed CLI search path.

• [mpm] Do not search for CLI in current directory on Windows.

• [mpm] Fix case-insensitive highlighting of CLI names in path on Windows.

• [yarn] Do not test yarn on Linux and Windows.

• [mpm] Do not force test order on Windows.

5.11.7 (2023-02-20)

• [mpm] Fix overlapping detection of linux and wsl2 platforms. Closes #944.

• [pip] Print Python’s own version in debug logs before checking for Pip’s version.

• [mpm] Code, comments and documentation style change to conform to new QA workflows based on ruff.

• [mpm] Produce dependency graph in Mermaid instead of Graphviz. Add new dev dependency on sphinxcontrib-mermaid.

5.11.6 (2023-02-12)

• [mpm] Fix collection of artifact files from their folder.

5.11.5 (2023-02-12)

• [mpm] Fix collection of artifact files from their folder.

5.11.4 (2023-02-12)

• [mpm] Fix attachment of binaries to GitHub release.

5.11.3 (2023-02-12)

• [mpm] Fix attachment of binaries to GitHub release.

5.11.2 (2023-02-11)

• [mpm] Refine bug report template.

• [mpm] Fix attachment of binaries to GitHub release.

5.11.1 (2023-02-10)

• [mpm] Remove temporary direct dependency on charset-normalizer, fix has been pushed upstream to Nuitka.

• [mpm] Rename artifacts attached to releases to benefits from stable URLs pointing to latest downloads.

• [mpm] Fix some Windows unittests.

5.11.0 (2023-01-29)

• [mpm] Unlock run on any Unix-like platform. Closes #872.

• [brew] Activate brew on Windows Subsystem for Linux v2.

• [choco] Bump minimal choco requirement to 0.10.4.

• [mpm] Depends on charset-normalizer < 3 to fix Nuitka compilation.

• [mpm] Run tests on Python 3.12-dev.

• [mpm] Reduce verbosity of pre-install steps in GitHub actions.

• [mpm] Test mpm binaries.

• [mpm] Force upgrade of Ruby on Windows test runners.

• [mpm] Fix installation of old formulae in brew unittests.

• [mpm] Force re-detection of npm CLI location on macOS subcommand unittests.

• [mpm] Add new GitHub labels for newly supported platforms.

• [mpm] Generates dependency graph in Graphviz format.

5.10.2 (2022-12-19)

• [mpm] Fix uploading of artifacts to GitHub release.

5.10.1 (2022-12-19)

• [mpm] Fix uploading of Nuitka binaries to GitHub release.

5.10.0 (2022-12-19)

• [mpm] Build standalone executable for macOS, Linux and Windows. Closes #725.

• [mpm] Force default output encoding of Windows executable to fix issue on Windows CI agents.

• [bar-plugin] Disable --bar-plugin-path option if CLI not installed from sources.

• [bar-plugin] Rename and move meta_package_manager.7h.py bar plugin script to eliminate dynamic module loading.

• [mpm] Replace dynamic loading of package manager definition by static code.

• [mpm] Highlight package manager’s executable name when printing their path in logs.

• [mpm] Hint at deprecation of manager in the support matrix.

• [mpm] Execute all workflows with Python 3.11.

5.9.0 (2022-11-17)

• [pacaur] Implement pacaur support. Closes #816.

• [mpm] Allow managers to be flagged as deprecated.

• [apm] Flag apm as deprecated.

• [mpm] Remove Atom integration tests.

• [mpm] Fix propagation of user selection of managers in upgrade and remove subcommands.

• [mpm] Fix production of specifiers in restore subcommand.

• [mpm] Fix installation of Scoop on Windows in unittests.

• [mpm] Fix installation of brew on Ubuntu in unittests.

• [mpm] Use form-based issue templates for bug reports and new package manager support requests.

• [mpm] Remove use of deprecated ::set-output directives and replace them by environment files.

5.8.0 (2022-10-05)

• [gem] Implement remove operation.

• [mpm] Allow multiple packages to be fed to install, upgrade and remove subcommands.

• [mpm] Allow for a mix of plain, @-based and pkg:-prefixed purl specifiers on install, upgrade and remove subcommands. Closes #669.

• [mpm] Pass version specifier to install operation in restore subcommand.

• [mpm] Output warning for install and upgrade_one_cli operations not implementing version parameter.

• [mpm] Remove GitHub edit link workaround in documentation.

5.7.0 (2022-09-27)

• [scoop] Add support for Scoop on Windows. Closes #546.

• [mpm] Fix imports from click.extra. Closes #783.

5.6.2 (2022-09-27)

• [mpm] Fix imports from click.extra.

5.6.1 (2022-09-26)

• [mpm] Fix import from private click.extra submodule.

5.6.0 (2022-09-26)

• [brew,cask] Add support for remove operation in homebrew.

• [pacman] Fix pacman install operation. Closes #766.

• [bar-plugin] Check for minimal Python version.

• [mpm] Run tests on ubuntu-22.04 and macos-12.

• [mpm] Remove tests on macos-10.15 and ubuntu-18.04, they’re deprecated by GitHub.

• [mpm] Fix plugin rendering tests.

• [mpm] Always run plugin rendering tests in Poetry venv.

• [bar-plugin] Add a --check-mpm option to tests the mpm binary search phase without running a full outdated package listing.

