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 title: "Announcing Vieter 0.3.0"
-date: 2022-06-03
-draft: true
+date: 2022-06-13
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 When this post is live, Vieter 0.3.0 will have been released! This release
 really does come with a lot of new features, including more reliable builds and
 a new cron implementation!
 
+This release ended up taking me over two months, but I'm quite proud of it :)
+It not only adds a lot of useful features, but also paves the way for a lot
+more cool features down the road!
+
 ## What is Vieter?
 
 Vieter consists of two independents parts, namely an implementation of an Arch
@@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ to remove the need for an AUR helper & move all builds to a remote server. Not
 only does this greatly reduce update times on lower-end systems, it also
 prevents AUR packages from being built multiple times on different systems.
 
+The repository can also be used independently, providing a convenient server
+for publishing Arch packages from CI builds for example.
+
 While I specifically mention Arch & the AUR, Vieter is compatible with any
 Pacman-based distro & can build PKGBUILDs provided from any Git source.
 
@@ -36,6 +42,28 @@ more regularly than all the rest.
 
 Often, a build would fail with exit code 8. This error indicates that makepkg
 wasn't able to install all dependencies, caused by the builder image not being
-up to date enough. Due to this, each build now runs `pacman -Syu` before running the actual build.
+up to date enough. Due to this, each build now runs `pacman -Syu` before
+running the actual build.
 
-Another useful additions to builds is that packages from the target repository are now 
+Builds can now also use dependencies that are part of the target repository.
+This allows building packages with AUR dependencies, as long as all
+dependencies are also being built for said repository.
+
+### Build logs
+
+The main server now stores the logs of each build, including the exit code.
+This makes it a lot easier to debug why builds fail.
+
+### Improved documentation
+
+The [Vieter documentation](https://rustybever.be/docs/vieter/) has had a pretty
+major re-write to get it up to date with this new release. Now there's also
+[HTTP API docs](https://rustybever.be/docs/vieter/api/#introduction) & [man
+pages](https://rustybever.be/man/vieter/vieter.1.html).
+
+## Interested?
+
+If you're interested in Vieter, considering 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/vieter).