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+Version 0.16.0
+
+ * System package manager query/installation support for Debian and Fedora
+ (and alike).
+
+ The pkg-build command will now query (unless --sys-no-query is specified)
+ the system package manager on Debian (and alike, such as Ubuntu) and
+ Fedora (and alike, such as RHEL) for versions of packages that are
+ specified as coming from the system (the sys: scheme). For example, if
+ running the following command on one of these distributions:
+
+ bpkg build hello ?sys:libsqlite3
+
+ Then pkg-build will query the system package manager for the installed
+ version of libsqlite3 and fail if none is present.
+
+ Additionally, if --sys-install is specified, pkg-build will attempt to
+ install such packages if not present but available from the system package
+ repository.
+
+ Other relevant options include --sys-yes, --sys-no-fetch, --sys-no-stub,
+ and --sys-sudo. See bpkg-pkg-build(1) for details.
+
+ See also the `*-{name, version, to-downstream-version}` package manifest
+ values in the manual for details on the bpkg to distribution package name
+ and version mapping.
+
+ * Binary distribution package generation support for Debian and Fedora (and
+ alike).
+
+ The new pkg-bindist command can be used to automatically generate binary
+ distribution packages from bpkg packages for Debian (and alike, such as
+ Ubuntu), Fedora (and alike, such as RHEL), and for other operating systems
+ as archives. For Debian and Fedora, dependencies can be satisfied with
+ system packages, bpkg packages, or bundled. See bpkg-pkg-bindist(1) for
+ details.
+
+ * Package build configuration support (*-build-config manifest values).
+
+ A package can now customize in its manifest the build configuration used
+ by automated build bots. This includes specifying configuration variable
+ values, forcing specific versions of dependencies, satisfying dependencies
+ with system packages, and enabling/disabling build bot steps. For example:
+
+ # Test with extras enabled.
+ #
+ extras-build-config: config.libfoo.extra=true
+
+ # Test with system-installed libsqlite3.
+ #
+ system-builds: sys
+ system-build-config: ?sys:libsqlite3
+
+ # Enable Debian binary distribution generation and upload.
+ #
+ bindist-debian-builds: bindist
+ bindist-debian-build-include: linux_debian*-**
+ bindist-debian-build-include: linux_ubuntu*-**
+ bindist-debian-build-exclude: **
+ bindist-debian-build-config:
+ \
+ +bpkg.bindist.debian:
+ +bbot.bindist.upload:
+ \
+
+ See the `*-build-config` package manifest values in the manual for
+ details.
+
+ * New package-description and package-description-{file,type} package
+ manifest values.
+
+ Compared to the description* values, these can be used to provide a bpkg
+ package-specific description, such as the recommended usage, configuration
+ variables, etc. See the `description`, `package-description` package
+ manifest values in the manual for details.
+
+ * New changes-type package manifest value and type auto-detection, similar
+ to description.
+
+ See the `changes` package manifest value in the manual for details.
+
+ * New --deorphan pkg-build option.
+
+ This option can be used to replace orphaned packages (packages that no
+ longer have the corresponding package available in the repository it came
+ from) with the closest available package versions that satisfy all the
+ constraints.
+
+ * New --mask-repository* pkg-build options.
+
+ These options allow pretending for the duration of the pkg-build command
+ execution that the specified repository was removed as if by performing
+ the rep-remove command.
+
+ * New --dependent-exit pkg-drop option.
+
+ This option causes the pkg-drop command to silently exit with the
+ specified error code if attempting to drop dependent packages.
+
+ * New --git-capabilities common option to override auto-detected git
+ capabilities.
+
+ We now also assume the git repository protocol is smart if the HTTP
+ response code is 401 (requires authentication).
+
+ * curl is now used instead of wget as the default fetch program.
+
+ We used to prefer wget 1.16 because it has --show-progress which results
+ in nicer progress. But experience shows that wget is quite unreliable plus
+ with bdep always using curl, it would be strange to use both curl and wget
+ (and expecting the user to setup proxy, authentication, etc., for both).
+
Version 0.15.0
* New dependency declaration features: