Debian Puts Out New APT 1.1 Pre-Release "Supercow Powers"

Announced today from DebConf '15 during a talk entitled "This APT has Supercow Powers" is the ninth preview release of APT 1.1.

This latest APT 1.1 pre-release is accessible to Debian experimental users and has changes to how it retrieves files, the pinning algorithm with apt_preferences has been redone, the syntax of "apt install package.deb" now resolves correctly as well as its dependencies, and there are a variety of other usability improvements coming for APT 1.1.

More details on this new APT 1.1 pre-release can be found via the release announcement.

APT 1.0 was released last year after sixteen years in development as Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool.