Babun Changelog

What's new in Babun 1.2.0

Aug 4, 2016

Brand new 'shell-here' plugin:
Now you can open babun directly in any folder by right clicking your mouse and choosing the Open Babun here option.
You don’t want to have that option in your windows context menu? No problem, just execute babun shell-here remove.
We added ACK - the better grep
We replaced the cygwin’s ping with the windows ping
We added uninstall.bat script
Full list of changes:
crontab weirdness #212
Cygwin’s ping does not work without admin rights #300
find 'cygdrive/j' : Permission denied #282
BABUN_HOME not always set #298
"Open Shell Here" context menu fails to work with Babun #183
ConEmu 'Here' Integration #291
Add ack tool to the package, see http://beyondgrep.com/ #306
Race Condition in Babun Startup #332
Add ~/.local/bin to PATH variable #325
Babun uninstall script #324

New in Babun 1.1.1 (Aug 4, 2016)

New in Babun 1.1.0 (Aug 4, 2016)

This release features an important change in the auto-update behavior.
From now on babun update will also check and update the underlying Cygwin instance with all Cygwin packages that have been already installed, apart from updating babun itself.
The main reason for this change was to make sure that the packages installed with pact are compatible with the underlying Cygwin instance. Pact always fetches the newest available package from the Cygwin repository, but it does not update Cygwin’s internal DLLs', thus it was possible that a new version of given package like git, ruby, emacs etc. would not work on top of the older Cygwin version embedded in babun.
For this reason it is important to keep pact packages and Cygwin core libraries 'in sync'. Babun will automatically check on startup if there is a newer Cygwin version available and prompt the user to update it. On Cygwin update babun will close itself, run the Cygwin installer in a separate cmd process and restart itself once the installation has been completed. If there is a newer version of Cygwin available pact will not allow the user to install new packages.
As you can see it is still possible to install packages using the --force option but it is not guaranteed that the downloaded package will work correctly.
Big thanks to @v-yadli for helping us designing and developing the concept of this feature.
The auto-update improvement is not the only change in 1.1.0. This release is shipped with other new features coded up during several hackergartens, hacking sessions and long coding nights. The most important features are:
pact update, so that you may update a package to a newer version
fake sudo, so that you can run scripts containg sudo
soft links to harddrives, like /c, /d, so that you may forget about /cygdrive/c
MD5 sum did not patch, exiting #265
Package 'git' is broken after update #259
Cmake just returns to prompt without doing anything #252
Upgrading Git #242
versioning in pact, and pact upgrade & pact dist-upgrade (or the other way) #239
Updating git #232
Numpy not working after pact install #231
Command exits with 127 on Babun, but works on Cygwin #225
Unable to start X server after pact install xorg-server xinit #222
Emacs doesn’t run #210
g++ compilation doesn’t produce any resulting file #203
Upgrading with pact not available #199
shellshock: bash 4.1.10(4) and zsh 5.0.2 (i686-cygwin) vulnerablility #198
Pact Installer, Md5 checksum not matching…? #257
Add "login" command to babun’s script #253
Rerun babun startup scripts after running 'babun update' #250
Duplicate call of babun.zsh in /etc/zshrc #249
Git plugin changes my gitconfig #247
Cannot update oh-my-zsh on start #211
etc/zprofile is being called twice causing CHERE_INVOKING to fail. #205
.bashrc running three times #166

Babun Changelog

What's new in Babun 1.2.0

New in Babun 1.1.1 (Aug 4, 2016)

New in Babun 1.1.0 (Aug 4, 2016)

New in Babun 1.0.1 (Aug 4, 2016)