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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 4.17.0 RC1 released! (Aug 20 2021)

  • 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

RPM 4.17.0 BETA1 released! (Jun 22 2021)

IRC-channel move to Libera Chat (Jun 17 2021)

  • 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

RPM 4.17.0 ALPHA released! (Apr 26 2021)

  • See draft release notes for details and download information
  • Original announcement
  • 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

RPM 4.16.1.3 and 4.15.1.1 released! (Mar 22 2021)

  • 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.

RPM 4.16.1.2 released! (Dec 16 2020)

  • 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in 4.16.1 which causes rpmbuild to crash if hostname is not resolvable, and an accidental soname bump introduced in now withdrawn 4.16.1.1.

RPM 4.16.1.1 released ... and withdrawn (Dec 16 2020)

  • The release got eaten by a mob of angry 2020 grues.

RPM 4.16.1 released! (Dec 10 2020)

  • 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.

RPM 4.16.0 released! (Sep 30 2020)

  • 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

RPM 4.16.0 RC1 released! (Aug 31 2020)

  • See draft release notes for full details and download information
  • Miscellaneous bugfixes across the board

RPM 4.16.0 BETA3 released! (Jun 24 2020)

  • See draft release notes for full details and download information
  • Fixes (reverts) dependency generator regression in beta2

RPM 4.16.0 BETA2 released! (Jun 23 2020)

  • 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

POPT 1.18 released, upstream rebooted! (Jun 23 2020)

  • 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

POPT 1.18 RC1 released, upstream rebooted! (May 29 2020)

  • 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

RPM 4.16.0 BETA1 released! (May 29 2020)

  • 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

RPM 4.14.3 released! (Apr 28 2020)

  • See release notes for full details and download information
  • Highlights include
    • Backported support for caret version
    • Numerous bugfixes across the board
    • Clarify RPM license

RPM 4.14.3 RC1 released! (Mar 26 2020)

  • 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

RPM 4.16.0 ALPHA released! (Mar 23 2020)

  • 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
    • Clarify RPM license

RPM 4.15.1 released! (Nov 18 2019)

  • See release notes for full details and download information
  • Highlights include:
    • Fixes to several important bugs and regressions
    • New gcrypt crypto backend