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RPM Roadmap

2024

RPM 4.20 release (Q3)
- Hands-free packaging
  - Declarative build system
  - Extended dynamic spec generation
  - Support prepend and append to build scriptlets
  - File trigger scriptlet arguments
  - Support for spec local dependency generators
  - Support for sysusers 'm' directive
  - Guaranteed per-build directory
- Public plugin API
- Security
  - Increased install scriptlet isolation (#2632, #2665)
RPM 4.19 bugfix release
RPM v6 specification

2025

RPM 6.0 release (Q3)
- Introducing RPM v6 package format
- Compatibility
  - v6 format is widely compatible with modern rpm 4.x versions
  - Can produce both v4 and v6 packages
  - Full support for v4 and v6 packages
  - Support for v3 format is dropped
- Security
  - Enforced signature-checking by default
  - Legacy crypto algorithms disabled by default
  - Use full OpenPGP key fingerprints everywhere
  - Support for multiple signatures per package
- Hand-free packaging
  - Automatic signing on package build
- Compiled with C++
  - Gradual transition towards C++ internally
  - C API will remain

2026

RPM 6.1 release (Q3)
- Hands-free packaging
  - Safe handling of internal soname dependencies
  - AI based file classification alternative
- Transaction robustness
  - Restartable transactions
  - Improved ordering, delayed scriptlet execution
- Containers
  - rpmdb rebuild on overlayfs

2027

RPM 6.2 release (Q3)
- Hands-free packaging
  - File-classifier based actions
- Containers
  - Container-friendly alternative rpmdb format
- First public C++ API (alongside the trad. C API)

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