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2024-11-19

• Added support for the plucky (25.04) Ubuntu release.
• Dropped support for the mantic Ubuntu release.

2024-04-29

• Added support for the oracular (24.10) Ubuntu release.

2024-03-24

• Dropped support for the lunar Ubuntu release.

2023-10-29

• Added support for the noble (24.04) Ubuntu release.

2023-08-05

• Dropped support for the kinetic Ubuntu release.
• Removed mpv packages for the sid, trixie and mantic releases, following the release of version 0.36.0.

2023-06-10

• Adjusted symlinks following the release of Debian 12 bookworm and added support for trixie.

2023-04-29

• Added support for the mantic (23.10) Ubuntu release.

2023-04-04

• Dropped support for the stretch Debian release and the xenial Ubuntu release.

2022-10-30

• Added support for the lunar (23.04) Ubuntu release.
• Fixed issue where the fbriere-archive-keyring package was not actually included in every component.

2022-09-14

• Created the choqok component.
• Dropped support for the i386 architecture across all components. (If you were still using this, please let me know!)

2022-09-11

• Created the qbittorrent component.

2022-07-14

• Tentatively started building twinkle-devel packages for the armhf and arm64 architectures, as a service towards Raspberry Pi users. (I can't guarantee I'll keep maintaining both architectures in the long run, but I'm giving it a try.)
• Removed support for the now-EOL impish release.

2022-06-17

• Created the mpv, xfce4-mailwatch-plugin and xjdic components.
• Provide various fbriere-archive-pin-* packages to simplify version pinning.

2022-05-04

• Added support for the kinetic (22.04) Ubuntu release.

2022-03-15

• Renamed keyring package to fbriere-archive-keyring (with fbriere.net-keyring now being a transitional package) and .sources files to fbriere_COMP.sources, in an attempt to follow (as best as possible) recommended practices.

2022-03-11

• Created the twinkle-devel component.
• Added a command line to the documentation of each component that automatically downloads and installs everything.
• Added back support for stretch, with instructions on how to work around the OpenSSL bug.
• Dropped the recommendation of always installing the misc component. (The fbriere-archive-keyring package is now included in every component.)

2022-02-20

• Added support for every (non-EOL'ed) Ubuntu release (excluding trusty, for the same reason as below).
• Revised the installation instructions, in an attempt to make them somewhat more user-friendly.

2022-02-18

• Dropped support for the very old jessie and stretch Debian releases, which are no longer capable of connecting to this site by default.

2021-08-23

• Revised the package signatures section, due to apt-key being removed from Debian.

2021-08-17

• Adjusted symlinks following the release of bullseye, and created bookworm.
• Removed the qbittorrent component.

2019-07-09

• Adjusted symlinks following the release of buster, and created bullseye.
• Removed the opencbm component.

2017-12-31

• Re-added the qbittorrent component; qBittorrent is still too buggy for me when compiled with libtorrent 1.0.

2017-12-23

• Added a new python-qt4 component.

2017-09-10

• Removed the qbittorrent component, now that up-to-date versions have been uploaded to unstable/testing.

2017-07-04

• Adjusted documentation now that apt natively supports HTTPS.

2017-06-18

• Adjusted symlinks following the release of stretch, and created buster.

2017-03-09

• Removed all copies of the various psx-bios-* binary packages, long obsoleted by psx-bios-package
• Moved the psx-bios-package to the misc component, removing the now-empty psx-emu component

2017-03-08

• Added qBittorrent packages compiled with libtorrent-rasterbar 1.0 (qbittorrent component)
• The apt-transport-https and ca-certificates packages are no longer optional, since we now enforce HTTPS. The documentation now reflects this, and the APT source lines now use https:// instead of http://.
• The documentation for each component now features a mention of the fbriere.net-keyring package, and the APT source lines all include the misc component where it is located.

2016-06-02

• Enabled TLS, thanks to Let's Encrypt; users of apt-transport-https, rejoice! :-)

2016-05-19

• Stopped signing with my old 1024-bit DSA public key

2016-03-02

• Added psx-bios-package as a replacement for the various psx-bios-* packages (which I will still provide for a while)

2016-02-29

• Switched maintainance of this repository over to reprepro. If I broke something, please let me know. :-)

2016-02-23

• Removed all copies of the eawpatches binary package, long obsoleted by eawpatches-package

2015-05-24

• Added fbriere.net-keyring package

2015-05-21

• Adjusted release names following the release of jessie