RPM 6.0.0 BETA2 Release Notes

August 27, 2025

This is the second beta release of 6.0, the main changes being support for OpenPGP v6 signatures and various bugfixes, especially to package signing.

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• Source: rpm-5.99.92.tar.bz2
• SHA256SUM: 4c63ed93365e3f5449d8ae573555e3d08f9f5b64e71f746bbeb3ec776283eee1

Changes since BETA1

• Fix fingerprinting regression in 6.0 alpha (#3762)
• Fix rpmsign possibly adding multiple legacy tags (#3878)
• Fix rpmsign possibly copying a OpenPGP v6 signature into legacy tag (#3851)
• Fix regression on signature size reservation not being used (#3768)
• Fix race condition in brp-strip-comment-note (#3868)
• Fix segfault on invalid output from multi-mode dependency generator (#3821)
• Fix Lua rpm.glob() not honoring the c argument (#3794)
• Fix alternatives mechanism unintentionally kicking in for signatures (#3872)
• Fix sources and patches stored in reverse order in headers (#3014)
• Add support for OpenPGP v6 signatures (#3845) (#3846)
• Add SHA512 payload digest to appease CNSA 2.0 (#3894)
• Add rpm-manifest(5) man page (#3650)
• Drop pre-4.6 rpmlib() dependencies from v6 packages

For more information on the upcoming 6.0.0 release, see the full release notes.