• [mpm] Tests Python and plugin invocation in lots of shell configuration.

• [mpm] Deactivate login shell tests.

• [mpm] Force Homebrew tap repair in tests.

• [mpm] Dynamiccaly get location of Homebrew Cask formulas in tests.

• [mpm] Install dnf in tests as of ubuntu-22.04. Closes #563.

• [mpm] Add upgrade_all operation in support matrix.

• [mpm] Rely on external workflow to set Python version parameters for mypy, black and pyupgrade jobs.

5.5.1 (2022-07-08)

• [mpm] Eliminate rendering of None cells to <null> in tables.

• [mpm] Add a --refilter/--no-refilter option to search to allow bypassing of mpm default refiltering.

• [npm] Implements remove operation.

• [npm] Use canonical commands for operations.

• [npm] Reduce output verbosity with --no-fund and --no-audit options.

• [yarn] Implements remove operation.

• [yarn] Fix, document and cleanup all global commands.

• [yarn] Set minimal yarn version to 1.20.0, as it should have been.

• [bar-plugin] Silence all errors but critical ones on outdated invocation to prevent a failing manager to block rendering of the plugin output.

5.5.0 (2022-07-08)

• [mpm] Restore behavior of having upgrade assuming --all option on a bare call. Closes #715.

• [cask] Fix parsing of multiple reported installed versions.

• [emerge] Locate and validate qlist and eclean CLI availability.

• [snap] Fix parsing of empty search results.

• [mpm] Allow package name to be empty instead of duplicating it to package ID.

• [mpm] Keep the operation matrix on the readme.md in sync with current code by inspecting implementation.

• [mpm] Add type hints. Closes #655.

• [mpm] Auto-check type hinting in CI.

• [mpm] Render type hints in documentation.

• [mpm] Add metadata for easy citation in academic content.

• [mpm] Deactivate Atom install in macOS tests as it seems broken.

5.4.0 (2022-06-28)

• [mpm] Allow global upgrade of a subset of packages from the command line if no ambiguity is identified.

• [mpm] Add a -A/--all option to upgrade operation.

• [mpm] Add a -d/--duplicates option to installed operation to only show packages sharing the same ID across multiple managers.

• [mpm] Add a global --description option but only implement it for search operation.

• [mpm] Always show description for --extended search. Closes #503.

• [mpm] Rename --package-name search option to --id-name-only.

• [mpm] Add operation aliases:

  • list → installed

  • uninstall → remove

  • update → upgrade

  • lock/freeze/snapshot → backup

• [mpm] Add a --merge option on backup operation to update target TOML file with new installed packages.

• [mpm] Add an --update-version option on backup operation to only update version in the target TOML file.

• [mpm] Add a --overwrite/--force/--replace option on backup operation to force TOML overwrite if destination file exists.

• [pipx] Implement outdated operation.

• [pip] Do not wait for user confirmation on remove operation.

• [mpm] Switch package ID and name columns in table rendering.

• [mpm] Rename all *-like labels to *-based to help finer identification of families.

5.3.0 (2022-06-25)

• [paru] Add paru support.

• [pacman,paru,yay] Run install, upgrade, remove and cleanup operations with sudo.

• [brew,cask] Implement extended search on description.

• [cargo] Implement remove operation.

• [mas] Fix parsing of variable-length output in installed and outdated operations.

• [npm] Apply global variables to all operations.

• [bar-plugin] Fix rendering of package managers without outdated packages. Closes #631.

• [mpm] Colorize version differences in outdated operation output.

• [mpm] Add manager homepage URL metadata.

• [mpm] Keep results matching description in --extended search mode.

• [mpm] Simplify installed, outdated and search operation by relying on generators and a package dataclass.

• [mpm] Disable workflow grouping and concurrency management.

5.2.0 (2022-06-16)

• [yay] Add yay support. Refs #527.

• [mpm,pacman,pip,pipx] Add remove operation.

• [mpm] Add description in search results. Refs #503.

• [mpm] Always refilters search results manually to refine gross matchings.

• [mpm] Document brew and Arch Linux installation. Refs #527.

• [mpm] Benchmark distribution of all mpm alternatives.

• [mpm] Group workflow jobs so new commits cancels in-progress execution triggered by previous commits.

• [mpm] Run tests on early Python 3.11 releases.

5.1.0 (2022-05-15)

• [pipx] Add pipx support. Closes #468.

• [cargo] Add cargo support. Closes #633.

• [mpm] Factorize search result refiltering code.

• [mpm] Regroup dnf and yum labels.

5.0.1 (2022-04-28)

• [apt] Fix commands incompatible with --yes option. Closes #625.

• [mpm] Add topgrade and pacaptr in the list of benchmarked alternatives.

• [mpm] Rename alternative page to benchmark.

• [mpm] Fix label unittests.

5.0.0 (2022-04-25)

• [zypper] Add zypper support for Suse and OpenSuse. Closes #566.

• [emerge] Add emerge support.

• [steamcmd] Add steamcmd support. Refs #10.

• [yum] Add dedicated yum package manager. Refs #415.

• [bar-plugin] Add new DEFAULT_FONT and MONOSPACE_FONT variable.

• [bar-plugin] Rename all reference of xbar to the generic bar-plugin label.

• [bar-plugin] Improve search for Python and mpm executable.

• [bar-plugin] Restructure the plugin ↔ mpm relationship to delegate all plugin layout and rendering logic to mpm.

• [bar-plugin] Prevent leaks when modifying environment variables.

• [mpm] Allow installed and outdated commands to be optionally implemented by package managers.

• [mpm] Add new --plugin-output option to outdated command.

• [mpm] Add tabulate as direct dependency and refactor table alignment in plugin around it.

• [mpm] Rename --xbar-plugin-path option to --bar-plugin-path.

• [mpm] Remove -c/--cli-format option.

• [mpm] Use short-form selection option and fully-qualified path in mpm-based upgrade-all CLIs produced by outdated command.

• [mpm] Add dedicated execution path for running sudo-prefixed commands.

• [mpm] Fix local overriding of CLI parameters leading to missing sudo pre-command. Closes #579.

• [mpm] Use string highlighting code from click-extra >= 2.1.0.

• [mpm] Add edit links to documentation.

4.13.1 (2022-04-17)

• [apt] Add missing sudo pre-commands for apt calls that requires it. Closes #496 and #579.

• [snap] Fix command argument order. Address #579.

• [bar-plugin] Fix location of mpm binary on Apple Silicon machines.

• [mpm] Replace sphinx_tabs by sphinx-design.

• [mpm] Add SwiftBar plugin screenshots.

• [mpm] Remove date-based shallowing of Homebrew git repository in unittests and considers the local runner copy to already be unshallowed.

4.13.0 (2022-04-16)

• [pacman] Add support for pacman. Closes #416.

• [apt-mint] Fix search. Closes #572 and #573.

• [apt-mint] Fix --apt-mint shortcut option.

• [bar-plugin] Add support for SwiftBar.

• [bar-plugin] Add new TABLE_RENDERING option to plugin.

• [bar-plugin] Improve alignment of labels in monospaced font rendering.

• [bar-plugin] Tweak icons.

• [mpm] Allow the meta_package_manager module to be directly executed.

• [mpm] Add --xbar-plugin-path option.

• [mpm] Fix normalization of CLI arguments.

• [mpm] Fix file not found error on non-Windows platform during version checking.

4.12.1 (2022-04-05)

• [mpm] Make CLI path evaluation more robust on Windows. Closes #542.

4.12.0 (2022-04-04)

• [dnf] Add support for dnf. Closes #516, refs #415.

• [yum] Allow yum to act as dnf. Closes #415.

• [brew,cask] Fix execution of sync command.

• [mpm] Fix extraction of version. Closes #536.

4.11.0 (2022-04-03)

• [brew,cask] Do not let homebrew auto-update on other commands. Refs #36.

• [brew,cask] Disable analytics and env hints in logs.

• [bar-plugin] Fix log verbosity and unittests for xbar plugin.

• [mpm] Show in debug logs the extra environment variable used for CLIs.

• [mpm] Enforce code structure in package manager definition files.

• [mpm] Fix documentation generation.

4.10.0 (2022-03-31)

• [mpm] Allow for package managers to simultaneously set a list of pre-commands and environment variables, as well as global arguments before and after the custom ones.

• [mpm] Always run unittest in parallel. Adds development dependency on pytest-xdist and psutil.

• [mpm] Use the tomllib from the standard library starting with Python 3.11.

• [mpm] Cap click-extra requirement to <1.7.0 to fix regression. Closes #518.

4.9.10 (2022-03-09)

• [mpm] Fix execution error on Python 3.10 by updating click-extra. Closes #467.

• [mpm] Reactivate all unittests on Python 3.10.

• [mpm] Remove artificial capping of Python 3.9 to some workflows.

• [mpm] Use external workflow for dependency graph generation and Python code modernization.

• [mpm] Remove direct dependency on cloup, simplejson and pipdeptree.

4.9.9 (2022-01-15)

• [mpm] Fix upload of build artifacts in GitHub release.

4.9.8 (2022-01-15)

• [mpm] Fix propagation of build artifacts to GitHub release and PyPi.

• [mpm] Fix test of labelling rules.

• [mpm] Remove local dependency on graphviz now that fixes were pushed upstream.

4.9.7 (2022-01-11)

• [mpm] Add release version in artifacts produced by Poetry builds.

• [mpm] Pass local PyPi token to reused workflow to fix publishing.

4.9.6 (2022-01-11)

• [mpm] Fix detection of Poetry in build workflow.

4.9.5 (2022-01-11)

• [mpm] Use external workflow for package building and publishing via Poetry.

• [mpm] Reused external label maintenance workflows and definitions.

• [mpm] Add our custom labels to external syncing workflow.

• [mpm] Auto-label sponsors.

• [mpm] Remove changelog code left-overs.

• [mpm] Aligns content of all PRs locally produced by workflows.

4.9.4 (2022-01-04)

• [mpm] Re-integrate artifacts in GitHub release on tagging.

4.9.3 (2022-01-04)

• [mpm] Fix GitHub release’s content update.

4.9.2 (2022-01-04)

• [mpm] Regenerate GitHub release content body dynamiccaly on tagging.

4.9.1 (2022-01-04)

• [mpm] Automate minor and major version bump.

• [mpm] Automate release preparation workflow.

• [mpm] Trigger tagging, build and version bump on release event.

• [mpm] Add a debug workflow for troubleshooting.

4.9.0 (2022-01-03)

• [mpm] Add single manager selector aliases: --apm, --apt, --apt-mint, --brew, --cask. --choco, --composer, --flatpak, --gem, --mas, --npm, --opkg, --pip, --snap, --vscode and --yarn.

• [brew,cask] Thorough cleanup: call autoremove commands to remove unused dependencies and use --prune=all to scrub the whole cache.

• [mpm] Switch default table rendering to rounded_outline.

• [mpm] Rely on click-extra for table rendering and tests.

• [mpm] Remove direct dependencies on click-log and cli-helpers.

• [mpm] Automate post-release version bump.

• [mpm] Outsource some workflow definition to external repository.

• [mpm] Fix generation of dependency graph.

4.8.0 (2021-11-01)

• [mpm] Add --color/--no-color (aliased to --ansi/--no-ansi) flags.

• [mpm] Forces no color on JSON output.

• [mpm] Group commands and options in help screen.

• [mpm] Colorize options, choices, metavars and default values in help screens.

• [mpm] Reintroduce coloring of --version option.

• [mpm] Add dependency on click-extra.

• [mpm] Use sphinx-click to auto-generate CLI documentation.

• [mpm] Autofix Markdown content with mdformat.

• [mpm] Simplify project management by abandoning the dual use of main/develop branches.

4.7.0 (2021-10-13)

• [mpm] Add help screen coloring.

• [mpm] Change documentation theme from classic RTD to furo.

• [mpm] Move documentation from readthedocs.org to github.io.

• [mpm] Rewrite documentation from rST to MyST.

• [mpm] Add dependency on cloup.

• [mpm] Removes click-help-colors dependency.

• [mpm] Run tests on Python 3.10.

• [mpm] Add a contribution guide stub in documentation. Closes #276.

4.6.0 (2021-10-04)

• [mpm] Implements XKCD 1654. Closes #10.

• [mpm] Add -x/--xkcd option to forces manager selection.

• [mpm] Let -m/--manager multi-option keep order.

4.5.0 (2021-09-30)

• [choco] Add Chocolatey package manager.

• [mpm] Skip by default the evaluation of package managers not supported on the user’s platform. Closes #278.

• [mpm] Add a -a/--all-managers option to force the evaluation of all managers.

• [mpm] Fix highlighting of substrings in search results.

4.4.0 (2021-09-27)

• [mpm] Add a global -d/--dry-run option.

• [apt] Add dedicated apt-mint manager to handle the special case of apt on Linux Mint.

• [bar-plugin] Let xbar plugin check minimal mpm version requirement.

• [mpm] Use regexpes to extract package manager versions.

• [mpm] Add beta windows-2022 CI/CD build target.

• [mpm] Remove all the unused utilities to discard some table rendering on Windows.

4.3.0 (2021-09-25)

• [mpm] Add new install command. Closes #21.

• [vscode] Add support for Visual Studio Code plugins.

• [mpm] Finish complete restore command implementation. Closes #38.

• [mpm] Remove un-enforced poetry-like caret-based version specification from TOML backup files.

• [mpm] Forces logger state reset before each CLI call in unittests.

4.2.0 (2021-09-21)

• [mpm] Add support for TOML configuration file. Closes #66.

• [mpm] Add -C/--config option to point to specific configuration file.

• [mpm] Upgrade to Click 8.x.

• [mpm] Add support for psql_unicode and minimal table format.

• [mpm] Set default table format to psql_unicode instead of fancy_grid to reduce visual noise.

• [mpm] Add support for environment variables for all parameters, prefixed with MPM_.

• [mpm] Let Click produce default values in help screen.

• [mpm] Replace tomlkit dependency by tomli and tomli_w.

• [bar-plugin] Fix xbar plugin output format.

• [bar-plugin] Rename VAR_SUBMENU_lAYOUT environment variable to VAR_SUBMENU_LAYOUT.

• [mpm] Remove support for --cli-format bitbar option. Use xbar value instead.

4.1.0 (2021-05-01)

• [bar-plugin] Add new Submenu layout boolean option in xbar plugin UI.

• [bar-plugin] Rename XBAR_MPM_SUBMENU environment variable to VAR_SUBMENU_lAYOUT.

• [mpm] Allow search of multiple CLI names for a package manager.

• [pip] Fix search of python3 binary on macOS. Closes #247.

4.0.0 (2021-04-27)

• [bar-plugin] Upgrade BitBar plugin to new xbar format.

• [bar-plugin] Drop xbar plugin requirement on Python 2.x and bump it up to Python 3.7.3.

• [bar-plugin] Update references of BitBar to xbar.

• [bar-plugin] Rename BITBAR_MPM_SUBMENU environment variable to XBAR_MPM_SUBMENU.

• [mpm] Rename --cli-format bitbar option to --cli-format xbar.

• [mpm] Auto-generate API documentation via a GitHub action workflow.

• [mpm] Only trigger dependency graph update on tagging to reduce noise.

• [mpm] Re-introduce isort.

3.6.0 (2021-01-03)

• [brew] Add support for brew on Linux.

• [brew,cask] Bump minimal requirement of brew to 2.7.0.

• [cask] Address deprecation of cask CLI subcommands.

• [pip] pip search has been disabled by maintainers because of server-side high-load.

• [mpm] Add test runs against new OSes and distributions: ubuntu-18.04 and macos-11.0.

• [mpm] Remove pycodestyle now that we rely on black.

• [mpm] Add emoji to issue labels.

3.5.2 (2020-10-29)

• [mpm] Run tests on Python 3.9.

• [mpm] Upgrade to Poetry 1.1.0.

• [mpm] Colorize version screen and add debug data.

• [mpm] Test publishing to PyPi in dry-run mode by the way of Poetry.

• [mpm] Make all keyword-based choice parameters (--manager, --exclude, --output-format, --sort-by and --cli-format) case-insensitive.

• [mpm] Pin versions of OSes and distributions in CI workflows to ubuntu-20.04, macos-10.15 and windows-2019.

• [mpm] Always print errors in unittest’s CLI calls.

• [mpm] Slow-down tests to prevent PyPi rate-limiting on live API.

• [mpm] Fix brew setup on macOS CI runners.

• [mpm] Fix npm setup in Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 CI runners.

• [mpm] Use latest Atom version in Ubuntu CI runners.

3.5.1 (2020-10-03)

• [mpm] Defaults to --continue-on-error instead of stopping.

• [mpm] Force checking of CLI being a file.

• [mpm] Auto-optimize images.

• [mpm] Auto-lock closed issues and PRs after a moment of inactivity.

3.5.0 (2020-09-20)

• [mpm] Fix --stop-on-error parameter: it was never taken into account.

• [brew,cask] Bump minimal requirement of brew to 2.5.0.

• [brew,cask] Fix warning to deprecated options.

• [npm] Always fix JSON parsing on error for any npm subcommand.

3.4.2 (2020-09-13)

• [brew,cask] Do not mix-up brew and cask upgrades.

• [npm] Skip parsing of JSON results on error.

3.4.1 (2020-09-02)

• [mpm] Rename master branch to main.

3.4.0 (2020-08-18)

• [yarn] Set minimal requirement to 1.20.0.

• [yarn] Fix deprecated global arguments.

• [bar-plugin] Force refresh of local package databases before fetching outdated ones.

• [mpm] Add utilities to read a config TOML file. Refs #66.

• [mpm] Auto-format Python code with Black.

• [mpm] Move pytest config from setup.py to pyproject.toml.

• [mpm] Removes isort.

• [mpm] Auto-update Python’s dependencies.

• [mpm] Auto-update GitHub actions.

• [mpm] Auto-update .gitignore file.

• [mpm] Auto-update .mailmap file.

• [mpm] Lint all YAML files. Add dependency on yamllint package.

• [mpm] Removes requires.io and Scrutinizer badges.

• [mpm] Revert to pipdeptree to produce package dependency graph.

3.3.0 (2020-06-23)

• [bar-plugin] Each entry in the drop-down menu can now be called into a terminal to track the execution by holding the Option key.

• [bar-plugin] Fix rendering of upgrade CLI in Bitbar dialect.

• [mpm] Hint for lack of sync and cleanup support by managers.

• [mpm] Do not print table headers if there is no row to print.

• [mpm] Always print non-fatal <stderr> output as warning mode.

• [mpm] Skip table rendering tests if no table is printed to stdout. Fixes flacky tests.

• [mpm] Replace internal helpers with upstreamed boltons 20.2.0 utils.

• [mpm] Force test marked as xfail count as failure if they succeed.

• [mpm] Always check wheel content.

• [mpm] Automate creation of GitHub release.

• [mpm] Automate publishing of package to PyPi on tagging.

• [mpm] Save build artifacts on each CI runs.

• [mpm] Auto-sort module imports.

• [mpm] Auto-fix common typos.

• [mpm] Lint JSON files.

• [mpm] Automate GitHub label generation and synchronization.

• [mpm] Automatically applies labels on PRs and issues depending on their changed files and content.

• [mpm] Check label rules against manager definitions. Adds development dependency on PyYAML.

3.2.0 (2020-05-31)

• [snap] Add support for snap on Linux.

• [cask] Rely on JSON output to fetch outdated packages.

• [brew,cask] Bump minimal requirement to 2.2.15.

• [pip] Remove pip2/pip3 distinctions, use system’s python and call pip module.

• [windows] Allow discarding of some table rendering on Windows.

• [mpm] Add --time/--no-time flag to show elapsed execution time. Closes #9.

• [mpm] Print table rendering, stats and timing in console output instead of logger to allow them to be greppable.

• [bar-plugin] Test plugin with Python 2.7.

• [mpm] Allow for manager-specific search path to help hunting down CLIs.

• [mpm] Highlight CLI and indent results in debug output.

• [mpm] Bump dependency to pylint 2.5 and cli-helpers 2.0.

• [mpm] Use local copy of boltons utils while we wait for upstream release.

• [mpm] Move pylint config from setup.cfg to pyproject.toml.

• [mpm] Fail CI and QA checks if pylint score lower than 9.

• [mpm] Add more platform definition unittests.

• [mpm] Unittests all rendering modes in all subcommands.

• [mpm] Randomize unittests.

• [mpm] Drop support of Python 3.6.

• [mpm] Use group-tabs in Sphinx docs.

3.1.0 (2020-04-02)

• [mpm] Add new cleanup command. Closes #5.

