Pacman 5.0 发布，这是一个大的发行版本，该版本前 10 名贡献者名单如下：
$ git shortlog -n -s v4.2.0..v5.0.0 176 Allan McRae 85 Andrew Gregory 16 Florian Pritz 9 Dave Reisner 9 Johannes Löthberg 9 Rikard Falkeborn 7 Pierre Neidhardt 5 David Macek 5 Evangelos Foutras 4 Mohammad Alsaleh
Pacman 5.0 主要新特性包括：
1. 钩子 Hook，也就是所谓的触发器
[Trigger] Type = File Operation = Install Operation = Upgrade Operation = Remove Target = usr/share/applications/*.desktop [Action] When = PostTransaction Exec = /bin/update-desktop-database --quiet
2. 文件数据库的操作，包括搜索等
$ pacman -Fo /usr/bin/pacman usr/bin/pacman is owned by core/pacman 4.2.1-4 $ pacman -Fl pacman pacman etc/ pacman etc/makepkg.conf pacman etc/pacman.conf ... $ pacman -Fs libalpm.so core/pacman 4.2.1-4 usr/lib/libalpm.so $ pacman -Fsx kcm.*print.*\.so extra/print-manager 15.12.1-1 usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcm_printer_manager.so community/kmymoney 4.7.2-3 usr/lib/kde4/kcm_kmm_printcheck.so
3. libmakepkg
完整介绍请看发行说明。