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- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Original announcement
- Highlights since alpha include:
- Fix building from tarball to not require pandoc
- New dbus-announce plugin added
- Multiple minor resource leaks fixed
- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Original announcement
- Highlights since alpha include:
- Debuginfo extraction split to external project: https://sourceware.org/debugedit/
- Python helpers split to external project: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/python-rpm-packaging
- Various unmaintained scripts removed
- New buildroot policy to remove
.lafiles by default - Man pages converted to Markdown for easier maintenance + many other doc improvements
- Miscellaneous bugs and regressions fixed
- The recent developments leave us no choice but to follow the masses to the new Libera Chat IRC network
- Along with the change we're moving from #rpm.org to #rpm channel
- Further details in the original announcement
- See draft release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- More robust install failure handling
- Many macro improvements, in particular wrt Lua integration
- Some long-needed transaction API improvements
- Beginnings of a reference manual
- These are primarily security releases for CVE-2021-3421, CVE-2021-20271 and CVE-2021-20266, with some additional fixes for important bugs.
- See 4.16.1.3 and 4.15.1.1 release notes for download information and further details.
- See release notes for download information
- This is a brown paperbag release to fix a single regression in 4.16.1 which causes rpmbuild to crash if hostname is not resolvable, and an accidental soname bump introduced in now withdrawn 4.16.1.1.
- The release got eaten by a mob of angry 2020 grues.
- See release notes for full details and download information
- This is a bugfix-only release to address one regression in 4.16.0 and various other bugs, old and new.
- See release notes for full details and download information
- Announcement email
- Highlights include:
- Database backends:
- NDB backend promoted to stable
- New sqlite-based backend
- New experimental read-only BDB backend
- BDB database backend deprecated
- Powerful macro and %if expressions including ternary operator and native version comparison
- Optional MIME type based file classification
- Dependency generation by parametric macros
- A new version parsing and comparison API in C and Python
- Parallelise test-suite execution
- Clarify RPM license
- Database backends:
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Miscellaneous bugfixes across the board
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Fixes (reverts) dependency generator regression in beta2
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights since beta1 release include:
- Several important fixes across the board
- Parallelise test-suite execution
- See release notes for full details and download information
- Highlighs since popt 1.16 include
- Ancient security issue with popt failing to drop privileges on alias exec from a SUID/SGID program
- Collected accumulated fixes from distros etc
- Source and build-system cleanup and modernization
- See the announcement for the background story, details and download info
- Highlighs since popt 1.16 include
- Ancient security issue with popt failing to drop privileges on alias exec from a SUID/SGID program
- Collected accumulated fixes from distros etc
- Source and build-system cleanup and modernization
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights since the alpha release include:
- A new version parsing and comparison API in C and Python
- Native version comparison support in expressions
- Assorted bugfixes and minor enhancements
- See release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights include
- Backported support for caret version
- Numerous bugfixes across the board
- Clarify RPM license
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights include
- Backported support for caret version
- Numerous bugfixes across the board
- Clarify RPM license
- See draft release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights include:
- New experimental sqlite and read-only BDB backends, NDB promoted to stable
- Powerful macro and %if expressions including ternary operator
- Automatic SSD detection and optimization on Linux
- Optional MIME type based file classification
- Dependency generation by parametric macros
- See release notes for full details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Fixes to several important bugs and regressions
- New gcrypt crypto backend
- See release notes full details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Dynamic build dependencies
- Support for %elif, %elifos and %elifarch statements in spec
- Caret version operator (the opposite of tilde)
- New %patchlist and %sourcelist spec sections
- New %{expr:...} built-in macro for evaluating expressions
- New %dnl macro primitive for comments
