RPM 4.11.1 Release Notes
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Summary of changes from RPM 4.11.0.1
General bugfixes and enhancements
- Fix transaction getting hung due to stale locks from concurrent query (RhBug:860500)
- Fix race condition(s) on rpm database open/close (RhBug:924417…)
- Fix a possible segfault on file digest calculation (RhBug:909618)
- Fix rpm ignoring crypto initialization failure (RhBug:909627, RhBug:909618)
- Fix possible buffer overflow in macro shell expansion
- Fix explicit file conflicts in installed packages being ignored
- Fix self-conflict and/or -obsolete sometimes causing conflicts and/or obsoletes in other packages to be unnoticed.
- Fix replaced files not getting reported at all during verification
- Fix bogus file conflict on symlink permissions (related to RhBug:950748)
- Fix rpm’s macro path being missing from –showrc output
- Fix multiple –pipe options silently overriding others (RhBug:966093)
- Fix segfault on expanding %{lua} (RhBug:972646)
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Fix zero-length arguments to built-in macros expanding to “}”
- Add support for AArch64 architecture
- Documentation and translation updates, spelling fixes (RhBug:708734…)
Package building
- Fix rpmbuild argument checking for non-build operations (RhBug:919080)
- Fix %attr() and %defattr() affecting symlink permissions (RhBug:950748)
- Fix %pretrans and %posttrans dependencies not being printed on build
- Fix VCS tag not getting included in source rpms
- Fix segfault in debugedit (RhBug:929365)
- Fix debugedit choking on .debug_gdb_script section (SuseBug:818502)
- Fix perl module classification to require .pm suffix (RhBug:927211)
- Fix %ghost files sometimes getting included in payload
- Fix PKG_CONFIG_PATH not getting set according to target arch (RhBug:212522)
- Fix non-directories getting accepted as directories in spec
- Fix packaged files escaping buildroot through relative directory paths (RhBug:951979)
- Add warning on ambiguous (likely invalid) name on macro definitions
API changes
New interfaces
- rpmfiNewPool() shared string pool-aware rpmfi constructor
- rpmdsNewPool(), rpmdsThisPool(), rpmdsSinglePool() and rpmdsRpmlibPool() shared string pool-aware rpmds constructors
Other interface changes
- Change rpmdsMerge() to return number of merged entries (or error)
- Fix rpmdsFind() failing to compare between dependency flags when either of them is RPMSENSE_ANY
- Fix rpmfiFNlink() considering files with zero inodes as hardlinks
Python bindings
- Fix ts.dbMatch() not accepting python long integer objects
Internal improvements and cleanups
- Optimize argvJoin()
- Optimize macro table performance and macro expansion
- Optimize spec parse performance (up to factor of 10)
- Optimize check-files script
- Fix various missing error checks in package signing and prelink helper
Build process
- Fix build outside source directory
- Fix various macro issues preventing “./configure; make; make install” sequence from producing a working rpm
- Fix various test-suite issues to make it less dependent on configuration details
- Fix support for Lua 5.2
- Fix Python bindings build with Python 3
- Add several new test-suite cases