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 4.14.0 RC2 released! (Sep 28 2017)

  • See release notes for details and download information
  • Highlights since RC1:
    • Two symlink following related security bugs (CVE-2017-7500, CVE-2017-7501)
    • Fix a bug of file triggers failing on some packages
    • Fix a package generation regression on 32bit architectures with packages over 2GB in size (introduced in 4.14.0 alpha)

RPM 4.14.0 RC1 released! (Sep 06 2017)

  • See release notes for details and download information
  • Highlights since alpha:
    • Support for ‘unless’ rich dependencies
    • Ensure header is present in callback events
    • Macro argument quoting changed to be much more compatible
    • Experimental LMDB backend
    • Misc bugfixes and minor enhancements

RPM 4.14.0 alpha released! (Aug 10 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
    • A configurable mode to conserve SSD disks
    • Weak dependencies are taken into account when ordering
    • Support for ‘with’ and ‘without’ rich dependencies
    • New SHA256 digests in packages: one for compressed payload alone and one for the header
    • 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