RPM Roadmap
2022
- Bugfix releases for 4.16 and 4.17 (Q2)
- RPM 4.18 release (Q3)
- Main focus on fixing symlink CVEs
- Various packaging-side improvements
- Popt 1.19 release (Q3)
- RPM v6 scoping (ongoing)
2023
- RPM 4.19 release (Q3)
- Eliminate internal OpenPGP parser
- Support for an alternative modern build system (possibly CMake)
- Resource management for parallel builds
- Purge obsolete API
- Replace fakechroot with better technology
- Declarative user/group handling
- RPM v6 scoping (ongoing)
- First public draft of RPM v6 format
2024
- RPM 4.20 release (Q3)
- Autotools build support removed
- Support for RPM v3 packages removed
- Spec generation and templating
- File trigger design review + adjustment
- Finalize plugin API, make public
- RPM v6 readiness
- RPM v6 specification
2025
- RPM 6.0 release (Q3)
- Package format facelift
- Hands-free packaging