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     * Removal of various deprecated and/or unused APIs
     * Various internal code cleanups
 
-#### RPM 4.19.0 RC1 released (Sep 04 2023)
-* This is a release candidate with minor enhancements and bug fixes since BETA.
-* See [draft release notes](wiki/Releases/4.19.0) for details and download information
-* Highlights include:
-    * New `rpmspec` aliases for weak dependency queries
-    * More consistent behavior with `%optflags` and noarch builds
-    * Test-suite fixes and tweaks to the new container-based backend
-    * Export our libraries as a CMake `find_package()` config
-    * Default to C.UTF-8 locale in CMake
-    * Other CMake fixes and tweaks
-
-#### CI migrated from SemaphoreCI Classic to GitHub Actions (Aug 03 2023)
-* Due to the planned [discontinuation](https://semaphoreci.com/blog/semaphore-classic-deprecation)
-  of SemaphoreCI Classic starting in early September 2023, we have moved to
-  GitHub Actions for our CI needs
-  (see [#2569](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2569) for more details).
-
-#### RPM 4.19.0 BETA released (Aug 02 2023)
-* This is a feature-complete pre-release with a number of bug fixes since ALPHA2.
-* See [draft release notes](wiki/Releases/4.19.0) for details and download information
-* Highlights include:
-    * New `sysusers.sh` script as a drop-in replacement for `systemd-sysusers(8)`
-    * New `%{specpartsdir}` macro for configuring the spec snippet location
-    * New `%{rpmversion}` macro for obtaining the running RPM version
-    * New Python binding usage examples
-    * Adoption of Linux containers in the test-suite, replacing `fakechroot(1)`
-    * Platform detection fixes and improvements for x86 CPUs
-    * Chroot handling fixes
-
-#### RPM 4.19.0 ALPHA2 released (Jun 09 2023)
-* This is a bug fix update to address a couple of issues found by the early
-  adopters of ALPHA1, mostly related to some bits and pieces missed during the
-  CMake transition.
-* See [draft release notes](wiki/Releases/4.19.0) for details and download information
-
-#### RPM 4.19.0 ALPHA released (Apr 13 2023)
-* See [draft release notes](wiki/Releases/4.19.0) for details and download information
-* Highlights include:
-    * New spec snippet [support](https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/dynamic_specs.html) for dynamic spec generation
-    * New `sysusers.d(5)` [integration](https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/users_and_groups.html) for automated user and group handling
-    * Memory and address-space aware build resource allocation
-    * Proper shell-like globbing and escaping in `%files` and CLI
-    * New CMake build system
-    * Translations [split off](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm-l10n/)
-    * Removal of various deprecated and/or unused APIs
-    * Various internal code cleanups
-
-#### RPM 4.18.1 released (Mar 13 2023)
-* This is a bug fix release addressing a number of regressions and other issues.
-* See [release notes](wiki/Releases/4.18.1) for details and download information
-* Highlights include:
-  * Preserve packages bit-by-bit again when adding and then removing signatures
-  * Fix install of block and character special files
-  * Disable `debuginfod` server lookups during package builds
-  * Plugin fixes (fapolicyd and selinux)
-  * Various OpenPGP and macro parser fixes
-
-#### RPM v6 package format draft published (Jan 30 2023)
-* The initial v6 format draft is now [up for discussion](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/discussions/2374)
-
-#### RPM 4.18.0 released (Sep 20 2022)
-* See [release notes](wiki/Releases/4.18.0) for details and download information
-* Highlights include:
-  * Big file handling rework to address a class of symlink vulnerabilities
-    during install, restore and erasure
-  * More intuitive conditional builds macro `%bcond`
-  * Weak dependencies accept qualifiers like `meta` and `pre` now
-  * New Sequoia-based OpenPGP backend
-  * New interactive shell for working with macros (`rpmspec --shell`) and embedded Lua (`rpmlua`)
-  * New `%conf` spec section for build configuration
-  * New `rpmuncompress` cli tool simplifies unpacking multiple sources
-  * Numerous macro improvements and fixes
-  * Numerous internal OpenPGP parser correctness and security fixes
-
-#### POPT 1.19 released (Sep 20 2022)
-* See [release notes](https://github.com/rpm-software-management/popt/releases/tag/popt-1.19-release) for full details and download information
-* Highlights since popt 1.18 include
-  * Two regressions from 1.18 fixed
-  * Code cleanups and fixes
-  * License clarification
-
 For older news, head over to [RPM timeline](timeline.html).