- Support for non-privileged chroot operations (experimental)
- Native support for Lua 5.2-5.3 without compat defines in Lua
- String data is returned as surrogate-escaped utf-8 in Python 3 bindings
- Numerous bugfixes and other enhancements all over the place
- See release notes full details and download information
- Highlights since beta:
- New %{expr:...} built-in macro for evaluating expressions
- Several bugs and regressions (in 4.15.0 beta and otherwise) fixed
- See release notes full details and download information
- Several bugs and regressions in 4.15.0 alpha fixed
- Highlights since alpha:
- %dnl macro primitive for comments
- Support for gcc -g3 level debuginfo
- Ban unprintable ASCII control codes in filenames
- See release notes full details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Faster builds on SMP systems
- Support for dynamic build dependencies
- Support for %elif, %elifos and %elifarch statements in spec
- Caret version operator (the opposite of tilde)
- New %patchlist and %sourcelist spec sections
- Support for non-privileged chroot operations (experimental)
- Native support for Lua 5.2-5.3 without compat defines in Lua
- String data is returned as surrogate-escaped utf-8 in Python 3 bindings
- Numerous bugfixes and other enhancements all over the place
- Critical security bugfix for --setperms and --setugids regression in 4.14.2
- See release notes for details and download information
- Support for enforcing signature policy and payload verification
- Numerous bugfixes and minor enhancements across the board
- See release notes for details and download information
- Fixes to various minor resource leaks and other misc bugfixes since rc1
- See release notes for details and download information
- Support for enforcing signature policy and payload verification
- Numerous bugfixes and minor enhancements across the board
- See release notes for details and download information
- See release notes for details and download information
- This release is primarily about file trigger bugfixes and with/without/unless rich dependency backport
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is primarily a bug fix release, with a few minor enhancements as well
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and bug fix update
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights include:
- Major revamp of debuginfo packages
- Major macro engine changes to sanitize and improve the "language"
- Major rewrite of package/header reading and signature checking to utilize a single codepath
- New SHA256 digests in packages: one for compressed payload alone and one for the header
- Weak dependencies are taken into account when ordering
- Support for a configurable mode to conserve SSD disks
- Support for 'with', 'without' and 'unless' rich dependencies
- Support for zstd compression
- Experimental support for LMDB database backend
- Restrict symlink following on installation (CVE-2017-7500, CVE-2017-7501)
- Many bugfixes and enhancements all over the place
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights since RC1:
- Two symlink following related security bugs (CVE-2017-7500, CVE-2017-7501)
- Fix a bug of file triggers failing on some packages
- Fix a package generation regression on 32bit architectures with packages over 2GB in size (introduced in 4.14.0 alpha)
- See release notes for details and download information
- Highlights since alpha:
- Support for 'unless' rich dependencies
- Ensure header is present in callback events
- Macro argument quoting changed to be much more compatible
- Experimental LMDB backend
- Misc bugfixes and minor enhancements
- See release notes for details and download information* Highlights include:
- Major revamp of debuginfo packages
- Major macro engine changes to sanitize and improve the "language"
- Major rewrite of package/header reading and signature checking to utilize a single codepath
- A configurable mode to conserve SSD disks
- Weak dependencies are taken into account when ordering
- Support for with/without rich dependencies
- New SHA256 digests in packages: one for compressed payload alone and one for the header
- Many bugfixes and enhancements all over the place
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and regression fix update
- See release notes for details and download information
- Major new features include:
- File triggers
- Boolean dependencies
- Numerous other enhancements and bugfixes
- See release notes for details and download information
- This is a security and regression fix update
- Numerous bugfixes and minor enhancements across the board
- Support for debuginfo compression and minidebuginfo
- See the original announcement for full details of what has changed since rc1
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.12.0.1
- Finalized syntax for Rich Dependencies
- Added support for file signatures in security.ima xattr
- Enable {} expansion in rpmGlob()/%files and enhanced glob handling
- Fix compressed patches
- Don't warn when an escaped macro is in comment.
