RPM Package Manager
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system capable of
- building computer software from source into easily distributable packages
- installing, updating and uninstalling packaged software
- querying detailed information about the packaged software, whether installed or not
- verifying integrity of packaged software and resulting software installation
News
RPM 4.14.2.1 released! (Oct 22 2018)
- Critical security bugfix for –setperms and –setugids regression in 4.14.2
- See release notes for details and download information
RPM 4.14.2 released! (Aug 21 2018)
- Support for enforcing signature policy and payload verification
- Numerous bugfixes and minor enhancements across the board
- See release notes for details and download information
RPM 4.14.2-rc2 released! (Aug 08 2018)
- Fixes to various minor resource leaks and other misc bugfixes since rc1
- See release notes for details and download information
RPM 4.14.2-rc1 released! (Jun 29 2018)
- Support for enforcing signature policy and payload verification
- Numerous bugfixes and minor enhancements across the board
- See release notes for details and download information
RPM 4.13.1 released! (Mar 28 2018)
- See release notes for details and download information
- This release is primarily about file trigger bugfixes and with/without/unless rich dependency backport
RPM 4.14.1 released! (Jan 16 2018)
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is primarily a bug fix release, with a few minor enhancements as well
RPM 4.13.0.2 released! (Oct 26 2017)
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and bug fix update
RPM 4.14.0 released! (Oct 12 2017)
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Major revamp of debuginfo packages
- Major macro engine changes to sanitize and improve the “language”
- Major rewrite of package/header reading and signature checking to utilize a single codepath
- New SHA256 digests in packages: one for compressed payload alone and one for the header
- Weak dependencies are taken into account when ordering
- Support for a configurable mode to conserve SSD disks
- Support for ‘with’, ‘without’ and ‘unless’ rich dependencies
- Support for zstd compression
- Experimental support for LMDB database backend
- Restrict symlink following on installation (CVE-2017-7500, CVE-2017-7501)
- Many bugfixes and enhancements all over the place
RPM 4.13.0.1 released! (Feb 16 2017)
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and regression fix update
RPM 4.13.0 released! (Nov 03 2016)
- See release notes for details and download information
- Major new features include:
- File triggers
- Boolean dependencies
- Numerous other enhancements and bugfixes
RPM 4.12.0.2 released! (Nov 03 2016)
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and regression fix update