v7.0.0

• Breaking: [mpm] Rename the --allow-no-cooldown flag to the --require-cooldown-support/--allow-unsupported-managers pair, and its allow_no_cooldown config to require_cooldown_support (default true).
• Breaking: [mpm] The sort_by configuration option is now a list of fields, matching the repeatable --sort-by. Wrap an existing scalar value in brackets: sort_by = "package_id" becomes sort_by = ["package_id"].
• [pnpm] Add the pnpm package manager (installed, outdated, search, install, upgrade, remove, cleanup), enforcing --cooldown via pnpm's native minimumReleaseAge gate.
• [mpm] Filter the package listing by a query: installed and outdated take an optional QUERY argument and dump/backup/sbom a --query option, fuzzy by default with --exact/--fuzzy to control it.
• [mpm] --sort-by/-s is now repeatable, ordering result tables by several fields in priority order (like --sort-by package_id --sort-by manager_id).
• [mpm] Run managers in parallel via a new --jobs/-j option (default: CPU count minus one), covering the read-only queries, the maintenance commands, the inventory exporters, and the state changers; DEBUG verbosity forces sequential runs. Closes {issue}529.
• [mpm] Show a progress spinner with elapsed time on <stderr> while manager CLI calls run, toggled with click-extra's --progress/--no-progress.
• [mpm] install, remove, upgrade, restore, sync, and cleanup now print a per-attempt ✓/✗ trail and a finisher on an interactive terminal: per-package for the package commands, per-manager for sync/cleanup/upgrade --all.
• [mpm] The standalone binary now reads configuration in all six formats (toml, yaml, json5, jsonc, hjson, xml), matching the source distribution.
• [mpm] Lower the default verbosity from INFO to WARNING, leaving only the ✓/✗ trail, finishers, and genuine warnings on screen; per-operation narration moves to INFO and raw technical detail to DEBUG.
• [mpm] --timeout now defaults per-operation (120s for read-only queries, 500s for state-changing operations) instead of a flat 500s; an explicit --timeout still overrides.
• [mpm] install, remove, upgrade <packages>, and restore now exit non-zero when a target fails or no manager can fulfill the request, instead of always reporting 0.
• [mpm] Fix install/remove/upgrade dropping all but one target when the same package is given with several explicit managers; install now acts on every requested package instead of stopping at the first success.
• [mpm] Fix install, remove, and upgrade reporting success when a manager's CLI fails with a non-zero exit code but empty error output, like steamcmd's anonymous-login failure on Windows.
• [eopkg] Fix installed, outdated, and search returning no packages.
• [mpm] Compare a leading version epoch (1:2.0, 1!2.0) as a dominant component, so epoch bumps order correctly across Debian, RPM, pacman, and PEP 440 schemes.
• [mpm] Resolve pkg:apk purls to the apk manager and pkg:npm purls to pnpm; both were missing from the purl-to-manager map.

Full changelog: v6.6.0...v7.0.0

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