Anyone got a link to a meaningful description of improvement, rather than "pretty colours" and a "better package solver"?
My most frequent use of apt is inside a Dockerfile, so care factor on UI is not high and "better" isn't a measurable metric.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apt+3.0
Edit for those who couldn't be bothered to click through the first result:
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/debian/changelog
We really need a user friendly way to show packages that are really manually installed by the user (some automatically installed package are marked as manually installed, see the answers to this question).
even nix interface is known as being kinda bad but you still have a easy way to do this.
Parallel downloads finally?
I still think I’ll stick with nala as my apt front-end but hopefully this will be a more robust backend.