APT 1.3 Linux Package Manager Has Been Officially Released in Debian Unstable

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On September 20, 2016, the APT development team, through Julian Andres Klode, announced the release of version 1.3 of the APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) command-line package manager.

APT 1.3 has been in the works since early May this year, and it received a total of twelve development releases that brought numerous improvements and new features to one of the oldest and most acclaimed package managers for Debian-based GNU/Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

And the biggest ones worth mentioning here are support for multiple fingerprints in the Signed-By feature making package distribution more secure, along with Signed-By support in “Release” files in the form of HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP), as well as the ability to use the same redirection mirror for all index files.

Multiple improvements were added to the EDSP (External Dependency Solver Protocol) protocol specificati… (read more)
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