Distro Tracker evolves and moves to version 1.1.0 !

Here are the new features of this version, which adds several functionalities and fixes some bugs :

  • Increased to 25 distributions with the following new entries : Linux (Kernel), Nextcloud (Server) & Rescuezilla.
  • New documentation, with a man file following the standards.
  • New NOK filter for OPNsense, and new URLs for openSUSE & Mageia.
  • Added YAML format as output, along with the addition of the ‘–format’ option to choose between CSV, JSON, or YAML - by default, only CSV is output.
  • The default value for the ‘–length’ option is now ‘3’.
  • All options are lowercase.
  • Revision dates in JSON & YAML outputs, and in the report, are in standard ISO 8601 format.
  • Fixed execution time calculation.

These are not the only new features for Distro Tracker, as changes have also been made to the website :

  • Highlight of the latest news and the latest alert report on the homepage.
  • Added a “Roadmap” page to learn more about the development of distro-tracker and its utilities.
  • The site is now trilingual with the addition of a Spanish translation !

And finally, the addition of the .deb format (Debian package), which complements the existing distribution formats (Bash source, Bash binary & Snapcraft package).

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Happy tracking !