- Add --filetriggers query option
- Fix for Py3 compatibility
- Do not bytecompile python scripts in docdir
- Improvements to find-lang.sh and perl dependency generator
- Use default value (currently 7) for XZ compression if not value is given
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.12.0.1
- Support for File Triggers
- Support for Boolean Dependencies
- Lots code cleanups and numerous bugfixes
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.12.0.1
- RPM git master repo moved from rpm.org to GitHub
- Fixes a regression in archive size calculation during build
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.12.0
- Support for files over 4GB in packages
- Support for weak dependency tags (suggests, recommends etc)
- Support for plugins
- Faster package generation and signing
- New APIs to access package payloads
- Vast code cleanups and numerous bugfixes
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.2
- Assorted bug fixes all over the place
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.2
- Fixes several icky regressions introduced in the beta
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.2
- A few regressions in the alpha, and some other minor bugs fixed
- Optimizations to dependency check processing
- Support automatic generation of weak dependencies
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.2
- Support for files over 4GB in packages
- Support for weak dependency tags (suggests, recommends etc)
- Support for plugins
- Faster package generation and signing
- New APIs to access package payloads
- Vast code cleanups and numerous bugfixes
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.2
- Assorted bug fixes all over the place
- Various minor enhancements to Python bindings
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.1
- Fixes a nasty dormant bug brought to daylight in rpm >= 4.10, plus some other minor tweaks over rc1
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.1
- Assorted bug fixes all over the place
- Various minor enhancements to Python bindings
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.1
- Much improved macro and spec parsing performance
- Improved rpmdb concurrent access support
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.0
- No changes from rc2
- Fixes a minor spec-parsing regression introduced in rc1
- Fixes to couple of old macro expansion bugs, debugedit improvements
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.0
- Much improved macro and spec parsing performance
- Improved rpmdb concurrent access support
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.11.0
- Fixes severe regression related to %ghost %config handling introduced in 4.10.3
- This release effectively replaces the original 4.10.3 which has been permanently pulled out of distribution.
- See release notes for download information and changes from 4.10.3
- Fixes severe regression related to %ghost %config handling introduced in 4.11.0
- This release effectively replaces the original 4.11.0 which has been permanently pulled out of distribution.
- See release notes for download information and changes from 4.11.0
- Improved performance and memory use
- Improved file conflict detection
- Improved %config file handling
- Easy separation of licenses from other documentation in packaging
- Fully automated patch application with optionally using DVCS of choice in specs
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.x
- Fixes an install-time regression which can cause creation of real files and directories skipped when the path is shared with a %ghost.
- Various other minor fixes
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.2
- Various mostly minor bugs and regressions fixed since alpha
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.x
- Original announcement
- Fixes a security regression introduced in rpm 4.10.0
- Various other minor bugs and regressions fixed
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.1
- Original announcement
- Improved performance and memory use
- Improved file conflict detection
- Improved %config file handling
- Easy separation of licenses from other documentation in packaging
- Fully automated patch application with optionally using DVCS of choice in specs
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.x
- Original announcement
- Several fixes to regressions introduced all the way back in 4.9.0 and some in 4.10.0
- Some minor enhancements to (spec parsing, package building, install-performance on shared files etc)
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.10.0
- Original announcement
- Support for dpkg-style tilde version/release sort operator added
- Erasure progress implemented
- Performance improvements
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.x
- Original announcement
- Main changes since 4.10.0-alpha:
- Several regressions fixed
- File conflict detection improvements
- Obsoletes handling improvements
- Support for dpkg-style sorting of tilde in versions
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.x
- Original announcement
- This is a security-only update for CVE:2012-0060, CVE:2012-0061 and CVE:2012-0815
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.1.2
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- Performance improvements
- Erasure progress implemented
- See draft release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.x
- Original announcement
- CVE:2011-3378 security issue causing crashes on reading malformed packages (RhBug:741606)
- Fixes rpmdb signal handling regressions introduced in 4.9.1 and 4.9.1.1 (RhBug:739492)
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.1.1
- Fixes package building regressions introduced in 4.9.1, which is a brown paperbag release and best avoided
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.1
- Two potential security issues fixed:
- Malformed signature for which a key is not available could slip through unnoticed
- Crash/memory corruption on PGP key armors containing more than one key
- Numerous other bugfixes ranging from crashers to memory leaks to quiet misbehavior
- Numerous minor enhancements especially wrt packaging and dependency generation
- See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.0
- Original announcement
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- Pluggable and filterable dependency generator
- Performance improvements
- New ordering hinting mechanism
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
- Original announcement
- Main changes since beta1:
- A few bug / regression fixes
- Dependency matching corner case fix when release is not specified
- Support for %posttrans dependencies added
- Support for self-conflicting packages added
- See draft release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
- Main changes since alpha:
- Several bug / regression fixes
- Further customization features in the dependency generator
- Install order hinting mechanism added
- See draft release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
- Original annoucement
- Pluggable dependency generator
- Performance improvements
- ...and much much more, see draft release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
- Original announcement
- CVE:2010-2059 security issue on hardlinked executables with SUID/SGID bits and POSIX file capabilities
- Transactions no longer hang due to unrelated non-responsive filesystems such as NFS / FUSE mounts
- Several regressions and other bugs fixed
- See release notes for details what has changed since 4.8.0
- Original annoucement
- Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
- Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
- Original announcement
- Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
- Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
- Original annoucement
- Lots of bugfixes all around, some minor enhancements
- See release notes for further details.
