This release improves ease of installation by dropping some module dependencies which were introduced in 2.3.0. It also fixes an issue with the test suite, and improves the release procedure. See http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/stow.git/tree/NEWS for more details.
Also note that 2.3.0 was released last month (June 2019) and announced on the mailing lists but not here on savannah.
After a long wait, this release contains a number of bug fixes and minor cleanups.
This release introduces a long-wanted --no-folding option which disables the (re)folding which in some usage scenarios can be confusing or undesirable. It also drops the abbreviated -a version of the --adopt option for safety reasons, and makes various improvements to the documentation, test suite, and command-line output.
This release adds a new --adopt option.
In addition to ftp.gnu.org, Stow is also available from CPAN, and can be installed via the normal CPAN mechanisms. Follow the link for details:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Stow/
This is another release which fixes some more installation issues. If you have already installed 2.1.1 there is no need to upgrade to this.
This is a minor release which fixes a couple of installation issues and improves some of the documentation.
I'm very happy to announce that GNU Stow 2.1.0 is now available for download from ftp.gnu.org and also from the mirrors as soon as they catch up.
This is the first official release of Stow since January 2002, and the new version is a complete refresh of the entire codebase, with a substantial number bugfixes and enhancements.
Stow is a tool for managing the installation of multiple software packages to a shared run-time directory tree (e.g. /usr/local) via symlinks, whilst keeping the files from each package separate. Whilst traditionally it has often been used to manage system-wide software installations, it also provides a clean mechanism for managing software and configuration files in users' home directories. More information is available at the homepage.
Many thanks to Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson for his excellent work on the rewrite between 1.3.3 and 2.0.1.
See the NEWS file for a summary of the changes since 1.3.3.