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On this page you can find news about rpm.org releases and other events.

RPM 4.9.1.2 released! (Sep 29th 2011)

  • CVE:2011-3378 security issue causing crashes on reading malformed packages (RhBug:741606)
  • Fixes rpmdb signal handling regressions introduced in 4.9.1 and 4.9.1.1 (RhBug:739492)
  • See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.1.1

RPM 4.9.1.1 released! (Aug 2nd 2011)

  • Fixes package building regressions introduced in 4.9.1, which is a brown paperbag release and best avoided
  • See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.1

RPM 4.9.1 released! (Jul 15th 2011)

  • Two potential security issues fixed:
    • Malformed signature for which a key is not available could slip through unnoticed
    • Crash/memory corruption on PGP key armors containing more than one key
  • Numerous other bugfixes ranging from crashers to memory leaks to quiet misbehavior
  • Numerous minor enhancements especially wrt packaging and dependency generation
  • See release notes for download information and full details of changes since 4.9.0
  • Original announcement

Temporary restrictions on bug reporting (Mar 25th 2011)

Due to a big surge in spam tickets in recent times, ticket creation and modification have temporarily been restricted to "known users". Better ways to deal with ticket spam are being investigated and the restriction will be naturally lifted once a better solution is in place. Apologies for any inconvenience caused, and feel free to use the mailing lists for reporting issues for the time being.

RPM 4.9.0 released! (Mar 2nd 2011)

  • Pluggable and filterable dependency generator
  • Performance improvements
  • New ordering hinting mechanism
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
  • Original announcement

RPM 4.9.0 rc1 released! (Feb 15th 2011)

  • Main changes since beta1:
    • A few bug / regression fixes
    • Dependency matching corner case fix when release is not specified
    • Support for %posttrans dependencies added
    • Support for self-conflicting packages added
  • See draft release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x

RPM 4.9.0 beta1 released! (Jan 17th 2011)

  • Main changes since alpha:
    • Several bug / regression fixes
    • Further customization features in the dependency generator
    • Install order hinting mechanism added
  • See draft release notes for full details what has changed since 4.8.x
  • Original annoucement

RPM 4.9.0 alpha released! (Nov 19th 2010)

RPM 4.8.1 released! (Jun 11th 2010)

  • CVE:2010-2059 security issue on hardlinked executables with SUID/SGID bits and POSIX file capabilities
  • Transactions no longer hang due to unrelated non-responsive filesystems such as NFS / FUSE mounts
  • Several regressions and other bugs fixed
  • See release notes for details what has changed since 4.8.0
  • Original annoucement

RPM 4.8.0 released! (Jan 8th 2010)

  • Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
  • Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
  • Original announcement

RPM 4.8.0 beta1 released! (Dec 7th 2009)

  • Performance improvements, much improved ordering (erasures ordered too, dependency loops handled better) etc...
  • Major revamp of Python bindings, including preliminary support for Python 3.x
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.7.x
  • Original annoucement

RPM 4.7.2 released! (Nov 25th 2009)

RPM 4.7.1 released! (Jul 21st 2009)

RPM 4.6.1 released! (May 18th 2009)

RPM 4.7.0 released! (Apr 16th 2009)

  • Vastly improved performance and reduced memory footprint over older versions
  • XZ/LZMA payload compression support
  • Support for POSIX file capabilities
  • Lots of bugs fixed
  • RPM 4.7.0 release notes
  • Original announcement and changes from RC1.

RPM 4.7.0 rc1 released! (Apr 9th 2009)

RPM 4.7.0 beta1 released! (Feb 26th 2009)

  • Big performance improvements over previous versions, much reduced memory footprint
  • Support for POSIX file capabilities
  • Lots of bugs, old and new, fixed
  • See draft release notes for details what has changed since 4.6.0

RPM 4.6.0 released! (Feb 6th 2009)

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 4 out (Jan 30th 2009)

  • Fixes:
    • Various corner-case misbehaviors and segfaults
    • Reduce impact of NSS disliking forks
  • Full summary of changes since RC3 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 3 out (Dec 9th 2008)

  • Fixes:
    • Queryformat regressions
    • Public header C++ brokenness
    • Compatibility workarounds for old and broken packages
    • Buildroot correctness on sub-packages with differing versions
  • Full summary of changes since RC2 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 2 out (Nov 29th 2008)

  • Bunch of more or less minor issues found in rc1
  • Full summary of changes since RC1 available here
  • RPM 4.6.0 draft release notes

RPM 4.6.0 release candidate 1 out (Oct 16th 2008)

RPM 4.5.90 (4.6 alpha) available for testing (Sep 30th 2008)

rpm.org site update (Sep 30th 2008)

  • Rpm.org has moved to new hosting provider (OSU Open Source Lab)
  • The website has been converted from mixture of static html and Moin Wiki to Trac
  • Rpm finally has a real upstream bug tracking system via Trac

RPM 4.4.2.3 released! (Apr 1st 2008)

RPM development switches to GIT (Mar 31th 2008)

  • Rpm code repository has been converted from Mercurial to GIT, effective immediately. Access details are documented on GetSource page.

RPM 4.4.2.3 release candidate 1 out for testing (Jan 25th 2008)

RPM 4.4.2.2 released! (Oct 3rd 2007)

RPM 4.4.2.1 released! (Jul 23rd 2007)