- Original annoucement
- Lots of bugfixes all around, some minor enhancements
- See release notes for further details.
- Original annoucement
- Several signature checking/handling fixes
- Various other bugfixes and minor improvements all around
- See release notes for further details.
- Original annoucement
- Vastly improved performance and reduced memory footprint over older versions
- XZ/LZMA payload compression support
- Support for POSIX file capabilities
- Lots of bugs fixed
- RPM 4.7.0 release notes
- Original announcement and changes from RC1.
- Fixes a few nasty regressions introduced in beta1
- Bunch of bug fixes, both old and new, fixed, see original announcement for full summary of changes since beta1
- RPM 4.7.0 draft release notes
- Big performance improvements over previous versions, much reduced memory footprint
- Support for POSIX file capabilities
- Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
- See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.6.0
- Vast amount of fixes and improvements over the aging 4.4.x series
- See release notes and compatibility notes for details what has changed since 4.4.x
- Original announcement
- Fixes:
- Various corner-case misbehaviors and segfaults
- Reduce impact of NSS disliking forks
- Full summary of changes since RC3 available here
- RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes
- Fixes:
- Queryformat regressions
- Public header C++ brokenness
- Compatibility workarounds for old and broken packages
- Buildroot correctness on sub-packages with differing versions
- Full summary of changes since RC2 available here
- RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes
- Bunch of more or less minor issues found in rc1
- Full summary of changes since RC1 available here
- RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes
- RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes
- RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes
- Rpm.org has moved to new hosting provider (OSU Open Source Lab)
- The website has been converted from mixture of static html and Moin Wiki to Trac
- Rpm finally has a real upstream bug tracking system via Trac
- Dozens of bugfixes and minor improvements all around
- Summary of changes
- Original announcement (with incorrect tarball url, duh)
- Rpm code repository has been converted from Mercurial to GIT, effective immediately. Access details are documented on [wiki/GetSource] page.
- Dozens of bugfixes and minor improvements all around
- Original announcement
- Dozens of bugfixes and minor improvements all around
- Summary of changes
- Original announcement
- Dozens of bugfixes and minor improvements all around
- Cleaning up of vendor specific hacks etc
- Summary of changes
- Original announcement
- rpm-4.4.1.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.4.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.2.3.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.3.2.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.3.1.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.2.2.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.3.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.2.1.tar.gz missing
- rpm-4.2.tar.gz missing
- Linux Standard Base 1.0 included RPM as the standard packaging format. Unfortunately this only covered RPM v3 packages.
- Originally known as Red Hat Package Manager, RPM was renamed to the more generic recursive acronym of RPM Package Manager.
- RPM was originally GPL-only, but was relicensed to GPL/LGPL early on.
- rpm-2.2.3.tar.gz missing
- The first commit to what was a state-of-the art CVS repository back then. Whether this was done by Marc Ewing or Erik Troan is lost in history as the commit was done as root - those were the days...