RPM Roadmap
2026
- RPM 6.0.2 release (Q2)
- Paper cuts in recent features
- Bring back NSS user/group support
- Disabled signing algorithm behavior wrt multiple signatures
- Minor new features + documentation updates
- Paper cuts in recent features
2027
- RPM 6.1 release (Q3)
- Hands-free packaging
- Safe handling of internal soname dependencies
- Quality of life -improvements
- Complete the man page documentation effort
- Hands-free packaging
2028
- RPM 6.2 release (Q3)
- Transaction robustness
- Restartable transactions
- Improved ordering, delayed scriptlet execution
- Containers
- rpmdb rebuild on overlayfs
- Transaction robustness
2029
- RPM 6.3 release (Q3)
- Hands-free packaging
- File-classifier based actions
- Containers
- Container-friendly alternative rpmdb format
- First public C++ API (alongside the trad. C API)
- Hands-free packaging
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