• [mpm] Improve table sorting with new version-aware tokenizer.

• [mpm] Highlight manager IDs depending on their availability in managers command.

• [gem] Ignore default: prefix on package version parsing.

• [mpm] Remove packaging dependency. Rely on internal version parsing.

• [mpm] Add new --exact and --extended parameters to search command.

• [mpm] Highlight search matches in console output.

• [mas] Retrieve version in search results.

• [mas] Bump minimal version to 1.6.1.

• [mpm] Allow stats to be printed for backup command.

• [gem] Bump minimal requirement to 2.5.0.

3.0.0 (2020-03-25)

• [mpm] Add new backup and dummy restore commands to respectively dump and load up list of installed packages to/from a TOML file. Refs #38.

• [mpm] Add dependency on tomlkit.

• [yarn] Add support for yarn package manager for Linux, macOS and Windows.

• [yarn] Install yarn on all unittest platforms.

• [mpm] Allow exclusion of a subset of package managers. Closes #45.

• [pip] Collect installer metadata on listing.

• [pip] Bump minimal requirement of pip to 10.0.*.

• [mpm] Prepend /usr/local/bin to cli search path.

• [npm] install package@version instead of update package.

• [npm] Skip update notifier.

• [brew,cask] Allow independent search for each manager.

• [brew,cask] Bump minimal requirement of to 2.2.9.

• [mpm] Allow sorting restuls by packages, managers or version. Closes #35 and #37.

• [mpm] Add shell completion for Bash, Zsh and Fish.

• [mpm] Do not force sync when calling outdated. Closes #36.

• [apt] Fallback on apt version apt when looking for version. Closes #57 and #52.

• [mpm] Removes all copyright dates.

• [mpm] Replace unmaintained bumpversion by bump2version.

• [mpm] Raise requirement to click 7.1.

• [mpm] Raise requirement to boltons >= 20.0.

2.9.0 (2020-03-18)

• [mpm] Drop support of Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. Add support for Python 3.8.

• [windows] Add support for apm, composer, gem, npm and pip2 on Windows.

• [linux] Add support for Flatpak and opkg package managers on Linux.

• [gem] Force Ruby gem to install packages to user-install by default. Refs #58.

• [pip] Force Python pip upgrade to user-installed packages. Refs #58.

• [brew] Fix call to brew upgrade --cleanup. Refs #50.

• [brew] Fix parsing of brew version. Closes #49 and #51.

• [mpm] Switch from Travis to GitHub actions.

• [composer] Install composer in all platforms CI runners.

• [linux] Install flatpak in Linux CI runner.

• [windows] Install apm in Windows CI runner.

• [mpm] Bump requirement to click-log >= 0.3.

• [mpm] Add non-blocking Pylint code quality checks in CI.

• [mpm] Check for conflicting dependencies in CI.

• [mpm] Use Poetry for package and virtualenv management.

• [mpm] Replace pipdeptree by Poetry CLI output.

• [mpm] Remove backports.shutil_which dependency.

• [mpm] Update .gitignore.

• [mpm] Drop all Python 3.0 __future__ imports.

• [mpm] Add detailed usage CLI page in documentation.

2.8.0 (2019-01-03)

• [composer] Add support for PHP composer.

• [cask] Remove cask-specific version, sync and search command. Closes #47.

• [brew] Vanilla brew and cask CLIs now shares the same version requirements.

• [brew] Bump minimal requirement of brew and cask to 1.7.4.

• [mpm] Activate unittests in Python 3.7.

• [mpm] Drop Travis unittests on deprecated Ubuntu Precise targets and vintage Mac OS X 10.10 and 10.11.

• [mpm] Use latest macOS 10.12 and 10.13 Travis images.

2.7.0 (2018-04-02)

• [mpm] Add new --ignore-auto-updates and --include-auto-updates boolean flags.

• [mpm] Support even fancier table output rendering, including csv and html.

• [mpm] Depends on cli-helpers package to render tables.

• [mpm] Removes direct dependency on tabulate.

• [cask] Fix minimal version check for cask. Closes #41 and #44.

• [bar-plugin] Do not run BitBar plugin unittests but on macOS.

2.6.1 (2017-11-05)

• [mpm] Fix Travis unittests.

2.6.0 (2017-09-11)

• [apt] Add support for apt on Linux systems.

• [pip] Use pip 9.0 JSON output. Closes #18.

• [pip] Bump minimal requirement of pip to 9.0.*.

• [cask] Use new brew cask outdated command.

• [cask] Remove usage of deprecated brew cask update command.

• [cask] Bump minimal requirement of cask to 1.1.12.

• [mpm] Add dependency on simplejson.

• [mpm] Bump requirement to click_log >= 0.2.0. Closes #39.

• [mpm] Replace nose by pytest.

• [mpm] Only notify by mail of test failures.

2.5.0 (2017-03-01)

• [mpm] Auto-detect location of manager CLI on the system.

• [mpm] Add new search operation. Closes #22.

• [npm] Bump minimal requirement of npm to 4.0.*.

• [mpm] Rename list operation to installed.

• [apm,gem,linux,npm] Allow use of apm, gem and npm managers on Linux.

• [mpm] Add new --stats/--no-stats boolean flags. Closes #8.

