# What’s New In python-apt 0.8

Python-apt 0.8 is a new major release of the python bindings for the APT package management libraries.

## Removal of old API

The old API that was deprecated in 0.7.100 is no longer available. Applications that have not yet updated to the new API should do so.

## Multi-arch support

This version of python-apt introduces multi-arch support:

> - A new class, `apt_pkg.Group` has been added.

> - `apt_pkg.Cache` can now be indexed by `(name, architecture)` tuples

## Features for mancoosi

Several new features related to ordering have been added on request of the mancoosi project:

> - A new class `apt_pkg.OrderList` has been added

> - The `apt_pkg.PackageManager` class now provides new methods for registering install/remove/configure actions which can be subclassed to check ordering.

## Other changes

This release of python-apt also features several other, smaller changes:

> - apt_pkg.Cache() now takes None for the progress parameter, preventing progress reporting.

There have been various other changes, see the changelog for a complete list of changes.