RPM Roadmap

2024

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
    • 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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