• [mpm] Add new --stop-on-error/--continue-on-error parameters to make CLI errors either blocking or non-blocking.

• [mpm] Allow reporting of several CLI errors by managers.

• [mpm] Allow selection of a subset of managers.

• [mpm] Do not force a sync before listing installed packages in CLI.

• [mpm] Rework API documentation.

• [cask] Add unittest to cover unicode names for Cask packages. Closes #16.

• [cask] Add unittest to cover Cask packages with multiple names. Refs #26.

• [mpm] Drop support of Python 3.3.

2.4.0 (2017-01-28)

• [mpm] Add new list operation. Closes #20.

• [mas] Fix upgrade of mas packages. Closes #32.

• [bar-plugin] Document BitBar plugin release process.

• [mpm] Colorize check-marks in CLI output.

• [mpm] Decouple sync and outdated actions in all managers.

• [mpm] Cache output of outdated command.

• [mpm] Add global todo list in documentation.

• [mpm] Bump requirement to boltons >= 17.0.0 for Python 3.3 compatibility.

2.3.0 (2017-01-15)

• [mpm] Add Sphinx documentation. Closes #24.

• [mpm] Add installation instructions. Closes #19.

• [mpm] Add a list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Package Managers.

• [mpm] Add a .mailmap config file to consolidate contributor’s identity.

• [bar-plugin] Make it easier to change the font, size and color of text in BitBar plugin.

• [bar-plugin] Move error icon in BitBar plugin to the front of manager name.

• [cask] Fix parsing of cask packages with multiple names. Closes #26.

• [bar-plugin] Move BitBar plugin documentation to dedicated page.

• [mpm] Fix exceptions when commands gives no output. Closes #29 and #31.

• [cask] Fix cask update deprecation warning. Closes #28.

• [mpm] Activate unittests in Python 3.6.

• [mpm] Replace double by single-width characters in mpm output to fix table misalignment. Closes #30.

2.2.0 (2016-12-25)

• [mpm] Rename supported property of managers to fresh.

• [mpm] Allow restriction of package managers to a platform. Closes #7.

• [mpm] Include supported property in mpm managers sub-command.

• [bar-plugin] Add optional submenu rendering for BitBar plugin. Closes #23.

• [bar-plugin] Move Upgrade all menu entry to the bottom of each section in BitBar plugin.

• [pip] Allow destructive unittests in Travis CI jobs.

• [pip] Allow usage of pip2 and pip3 managers on Linux.

• [mpm] Print current platform in debug messages.

• [mpm] Unittest detection of managers on each platform.

2.1.1 (2016-12-17)

• [brew,cask] Fix parsing of non-point releases of brew and cask versions. Closes #15.

• [bar-plugin] Do not render emoji in BitBar plugin menu entries.

• [bar-plugin] Do not trim error messages rendered in BitBar plugin.

• [mpm] Do not strip CLI output. Keep original format.

• [mpm] Fix full changelog link.

2.1.0 (2016-12-14)

• [bar-plugin] Adjust rendering of BitBar plugin errors.

• [mpm] Fix fetching of log level names in Python 3.4+.

• [mpm] Print CLI output in unittests.

• [mpm] Print more debug info in unittests when CLI produce tracebacks.

• [macos] Drop support and unittests on Mac OS X 10.9.

• [macos] Add new macOS 10.12 target for Travis CI builds.

• [bar-plugin] Move BitBar plugin within the Python module.

• [mpm] Show unmet version requirements in table output for mpm managers sub-command.

• [mpm] Fix duplicates in outdated packages by indexing them by ID.

• [bar-plugin] Unittest simple call of BitBar plugin.

• [mpm] Always print the raw, un-normalized version of managers, as reported by themselves.

• [mpm] Fetch version of all managers.

• [mpm] Make manager version mandatory.

• [mpm] Bump requirement to readme_renderer >= 16.0.

• [mpm] Always remove ANSI codes from CLI output.

• [mpm] Fix rendering of unicode logs.

• [mpm] Bump requirement to click_log >= 0.1.5.

• [bar-plugin] Force LANG environment variable to en_US.UTF-8.

• [bar-plugin,mpm] Share same code path for CLI execution between mpm and BitBar plugin.

• [mpm] Add a -d/--dry-run option to mpm upgrade sub-command.

• [macos] Remove hard-requirement on macOS platform. Refs #7.

• [macos,mpm] Fix upgrade of setuptools in macOS and Python 3.3 Travis jobs.

2.0.0 (2016-12-04)

• [bar-plugin] Rewrite BitBar plugin based on mpm. Closes #13.

• [bar-plugin] Render errors with a monospaced font in BitBar plugin.

• [mpm] Add missing CHANGES.rst in MANIFEST.in.

• [mpm] Make wheels generated under Python 2 environnment available for Python 3 too.

• [mpm] Only show latest changes in the long description of the package instead of the full changelog.

• [mpm] Add link to full changelog in package’s long description.

• [mpm] Bump trove classifiers status out of beta.

• [mpm] Fix package keywords.

• [mpm] Bump minimal pycodestyle requirement to 2.1.0.

• [mpm] Always check for package metadata in Travis CI jobs.

• [mpm] Add upgrade_all_cli field for each package manager in JSON output of mpm outdated command.

