RPM 6.0.0 RC1 Release Notes

September 22, 2025

This is the first release candidate of 6.0, the main changes being miscellanenous bugfixes and man page updates.

This candidate has been promoted for the final release. For download information, see the full release notes.

Add man page for rpmuncompress(1) and rpm-version(7) (#3624)
Add support for E2K architecture
Fix rpm2archive(1) using the same suffix for tar and cpio (#3922)
Fix randomly failing dependency generator tests (#2470)
Fix a segfault and memory leaks in rpmgraph(1)
Fix --hash, --percent and --test not working with --restore (#3917)
Fix legacy signature tags getting copied into v6 packages (#3852)
Fix 6.0 alpha regression on --restore --all (#3904)
Fix 6.0 alpha regression on user queries after --rebuilddb (#3886)
Fix 6.0 alpha regression on reading an rpmrc file with a macrofiles directive (#3901)
Update gendiff(1), rpm2archive(1), rpmbuild(1), rpmdeps(1) and rpmgraph(1) man pages to the new style (#3669)
Update translations
Drop support for obsolete --nodirtokens rpmbuild(1) switch (#3927)