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 4.18.2 released (Nov 13 2023)
- This is a bug fix release with a few minor enhancements.
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New
%{rpmversion}
and%{_iconsdir}
macros - New
rpmspec(8)
aliases for weak dependency queries - Add libmagic exceptions for HTML, SVG and PNG
- Fix
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0
regression - Fix various
rpm2archive(8)
issues - Fix various Lua interface issues
- Various regression fixes
- Numerous documentation fixes and improvements
- New
RPM 4.19.0 released (Sep 19 2023)
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New spec snippet support for dynamic spec generation
- New
sysusers.d(5)
integration for automated user and group handling - Proper shell-like globbing and escaping in
%files
and CLI - Memory and address-space aware build resource allocation
- Platform detection fixes and improvements for x86 CPUs
- Chroot handling fixes
- New CMake build system
- Export of RPM libraries for CMake’s
find_package()
- Adoption of Linux containers in the test-suite, replacing
fakechroot(1)
- New Python binding usage examples
- Translations split off
- Removal of various deprecated and/or unused APIs
- Various internal code cleanups
RPM 4.19.0 RC1 released (Sep 04 2023)
- This is a release candidate with minor enhancements and bug fixes since BETA.
- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New
rpmspec
aliases for weak dependency queries - More consistent behavior with
%optflags
and noarch builds - Test-suite fixes and tweaks to the new container-based backend
- Export our libraries as a CMake
find_package()
config - Default to C.UTF-8 locale in CMake
- Other CMake fixes and tweaks
- New
CI migrated from SemaphoreCI Classic to GitHub Actions (Aug 03 2023)
- Due to the planned discontinuation of SemaphoreCI Classic starting in early September 2023, we have moved to GitHub Actions for our CI needs (see #2569 for more details).
RPM 4.19.0 BETA released (Aug 02 2023)
- This is a feature-complete pre-release with a number of bug fixes since ALPHA2.
- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New
sysusers.sh
script as a drop-in replacement forsystemd-sysusers(8)
- New
%{specpartsdir}
macro for configuring the spec snippet location - New
%{rpmversion}
macro for obtaining the running RPM version - New Python binding usage examples
- Adoption of Linux containers in the test-suite, replacing
fakechroot(1)
- Platform detection fixes and improvements for x86 CPUs
- Chroot handling fixes
- New
RPM 4.19.0 ALPHA2 released (Jun 09 2023)
- This is a bug fix update to address a couple of issues found by the early adopters of ALPHA1, mostly related to some bits and pieces missed during the CMake transition.
- See draft release notes for details and download information
RPM 4.19.0 ALPHA released (Apr 13 2023)
- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New spec snippet support for dynamic spec generation
- New
sysusers.d(5)
integration for automated user and group handling - Memory and address-space aware build resource allocation
- Proper shell-like globbing and escaping in
%files
and CLI - New CMake build system
- Translations split off
- Removal of various deprecated and/or unused APIs
- Various internal code cleanups
RPM 4.18.1 released (Mar 13 2023)
- This is a bug fix release addressing a number of regressions and other issues.
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Preserve packages bit-by-bit again when adding and then removing signatures
- Fix install of block and character special files
- Disable
debuginfod
server lookups during package builds - Plugin fixes (fapolicyd and selinux)
- Various OpenPGP and macro parser fixes
RPM v6 package format draft published (Jan 30 2023)
- The initial v6 format draft is now up for discussion
RPM 4.18.0 released (Sep 20 2022)
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Big file handling rework to address a class of symlink vulnerabilities during install, restore and erasure
- More intuitive conditional builds macro
%bcond
- Weak dependencies accept qualifiers like
meta
andpre
now - New Sequoia-based OpenPGP backend
- New interactive shell for working with macros (
rpmspec --shell
) and embedded Lua (rpmlua
) - New
%conf
spec section for build configuration - New
rpmuncompress
cli tool simplifies unpacking multiple sources - Numerous macro improvements and fixes
- Numerous internal OpenPGP parser correctness and security fixes
POPT 1.19 released (Sep 20 2022)
- See release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights since popt 1.18 include
- Two regressions from 1.18 fixed
- Code cleanups and fixes
- License clarification
For older news, head over to RPM timeline.