1.8

• PELF was rewritten to use the AppDir format, it now only packs AppDirs.
• PELFd was updated to be faster (using Blake3 instead of sha256) and I also made a few behavior corrections
• Dwarfs is now the default filesystem/compression/archival format

1.7!

• Changed the way arguments are handled by PELF.
• Added partial support for the AppDir format/layout.
• .desktop file checking. PELF will notify you when your .desktop file is incorrect
• pelfd will correct incorrect .desktop files before integrating. Replacing TryExec=, Exec= and Icon=
• Your AppBundles can now be LIBC-independent if you use --add-ld-and-libc /lib/yourLd.so.whatever /lib/libc.yourLibC.so.whatever

What's next?

1. Argument for pelfd to integrate a specific file, with an option to add such file to the pelfd.json tracker or not.

• Optionally provide the option to mount the TAR archive instead of instead of copying the files. Or replace TAR altogether for a format that is also widely available.

EDIT: A few fixes have been made since this release.

1.6

Small release, sorry! Haven't had much time to work on PELF this week.

• --pbundle_help will show which version of PELF was used to build the bundles
• Bundles now generate their own thumbnails (this happens at the start of every run... It can be disabled with an env variable, see --pbundle_help)

Notice:

• Help needed! I need help implementing on-the-fly file extraction. See the roadmap for more details...
• Examples are no longer hosted with git-lfs... They will be included on every release, even if their "loader" is outdated (it takes me time to boot into a Glibc OS, generate the demos and then boot back into Alpine to generate more demos but for Musl. I'd use a VM but my hardware can't take it)

1.5

• Better thumbnail handling
• Recreate bundle's removed files
• Fixed some INF logs

What's NeXT?

• Adding CLI commands to get to know which PELF version was used to generate an appbundle
• Ability to update the "RUNTIME" of existing PELFs (I am not yet sure if its possible using patch/diff because binary data may be corrupted)
• [Low priority] m_ascii85 edition for BIG files

1.4

• Add --version
• Add --config
• Thumbnails! Your .AppBundles' icons will appear in your file manager now if you use PELFD.

What's NeXT?

• Adding CLI commands to get to know which PELF version was used to generate an appbundle
• Ability to update the "RUNTIME" of existing PELFs (I am not yet sure if its possible using patch/diff because binary data may be corrupted)
• [Low priority] m_ascii85 edition for BIG files

1.3

• PELFd now corrects incorrect .desktop files
• PELFd now has better error checking and passes revive and staticcheck with ZERO issues
• PELF now notifies the person creating the bundle that the bundled metadata files should be changed

What's next?

• Adding a --version/-v flag to PELF and PELFD
• Adding CLI commands to get to know which PELF version was used to generate an appbundle
• Ability to update the "RUNTIME" of existing PELFs (I am not yet sure if its possible using patch/diff because binary data may be corrupted)
• [Low priority] m_ascii85 edition for BIG files

1.2

• Added lots of demos
• Fixed PELF to work with Bash too
• Added PELF "small edition"
• Pretty logs in PELFD

1.1!

• Added colored logs for PELFD

1.0

• First release. Added PELF and all of its tools + The PELFD helper daemon