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-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