1.12.0 (2016-12-03)

• [mpm] Rename mpm update command to mpm upgrade.

• [mpm] Allow restriction to only one package manager for each sub-command. Closes #12.

• [mpm] Differentiate packages names and IDs. Closes #11.

• [mpm] Sort list of outdated packages by lower-cased package names first.

• [mpm] Add upgrade_cli field for each outdated packages in JSON output.

• [bar-plugin,mpm] Allow user to choose rendering of upgrade_cli field to either one-liner, fragments or BitBar format. Closes #14.

• [mpm] Include errors reported by each manager in JSON output of mpm outdated command.

• [cask] Fix parsing of multiple versions of cask installed packages.

• [brew,cask] Fix lexicographical sorting of brew and cask package versions.

• [mpm] Fix fall-back to iterative full upgrade command.

• [mpm] Fix computation of outdated packages statistics.

1.11.0 (2016-11-30)

• [mpm] Allow rendering of output data into json.

• [mpm] Sort list of outdated packages by lower-cased package IDs.

• [brew,cask] Bump minimal requirement of brew to 1.0.0 and cask to 1.1.0.

• [cask] Fix fetching of outdated cask packages.

• [cask] Fix upgrade of cask packages.

1.10.0 (2016-10-04)

• [mpm] Add optional version property on package manager definitions.

• [mpm] Allow each package manager to set requirement on its own version.

• [mas] Let mas report its own version.

• [mas] Bump minimal requirement of mas to 1.3.1.

• [mas] Fetch currently installed version from mas. Closes #4.

• [mas] Fix parsing of mas package versions after the 1.3.1 release.

• [mpm] Cache lazy properties to speed metadata computation.

• [mpm] Shows detailed state of package managers in CLI.

1.9.0 (2016-09-23)

• [mpm] Fix bumpversion configuration to target CHANGES.rst instead of README.rst.

• [mpm] Render list of detected managers in a table.

• [macos] Use conda in Travis tests to install specific versions of Python across the range of macOS workers.

• [macos] Drop support for PyPy while we search a way to install it on macOS with Travis.

• [mpm] Let mpm auto-detect package manager definitions.

• [mpm] Show package manager IDs in mpm managers CLI output.

• [mpm] Rename package_manager.7h.py BitBar plugin to meta_package_manager.7h.py.

• [mpm] Give each package manager its own dedicated short string ID.

• [mpm] Keep a cache of instantiated package manager.

• [mpm] Add unittests around package manager definitions.

• [mpm] Do not display location of inactive managers, even if hard-coded.

• [mpm] Split-up CLI-producing methods and CLI running methods in PackageManager base class.

• [mpm] Add a new update CLI sub-command.

• [mpm] Add a new sync CLI sub-command.

• [mpm] Rename managers’ active property to available.

• [mpm] Move all package manager definitions in a dedicated folder.

• [mpm] Add simple CLI unittests. Closes #2.

• [mpm] Implement outdated CLI sub-command.

• [mpm] Allow selection of table rendering.

• [cask] Fix parsing of unversioned cask packages. Closes #6.

1.8.0 (2016-08-22)

• [mpm] Move the plugin to its own repository.

• [mpm] Rename package-manager project to meta-package-manager.

• [mpm] Add a README.rst file.

• [mpm] License under GPLv2+.

• [mpm] Add .gitignore config.

• [mpm] Add Python package skeleton. Closes #1.

• [mpm] Split CHANGES.rst out of README.rst.

• [mpm] Add Travis CI configuration.

• [mpm] Use semver-like 3-components version number.

• [bar-plugin] Copy all BitBar plugin code to Python module.

• [mpm] Give each supported package manager its own module file.

• [mpm] Add minimal mpm meta CLI to list supported package managers.

• [mpm] Add default bumpversion, isort, nosetests, coverage, pep8 and pylint default configuration.

1.7.0 (2016-08-16)

• [brew] Fix issues with $PATH not having Homebrew/Macports.

• [pip] New workaround for full pip upgrade command.

• [cask] Workaround for Homebrew Cask full upgrade command.

• [mpm] Grammar fix when 0 packages need to be upgraded.

1.6.0 (2016-08-10)

• [pip] Work around the lacks of full pip upgrade command.

• [mpm] Fix UnicodeDecodeError on parsing CLI output.

1.5.0 (2016-07-25)

• [mas] Add support for mas.

• [mpm] Don’t show all stderr as err (check return code for error state).

1.4.0 (2016-07-10)

• [mpm] Don’t attempt to parse empty lines.

• [npm] Check for linked npm packages.

• [gem] Support system or Homebrew Ruby Gems (with proper sudo setup).

1.3.0 (2016-07-09)

• [mpm] Add changelog.

• [mpm] Add reference to package manager’s issues.

• [cask] Force Cask update before evaluating available packages.

• [mpm] Add sample of command output as version parsing can be tricky.

1.2.0 (2016-07-08)

• [apm,gem,npm,pip] Add support for both pip2 and pip3, Node’s npm, Atom’s apm, Ruby’s gem.

• [cask] Fixup brew cask checking.

• [mpm] Don’t die on errors.

1.1.0 (2016-07-07)

• [pip] Add support for Python’s pip.

1.0.0 (2016-07-05)

• [mpm] Initial public release.

• [brew,cask] Add support for Homebrew and Cask.