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 4.20.0 released (Oct 07 2024)

• See release notes for details and download information
• Highlights include:
  • Declarative build system support
  • Dynamic spec improvements
  • Guaranteed, RPM-controlled per-build directory
  • Support for spec-local file attributes and generators
  • Support for group membership in sysusers.d(5) files
  • Proper distro-agnostic debuginfo support
  • Sanitized spec comments and indentation syntax
  • Sanitized --build-in-place mode
  • New unshare plugin for scriptlet isolation
  • Plugin API made public

RPM 4.20.0 RC2 released (Sep 10 2024)

• See draft release notes for details and download information
• This release makes %autosetup -C also work with zip/7zip archives, fixes a long-standing bug in %transfiletriggerpostun where it only matched against the first listed prefix, and includes a handful of other small fixes

RPM 4.20.0 RC1 released (Aug 30 2024)

• See draft release notes for details and download information
• This release is about the finishing touches for the major features and various other fixes, mostly regarding the declarative buildsystem, --build-in-place compatibility with the new build directory layout, debuginfo generation and error reporting

RPM 4.20.0 BETA1 released (Jun 24 2024)

• See draft release notes for details and download information
• This is all about bugs, alpha regressions and spec backwards compatibility, in particular regarding the new debuginfo enablement and %builddir related issues

RPM 4.20.0 ALPHA2 released (May 20 2024)

• This is another alpha snapshot that addresses a couple of bugs found in the first one, most notably the faulty interaction between the scriptlet prepend/append options and the BuildSystem tag (#3024) which affected the users test-driving the new Declarative buildsystem feature.
• Two new features are also being introduced in this snapshot:
  • Proper, built-in debuginfo enablement logic (#2204)
  • Support for a timestamp handling policy, exposed via the new %build_mtime_policy macro
• See draft release notes for details and download information

RPM 4.20.0 ALPHA released (Apr 05 2024)

• See draft release notes for details and download information
• Highlights include:
  • 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)

RPM 4.19.1.1 released (Feb 07 2024)

• This is a bug fix only release addressing a number of regressions, memory leaks and build system issues.
• See release notes for details and download information

RPM 4.19.1 released (Dec 12 2023)

• This is a bug fix release with a few minor enhancements.
• See release notes for details and download information
• Highlights include:
  • Add %_iconsdir macro (#2729)
  • Add a Provides generator for rpm lua modules (#2659)
  • Allow SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 again (#2756)
  • Bunch of sysusers.d handling fixes (#2745)
  • Fix integer overflow in memory calculations on 32bit systems (#2770)

RPM 4.18.2 released (Nov 13 2023)

• This is a bug fix release with a few minor enhancements.
• See release notes for details and download information
• Highlights include:
  • New %{rpmversion} and %{_iconsdir} macros
  • New rpmspec(8) aliases for weak dependency queries
  • Add libmagic exceptions for HTML, SVG and PNG
  • Fix SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=0 regression
  • Fix various rpm2archive(8) issues
  • Fix various Lua interface issues
  • Various regression fixes
  • Numerous documentation fixes and improvements

RPM 4.19.0 released (Sep 19 2023)

• See release notes for details and download information
• Highlights include:
  • New spec snippet support for dynamic spec generation
  • New sysusers.d(5) integration for automated user and group handling
  • Proper shell-like globbing and escaping in %files and CLI
  • Memory and address-space aware build resource allocation
  • Platform detection fixes and improvements for x86 CPUs
  • Chroot handling fixes
  • New CMake build system
  • Export of RPM libraries for CMake’s find_package()
  • Adoption of Linux containers in the test-suite, replacing fakechroot(1)
  • New Python binding usage examples
  • Translations split off
  • Removal of various deprecated and/or unused APIs
  • Various internal code cleanups

For older news, head over to RPM timeline.