14 DAY TRIAL // APT (Advanced Package Tool), a set of core tools inside Debian that make it possible to install, remove, and keep applications up to date, has been upgraded to version 1.0.9.8 and is now ready for download.
The Advanced Package Tool is better known as apt, and it's one of the greatest tools in Debian and all Debian-based distros. It can be used for a lot of things, but mostly for upgrading the operating system via the repositories. It also means that it's being improved all the time and that it's a very important piece of technology that plays a crucial part in any distro.
Even if you're using a GUI application to upgrade your system, like the Software Updater on Ubuntu, apt is, in fact, doing all the work behind all that glitter. The devs have moved to the 1.0 branch after many years of waiting around, and now a new version has been released, although it's a small one.
According to the changelog, a d(e)select-upgrade typo has been corrected, the expected filesize in HTTPS links is now handled properly, a couple of dependencies have been removed, keyids in "apt-key del" are now case sensitive, specific-arch dependencies are now determined correctly on single-arch systems, and a three-year-old bug that caused apt to crash has been finally fixed.
It was launched back in 1998 and version 1.0 was reached 16 years later, although it had been a stable package for years. The developers took advantage of the big version change and made a few modifications, like the change of syntax and the introduction of progress indicators.
A complete list of modifications and updates can be found in the official changelog. You can download APT (Advanced Package Tool) 1.0.9.8 right now from Softpedia, but if you get the source package, you won't be able to do much with it.