RPM 4.20.0 ALPHA1 Release Notes

April 05, 2024

For more information on the upcoming 4.20.0 release, see the full release notes.

Declarative buildsystem support (#1087)
Dynamic SPEC generation extended
Guaranteed per-build directory (#2078)
Support for SPEC-local file attributes and generators (#782)
New prepend and append modes for build scriptlets
Python bindings have been ported to the stable ABI (#2345)
Plugin API is now public (#1536)
Increased isolation of install scriptlets on Linux via a new plugin (#2632, #2665)
File trigger scripts now also receive package count arguments (#2755)
Perl dependency generators have been split out (#2873)
Internal OpenPGP parser has been removed (#2414)