Soar v0.5.0

[Azathothas]

This release marks the first release since we underwent a massive rewrite for both soar & our infra/tooling.

Warning

We will decommission all of our old infra which includes the buckets, CDNs, endpoints & more by 2025-02-28
This means, any existing old installs of soar (prior to v0.5.0) will stop working

Bugs are expected, please report if encountered any, even minor/visual glitches.

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Changelog

0.5.0 - 2025-01-27

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES
This release includes major architectural changes and requires a clean installation. Please:

1. Remove your existing soar installation (default: ~/.local/share/soar)
2. Delete your configuration directory (~/.config/soar)
3. Perform a fresh installation
4. Reconfigure your settings

⛰️ Features

• (color) Add no-color support - (0d66b76)
• (ghcr) Use ghcr as default download source for package - (671fa9b)
• (install) Implement install with pkg_id - (f8573a1)
• (json_where) Add json array condition support - (0b84535)
• (package) Enhance pkg_id handling for install/update - (63cf070)
• (profile) Add profile support - (45c6c97)
• (provides) Add provides support - (937a447)
• (soar-db) Initialize soar-db - (be59788)
• (use-package) Implement use package and improve installation - (723bf3b)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• (install) Fix installation error handling - (8b540d4)
• (path) Fix home path - (b4d3a53)
• (script) Fix install script - (115056f)
• (struct) Fix database and package struct to use new metadata - (322af28)
• (update) Fix package update functionality - (c6bf461)

🚜 Refactor

• (db) Use builder pattern for queries and map using column names - (b2827f7)
• (db) Simplify database migration - (1975da5)
• (db) Simplify database query builders - (82b20b9)
• (ghcr) Use pkgforge ghcr api - (f745fff)
• (project) Rewrite and switch to sqlite - (6c3d5f5)
• (run) Enhance run capability - (58d49a1)

📚 Documentation

• (readme) Update README (README refactor for 0.5.0 #13) - (25a3947)

⚡ Performance

• (query) Optimize packages list SQL query - (826f343)

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

• (readme) Add gif, new doc links, community chat & more (chore(readme): add gif, new doc links, community chat & more #8) - (cfe7341)
• (workflow) Employ @pkgforge-bot to auto respond to Issues & Discussions (chore(workflow): employ @pkgforge-bot to auto respond to Issues & Discussions #7) - (8bda58b)

New Contributors ❤️

• @Azathothas made their first contribution in #13