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+title: "Announcing Vieter 0.6.0"
+date: 2023-07-20
+---
+
+It's been a while since I've released a new version of Vieter. A busy semester
+combined with a lack of interest in the project has definitely slowed down
+development. Nonetheless, I've got a new release ready for you!
+
+## What's Vieter?
+
+Vieter consists of two central components: an Arch Linux (well, Pacman
+actually) repository server that supports uploading package archives, combined
+with a build system to populate this server by periodically building select
+packages. The goal of this is to completely remove the need for an AUR helper,
+and moving all build times to the cloud, allowing for smooth updates across as
+many machines as required.
+
+## What's changed?
+
+This is a rather small update, and it mostly contains a few quality-of-life
+improvements.
+
+For one, there's now a Prometheus metrics endpoint so you can integrate Vieter
+into your existing stack. Currently the metrics are limited to API request
+timings, but this could be expanded upon in the future.
+
+The API can now filter the list of targets, allowing you to more easily search
+for specific targets. This functionality has also been added to the CLI.
+
+Builds can now be configured with a timeout, with build containers being
+automatically killed if this timeout is reached.
+
+Behind the scenes, the codebase has been updated to a compiler commit after the
+0.3.3 release, and the cron logic has been rewritten in C using the
+[libvieter](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter-v/libvieter) library. Agents now
+use worker threads, meaning they will not spawn a new thread anymore for each
+new build. Package uploads now properly fail if the TCP connection was closed
+before all bytes of a file were received. Lastly, the deprecated cron daemon
+has been removed.
+
+### What's next?
+
+Throughout the last couple of months, I've grown more and more tired of the V
+programming language, and the codebase in general. There's a lot of technical
+debt present, and due to the limitations of the language and existing
+frameworks, I've had to resort to questionable practices for a lot of the
+features (e.g. POST request data as query parameters). Due to this, I've
+decided to restart this project in Rust, under the name
+[rieter](https://git.rustybever.be/Chewing_Bever/rieter). With this, I hope to
+move away from this technical debt, and build a new solid foundation on which I
+can further expand this project. I'm not going to be making any promises on
+when this will be ready to replace Vieter, but I hope to get there soon.
+
+## Conclusion
+
+Just picture a very creative ending of this post here ;)
+
+If you're interested in Vieter, consider joining
+[#vieter:rustybever.be](https://matrix.to/#/#vieter:rustybever.be) on Matrix!
+The source code can be found on my personal
+[Gitea](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter-v/vieter).