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:
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
- New
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.